How are asset allocators and fund managers reading the Asia growth story and investment potential?

Join Day 1 of the Asia PE-VC Summit 2024 in Singapore (Sept 17-18) to get insights from over 50+ prominent investors and leaders well-versed in operating in diverse markets of Asia.

We present 15 sessions that will be a part of the Limited Partners Summit and the Private Equity and Investment Summit track. Held on the first day of the summit, these sessions will shed light on fundraising and exit climate; attractive investment pockets in Asia; appetite for secondaries; the rise of private credit and more.

As you know, the 2024 edition of our flagship Asia PE-VC Summit will have four thematic tracks, each running as a parallel, full-scale event:

• Limited Partners Summit
• Private Equity & Investment Summit
• Venture Capital and Founders Summit
• Climate Tech and ESG Summit

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.

The summit offers 10 hours of engaged networking opportunities spread across the two days.

Day 1 (Sept 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 | 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

10:45 am – 11:35 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)

11:40 am – 12:30 am | Private Credit: Scratching the surface of the Asia opportunity?

• SJ Lim, Managing Director, Head of Southeast Asia and India 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)

12:30 pm – 1:25 pm | Networking Lunch Break

1:30 pm – 2:10 pm | PE giants find a sweet spot in hospital 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)

2.10 pm – 2:50 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’s 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?

• Jenny Zeng, Founder and Managing Partner, MSA 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 | Middle East capital and the transformation it can bring to South & SE Asia?

• Mohamed Al Maani, Associate, Fund Investments, Oman Investment Authority
• Jannie Tsuei, Partner (Singapore office), TVM Capital Healthcare
• Sunil Thakur, Partner, Quadria 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

Limited Partners Summit

10:30 am – 10:35 am | Welcome Address

10:40 am – 11:30 am | The LP View: Geographies and strategies that will matter in 2

• Kevin Bong, Senior Managing Director, Chief Investment Strategist & Head of -Singapore, AIMCo
• 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
• Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-chief, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

11:35 am to 12:15 pm: Asian family offices recalibrating investment strategies amid global headwinds

• 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)

12:15 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
• Michelle Teo, Senior Journalist & (former) Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

2:15 pm – 3:00 pm | Secondaries: Will this be the decade of capitalisation?

• Eric Tam, Managing Director, Strategic Partners – Singapore, Blackstone
• Michael Hu, Managing Director and Head of Asia, HQ Capital
• Kerrine Koh, Head of SEA, Hamilton Lane
• Javad Movsoumov, Managing Director, Head of APAC PFG, Singapore, UBS
• Pimfha Chan, Correspondent, Singapore, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

3:00 pm – 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 – 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
• Paramita Chatterjee, India Editor, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)

4:45 pm – 5:30 pm | Global investor perspectives on China: The truth about its investability

• Kent Chen, Managing Director and Head of Asia Private Equity, Neuberger Berman
• Gary Hui, Senior VP and Head of Hong Kong, Wilshire
• Vincent Hsu, Partner, StepStone
• Simran Vaswani, Reporter, DealStreetAsia (Moderator)