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The Premier Gathering for International Private Capital in the Middle East

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15 - 16 September 2026

St. Regis, Downtown Dubai

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For Allocators and Managers who Invest in Local and International Alternatives

Strategic capital deployment in the Middle East requires deep regional intelligence and a foundation of trust. ALTInvest provides the private setting for the quality conversations and qualified connections that informed investment requires.

We bring together 200+ leading family offices, institutional allocators, and alternative investment managers who are deploying capital across private markets, both regionally and internationally.

Built around a series of private boardrooms, educational masterclasses and one-to-one meetings, alongside a main stage of investment experts, ALTInvest allows allocators and managers to address the complexities of putting capital to work, understand where the real opportunities lie across private markets today, and build the relationships required to act on them.

LPs/Allocators:

100+

GPs /Fund Managers:

70

Service Providers:

30

Expert Speakers:

40+

75%+

*Based on 2025

C-Suite, MD or Partner Level:

$500 Tn+

*Based on 2025

AUM Represented:

The ALTInvest Difference

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The Region’s Highest LP to GP Ratio

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We maintain a strict ratio of LPs to GPs and cap total attendance. Every participant is reviewed before they receive a place. The practical result is that whoever you sit next to at lunch, share a boardroom with, or meet one-to-one in the Majlis is a senior principal with a relevant mandate; because at ALTInvest, seniority is the standard, not the exception.

An Agenda Built by the Network, for the Network

Before we write a single session, we conduct in-depth research interviews across the ME-IN community. The agenda you experience on the day reflects what the GCC's most active allocators and managers are actually grappling with. You also select your own boardrooms, masterclasses and one-to-one meetings in advance so the day you have is the day you planned, not the one that was handed to you.

World-Class Insights from Global and Regional Experts

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Every session at ALTInvest is designed to move from observation to application. Main stage debates, private boardrooms and LP-only masterclasses are led by the allocators and managers making the decisions being discussed, not commentators on them. You leave with specific, applicable intelligence on the asset classes, geographies and deployment questions that are most relevant to your firm.

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For LPs and Allocators

A private, technical forum designed for the mechanics of allocation rather than the theory of it. Our agenda allows allocators to benchmark governance and portfolio strategy against institutional peers, stress-test their approach to specific asset classes and hear directly from the managers and specialists most relevant to their current mandate.

For GPs and Fund Managers

Direct, structured access to the GCC's most influential family offices and institutional allocators. ME-IN provides the environment and the format for fund managers to engage in substantive, mandate-aligned dialogue with the region's most active capital; through main stage participation, private boardrooms and profiled one-to-one meetings built around genuine strategic alignment.

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What’s Covered at ALTInvest 2026?

  • The core building blocks of the ALTInvest portfolio discussion, covering the full spectrum of alternative investment vehicles actively deployed across the GCC and internationally.

    • Private equity and venture capital: Scaling innovation and navigating the Series B-E funding gap in a more selective capital environment.

    • Private debt and credit: Assessing whether current yields are sustainable and where underwriting standards are holding firm.

    • Real estate and real assets: Stress-testing valuations, understanding where capital is rotating, and identifying the assets built for long-horizon returns.

    • Digital assets and hedge funds: Examining the institutionalisation of digital infrastructure and the conditions under which liquid strategies are claiming their place in the portfolio.

  • The industries reshaping the GCC's economic landscape and creating the most compelling entry points for long-term capital.

    • AI and digital infrastructure: Investing in the physical compute, power and cooling assets underpinning the artificial intelligence economy.

    • Energy security and the energy transition: Understanding where sovereign capital is moving and how private investors can align with national energy mandates.

    • Logistics and supply chains: Identifying the infrastructure opportunities created by shifting trade routes and regional connectivity strategies.

    • Biotech, longevity and fintech: Where the next generation of high-growth capital is concentrating and how allocators are sizing exposure.

  • How the region's most sophisticated family offices, institutional allocators and managers are managing, deploying and protecting capital at home.

    • Liquidity and exit strategies: Navigating the IPO pipeline, M&A activity and the conditions required for distributions to resume.

    • Secondaries and GP-led restructurings: Understanding the rise of the secondary market as a primary liquidity tool and how LPs are using it to manage portfolio construction.

    • Elevating MENA in the family office portfolio: The frameworks and partnerships supporting greater regional allocation within global multi-asset portfolios.

    • Special situations and distressed assets: Identifying where dislocation is creating genuine opportunity across the UAE and wider GCC.

  • A dedicated private forum within the agenda for LPs and family office principals to benchmark governance, portfolio strategy and deployment decisions with institutional peers.

