Frequently Asked Questions

The I20 Summit, The Investment 20, is an independent global investment convening convened by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute (SWFI) during the United States' G20 host year. Over five days in Miami, it brings together sovereign wealth funds, public pensions, family offices, institutional allocators, governments, asset managers and the companies building the decade's defining industries, in one venue, around one connected program.

The Investment 20. The name signals investors and allocators from the G20 economies. Where the world's leaders set the year's agenda, the I20 convenes the capital that sets it in motion.

December 11 to 15, 2026, in Miami, Florida: an opening evening followed by four core event days carrying the stages, Core Investment Forums, roundtables, showcases, hospitality, deal rooms and the media operation. The venue is confirmed closer to the week.

The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, the market intelligence platform that has convened sovereign and institutional capital for 25 years. The I20 is SWFI's 93rd convening and its flagship for the U.S. G20 host year.

No, and deliberately so. The I20 Summit is an independent initiative of SWFI and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or otherwise connected to the G20, the Group of Twenty, or the Government of the United States. That independence is what allows sovereign and private capital to engage freely.

The convening power of a G20 host nation peaks in its host year, and the official G20 calendar has no engagement group for investors and allocators. The I20 convenes that room independently, in the year and the country where the world's economic attention is concentrated, which is also America's 250th anniversary year.

Because proximity compounds. When every stage, roundtable, showcase, restaurant and guest room sits inside one campus, a conversation started at breakfast can become a meeting by afternoon and a working relationship by the closing dinner. The building itself is part of the design.

The week is built for a curated institutional audience on both sides of the room: the allocators who deploy capital and the managers, companies and governments who work with it. Capacity is governed by the venue and by curation standards, the room is sized to stay senior.

Four pillars: catalyze capital allocation across the 36 investment themes of the decade, with an ambition measured in the hundreds of billions; showcase the G20 host nation to the world's capital; build the business relationships that carry beyond the week; and direct the outcomes toward work that transforms lives.

It is the first edition, and it is built as an institution: the Councils, the accords, the cohorts and the records are all designed to continue to the next G20 host year. The institutions and companies of the first edition hold the founding positions in everything that follows.

By your seat in the room. Allocators and sovereign institutions: Sections 6 and 8. Asset managers and advisors: Sections 6, 11 and 12. Founders and companies: Section 9. Family offices: Sections 6, 7 and 11. States and governments: Section 10. Prospective partners: Sections 17 to 19. Media: Section 21. And anyone weighing a pass: Sections 11 and 12.

The Group of Twenty is the forum of the world's principal economies, together representing roughly 85% of global GDP, the majority of world trade and two-thirds of the world's population. Its presidency rotates annually among member states.

The year in which one nation holds the G20 presidency, chairs its process and hosts its meetings. In 2026, that nation is the United States. A host year concentrates global economic attention on one country, and the I20 convenes the investment community inside that moment.

The official G20 architecture includes engagement groups for business, think tanks, labor and civil society, and none for the investors and allocators who finance the outcomes those groups debate. The I20 convenes that missing room, independently.

2026 marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, a semiquincentennial celebrated across the nation. The I20 falls inside that year, and the week honors it: the host nation's story, its states, its builders and its capital markets run through the program.

The I20 is independent of every government, and the room is stronger for it: officials, state leaders and public investment agencies join the program as guests and presenters, free to engage as counterparts rather than conveners. Their participation implies no endorsement of the event by any government body.

Governments and their investment agencies form one of the week's core audiences. State economic-development delegations present their investment stories, public officials join the program, and sovereign institutions sit at the Council tables. The confirmed program is published as it builds.

The week is engineered the way an institution builds a fund: a thesis (why now), a portfolio (36 themes), a structure (eight architecture layers), an execution engine (a five-day sequence) and a targeted outcome (intelligence, relationships, discovery, partnerships, public record and continuity). Every element of the program has a defined job inside that architecture.

Global capital now moves through connected systems. Energy shapes AI, AI shapes healthcare, healthcare shapes longevity, longevity shapes pensions, pensions shape capital markets, and capital markets shape infrastructure, cities, food, water and security. The I20 is built to map that connected system and convene the people financing it.

