ALTERNATIVE ASSET CLASSES - HEDGE FUNDS, PRIVATE EQUITY, VENTURE CAPITAL, DIGITAL ASSETS:

• Hedge Funds Conundrum: Why so many funds have been failing / lagging passive indices? What it takes to survive and thrive in current market environment? Generating alpha amid increasing rates and inflation.

• Paradigm Shift: Your Global Equity Portfolio Amid Macro Regime Change: What should equities investors expect and how to prepare after 15 years of super low interest rates / financial repression, 1st pandemic in 100 years, 1st invasion in Europe in 75 years,1st (almost) double digit inflation in 40 years?

• Digital Assets from Fringe to Future: How crypto can learn from traditional markets and vice versa. The importance of institutional grade infrastructure. What trends we’re seeing when it comes to institutional demand. Regulation and the need for regulatory frameworks to allow traditional market participants to enter the space.

• Gold, Inflation, and Interest Rates: Are rising inflation, geopolitics, the shape of the yield curve, weakening global growth, consumer sentiment precursors to recession? Likely outcomes from the Fed's tightening policy moves and how they will affect the investment landscape?

• Alpha Opportunities in 2022/23: Allocators discuss the changing investors landscape and how to implement alternative investment classes into their portfolios.

• Digital Assets vs. Traditional Funds ODD Evaluation: Differences and similarities in ODD. What are the main issues or risks that are identified when evaluating crypto managers that are unique to digital assets industry?

• The Art of Constructing an Elite Hedge Fund Portfolio: Characteristics of customized FOFs. How to identify managers who are capable of making successful investments in all business cycles.

• Product Innovation in Asset Management: The blending of traditional investing with the new world portfolio construction and optimization, including art as an asset class.

• Evolving Digital Assets Prime Brokerage Landscape: Digital assets market-structure maturation. Power of a unified bundled prime model with offering that span custody, OTC and derivative trading, lending. What are challenges vs. traditional model.

• Mission Driven Investing: Portfolio level ESG. How to distinguish between Greenwashers and “True” ESG funds.

• Building Infrastructure to Invest and Trade Digital Assets: Who do you call? What to ask?

• Changing Nature of Investment in Oil and Gas: Opportunities abound, but how can one find them?

• Digital Assets, Stable Coins, and DeFi: Disruption, Security, Innovation, and Opportunity. Mitigating risk pertaining to liquidity, price transparency, and cybersecurity.

• Making Sense of the Digital Asset Universe, Reshaping of Traditional Finance: Identifying Opportunities by industry across Digital Assets. Infrastructure from custody to brokerage to exchange.

• What is Web 3.0? How does one get involved in Metaverse, NFTs, GameFi; what is real and what isn't, and why. Institutional custody challenges.

• How Family Offices procure Deals and what is the Process: Forward looking investment themes and adoptions.

• Digital Assets Trading and Investing: Understanding the new asset class and its risk management strategies, from the perspective of market players and regulatory / tax advisory.

• Niche Alternative Assets - Pro Sports Teams: Institutions investing in professional sports teams, what type of returns can they expect and impact on team values. Sports empires: why are owners buying multiple teams? Content consumption: how the increase in digital sports distribution will impact sports rights fees. The future: monetizing the social universe of sports brands: sports betting, data/analytics.

• Healthcare - Longevity: How to grow young and latest innovation behind it. Treating metabolic disorders, psychiatric & cognitive disorders, deadly viruses; shrinking atherosclerotic plaques, discussing medicines to reverse epigenetic ageing.

• Healthcare - Psychedelic Wave is Coming: It is here to stay, elevating consciousness and mental health. Breakthrough innovations, psychiatry may never be the same.

• Portfolio Construction in the Midst of World's Massive Uncertainty: The end of easy money. True diversified portfolios should include both long and short-term duration managers as a percentage of the portfolio or as an overlay hedge to a long duration portfolio. Strategies to generate returns in a low-yield, high volatility environment.

FINTECH & DATA REVOLUTION - ALTERNATIVE DATA, MACHINE LEARNING, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:

• Where are the New Sources of Alpha?: How managers turn big data into true informational edge, converting unstructured data into structured signals? Extracting actionable insights during a period of dramatic uncertainty.

• Alternative Data Goes Mainstream: How cloud-tech and fin-tech are transforming the investment process.

• Integrating Alternative data into the investment Process: Why alternative data is difficult to implement for fundamental investors, regulation risks associated with data. What are the best practices and examples of investment outcomes that benefited from using alt data?

• Geopolitics and Economics of the New World Order: War in Europe. Decoupling with China. How to minimize geopolitical risk exposure and gain the best understanding of a changing international environment using alternative data and geopolitical analysis.

• Alternative Financial Application; Blockchain Networks & Smart-Contracts: For market participants and investors, what are the biggest opportunities challenges for digital assets and blockchain technology in 2022/23?

• Application of NLP to Investment Products and Strategies: Trends of big data and AI pre/post COVID.

• Advancements in Technology Behind Data: Using alternative data technologies to manage your due diligence and minimize risk while extracting insights from unstructured data. How managers can protect their operations when sourcing, testing, and processing alt data.

• Investment Office Digitization: Just because you have a bunch of technology in your investment office, it doesn’t mean that you are digitized. Pension Funds, Endowments, Corporations, Family Offices.

• Capturing and Retaining Value to Justify an Investment in Data and ML: Their deployment to improve portfolio allocation and risk management.

• ML and AI Investing, Hype versus Reality: How much value-added advanced analytics bring to tactical and strategic asset allocation, portfolio construction, optimization, and risk management in multi-asset portfolios including liquid and illiquid alternatives.

• 22 Years After Dot Com Bubble: How adoption of AI and the 5G will further disrupt various industries and how current antitrust review of big tech companies could lead to huge transformations, and opportunities.