DealStreetAsia’s ninth edition of the Asia PE-VC Summit goes live in Singapore today.
The two-day summit will feature an unmatched collective of 120+ speakers from prominent global and Asian private equity and venture capital investors, their limited partners, and startups.
The summit speakers represent top-tier firms, including BlackRock, Blackstone, KKR, StepStone, Warburg Pincus, Pantheon Ventures, Gaw Capital, Siguler Guff, International Finance Corporation (IFC), British International Investment (BII), Peak XV Partners, Granite Asia and more.
Check out the full speaker roster
We have curated a total of 30 sessions featuring industry stalwarts who will share their perspectives on the region’s fastest-growing investment themes and trends.
This year’s summit will feature four tracks: the Private Equity & Investment Summit and the Limited Partners Summit on day one (Sept 17), and the Venture Capital and Founders Summit, and the Climate Tech and ESG Summit on day two (Sept 18).
The summit’s PE and LP tracks on Day 1 will feature a total of 17 sessions that will explore approaches to navigating private equity in turbulent times, the case for private credit in Asia, the mid-market opportunities in SE Asia, and more. The LP-focused sessions will discuss geographies and strategies that asset allocators are bullish about, the strategy recalibration by Asian family offices, the case for increased allocations to India, the rise of state LPs in China and fundraising prospects for first-time fund managers.
The two-day summit also provides ample opportunities for quality engagements and networking with over 1,000 delegates who constitute the senior leadership of the investment ecosystem in the region.
This year’s participants include executives from Temasek, Khazanah, Oman Investment Authority, Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), B Capital, Affirma Capital, Bee Alternatives, Heliconia Capital, Sofina, and EDBI, to name a few.
The summit offers 10 hours of engaged networking opportunities spread across two days.
Here’s a look at the programme schedule for the first day of the summit:
Day 1 (September 17)
Private Equity & Investment Summit
8:00 am – 9:00 am | Registration & Networking Coffee
9:00 am – 9:15 am | Welcome Address by Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia
9:20 am – 10:10 am | Opening Session – Big Picture: How to navigate PE in Asia amid turbulent times?
- Cyrus Driver, Managing Director, Partners Group
- Saurabh Agarwal, Managing Director, Head of Southeast Asia Private Equity, Warburg Pincus
- Prashant Kumar, Partner & Head of Southeast Asia Private Equity, KKR
- Brian Lim, Partner and Head of Asia and Emerging Markets, Pantheon
- Cliff Chau, Managing Partner, ewpartners (formerly known as eWTP Arabia Capital)
- Deepshikha Monga, Senior Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
10:10 am – 10:40 am | Networking Coffee Break
10:40 am – 11:30 am | Will SE Asia predominantly be a mid-market PE play?
- Luyi Zheng, Managing Director, ShawKwei & Partners
- Danny Koh, Founder & CEO, Tower Capital Asia
- Joshua Morris, Founding Partner & CEO, Emerging Markets Investment Advisers
- Colin Dunne, Partner, Navis Capital Partners
- Kavitha Nair, Senior Reporter, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
11:35 am to 12:25 pm | Private Credit: Scratching the surface of the Asia opportunity?
- SJ Lim, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of Asia Private Credit, KKR
- Stéphane Delatte, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, Keppel Credit
- Bo Hu, Head of Private Credit, Asia-Pacific, HSBC
- Celia Yan, Managing Director, Head of APAC Private Credit, BlackRock
- Ngoc Nguyen, Deputy Editor, Vietnam, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
12:25 pm – 1:25 pm | Networking Lunch Break
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm | PE giants find a sweet spot in healthcare assets in India, SE Asia?
- Dr. Amit Varma, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Quadria Capital
- Navjeewan J. Khosla, Partner, Novo Holdings Equity Asia Pte Ltd
- Dr Basil Lui, Founding Partner, August Global Partners
- Dr. Rana Mehta, Partner & Leader – Healthcare, PwC India (Moderator)
2:25 pm – 3:20 pm | India hits a high note on exits: Will it bolster further PE activity?
