AI Wars; Oxford & OH Added; Impact/VC: 361Firm Digest 2/13/23
Mark Sanor
Founder of 361Firm global community, collaborating on investing & philanthropy. 9K+ SFOs, Institutional Investors, Funds & CIOs/CXOs. Events in 100+ cities, 20+ countries.
MAR. 7-9 5TH LONDON/UK CONFERENCE (MAYFAIR HOTEL)
At our 5th London/UK Conference March 7-9, we expect 100+ family offices and institutional investors, plus fund managers and founders. See the summary agenda below, on the UK Program Deck and registration page: www.361firm.com/london23. To help shape the final agenda and invite speakers, please share your suggestions via this UK Input Form and invite them to our Prep Calls on Tuesdays at 10am ET (3pm UK time).
The “early bird” rate of $750 is open until Feb. 14 for the first 10 people who register. This fee increases over time to $1500. The fee will include London morning site visit options on March 9, but the March 7 excursion to Sheffield and Oxford will have separate costs (we are trying to keep low - details to follow). Some may choose just to meet us in Oxford the evening of March 7 (multiple train options to/from London).
Active Allocators are complementary if approved after confirming "QP" status via our Allocator Form.
Meanwhile, you can invite others via our LinkedIn UK Event. and subscribe to various 361 events and content at 361firm.com/subs.
March 22-23 5th Impact/NextGen & VC Summits
On March 22-23, we host our 5th Impact/NextGen & VC Summits. We expect 125+ family offices and institutional investors, plus fund managers and founders. Panels and modules will include: Rethinking Philanthropy, Impact Investing Mapping & Measurement, Inclusion/DEI, Climate Tech and Energy Transition, Longevity, Optimizing for NextGens, plus Site Visits and Ping Pong. The summary agenda is below.
Spread the word, including to potential speakers. Invite them to our Prep Calls on Thursdays at 10:30am ET and submit your suggestions via our NY Impact/VC Input Form. You can invite others via our LinkedIn Impact/VC Event. Be sure to register yourself too at 361firm.com/impact23 as we still have “early bird” spots. Again, for Active Allocators, access is generally complementary if approved after confirming "QP" status via our Allocator Form.
April 17-20 the West Coast Tour
On April 17-20, we return to the West Coast with special programming in two great innovation centers undergoing transformation: Seattle and Silicon Valley. Per the Program Deck (361.pub/april2023), it will include Zeitgeist panels on the future of both areas, micro-region focus on NW U.S. and British Columbia, dynamics of exodus out of (and still into) the Valley, Rethinking Allocations Across Asset Classes, Emerging Industries & Companies including of course AI, and Optimizing Impact & NextGen. Plus we will have modules for a tour of the Google campus (April 19 AM), Bainbridge Island (April 17 Lunch), the home of Pickleball which we will play in Seattle April 18 AM).
Registration is now open at www.361firm.com/west23 with an "Early Bird" registration fee of $361 per city which increases to $500 on Feb. 17, to $750 Feb. 28, and $1K March 3 until we close it on April 13. For Active Allocators, again access is complementary if approved via our Allocator Form.
You can help shape the final agenda by suggesting speakers and topics for panels and breakouts on our Prep Calls on Thursdays at 2 pm ET (11am PT) on this Zoom and meanwhile make suggestions via this West Coast Input Form.
Meanwhile, you can invite others via our LinkedIn West Coast Event.
May 9-11 6th Ohio Tour
On May 9-11 361Firm hosts its 6th Ohio Tour to collaborate on investing and philanthropy in my home state. Ohio is growing faster than national GDP, thanks to leadership and innovation. Reshoring is also a factor, and our site visit in Columbus will include Intel’s $20B (possibly $100B) chip plant in the making. Panels again will include Zeitgeist on Ohio’s future, Emerging Industries & Companies in the heartland, Asset Allocation Rethink in light of dynamics in the Midwest, and Optimizing Impact & NextGen. Oh, we will have Pickleball as well as our 3rd 5K Run/Walk. You can now register at www.361firm.com/ohio23, with an "early bird" rate, and invite others via our LinkedIn Ohio Event.
See summary Agenda below, but you can suggest panel topics, speakers and other site visit locations via this Ohio Input Form and join our weekly Prep Calls on Fridays at 10am ET.
May 9: Cincinnati & Other Ohio Site Visits (AM, Lunch) + Joint Family Office Event (4PM)
May 10: Columbus Conference (All Day)
May 11: Cleveland Conference + NE Ohio Tour
ALLOCATOR SESSIONS FOR FAMILY OFFICE PRINCIPALS, CIOs & INSTITUTIONAL (PCI) INVESTORS
Family office Principals, CIOs & Institutional (PCI) investors who are approved “QP Active Allocators” may join our PCI Sessions whose agenda items focus on
The next upcoming PCI Sessions are noted below.
To request to join, confirm your "QP" status via this short Allocator Form.
LAST TUESDAY’S BRIEFING
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Last week we hosted our 148th Briefing on "The Tug-of-War Continues". Here are some takeaways:
- Fed and ECB not focused on cutting rates in second half
- Market calling for two Fed cuts in second half
- JOLTS report 11.012 million persons
- S&P 500 up 6.28%
- 10-year Treasury dropped to 3.5%
LAST WEEK’S DEEP DIVE ON ChatGPT
- the NON-Evolution of Travel UI, comparing 1996 and 2023
-The progress of genertive AI, challenges that travel industry faced due to intensive supervised training
- Concerns about AI and ethics
- ChatGPT3.5 takes about 288 years to train
- Google and Bing searches are going to contain some of the miraculous responses that we're seeing from ChatGPT
- Impact on copywriters (efficiency, scalability, increased number of output)
Special thanks to speakers: Terrell Jones Istiaque Doza Sanjay Bhatia Safa Rashtchy and Kia Ghiam for moderating this event.
We host part 2 next Tuesday right after 11am Briefing. You can register for both events at www.361firm.com/subs
CALENDAR
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Forms to Shape Agendas and Speakers. For various events, we set up “Input Forms” to help organize suggestions for panels, speakers. Click links below to add input. See picture below for London form.
To suggest an idea for an event 361Firm to host (or co-host), please click here: 361.pub/eventidea
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361Firm's global community is now 7K+ strong across SFOs, institutional investors, funds, and CXOs. Founded in 2015 after 10 years with a SFO investing in and with funds/FOs and 10+ years as a lawyer and M&A Partner at Andersen and EY in Europe/Asia, we now primarily collaborate in four areas: (1) Investments (Allocator Sessions, core members access and intelligence, fund formations); (2) Raising Capital ($8B+ to date in funds/companies by our broker-dealer platform); (3) Connecting Partners/Talent (including our CIO Council); and (4) Optimizing Philanthropy, interconnecting for efficiencies, linking to Impact Investing. We’ve hosted events in 69+ cities and 20+ countries, since 2016 via Zoom with Tuesday 11am Briefings, Deep Dives and 10:30am Meetups. 360 stems from hosting roundtables since 2005 and "One Firm" from Andersen heritage of the core partners. One Pager: http://361.pub/1pager