    • International diversification: Balancing US and global allocations in an environment where correlations are shifting and conviction is harder to sustain.

    • Alternatives portfolio construction: How leading allocators are sizing, sequencing and managing their exposure across private markets today.

    • Heritage, legacy and intergenerational continuity: The governance structures and investment frameworks supporting the transition of family capital across generations.

    • Active versus passive mandates: Understanding when direct investing and co-investment add genuine value and when a fund structure serves the portfolio better.

  • The macro forces reshaping where capital flows, how risk is priced and what resilience actually looks like in a high-friction global environment.

    • The GCC as a capital sanctuary: Assessing whether the region's safe haven status is holding and where sovereign reserves are being deployed to protect private market liquidity.

    • The GCC-Asia capital corridor: How deepening economic ties between the Gulf and Asia are creating one of the most significant cross-border investment opportunities of the decade.

    • Maritime friction and trade disruption: The investment implications of shifting trade routes and what this means for port-dependent assets and industrial private equity.

    • Portfolio resilience in volatile conditions: Designing alternatives portfolios that can absorb geopolitical shocks without sacrificing long-term return objectives.

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Our Speakers, Your Visionaries. Meet the 2026 Line-Up

H.E. Maher Al Kaabi

H.E. Maher Al Kaabi

Advisor to the Chairman and Independent Board Member

Al Serkal Group

Dr. Ahmed Mansour

Dr. Ahmed Mansour

Chief Executive Officer

Private Department of H.E. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalid Al Nahyan

Dawoud Al Tamimi

Dawoud Al Tamimi

Family Office Principle and Director of Strategy

D Al Tamimi Capital

Abdullah Al Mulhim

Abdullah Al Mulhim

Executive Director – Investments

Al-Fozan Family Office

Junaid Jafar

Junaid Jafar

Chief Investment Officer

Al Muhaidib Group

Jaspreet Randhawa

Jaspreet Randhawa

MD & Head of Investments

Burkhan World Investments

Sami Kamel

Sami Kamel

Chief Executive Officer

DUTCO

Vasileios Kyriakopoulos

Vasileios Kyriakopoulos

SVP, Technology Investments

G42

Varun Kapur

Varun Kapur

Managing Director

Kapur & Partners

Bhaskar Dasgupta

Bhaskar Dasgupta

Senior Advisor

Sheikh Hamdan Bin Ahmad Al Makhtoum Private Office

Ahmad Saidali

Ahmad Saidali

Founder and Chairman

Redwood Heritage Group

Mitch MacCartney

Mitch MacCartney

Associate Director of Strategy

Wide Plains Holding

Basel Kanaah

Basel Kanaah

Team Lead, Investments

University Hospitals

Thomas Freidberger

Thomas Freidberger

Chief Executive Officer and Co-CIO

Tikehau Investment Management

Omar Farooqi

Omar Farooqi

Managing Director, Corporate Finance and Advisory

Sidra Capital

Leila Kaissi

Leila Kaissi

Principal

Adams Street Partners

Ronit Karamchandani

Ronit Karamchandani

Vice President, Middle East and Africa Private Markets

BlackRock

Ibrahim Okumus

Ibrahim Okumus

Senior Managing Director

RPD Fund Management

Denis Jean-Jacques

Denis Jean-Jacques

Chief Investment Officer

Ocean Park Investments

Sara AlAteeqi

Sara AlAteeqi

Chief Executive Officer

Al Mal Investment Company

Biswajit Dasgupta

Biswajit Dasgupta

Chief Investment Officer

Asas Capital

Susannah de Jager

Susannah de Jager

Founder, Advisor and Podcast Host / Independent Advisor

Oxford+ / De Wesley Limited

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Networking By Design

Every interaction at ALTInvest is built around your mandate, ensuring your time is spent on the conversations most relevant to your portfolio.

Through the ALTInvest app, every introduction is built on mutual interest. By aligning sector focus, geographic mandates, and deployment stages, we recommend and connect allocators and managers, through our smart matching system, based on your shared strategic objectives.

The ALTInvest Event App

A dedicated space for one-to-one interactions. Quiet, professional and away from the main forum. the Majlis is where introductions have the privacy, time and potential to become relationships.

The ALTInvest Majlis

Pre-book your one-to-one meetings and secure your place in private boardrooms ahead of the event. You arrive at ALTInvest with a confirmed schedule, knowing who you are meeting and why.

