AI / Data & Insight — Private Capital Breakfast 2026
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November 18, 2026
2026 Edition
AI / Data & Insight
Private Capital
Breakfast

The AI / Data & Insight Private Capital Breakfast brings together portfolio company executives, data and AI leaders, operating partners, and PE deal teams for a senior-level, half-day forum on how AI is reshaping the private equity lifecycle, from sourcing and diligence through to portfolio value creation. Built around the “Humans and AI” operating model and set at The May Fair Hotel, it convenes 150 senior decision-makers for practitioner-led insights on what is actually working inside operating businesses.

Speakers

Confirmed Speakers

Additional speakers to be announced
Conference Themes

What the Room Will Be Talking About

Three panels across one morning, covering the full PE-AI lifecycle.

01
AI Into Value Creation
The Capability StackPicking BattlesHumans and AI

A panel combining AI-powered analytics and post-deal portfolio value creation: how funds move from dashboards and experimentation to repeatable AI playbooks that improve revenue, margin, productivity, and management decision quality across portfolio companies.

02
Smarter Deals, Better Handoffs
Diligence Beyond the Data RoomSurviving the HandoffA Day-100 Plan With Teeth

How AI is reshaping pre-deal diligence, and how those insights carry into the first hundred days. Deal teams and operators on what survives the handoff, what gets lost, and how to make value creation planning start before signing, not after.

03
The AI Operating Model
AI Function & GovernanceScaling Across the BusinessTalent & Measuring Impact

As AI becomes a strategic capability rather than a standalone technology initiative, private equity firms are rethinking how they organise teams, build internal expertise and support adoption across their portfolios. This discussion explores how firms are structuring AI leadership, defining responsibilities between investment, operating and technology teams, and creating governance models that can scale with rapidly evolving technologies.

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Partners

The firms that make this possible.

Representing the leading firms across private capital.

Gold
ECI
Exact Insight
M&A Technology Partner
Datasite
Blueflame AI
From Connecting Capital Conversations

The Podcast

Episodes on AI and data in private markets, featuring speakers from this event.

AI / Investment Process28:13
Speaking at this event

From Hype to ROI: AI’s Real Role in Private Markets

Joel Burnette, BlueFlame AI · Jesse Thomas, Advent

The AI conversation in private equity has moved on. It’s no longer about what’s possible, it’s about what’s working, what’s worth building, and what actually moves the needle on returns.

AI / Competitive Strategy18:12
Speaking at this event

How Are Private Capital Firms Leveraging Generative AI

William Harris, ECI · Dominic Gallelo, Bridgepoint

AI is unlikely to replace a person, but a person with AI is likely to replace another job.

AI / Operations20:25

Why Most AI Use Cases in PE Don’t Move the P&L

Dean Hill, ECI · Valerie Legat, Astorg

Everyone in private equity is running AI pilots. Far fewer are seeing it show up on the P&L.

AI / Change Management13:18

The Hardest Part of AI Transformation Isn’t the Technology

Rakhi Williams, FTI Consulting · James Redmayne, Searchlight Capital

The tools exist. The investment theses are written. The harder problem, the one that actually determines whether AI transformation delivers, is human.

AI / Data & Insight Private Capital Breakfast

Tickets & Registration

Two passes are available. Select the pass that matches your role and register below.

Delegate Pass
Delegate Pass
Early bird rate£300
Standard rate£500

For fund-side practitioners, operating partners and portfolio company executives.

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Service Provider Pass
Service Provider Pass
Early bird rate£750
Standard rate£1,000

For advisers, technology and data providers. Limited to 20 seats.

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