The 2026 London Private Markets Technology Summit

Every private market's workflow rests on the same base layer: an asset has to be recognised, priced, and stamped consistently across custodians, admins, and managers. Most firms still solve this point-to-point. The reconciliation cost compounds with every new wrapper, jurisdiction, and asset class. This panel opens the day at the layer underneath everything else.‍

• Pavol Povala, Co-Founder & CEO, Allocation Strategy (formerly Norges Bank)
• Tom McHugh, CEO & Co-Founder, FINBOURNE Technology
• Jane Karczewski, Managing Director, Head of Strategic Business Development, Alter Domus
  
  • Panel Chair: Gurvinder Singh, CEO, Indus Valley Partners

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$10+ trillion of capital coming into private markets, but only if its rails get rebuilt. Sub-docs, quarterly NAV, single-investor subscriptions: none of it fits the rails that move capital across those platforms. Some of the existing infrastructure gets retrofitted. Some get rebuilt. This panel works the question with builders who have run the rebuild before, outside private markets.

• Andrew Tarver, Founding Partner, Motive Partners 
  
  • Panel Chair: Michael Gruener, Co-CEO, Titanbay

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The software layer is being absorbed. Agents write UIs on demand against any tool that exposes itself through MCP. Workflow and dashboard moats are gone. What survives is what the agent can't reproduce: original data, permissioning, audit trail, domain logic. This panel sits with practitioners building for the agent layer rather than around it.

• Rehan Hasan, Vice President, Artificial Intelligence, Mubadala
• Daniel Liechtenstein, CEO & Co-Founder, Hypercore
• Harman Bahd, Head of Data & AI, Eight Roads
• Jithindas Ramadas, Director of Data Strategy and Management, Aviva Investors
  
  • Panel Chair: Charlie Pickell, Head of EMEA AI Strategy, Hebbia

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What would the basic functions of private market workflows look like if they were reinvented to be AI-native?

• Daniel Wrobleski, Managing Director, AI, CPPIB
• Allison Loosley, General Manager, EMEA, Chronograph
• Jan-Moritz Hohn, CEO, Leverest
  
  • Panel Chair: Joel Arnell, Co-Founder and CEO, Dealstack

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Capital calls, distribution notices, quarterly reports, side letters. The document volume grows every quarter and manual processing doesn't scale. GPs absorb standards pressure on one side. LPs build internal data teams on the other. Vendors fill the gap between them. None of it converges. This panel works the stalemate.

• Frances Brian, Head of Institutional Investors, EMEA, Canoe
• Scott Lomas, Vice Principal, Hollyport
• Amit Gairola, CEO, Daphne

The promise of the Total Portfolio Approach is simple: see public and private holdings in one real-time view. The execution is not. Most institutions run separate systems for public markets, private equity, real estate, and credit. This conversation explores what it actually takes to unify the stack.

• Elsa Madrolle, Global Head of Commercial Engagement, SimCorp
• Tom Brooke-Smith, Co-Portfolio Manager, Macro Opportunites Fund, WTW
  
  • Panel Chair: Amar Varma, CEO and Co-Founder, Mantle

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Private credit is the fastest-growing institutional allocation. The asset behaves continuously, but the data arrives in quarterly fragments. Loan formats are inconsistent, covenant monitoring is too often manual, and look-through arrives a quarter late. This panel works the gap between the asset and its infrastructure.

• Huss EL-Sheikh, CTO & Co-Founder, 9Fin
• Chandini Jain, CEO & Co-Founder, Auquan
• James Brierley, Chief Technology Officer, Corinthia Global Management
  
  • Panel Chair: Scott McMunn, CEO, Loans Market Association

• Charles Westphal,  Syntax

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Fund administration was a back-office decision. It now determines reporting speed, LP transparency, multi-jurisdictional readiness, and what investors see in diligence. The choice shapes fundraising as much as operations. This panel works through how fund admin becomes a lever, not a line item.

• Enrico Ohnemueller, Co-Founder & CEO, bunch
• Robert Glaser, Portfolio Manager, KfW Capital
• Sahem Gulati, Operations and Technology Executive, ex-CPPIB
  
  • Panel Moderator: Rudy Saad, Global Head of Private Equity and Private Capital Markets, Intapp Dealcloud

• Simon Knowles, Managing Partner, Global Head of Technology, Tower Peak Partners 

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UK defined contribution (DC) master trusts have committed to allocating to private markets. The supply chain to actually move daily-dealing pension money into illiquid asset vehicles is being built in parallel. Open-architecture platforms, unit-linked structures, real asset GPs receiving the capital. This panel walks the chain from scheme to asset, with the firms actually operating each link.

• Joshun Sandhu, Head of investment Solutions & Partnership., Mobius
• Wyndham North, Managing Director of Capital Formation, British Business Bank
• Matt Setchell, Co-head, Octopus Energy Generation‍
  
  • Aman Soni, Head of Platform and Infrastructure, Private Assets, MSCI