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San Francisco, CA - Online - Zoom

AGENDA - Wednesday January 15th



Venue:
*San Francisco, CA /Zoom

9:00 a.m., Initial Greetings - Breakfast

9:30 a.m. Begin Broadcast
Breakfast - Coffee

930-9:45, Initial Greetings

Matthew Mangan, Partner - K&L Gates

9:45-10:30, Economic Outlook 2025

Jeffrey Huge, Founder & CIO - JWH Investment Partners

10:30-11:45, Alternative Alpha Strategies 2025

Elliot Trexler, Chief Investment Officer - Global Return Asset Management
Alan Snyder, Founder & CEO - Shinnecock Partners / aShareX
Tyson Halsey, Managing Member - Income Growth Advisors
Maureen Downey, Managing Director, Alternative Asset Investment - The Beneficient Company Group, L.P.
Moderator - Mark Heil, Managing Director - Pickwick Capital Partners

11:45 - 12:00 pm , Thinkhat AI

Ravi Lam, Founder - Thinkhat AI

11:55 - 12:10 pm , Aether EV

Melanie Clarance, Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer - aetherEV
Jerry Lai, Chief Executive Officer - aetherEV

12:10 - 12:35 pm , Innova Vascular

Sanjay Shrivastava, Chief Executive Officer - Innova Vascular

12:35 - 1:30 p.m. , Deeptech

Lorenzo Carver, Co-Founder - Brainsprays.com
Bernard Slede, Senior Vice President Business Development
Jason Barbour - Founder - SDC (Synkrino Development Company)
Dr. Andrey Kunov, Founder & President - Silicon Valley Innovation Center, Briolink
Moderator - Gary Sawka, Founding Partner - Crimson Growth Partners

1:30 - 2:30 pm , Alternative Health Care Funding

Michael Koeris, Director, Biological Technologies Office - DARPA
Frank Alzaga-Chaudhry, CEO - SDC
Norm Friedland, Esq, Co-Founder, FullSky Partners
Stephen Curtis, Sr Director, New Ventures - American Cancer Society
Moderator - David Whelan, Managing Director - Bespoke Business Strategy Inc.

2:30 - 3:30 p.m. , Healthcare 2025

Chris Wheeler, CEO - QuantumCyte
Matt Oguz Chief Investment Officer - IRIS
Sean Coveleski, Stand Up To Cancer
Divya Yerraguntla, Head of Go-To-Market - Treehill Partners
Moderator - David Whelan, Managing Director - Bespoke Business Strategy Inc.

3:30 - 4:20 p.m. , Real Estate 2025

Muhammad A. Nadhiri, Founding Managing Partner - LightPoint Group, LLC
Ken Kecskes, Partner - K&L Gates
Bradley Laddusaw, CPA , CFO / CIO - S&L Capital Group
Steven Shipp, Chief Restructure Officer - Performance Advisory Group
Moderator - Matthew Kessler , Partner - CleanFund

Date: Wednesday January 15th, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM Pacific Time


Ivyfon Agenda - - Day 2
Registration-

AGENDA - Thursday January 16th

Venue:

*San Francisco, CA/Zoom

9:05 a.m., Initial Greetings - Coffee


9:05-9:45, TBD

TBD

9:45 - 10:45 pm , Venture Capital 2025

Jason Barbour, Founder, - Synkrino Development Company
Yana Yasevich, Partner - Alter Global
Sam Perli, Chief Scientific Officer, Founding Member - Thinkhat AI
Stephen Thaddeus Connelly, General Partner & Co-founder - Boutique Venture
Wendell Sammons, AmCap Growth LLC - Founder, Managing Partner
Moderator - Matthew Kessler , Partner - CleanFund

10:45 - 11:30 , Private Equity

Dominic Foster, President - Avkha Equity Holdings Inc | International Business
Maureen Downey, Managing Director, Alternative Asset Investment - The Beneficient Company Group, L.P.
Moderator - Andrew Hurvitz, Institutional Sales - Sequence Financial Specialist

11:25 a.m.- 12:05 p.m. Mergers and Acquisitions

Partner - K&L Gates
Chris Anci, MTK Advisors (Former Operating Partner Family Office)
Serge Jonnaert, THE.MERGER.COMPANY
Gabriel Baldinucci, Founder & CEO - Pawsitive Holdings
Moderator - Gary Sawka, Founding Partner - Crimson Growth Partners

12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m, Opportunities in Crypto 2025

Paul Veraddittakit, Managing Partner - Pantera Capital

1:05 - 2:00 pm , Women in Venture Capital 2025

Melanie Clarance, Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer - Aether EV
Kathy Ku, Vive Collective
Alice Zheng, Partner - Foreground Capital
Ariella Golomb, MD, Partner and Founder, InnovaHealth Partners
Laura Yecies, CEO, Bone Health Technologies
Moderator - Mitzi Krockover

2:00- 3:00 pm , ADDRESSING CALIFORNIA'S HOMELESS CRISIS

Andy Fetyko, EverWell Health

Date: Thursday January 16th, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM Pacific Time

PAUL VERADDITTAKIT,

Managing Partner

Pantera Capital

Founder & CEO

Shinnecock Partners / aShareX



JEFFREY HUGE

Founder& CIO

JWH Investment Partners

AXEL MERK

President & CIO

Merk Investments

K&L Gates

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