Global Alternatives Virtual Conference
Global Alternatives Virtual Conference January 21 - 29, 2021 Capital Introductions Reinvented Allocator led 1:1s, Peer-to-Peer Networking, Coffee Chats, Virtual Cocktail Hours and more. Alternative investment industry’s premier meeting of managers and allocators. Beyond the 2020 Presidential Election: What Does the Road Look Like from Here? Fireside Chat with Peter Zeihan Interactive Q&A from the iConnections Conference Participants An Interview on The Unprecedented Risks, Challenges and Opportunities of Our Times With Gillian Tett & Professor Stephen Emmott Interviewing the Interviewer! Fireside Chat Featuring Capital Allocators Podcast Founder With Jim Williams & Ted Seides An Interview: Modern Monetary Theory With Stephanie Kelton As we advance into a late-stage pandemic while dealing with the fallout of the most divisive US election in history – against the backdrop of global geopolitical and societal shifts – we need to understand what the future may hold. The road ahead for 2021 offers hope, opportunity, and a chance to capitalize on the tough lessons of the last year. The iConnections Global Alternatives Virtual Conference brings together some of the world’s most insightful experts in politics, economics, technology, healthcare and investment to share the inside view of what to expect ahead. Thursday, January 21st Friday, January 22nd Monday, January 25th Monday, January 25th Tuesday, January 26th Wednesday, January 27th Wednesday, January 27th Thursday, January 27th Thursday, January 28th Register Today Welcome to the iConnections Global Alternatives Virtual Conference Fireside Chat with Anthony Scaramucci The Campaign & The Inauguration Update Interactive Q&A from the iConnections Conference Participants Keynote Conversation Between Two Leading China Experts Interactive Q&A from the iConnections Conference Participants Conversation on Diversity Equity & Inclusion With Susanne Gealy A Conversation with Future Women Leaders This dynamic discussion features some of the most prominent up and coming women in the institutional investor community today. Each guest panellist will discuss what is going on in the world and how it affects the portfolio decisions they make. Learn about their backgrounds, institutions and portfolios and the challenges they have been faced with growing up in this competitive industry as a woman in finance. Coronavirus Interview: A Discussion on the SARS – CoV-2 Vaccine This interview with experts in the medical and pharmaceutical industry will review current concerns, successes and progress of COVID-19 vaccines. More speakers to be announced In Partnership with Moderator Ron Biscardi Chief Executive Officer, iConnections Guest Speaker Anthony Scaramucci Founder & Managing Director, Skybridge Capital Guest Speaker Peter Zeihan Geopolitical Strategist & Author Moderator Marko Papic Partner & Chief Strategist, Clocktower Group Guest Speaker Professor Stephen Emmott British Scientist & Chief Scientist of Scientific Moderator Gillian Tett Chair of the Editorial Board & Editor-At-Large, US of the Financial Times Moderator Mark Steed Chief Investment Officer, Arizona PSPRS Trust Guest Panelist Dr. Gregory A. Poland M.D, Director Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic Mary Lowell Leary Emeritus Professor of Medicine & Editor- in-Chief for the journal Vaccine Guest Panelist Rich Pelt Director, Regulatory Affairs Global CMC, Pharma Therapeutics (Vaccines), Pfizer Inc. Guest Panelist Swati Gupta DrPH, MPH, Head of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Scientific Strategy, IAVI Guest Panelist Alifia Doriwala Co-CIO Multi Asset Strategies, The Rock Creek Group Guest Panelist Deb Shufrin Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Brandeis University Guest Panelist Silpa Pericherla Managing Director Global Equities, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Guest Panelist Cara Nakamura Managing Director, Kamehameha Schools Moderator Rahul Moodgal Member of the Advisory Board, iConnections Moderator Susanne Gealy Senior Director - Investments, CommonSpirit Health Guest Speaker John Micklethwait Editor In-Chief, Bloomberg News Guest Speaker Kishore Mahbubani Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS) Special Guest Stephanie Kelton Author of a New York Times Bestseller The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory & the Birth of the People’s Economy Moderator Ron Biscardi Chief Executive Officer, iConnections Moderator Jim Williams Chief Investment Officer, The J. Paul Getty Trust Guest Speaker Ted Seides Founder & Podcast Host, Capital Allocators
Transcript of Global Alternatives Virtual Conference
Global Alternatives Virtual ConferenceJanuary 21 - 29, 2021
Capital Introductions ReinventedAllocator led 1:1s, Peer-to-Peer Networking, Coffee Chats, Virtual Cocktail Hours and more. Alternative investmentindustry’s premier meeting of managers and allocators.
