Events15 minutes readNovember 18, 2025

How to Design Your 2025–2026 Fundraising Roadshow: The LP & Family Office Event Playbook

A strategic guide for emerging managers, PE/VC funds, and family offices on how to use the 2025–2026 conference calendar to build a real fundraising roadshow—covering Slush, SuperReturn, ALTS, family office summits, and more, with detailed insights by region and LP type.

How to Design Your 2025–2026 Fundraising Roadshow: The LP & Family Office Event Playbook
How to Design Your 2025–2026 Fundraising Roadshow: The LP & Family Office Event Playbook

Why Events Still Matter for Fundraising in 2025–2026

In 2025–2026, allocators are more selective, inboxes are noisier, and diligence cycles are longer. But one thing hasn’t changed: serious LPs still cluster around a predictable set of conferences and summits.

The mistake most GPs make:

  • They treat events as “nice to attend,” not as structured dealflow channels.
  • They show up cold, with no pipeline and no data.
  • They expect allocations after “meeting someone once at a panel.”

If you’re raising a fund, especially Fund I or Fund II, you need to treat events as nodes in a fundraising operating system:

Data → Target list → Warm intros → Event meetings → Follow-up system.

This article shows how to build a 12–18 month fundraising roadshow using your event list from November 2025 through December 2026, and which events to prioritize depending on whether you’re:

  • An emerging VC or PE manager
  • A family office looking for co-investors and managers
  • An institutional LP / asset manager / wealth platform building your own network

Altss sits in the middle of this: we track 9,000+ family offices globally (with full institutional LP coverage rolling out in December 2025), and we see the patterns in where they actually show up.

Part I – Think in “Fundraising Seasons,” Not Events

Instead of asking “Which conference should I go to?”, start with:

  • Seasonal blocks where LPs are most active
  • Geographic clusters you can stack in a single trip
  • Audience mix (family office vs pension vs wealth vs VC)

1. Late 2025: Positioning and First Meetings (November–December)

This is where your list starts, and it’s a powerful period for seeding relationships ahead of a 2026 raise.

Anchors in Nov–Dec 2025:

  • Slush – Helsinki, 19–20 Nov 2025
    • Best for early-stage tech, AI, climate, and frontier VC funds.
    • Strong Nordic and European LP flavor, including some sophisticated family offices and fund-of-funds.
  • Norrsken Africa Week – 20–21 Nov 2025
    • If you’re building anything Africa or emerging markets–focused, this is a dense node of DFIs, catalytic capital and impact-minded investors.
  • Bloomberg New Economy Forum – Singapore, 19–21 Nov 2025
    • Very senior, macro-level capital: sovereign wealth funds, strategics, and global asset managers.
    • A “long game” event: great for visibility if you’re infra, private credit, or late-stage growth.
  • AESIS 2025 – Cape Town, 27–28 Nov 2025
    • The Africa early-stage nexus. Serious relationships get built here over multi-year cycles.

Then December shifts focus to family offices and regional LP summits:

If you’re raising or planning to launch a fund in Q1–Q2 2026, this November–December window is for first meetings and narrative testing.

What to do here:

  • Refine your story: test your positioning (sector, stage, geography, edge) across different LP types.
  • Map interest clusters: who reacts strongly – Middle Eastern FOs, European pensions, Africa-focused DFIs?
  • Start a “pre-commitment” tracker: metrics you can update when you come back to them in March–June.

2. Early 2026: Commit to a Core Geography (January–April)

Now you move from “exploration” into structured roadshow.

Key events in January 2026:

You can already see a storyline: Africa + Middle East institutional capital. If that aligns with your mandate, you can stack them and build a multi-stop trip.

Then February 2026 opens up global options:

Pattern: February is about choice of “home base”:

  • Are you going to APAC (Singapore, HK, Sydney, Tokyo later)?
  • Are you targeting US allocator hubs (Arizona, Orlando, Miami)?
  • Do you need European PE / FO coverage (Cannes, London, Luxembourg, Stockholm)?

Then comes March 2026, which is arguably the most important fundraising month of the year:

Here you have three distinct LP clusters:

US – Florida & California (FOX, SuperReturn North America, ALTSLA, LA FO Forum)

Europe – London, Geneva, Berlin, Gstaad, Zurich, Frankfurt (institutional LPs + FOs)

Emerging & Frontier – Kenya (Nairobi conference)

3. Mid-2026: Deepening Relationships and Raising Final Commitments (May–July)

Once you hit April–July, you should already know:

  • Who your A-tier prospects are
  • Who is not a fit
  • Which geos are genuinely leaning in

You then use events to cement allocations.

Key mid-2026 anchors:

May 2026:

  • SuperReturn Private Credit Asia – Hong Kong, 6–7 May 2026
  • 14th Private Equity New York Forum – 13 May 2026 (NYC)
  • IPEM Future – Dubai, 13–14 May 2026

Then June 2026 (the big one):

July 2026:

If your fundraise is mid-cycle, this is where term sheets get negotiated, reference calls happen, and soft “we like you” signals turn into real commitments.

4. Late 2026: Secondaries, New Strategies & Next Fund Prep (September–December)

By September 2026, you have:

  • Either nearly closed your current fund and are seeding the next one
  • Or you’re relaunching after a harder-than-expected raise

September 2026 anchors:

  • BVCA Summit – London, 9–10 Sep 2026
  • SuperReturn US West – Los Angeles, 14–15 Sep 2026
  • 9th Private Equity Europe Forum – London, 15–16 Sep 2026
  • ALTSUK – London, 17 Sep 2026
  • VC World Summit Seattle – 17 Sep 2026
  • VC World Summit Washington, DC – 28 Sep 2026
  • SuperReturn Asia – Singapore, 29 Sep–2 Oct 2026

October:

November:

December:

  • VC World Summit Tampa – 3 Dec 2026
  • VC World Summit Denver – 15 Dec 2026

This period is ideal for:

  • Secondaries & continuation vehicles
  • New product launches (credit/infra/AI side-cars)
  • Positioning your Fund II pipeline while Fund I is still deploying

Part II – Matching Events to Your Strategy

Here’s how a GP should think about this list, not just “where to go.”

