4th Private Markets Summit

14 May 2026

The Langham, Sydney

Following the success of the 3rd Private Markets Summit in 2025, the event returns in 2026 for its fourth year as a senior-level forum focused on the best practice management of private assets.

It is a forum for asset owners, fund managers and other institutional investors to gather and discuss their challenges, to work towards making the industry more efficient for the benefit of both parties. The event attracts 120+ senior investment and operational attendees.

The day examines a selection of focused topics through presentations, case studies, roundtable discussion, panel sessions and Q&A. The agenda covers valuations, investment risk management, governance and oversight, performance measurement, data and technology challenges among other topical items.

Please note: this event operates a closed-door format; access is restricted to institutional investors / limited partners and asset managers / general partners.

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Featured Speakers

Chloé Brayne

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Chloé leads CFS' unlisted assets program across private equity, infrastructure and property.

Alex Miller

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Alex has over 25 years of experience spanning superannuation, infrastructure advisory, project finance, energy infrastructure and government.

Sarah Azzi

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Sarah is a director at the Future Fund, where she has responsibility for in excess of A$30bn of assets invested in private equity and venture capital.

John Gallagher

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John is QIC's head of compliance and has deep experience across both liquid and private markets built over 25+ years in financial services.

Sandra Booth

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Now head of global investment operations, Sandra joined IFM Investors in October 2019 to lead their newly-created data capability function.

Spencer Ivey

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Spencer Ivey is a partner and head of Ares Americas and APAC infrastructure debt, serving also on the Ares infrastructure debt investment committee.

Orla Cowan

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Orla Cowan has over 25 years' experience in financial services, and is Insignia Financial’s general manager of investment governance.

Alexander Solovyev

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Alexander Solovyev is a solution architect at AustralianSuper with 14+ years’ experience designing and delivering technology solutions across multiple industries.

Alana Goodall

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Alana leads a team of private market operations specialists at AustralianSuper, who serve as the point of contact for activities involving private market assets.

Tim Whishaw

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Tim works in QIC’s risk management group, where he helps oversee private market strategies, including private debt.

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The content is suited to:

Super funds and other asset owners / investors in private markets
Fund management companies / managers of unlisted investment vehicles
Senior investment executives
Investment risk executives
Chief financial officers
Chief operating officers
Heads of investment operations
Heads of regulation & compliance

Attending offers delegates a useful opportunity to examine issues that impact their organisations now and going forward, discuss best practice, exchange ideas and interact with peers in an intimate setting.

Feedback 2025 (out of 10)

Overall:	8.2
Agenda:	8.0
Speakers:	8.3
Would attend again:	100%
Would recommend:	100%

Testimonials

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“I found the sessions on valuations very interesting.”

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“I think the agenda is very good, with a mixture of topics such as valuations, risk, data and technology.”