The 2026 LP Tech Summit

• Marc Andrew, Founder, The Private Markets Forum

• Jen Allard, Director, Private Investment Initiatives & Operations, HOOPP and Chair, Real Estate Data Initiative

Everyone agrees the data has to get better. Agreement has not produced much. LPs wait for the industry to standardise, GPs wait for enough LPs to ask the same way, and the work stays manual on both sides. AI raises the cost of waiting. The day opens on what accelerates this.

• Griff Norville, Managing Director, Hamilton Lane
• Amar Varma, CEO & Co-Founder, Mantle
• Jen Allard, Director, Private Investment Initiatives & Operations for Real Estate, HOOPP and Chair, Real Estate Data Initiative
• Chris Sparenberg, Head of Private Markets Strategy, S&P Global Market Intelligence
  
  • Panel Chair: David Parrish, Global Head, Private Capital, DLA Piper

‍

• ‍Ashby Monk, Executive Director, Stanford Research Initiative on Long Term Investing

^‍

Fireside Chat 2: Understanding Real-Time Exposure

An allocator can hold the same company three ways: in a fund, in a co-invest, and as a direct deal. Each sits in a different system, so no one sees the whole position. When one name runs across strategies, the concentration hides in the gaps. This fireside works through what it takes to see true exposure across the portfolio, in time to act on it.

• Jonathan Fuss, Head of CIO Total Portfolio View, Private Markets & Reporting, Bloomberg
• Will Daly, Senior Director, Head of Account Management, Canoe Intelligence
• Robert Romei, Senior Manager, Finance, BCI
  
  • Panel Chair: Marc Andrew, Founder, The Private Markets Forum

‍

On the public side, data lines up: common identifiers, interoperable systems, tools you buy off the shelf. In private markets none of that exists, so every LP builds its own data infrastructure, and wrangling can be ninety percent of the work. Insurers modeling private credit hit it early, needing fields the manager never sends. This panel explores how LPs build the data layer that modeling and AI depend on.

• Jagadish Devarajan, Group Head, Quantitative Research, Multi Asset and Private Markets, Allstate Investments
• Len Peltzman, Managing Director, Head of Portfolio & Risk Analytics, Investments, Guardian Life
• Seamus Lynott, Head of Private Investment Operations, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan
• Andrew Kehl, Chief Client Officer, Chronograph
  
  • Panel Chair:   Nima Shah, Founder & CEO, EnvestHub
    

‍

‍

• Amit Gairola, CEO, Daphne
• Jonathan Lipton, CEO, Clade

‍

‍

• ‍Olivier Babin, CEO, Tetrix

Most portfolios run on a start-of-day snapshot dressed up as live. Public positions move trade by trade; private holdings move on someone's capital call notice - rarely the same moment. This fireside gets into what it takes to catch every trade, corporate action, and cash movement as it happens public and private, one view.  

• Megan Miceli, Head of Canada, Sales, SimCorp
• Feifei Wu, Senior Managing Director, Investment Technology & Applied Intelligence, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

‍

‍

LPs’ have spent years building the data layer. Whether the firm actually uses it is a different problem. One-shot a document into an LLM and you get a better spreadsheet, not a better decision. This panel explores how LPs are rewiring workflows and pushing AI to the edge, so the whole firm acts on the data instead of a central team.

• Karina Sidhu, Chief Technology Officer, Momentum Financial Group
• Andrew Weston, VP, Investment Product Strategy & Transformation, HOOPP
• Swapnil Sarode, Managing Director, E&M and Credit, 73 Strings
• Bobby Dhungana, Director, Private Markets Technology, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
  
  • Panel Chair:   Casey Rovinelli, Head, Data & AI, Mastercard Foundation Asset Management

‍

‍

‍Most LPs are testing what agents can do. Few are asking what that does to the team. Roles, staffing, and incentive plans still assume a person does the work. The data behind those plans lives in spreadsheets. This panel explores what the LP team looks like once agents are part of it.

• Apoorv Saxena, Co-Founder & CEO, ObinAI
• Parinaz Sobhani, Managing Director and Head of AI, Sagard
• Kyle Thorpe, Co-Founder & CEO, Ascencion
  
  • Panel Chair: Marc Andrew, Founder, The Private Markets Forum

‍

Most AI in private markets still just reads: it summarizes, drafts, answers. The frontier is agents that do the work, writing to the systems of record the firm runs on. One agent books capital calls straight into the accounting system, faster and cheaper than a person. Another chains across legislation, currency, and country risk to turn macro noise into a ranked signal. This panel gets into what it takes to put agents into production.

• Ian Brown, Head of Digital Engineering, Quantum Capital Group
• Harald Collet, CEO & Co-Founder, Alkymi
• Mohammad Mirza, Director, Strategic Technologies, OMERS
  
  • Panel Chair: Camilla Nysum, Founder & CEO, ReBloom

‍

• ‍Mason Lender, Head of Diligence Platform, MSCI

‍

Firms budgeted AI like software. The bills arrive like a utility, metered in tokens. Agent workflows consume them faster than any forecast allowed, and the spend sits across copilots, vendor platforms, and internal builds with no single owner. This panel explores how firms cap AI cost without shutting down the work that justifies it.

• Robert Romei, Senior Manager, Finance, BCI
• Karanjot Jaswal, CTO, Cinchy

‍