Beyond the 2020 Presidential Election: What Does the Road Look Like from Here?
Fireside Chat with Peter Zeihan
Interactive Q&A from the iConnections
Conference Participants
An Interview on The Unprecedented Risks, Challenges and Opportunities of Our Times
With Gillian Tett & Professor Stephen Emmott
Interviewing the Interviewer!
Fireside Chat Featuring Capital Allocators Podcast Founder
With Jim Williams & Ted Seides
An Interview: Modern Monetary Theory
With Stephanie Kelton
As we advance into a late-stage pandemic while dealing with the fallout of the most divisive US
election in history – against the backdrop of global geopolitical and societal shifts – we need to
understand what the future may hold.
The road ahead for 2021 offers hope, opportunity, and a chance to capitalize on the tough
lessons of the last year. The iConnections Global Alternatives Virtual Conference brings together
some of the world’s most insightful experts in politics, economics, technology, healthcare and
investment to share the inside view of what to expect ahead.
Thursday, January 21st
Friday, January 22nd
Monday, January 25th
Monday, January 25th
Tuesday, January 26th
Wednesday, January 27th
Wednesday, January 27th
Thursday, January 27th
Thursday, January 28th
Register Today
Welcome to the iConnections Global Alternatives Virtual Conference
Fireside Chat with Anthony Scaramucci The Campaign & The Inauguration Update
Interactive Q&A from the iConnections
Conference Participants
Keynote Conversation Between Two Leading China Experts
Interactive Q&A from the iConnections
Conference Participants
Conversation on Diversity Equity & Inclusion
With Susanne Gealy
A Conversation with Future Women LeadersThis dynamic discussion features some of the most prominent up and coming women in the institutional investor community today. Each guest panellist will discuss what is going on in the world and how it affects the portfolio decisions they make. Learn about their backgrounds, institutions and portfolios and the challenges they have been faced
with growing up in this competitive industry as a woman in finance.
Coronavirus Interview:A Discussion on the SARS – CoV-2 VaccineThis interview with experts in the medical and pharmaceutical industry will
review current concerns, successes and progress of COVID-19 vaccines.
More speakers to be announced
In Partnership with
Moderator
Ron Biscardi
Chief Executive Officer, iConnections
Guest Speaker
Anthony Scaramucci
Founder & Managing Director, Skybridge Capital
Guest Speaker
Peter Zeihan
Geopolitical Strategist & Author
Moderator
Marko Papic
Partner & Chief Strategist, Clocktower Group
Guest Speaker
Professor Stephen Emmott
British Scientist & Chief Scientist of Scientific
Moderator
Gillian Tett
Chair of the Editorial Board & Editor-At-Large, US of the Financial Times
Moderator
Mark Steed
Chief Investment Officer, Arizona PSPRS Trust
Guest Panelist
Dr. Gregory A. Poland
M.D, Director Vaccine Research Group, Mayo Clinic Mary Lowell Leary Emeritus Professor of Medicine & Editor-in-Chief for the journal Vaccine
Guest Panelist
Rich Pelt
Director, Regulatory Affairs Global CMC, Pharma Therapeutics (Vaccines), Pfizer Inc.
Guest Panelist
Swati Gupta
DrPH, MPH, Head of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Scientific Strategy, IAVI
Guest Panelist
Alifia Doriwala
Co-CIO Multi Asset Strategies, The Rock Creek Group
Guest Panelist
Deb Shufrin
Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Brandeis University
Guest Panelist
Silpa Pericherla
Managing Director Global Equities, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Guest Panelist
Cara Nakamura
Managing Director, Kamehameha Schools
Moderator
Rahul Moodgal
Member of the Advisory Board, iConnections
Moderator
Susanne Gealy
Senior Director - Investments, CommonSpirit Health
Guest Speaker
John Micklethwait
Editor In-Chief, Bloomberg News
Guest Speaker
Kishore Mahbubani
Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS)
Special Guest
Stephanie Kelton
Author of a New York Times Bestseller The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory & the Birth of the People’s Economy
Moderator
Ron Biscardi
Chief Executive Officer, iConnections
Moderator
Jim Williams
Chief Investment Officer, The J. Paul Getty Trust
Guest Speaker
Ted Seides
Founder & Podcast Host, Capital Allocators