No. The I20 is a convening platform engineered on fund architecture. It does not operate as an investment vehicle and offers no securities. The fund language describes how the week is designed, and only that.

The 36 themes of the week: 24 anchor systems that sustain the world and 12 catalyst systems that are reshaping it. Together they are the portfolio construction of the program, the map of where long-duration capital, infrastructure demand, technology adoption and human need converge.

Eight architecture layers, each with a defined job: main stages create context, core rooms create depth, roundtables create protected institutional dialogue, showcases create discovery, lounges and dinners create trust, deal rooms create execution, the media lounge creates public record, and reports and charters create continuity.

The five-day sequence. Each day inherits the momentum of the one before it, learn, meet, trust, discover, decide, announce, compound, so that the week functions as one continuous build rather than a series of separate days.

Six deliverables: market intelligence, relationship capital, company discovery, partnerships, a public record, and institutional continuity that carries the work forward to the next G20 host year.

The I20 Design Thesis is published at www.i20summit.com. It sets out the thesis, the portfolio, the structure, the execution engine and the targeted outcome in full.

An opening evening, then four core event days carrying the full program: the Global Plenary Conference on the main stages, twelve concurrent Core Investment Forums across three of those days, the Council roundtables, the showcases and the evening hospitality.

Because institutional trust forms in sequence. The days are engineered as a progression, learn, meet, trust, discover, decide, announce, compound, and each inherits the momentum of the one before it. A conversation on Day 1 can become a relationship by Day 3 and an announcement by Day 4.

Guests check in to the campus, registration runs through the day, the first forums open, the exhibition hall and deal rooms come alive, and the evening opens the week: a welcome reception followed by the opening gala dinner, a seated evening with a full stage program.

The peak of the week. The main stages run the sovereign and institutional program, all twelve daily theme rooms operate, the Council roundtables convene, state and company showcases fill the showcase stages, MOU signings and announcements begin, and the evenings carry receptions, hosted dinners and the week's signature moments, including the celebration of America's 250th year.

Conclusions. The program tracks close, the final Council tables sit, the last showcases run, the exhibition wraps, and the evening carries the week's final full round of hosted gatherings and after-hours networking.

Digital Assets and Global Leaders Day closes the week on Tuesday December 15, alongside private meetings and departures.

A welcome reception followed by the opening gala dinner: a seated evening at round tables, with pre-allocated seating, a curated stage program of keynote and fireside conversations, recognitions and entertainment. It is the moment the whole room meets itself.

The pass ladder includes one-day options, and they work, but the sequence is designed to compound, and the participants who are present from the opening gala to the closing tables consistently extract multiples of what a single day returns. Section 12 covers the trade-off honestly.

Happy hour runs from 4 pm to 7 pm, before the evening agenda.

Keynotes, fireside chats, curated panels, Council roundtables, company and state showcases, MOU signings, recognitions, deal-room meetings and a full hospitality program, each format assigned to the outcome it serves.

The Global Plenary Conference: context at the highest level, marquee keynotes and fireside conversations, the sovereign and institutional capital program, the week's central announcements and the moments the media record. The main stages set the agenda the rest of the building works from.

The core summit track of the week: sessions built for and around the world's allocators, sovereign wealth funds, public pensions, central banks and institutional investors, covering allocation, governance, partnership models and the systems reshaping portfolios.

Yes. Alongside the 36 themes, the allocator program convenes regional sessions, Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and MENA, so that capital is examined both by what it invests in and by where it comes from.

A dedicated track for family offices and private capital: peer roundtables, curated sessions and the Family Office Council, protected formats where families engage as principals, on their own terms.

Because family capital moves on its own terms: generational horizons, principal-to-principal trust and discretion. The week honors that with formats designed around how families actually decide, the Council, the peer roundtable, the executive lounge and the private tables.

Twelve concurrent sessions across three days: 36 in total, the 36 Core Investment Forums, each holding one room for one full day, with its own agenda, audience and companies. Depth without dilution.

The macro-sectors of daily civilization: energy, infrastructure, logistics, healthcare, finance, food and water, cities, real estate, manufacturing, capital markets, institutional capital and digital connectivity, expressed as 24 core forums, from oil, gas and hydrocarbons to pensions and retirement capital to media, sports and entertainment.