If You’re an Emerging Manager Raising Fund I

Look for events where:

  • Family offices and fund-of-funds are open to new relationships
  • Ticket prices and travel costs are justified by LP density
  • You’re not fighting for attention with 500 mega-funds

From your list, core targets could be:

  • Slush (Helsinki) – best for emerging VC/AI funds.
  • SuperVenture + SuperReturn International (Berlin) – dense LP presence, a lot of allocator meetings in one week.
  • ALTSNY / ALTSLA / ALTSCHI / ALTSUK – strong family office and RIA/fund-of-funds mix.
  • Family Office forums (Riyadh, LA, Oxford, Montreux) – direct FO access if your story fits.
  • FOX Private Family Capital Summit (Palm Beach) – highly curated FO group.

Your roadshow might be:

  • Q4 2025: Slush + one FO event (Riyadh or Middle East FO Summit)
  • Q1 2026: SuperReturn North America + ALTSLA or FOX
  • Q2 2026: SuperVenture + SuperReturn International + World Family Office Forum Europe
  • Q3 2026: BVCA Summit + ALTSUK + SuperReturn Asia (if you have an Asia angle)

If You’re a Family Office Looking for Co-Investments & Managers

You’re not just being pitched—you’re also sourcing managers and deals.

Events that favor you:

  • Family Office Forum series (Riyadh, LA)
  • World Family Office Forum – Montreux
  • AYU Family Office Summit – Gstaad
  • UK Family Office Summit – Oxford
  • ALTS series (NY, LA, Chicago, UK)

These give:

  • Direct access to other families for club deals
  • Curated manager pipelines (especially in PE, credit, infra)
  • Intelligence on what other families are doing (new strategies, geographies, governance)

Pair this with Altss:

  • Use Altss to identify which families are present at each event.
  • Map their mandates, deal history, and principal bios.
  • Book targeted meetings before you step into the venue.

If You’re Institutional (Pension, Insurance, SWF, OCIO, Bank Platform)

You’ll gravitate to events that:

  • Respect your time
  • Offer meaningful closed-door sessions
  • Bring a critical mass of GPs in your focus areas

From the list, you’ll likely prioritize:

  • ILPA events – ILPA Summit Europe and ILPA Members’ Conference
  • SuperReturn series – International, North America, Asia, Saudi Arabia, Africa
  • PEI / Private Equity Wire forums
  • Global Wealth Conference
  • AIMA Global Investor Forum

You can still use family office and ALTS events as dealflow and intelligence nodes, especially for new strategies like AI infra, private credit, or emerging markets.

Part III – How to Use Altss Around These Events

Events without data are just noise.

Altss sits upstream:

Pre-event intelligence

  • Identify which family offices, LPs, and wealth platforms match your strategy.
  • See what they actually invest in: sectors, ticket sizes, geography, co-investment appetite.
  • Build a shortlist of 30–70 profiles per event.

Warm outreach + context

  • Use your outreach stack (email, LinkedIn, Comiq AI, IR tools) to propose specific meeting agendas:
    • “We’re raising a $150m climate infra fund; saw that you co-invested in X and Y.”
  • Reference deals, people, and themes that matter to them.

Post-event CRM discipline

  • Track every conversation and commit to one meaningful touch per quarter.
  • Use news, portfolio milestones, and LP-specific angles to stay on the radar.

This is how you convert events from “expensive trips” into structured fundraising channels.

FAQ – Event Strategy for LP & FO Fundraising

What are the best conferences to meet family offices in 2026?

From this calendar, strong FO-heavy picks include:

  • Family Office Forum Riyadh
  • World Family Office Forum Europe (Montreux)
  • FOX Private Family Capital Summit (Palm Beach)
  • UK Family Office Summit (Oxford)
  • Family Office Forum Los Angeles
  • Middle East Family Office Investment Summit (Dubai)
  • ALTS events (NY, LA, Chicago, UK) with strong FO and RIA representation

What are the best LP conferences for emerging managers?

Look for events with a mix of FOs, fund-of-funds, and institutional LPs:

  • Slush (for VC / tech)
  • SuperVenture + SuperReturn International (Berlin week)
  • SuperReturn North America (Miami)
  • ALTSNY / ALTSLA / ALTSCHI / ALTSUK
  • ILPA Summit Europe (if you’re already in conversations with institutions)

How many events should a GP attend per year?

For most emerging managers: 3–6 well-chosen events per year is enough, if you:

  • Arrive with a data-backed meeting list
  • Book most meetings in advance
  • Run a disciplined follow-up process afterwards

More events without structure = more burn, not more capital.

How do I decide between Europe, US, Middle East, and Asia?

Use three filters:

Where your LP base should logically sit (country risk, currency, check sizes).

Where you already have some traction (shortlisted LPs, prior calls).

Visa / time zone / travel constraints for your team.

Then design 1–2 anchor geographies per year and stack events within those.

Can I raise a fund only via Zoom without events?

You can get far with Zoom + data + referrals, but the bigger and stickier the allocation, the more likely at least one key decision-maker will want in-person contact. Events are efficient ways to cluster many such meetings into a few days.

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