Side events

Where the conversations continue.

Welcome drinks on the terrace, LP-only breakfasts, seaside dinners, a featured dinner keynote and an optional excursion to Konavle — the moments around the conference where relationships are actually formed. All side events are included in the participation fee for registered participants.

I  Day one · Wednesday 30 September · Arrival

An easy first evening.

18:00 · Welcome drinks reception — Hotel Excelsior terrace

The event opens informally on the terrace of Hotel Excelsior, looking across the water to the Old Town walls — an easy first evening to meet fellow LPs and GPs before the main conference day.

The terrace of Hotel Excelsior looking towards the Dubrovnik Old Town
Hotel Excelsior terrace
A dinner table set on Banje Beach overlooking Dubrovnik Old Town at sunset
Banje Beach — dinner below the Old Town walls

19:45 · Networking dinner — Banje Beach lounge & club

Dinner on the beach below the hotel, a short walk from Hotel Excelsior.

II  Day two · Thursday 1 October · Main conference day

Breakfasts among peers, dinner in the Old Town.

LP-only breakfasts — 08:00, by invitation, Chatham House Rule

Family-office-only breakfast

By invitation · Chatham House Rule

Peer-to-peer exchange on global asset allocation and private-capital investing, including direct, co-investments and fund strategies.

Keynote & moderator

Ignacio Garcia
Founder
Family-office breakfast

Institutional LPs-only breakfast

By invitation · Chatham House Rule

Peer-to-peer exchange and best practice in private-capital investing, including due-diligence procedures and reporting.

Keynote & moderator

Neven Tkalcec
Equity Investments, Climate & Infrastructure Funds
European Investment Fund (EIF)
Institutional LPs breakfast

LP-breakfast participants will be pre-registered.

19:30 · Conference dinner — Restaurant Dubrovnik

The conference day closes with dinner in the Old Town at Restaurant Dubrovnik.

A dinner table set for guests on the terrace at Restaurant Dubrovnik
Restaurant Dubrovnik
20:00 · Featured dinner keynote
Tariq Fancy
Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Founder, Treebeard Funds
Featured dinner keynote

“The assets are fine. The capital structures aren’t.”

The green financing boom of 2019–22 didn’t fund bad ideas — it funded real infrastructure, financed on assumptions about rates, growth and utilisation that no longer hold. The result is a generation of assets that work perfectly and capital structures that often don’t. Drawing on the dotcom crash as a map, this talk argues that what looks like a failure of the green transition is actually something more interesting: a repricing. The assets get financed twice. The first money believed in the direction and got the timing wrong. (The question for the room is which money they want to be.)

III  Day three · Friday 2 October · Optional excursion to Konavle

A morning in the valley.

A morning in Konavle, the green valley south of Dubrovnik — heritage, a walk in nature, and a long traditional lunch to close the event.

The River Ljuta flowing over moss-covered rocks beneath trees in Konavle
Walk in nature — River Ljuta, Konavle
Traditional wooden milling equipment inside the old mill in Konavle
The old mill
Traditional textiles and clothing displayed inside the County Museum in Čilipi
County Museum, Čilipi
09:20Meeting point in front of Hotel Excelsior
09:30Departure for Konavle
Museum visitA short visit to the County Museum in Čilipi to learn about Croatian customs and the traditional production of silk (about 20 minutes).
Nature walkA walk in nature around the old mill (about 45 minutes), a visit to the mill itself and a tasting of Croatian heritage food.
around 12:15Arrival at Konavoski dvori — traditional Croatian lunch from 12:30.
around 14:30Optional wine tasting at Karaman winery (about five minutes’ drive from the restaurant, around 45 minutes). An optional visit for those who wish to stay a little longer: a warm welcome from the Karaman family; a guided walk through their revitalised Dubrovačka Malvasija vineyard, including the very first vine planted in 2003; a guided tasting; a visit to the winery archive for a short presentation on the preservation of Prošek; a pairing of their world-champion Prošek with padišpanj, a traditional Konavle cake; and a presentation of the history and revival of Dubrovačka Malvasija by Niko Karaman, a pioneer in restoring this rare variety.

Organised airport transfers accommodate all departures for excursion participants — before, during or after lunch. For participants returning to Dubrovnik after lunch, a further transfer is organised, departing Konavle around 14:30 and arriving back at Hotel Excelsior around 15:00.

The official LP–GP Networking Event programme concludes with the Konavle excursion and lunch. For participants staying on in Dubrovnik on Friday evening, an informal dinner will be organised at extra cost, with each participant covering their own expenses.

Programme

See the full conference programme.