The asymmetric forces defining the next cycle: artificial intelligence, digital assets and tokenization, data centers and compute, cybersecurity, biotech and longevity, robotics and automation, quantum technologies, critical minerals, the space economy, climate and energy technology, advanced mobility and next-generation media, one theme, one room each.

From where the measurable forces converge: roughly 85% of global GDP sits inside the G20; global assets under management reached a record $128 trillion in 2024; the world needs $94 trillion of infrastructure by 2040; energy investment hit $3.3 trillion in 2025; data-center investment reached $500 billion in 2024; and six billion people now live on digital rails. The 36 themes sit where long-duration capital, infrastructure demand, technology adoption and human need intersect.

Then it is almost certainly connected to several that are. The portfolio maps systems rather than silos: a logistics business lives inside infrastructure, energy and digital connectivity; a fintech lives inside capital markets, digital assets and AI. Read the map for your dependencies, most participants find three or four forums that are directly their business.

The map is the indicative program architecture. The confirmed room map, which theme runs in which room on which day, is published in the I20 program at www.i20summit.com.

Each forum runs a full-day program built around its theme: expert sessions, senior conversations, curated company showcases and shared hospitality, with a defined output, the investors registered, the companies surfaced, the meetings requested and the follow-ups mandated.

Yes, within your credential. The forums are designed as a connected system, and many participants build their day across several, an energy session in the morning, a data-center conversation at midday, a capital-markets showcase in the afternoon.

Through curated showcases. Selected companies, led by the Future 100 cohort, present inside the forum whose theme they are building in, in front of the investors and corporates of their own sector.

A working record: the audience convened, the companies surfaced, the meetings requested and the follow-ups mandated. The forums feed the week's wider record, the reports, the coverage and the relationships that continue after the closing day.

Two connected audiences. On one side, the world's capital: sovereign wealth funds, public pensions, endowments, insurers, central banks, family offices and institutional allocators, attending as hosted guests. On the other, the people who want to work with that capital: asset and fund managers, companies and founders, governments and their investment agencies, and sector partners.

To see the decade's 36 defining themes mapped in one week, meet peers and counterparties at the most senior level, sit at the Council tables where an institutional record is signed, and leave with intelligence and relationships that compound. Allocators attend as hosted, curated guests.

The demand side of the week is hosted: sovereign and institutional capital attends as curated, complimentary guests. Their presence is the product the rest of the room comes for, and it is protected accordingly.

Residential proximity to the institutions they spend the rest of the year trying to reach. The week concentrates sovereign and institutional capital in one building, the same sessions, the same breakfasts, the same receptions, and the program offers managers defined roles inside it, with the audience already assembled.

Discovery is a designed layer of the week. Curated showcases, led by the Future 100 cohort, put selected companies directly in front of the capital, customers and coverage of their own sector, capital, markets and partnerships in one building.

The week gives family capital its own protected architecture: a dedicated program track, the Family Office Council, curated peer tables and direct access to the sectors, companies and co-investment relationships shaping the next cycle, inside a room where families sit as principals among principals.

Showcasing the host nation is a pillar of the mission. State economic-development organizations and government investment agencies present their investment stories to the assembled capital, bringing political leadership and inbound-investment narratives onto the program.

Yes. Investment banks, law firms, consultancies and advisory houses participate through the pass program and through defined partnership roles, the transaction layer of the room, present where the transactions begin.

Attendance is credentialed and curated. Allocators join by invitation as hosted guests; all other participants join through the published pass program or a defined program role, at www.i20summit.com.

One of the four mission pillars: presenting the G20 host country, its states, its industries, its builders and its investment opportunity, to the assembled global capital, during the year the world is watching it.

Five councils convene within the Summit: the SWF Council, the Family Office Council, the Digital Asset Council, the AI Council, and the Global Allocators Council. Each is a closed roundtable of principals, and each closes with a charter signing. Detailed agenda information is published as confirmed.

The Dallas Accords are the principles-level records produced from the five I20 Councils. The five volumes form one publication. Detailed drafting, approval, and publication processes remain subject to agenda and legal confirmation.

One hundred companies selected to represent the future of global innovation, showcased across the week to the assembled capital, the discovery engine of the program and the founding cohort of a platform that will be measured against its first hundred names.

