Women in Private Markets Summit North America 2026

Women in Private Markets Summit North America is a two-day cross-asset gathering of senior women across private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure and private credit. Held in New York and organized by PEI Group, the summit fills a specific structural role in the private-capital calendar: bringing together senior women allocators and GPs across asset classes for substantive professional and investment conversations rather than diversity-themed sessions adjacent to the main agenda elsewhere.

The agenda is built like a high-quality private-capital conference that happens to have a senior women audience, not the inverse. Programming covers the substantive investment questions of the year — fundraising environment, portfolio construction across asset classes, secondaries, allocator dynamics, regulatory change — with a frank discussion of leadership trajectory, board representation, capital deployment by women-led firms and the longitudinal data on women's participation in the GP and LP layers of private markets.

The summit is also the major annual venue for emerging and mid-stage women-led GPs to meet the institutional LP base in a concentrated format. The investor relations cycle for women-led firms has historically been less efficient than the broader market; the conference is structured to compress that cycle.

For institutional allocators, the summit is the most senior and concentrated annual venue for accessing the women-led GP universe and for peer benchmarking across allocator institutions on diversity-focused programs and emerging-manager pipelines.

Senior women across institutional LPs (pension, sovereign wealth, fund-of-funds, family office), GPs at every stage and asset class, plus the legal, banking and recruiting ecosystem; cross-asset coverage including PE, VC, real estate, infrastructure and credit.

The gender composition of the GP and LP layers of private capital has shifted only incrementally despite a decade of programmatic effort. The summit is the most concentrated venue where senior women across the industry build the relationships and exchange the information that determine the next decade of that trajectory.