One-to-One Pre-Scheduling

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Registration

LP/Allocator Pass

Complimentary, subject to approval

Single Family Offices | Multi Family Offices | Fund of Funds | Pension Funds | Sovereign Wealth Funds | Corporate Funds | Endowment Funds

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GP/Fund Manager Pass

$1,499 USD

Asset Managers | Hedge Funds | Venture Capital Funds | Private Capital Funds | Private Banks | Wealth Managers | REITs | Investment Consultants

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Service Provider Pass

$1,499 USD

Banks/Custodians/Prime Brokers | Fund Administrators | Investment Platforms | Law Firms/Legal Advisors | Market Intelligence | Placement Agents | Technology Providers | Advisory Firms | Consultants | Accounting Firms

Purchase
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Who You’ll Meet This September

Abbey Road Abdullatif Alissa Group Addepar Al Faisaliah Al Fozan Al Jammaz Al Mal Al Muhaidib Alfardan Ali and Sons Amplify Growth Arzan Athman Atypical Berkeley BEV Ventures Burkhan World Investments D. Al Tamimi Capital Eagle Investments F6 Abbey Road Abdullatif Alissa Group Addepar Al Faisaliah Al Fozan Al Jammaz Al Mal Al Muhaidib Alfardan Ali and Sons Amplify Growth Arzan Athman Atypical Berkeley BEV Ventures Burkhan World Investments D. Al Tamimi Capital Eagle Investments F6
Fiera Capital Franklin Templeton GFH Gulf Bridge Capital Halkin Hanwha Integra JMH Group KBW Ventures Mabani Aljazeera Merak National Bonds Nebula Capital NOIA Capital OIKOS Private Department Santocedrus Sedco Holding Shamal Tikehau Fiera Capital Franklin Templeton GFH Gulf Bridge Capital Halkin Hanwha Integra JMH Group KBW Ventures Mabani Aljazeera Merak National Bonds Nebula Capital NOIA Capital OIKOS Private Department Santocedrus Sedco Holding Shamal Tikehau

  • "A refreshingly well-curated network - small enough to allow genuine engagement, yet broad in expertise. It focused on meaningful conversations rather than the usual transactional feel of many events today. The roundtable format encouraged open dialogue and diverse perspectives, making it one of the most meaningful industry gatherings I’ve attended this year.”

    Tikehau Partners

  • “A well-curated network that fosters meaningful connections in the private capital community"

    SC Ventures

  • “One of the most successful events I’ve been to in terms of quality of attendees and networking.”

    Global Gate Capital

  • “Insightful and well-structured, offering a deep dive into current market dynamics and emerging trends. It also provids an excellent networking platform, bringing together a highly relevant mix of market participants, industry leaders, and decision-makers. A valuable experience for anyone engaged in the alternative investment space.” ​

    Al Mal Partners

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  • "A fantastic opportunity to hear from asset allocators and wealth managers about how they view risk and engage with them on how to navigate global macro uncertainties”

    Alagan Partners

  • "The overall experience was excellent. The organisation and logistics were outstanding, and the venue and set-up were at a very high standard. I was genuinely impressed by the quality and diversity of the participants – the caliber of people in the room was exactly what you would hope for at a serious alternatives-focused gathering."

    Equivator

  • “The conversations are thoughtful, practical, and refreshingly candid — a rare opportunity to share insights and exchange ideas with peers who understand the nuances of this evolving space. As families in the region look to professionalise and future-proof their legacies, forums like these play a critical role in shaping meaningful dialogue.”

    D.R. Partners

  • "The calibre of attendees, flow of the day, and the energy in the room all reflected the work the team puts into making the inaugural Middle East edition a success.”

    AUC Partners

  • "Everything—the incredible venue, the curated mix of attendees, the relevant subjects, and the perfect timing—was spot on. What truly sets the Middle East Investor Network apart, however, is the format. It is strategically designed to allow for adequate, quality one-on-one interactions with the people I need to meet."

    Asas Capital

  • "A truly an exceptional event with lots of networking with real and genuine participants. Very informative and provided a lot of information and inspiration for future development for both our company and the industry as a whole."

    Capital Haus

  • "Insightful discussion with high caliber investment practitioners."

    Silver Peak Capital Advisors

Elevate your brand where it matters - Sponsor ALTInvest

The GCC's private markets community is relationship-driven, regionally nuanced and built on trust that takes time to establish. We partner with a deliberately limited number of firms to ensure your presence is felt rather than diluted, structuring every partnership around your specific commercial objectives rather than applying standard packages uniformly.

Establish Brand Authority

Influence the conversation

Meet the right people

Build lasting relationships

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