Companies building in the week's 36 themes, from AI, digital assets and energy to healthcare, critical minerals, real estate, sports and beyond, that are ready for institutional capital, global markets and partnerships, and want all three in one room.

A gateway: the audience a growth company might spend two years assembling, allocators, corporates, state delegations, banks and media, reached in one week, with a stage, a footprint and a film crew attached to the company's own story.

Curation. The hundred is selected against published criteria, capped at four per sector and reviewed company by company, so the allocators, corporates and family offices walking the exhibition floor are looking at a vetted map of the next cycle rather than an open expo.

Selection is merit-based and is the only gate, the review comes first, and the commercial conversation exists only for companies that pass it. Selected companies then settle a participation allocation that funds the hard infrastructure of their platform: the booth, the broadcast-standard filming, the credentials, the hospitality and the PR. Disclosed up front, after selection.

Two: a three-minute main-stage showcase before the full room, and a twelve-minute sector-stage presentation inside the company's own forum, never sold, only selected.

Both presentations filmed and edited to broadcast standard, delivered as the company's own content, a year of investor-facing material produced inside the most concentrated room of the year.

The post-event volume recording the week and its founding cohort. Every selected company receives a two-page feature and copies of the book, the permanent, physical record of the first edition. A booth lasts four days; the book lasts as long as the platform does, and there is only ever one first hundred.

Sovereign and institutional allocators attend as hosted guests by invitation. Everyone else joins through the pass ladder published below, or through a defined program role: partner, showcase company, delegation, speaker or media.

Six public passes build by depth of access: Guest, Delegate, Executive, CEO, Principal, and Chairman. Each tier adds the inclusions published for that pass.

One full day of the summit: the Global Plenary Conference main stage plus the day's twelve Core Investment Forums. Built for Miami-based executives and single-day visitors who want the whole building for a day, and the most common first step onto the ladder.

The full four-day agenda: the global plenary, all 36 Core Investment Forums with movement between rooms, all four conferences, daytime food and beverage, and the daily happy hour.

Everything in the Delegate pass, plus the three Barbecue Networking Evenings on December 12, 13 and 14: 7 pm to 10 pm, over live barbecue and beer, where the day's sessions turn into evening relationships.

The full four-day agenda and the three Barbecue Networking Evenings. It does not include the Main Seated Dinner. The first 250 seats carry three complimentary room nights with breakfast, allocated by SWFI; after those allocations are exhausted, the pass remains available without rooms until the 500-seat tier cap is reached.

The execution tier, limited to 250 passes: everything in the lower tiers, plus Deal Room access, Family Office / Executive Lounge access, the Executive Seated Lunch, After Hours Executive Networking, a seat at the Main Seated Dinner, and four complimentary room nights with breakfast, allocated by SWFI.

The top tier, limited to 100 passes: everything in the Principal tier, including Deal Room access, plus a fifth complimentary room night, a seat at the Main Seated Dinner, the Beach Party, I20 Councils gallery access, backstage access, and Media Centre access.

The published caps protect the intended room size and access model: 500 seats for CEO, 250 Principal passes, and 100 Chairman passes.

Match the tier to the job. Testing the water or joining your sector's forum for a day: $1,000. Working the full program: $2,499. Building relationships in the evenings: $3,799 or $5,499. Running meetings and transactions with capital: $10,000. Operating at principal level, inside every protected room of the week: $20,000. And if you are choosing between two tiers, choose by your evenings, that is where the week separates.

The week holds four conferences in one summit: the Sovereign Wealth Fund Conference, the Family Office Conference, the Digital Asset Conference, and the Global Allocators Conference. Access runs through the pass ladder rather than per-conference tickets; single-conference pricing is not currently offered.

Yes, sideways and upward: a summit ticket carries complimentary access to the other Core Investment Forums, and every summit pass can upgrade into the full four-day ladder. The tracks are doors into the same building.

The senior tiers have published caps: 500 seats at $5,499, 250 Principal passes, and 100 Chairman passes. The three-night room inclusion at $5,499 belongs to the first 250 seats; after those allocations are exhausted, the pass remains available without rooms until the 500-seat cap is reached.