- Utsav Baijal, Partner & Head of India Private Equity, Apollo
- Abhishek Sharman, Founder & Managing Director, Carpediem Capital
- Udai Dhawan, Founding Partner & Head of India Private Equity, Affirma Capital
- Paramita Chatterjee, Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
3:25 pm – 3:55 pm | Networking Coffee Break
3:55 pm – 4:35 pm | PE gears up for a bigger role in APAC energy transition
- Chenhua Shen, Fund Partner, I Squared Capital
- Khan Yow, Managing Director, Seraya Partners
- Wymen Chan, Head of Asia, SUSI Partners AG
- Tsubasa Suruga, Singapore Correspondent, Nikkei Asia (Moderator)
4:40 pm – 5:20 pm | Chinese private market taps Middle East capital as West adopts caution?
- Cliff Chau, Managing Partner, ewpartners (formerly known as eWTP Arabia Capital)
- Adam Ladjadj, Founder and Chairman, Emirates Family Office Association
- Elizabeth Di Cioccio, Managing Director – Capital Markets, EMEA, Gaw Capital Partners
- Henry Zhang, President & Managing Partner, Hermitage Capital
- Stephanie Li, Reporter, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
5:20 pm – 6:00 pm | Closing Session – Middle East capital and the transformation it can bring to South & SE Asia?
- Mohamed Al Maani, Senior Associate, Fund Investments, Oman Investment Authority
- Jannie Tsuei, Partner, TVM Capital Healthcare
- Sunil Thakur, Partner, Quadria Capital
- Shantanu Mukerji, Managing Director, Private Equity, Gulf Capital
- Fatima Almubbad, Regional Director – South East Asia, APAC and Taiwan, Bahrain Economic Development Board (Moderator)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Networking and Cocktails (Sponsored by Redhill)
Limited Partners Summit
10:40 am – 10:45 am | Welcome Address by Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia
- Sunil Mishra, Partner, Adams Street Partners
- Lay Hong LEE, Managing Director, Flexstone Partners
- Brian Lam, Portfolio Manager, Private Equity Group, J.P. Morgan Asset Management
- Huai Fong Chew, Regional Lead, East Asia & the Pacific Funds, International Finance Corporation
- Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-chief, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
- Zann Kwan, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Revo Digital Family Office
- Rebekah Woo, Managing Director, Private Markets and Funds, Farro Capital
- Wen Tan, Managing Director & Head of Strategy, Nelson Capital
- Sean Low, CEO, Golden Vision Capital (Singapore)
- Veiverne Yuen, Founding Partner, Blauwpark Partners
- Simran Vaswani, Reporter, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
12:25 pm – 1:25 pm | Networking Lunch Break
1:25 pm to 2:15 pm | LP View: Can emerging managers beat the first-time fund blues?
- Shelly Porges, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Beyond the Billion
- Sharon Liang, Principal & Head of Southeast Asia, Siguler Guff & Company
- Sean Yoo, Head Asia Pacific, Private Equity, Federated Hermes
- Geetali Kumar, Regional Lead for Venture Capital and Disruptive Technologies, East & SE Asia, IFC, World Bank
- Ngoc Nguyen, Deputy Editor, Vietnam, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
2:15 to 3:00 pm | Secondaries: Will this be the decade of capitalisation?
- Eric Tam, Managing Director, Blackstone Strategic Partners
- Michael Hu, Managing Director and Head of Asia, HQ Capital
- Javad Movsoumov, Managing Director, Head of APAC PFG, Singapore, UBS
- Pimfha Chan, Correspondent, Singapore, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
3:00 pm to 3:30 pm | Fireside chat: How China’s state capital is redefining the PE-VC ecosystem
- Xu Qing, Managing Partner, Oriza FOFs
- Stephanie Li, Reporter, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Networking Coffee Break
4:00 pm to 4:45 pm | Will the India story stay compelling for asset allocators?
- Kalpesh Kikani, Managing Director & CEO, Piramal Alternatives
- Deepak Padaki, President, Catamaran
- Siddharth Jhunjhunwala, Managing Director-Head, Waterfield Fund of Funds
- Sam Subramaniam, President Private Equity Investments and Group Strategy Head, Bajaj Finserv Limited
- Paramita Chatterjee, India Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
- Kent Chen, Managing Director and Head of Asia Private Equity, Neuberger Berman
- Gary Hui, Senior VP and Head of Hong Kong Office, Wilshire
- Vincent Hsu, Partner, StepStone
- Simran Vaswani, Reporter, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Networking and Cocktails (Sponsored by Redhill)
