Preliminary Agenda: 6th Palm Beach CorpGov Forum Nov 4-5 with Activism, Sports, VC

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CorpGov, IPO Edge and PE Edge will host the sixth annual Palm Beach CorpGov Forum on November 4-5, 2026, at the Palm Beach Lake Pavilion and The Cove Club, both located waterfront with sweeping views of Palm Beach Island, along with a reception at Cucina Palm Beach. The Forum will feature a VC-focused keynote panel on Wednesday evening and a full day of panels on Thursday, with networking events both nights.

Our audience will include approximately 300 attendees including institutional investors, board directors, family offices/HNWIs, attorneys, investment bankers and key advisors. For sponsorship, speaker or media enquiries, email Editor@CorpGov.com

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The event will be digitized into reports published on CorpGov and by its content partners (under relevant company stock tickers) Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Terminals, Reuters via LSEG Workspace, and AlphaSense, and filmed with multiple 4K video cameras and professional editing.

Preliminary Agenda

Wednesday, November 4 at The Cove Club

4:00pm — Registration opens at The Cove Club

5:00pm — Reception begins for welcome cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres

5:30pm — Keynote panel

6:00pm — Reception resumes with cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres

7:30pm — Reception ends

Thursday, November 5 at The Palm Beach Lake Pavilion and Cucina Palm Beach

9:00am — Registration opens at The Lake Pavilion with light breakfast

10:00am — Morning session begins: private markets focused

12:30pm — Boxed lunches from Johan’s Joe served

1:00pm — Afternoon session begins: public markets focused

5:00pm — Depart for Cucina Palm Beach reception

Friday, November 6 at The Breakers Palm Beach – Golf

3rd Palm Beach CorpGov Invitational

Preliminary Panels: Palm Beach CorpGov Forum 2026:

Sports Investing
AI Governance
Shareholder Activism and Defense
Stablecoins
Defense Tech
IPOs and Equity Capital Markets
Venture Capital/Private Equity
Entertainment/Media

Preliminary Speakers: CorpGov Forum 2026:

Andrew Bair, President and CEO, Capital Defense Technologies
Craig DeDomenico, Managing Director, Equity and Equity-Linked Capital Markets, Stifel
Robert DuPuy, Former President and COO, Major League Baseball
Adam Dobrik, Director, Shareholder Activism Practice, Forward Risk
Don Duffy, Chairman, ICR Capital
Chuck Garske, Senior Managing Director, Okapi Partners
Bruce Goldfarb, President and CEO, Okapi Partners
Brenda Gosselin, Partner, Goodmans LLP
John Grau, President, InvestorCom
Mary Guzman, Founder and CEO, Crown Jewel Insurance
Mark Harms, Chairman and CEO, Global Leisure Partners; Investor and Executive Committee Member, World Gym Corporation (TAI: 2762.TW)
Rick Horrow, CEO, Horrow Sports Ventures
Rafique Jiwani, Head of GTM Value Creation, Operating Advisor, Goldman Sachs Private Equity
Andy Katz, General Partner, BrknPar Ventures (Sport Tech Growth Equity Fund)
Ryan Keating, Partner, Industry Leader, Venture Services, EisnerAmper
Harrison Lance, Head of Capital Markets, Southeast, New York Stock Exchange
Robert Maciejko, Founder, AI Strategy and Board Advisor, Board AI Institute; Co-Founder, INSEAD AI
Mark Martini, Founder and CEO, WimbledonGlobal, Inc.
Ron Orol, Senior Editor, The Deal
Charles Orozco, Senior Vice President – Group Director, Flagstar Private Bank
Kory Patrick, Principal, Risk Advisory Services, Kaufman, Rossin &Co.
Joseph Quintilian, Partner, Distributed Capital Partners, and co-founder, Ajna Labs LLC
Michael W. Robinson, Chairman and CEO, The Montgomery Strategies Group
Patrick Rooney, Family Ownership, Pittsburgh Steelers; President, Palm Beach Kennel Club
Joshua Siegel, General Partner, Acronym Venture Capital
Karen Snow, CEO, Rose & Co Capital Advisors, Former Global Head of Listings, Nasdaq
Charles Soranno, Managing Director, Protiviti
Adam Tamzoke, Counsel, Latham & Watkins
Ken Traub, Chairman, President and CEO, Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq: CMTL)
Greg Veltri, Stock Plan Lifecycle Director, Infinite Equity
Judson Wallace, Managing Director, White Rabbit Capital
Dan Zacchei, Managing Partner, Longacre Square Partners
Ned Zelles, Director, Head of GTS Corporate Services, GTS
Katie Creaser, Partner, Technology, ICR (Moderator)
Adam Kommel, Activism Data Product Manager, Bloomberg (Moderator)
Jarrett Banks, Editor-at-Large, CorpGov (Moderator)
John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)