Three structural answers. The allocators are hosted, curated guests, the capital is in the building by design. The agenda runs on fund architecture and closes with a signed institutional record, so the week produces documents as well as meetings. And it sits inside the U.S. G20 host year and America's 250th anniversary, a timing this decade gives to exactly one week.

The compounding. One day delivers sessions and cards; the week delivers relationships, the person you met on Day 1 is a warm meeting on Day 2 and a counterpart by Day 4. Single-day passes exist and they work as designed; they simply buy a sample of a machine that is built to run for four days.

Yes, all published pricing is in USD.

Tiers remain available until their published caps are reached. CEO is capped at 500 seats, with the three-night room inclusion limited to the first 250 seats.

Everything happens in one building. The main stages run the spine of each day, and the thirty six Core Investment Forums run alongside them, twelve at any one time across the Saturday, Sunday and Monday, so there is always a choice of room, and the Deal Room and the Patel Family Office Lounge are open across the agenda days. You will receive the agenda and the room map with your credential details, and the registration desk and the team on the floor will point you at anything you cannot find.

Directly, and through the team. Most meetings at the I20 happen because two people meet in a room, at a table or over a meal, and the week is built with that in mind: seated lunches, the dinners, the evening agenda and the lounges all exist to put the right people within reach of each other. Where a particular introduction matters, write to concierge@i20summit.com and the team will arrange it.

Tell us who you are trying to reach. The team knows the room, and a note to concierge@i20summit.com ahead of time is far more effective than working it out on the day. Beyond that, the agenda itself does the sorting: the Core Investment Forums are organized by sector, so the people in a given room are there because they care about that subject.

Your registration confirmation first, then your credential details and the agenda as the week approaches, and the practical information for Miami nearer the time. Everything comes by email to the address on your registration, which is why it is worth keeping that address current.

The published agenda on the site is the current one and it updates as sessions confirm. Anything that changes materially after you register, we email you about. During the week itself, changes are posted at the registration desk and at the rooms affected.

Under our Privacy Policy, which sets out what we collect, why, who it is shared with and how to ask for a copy or a correction. Attendee lists are not shared with partners for their own marketing, and nobody receives your contact details unless you give them to them yourself or ask us to make an introduction.

One property holding the entire week: the stages, the 36 forums, the Council floors, the exhibition, the deal rooms, the restaurants and the lounges. The week never breaks its own momentum.

CEO ($5,499) includes three complimentary room nights with breakfast for the first 250 seats; after those allocations are exhausted, the pass remains available without rooms until the 500-seat tier cap is reached. Principal ($10,000) includes four nights, and Chairman ($20,000) includes five, each with breakfast. SWFI buys and allocates the rooms; where a pass includes them, a registration link to claim the nights is sent after payment.

English is the working language of the program. The room itself is global, delegations are welcome to bring their own interpretation support where needed.

Daytime hospitality, lunch, tea and coffee and the snack counter, runs for four-day pass holders through the exhibition hall and program spaces, with each tier's evening inclusions published alongside it. Hospitality is a working layer of the architecture, scheduled and hosted with the same intent as the stages.

A daily gathering from 4 pm to 7 pm, included with every public pass.

Three networking evenings, Saturday through Monday, December 12, 13 and 14, from 7 pm to 10 pm, three hours per evening, with live barbecue and beer. Each evening has a capacity of 850. They are built as networking nights rather than a meal, and they are included from the Executive tier upward.

The reserved midday table of the senior tiers, a seated lunch for Principal and Chairman holders and their guests, in company chosen with the same care as the gala floor.

The senior tiers' late program: three nights, ten until one, when the day's formality is finished and the building's principals are still in it, included from the Principal tier upward.

A senior daytime lounge included with Principal and Chairman access.

Principal and Chairman pass holders and hosted principals. Lounge access is one of the defining inclusions of the senior tiers, and its capacity is protected accordingly.

Through the team. Deal Room access comes with the Principal and Chairman tiers, and the Deal Room and the Patel Family Office Lounge are open across the agenda days. Write to concierge@i20summit.com with the time you need and who you are meeting, and we will hold the space.

Write to concierge@i20summit.com and tell us who you would like to meet and why. Where the other party is willing, the team makes the introduction and finds a time and a place in the week for it. We do not pass on anybody's contact details without their agreement, which is the same protection working in your favor.

As soon as your registration is confirmed. There is no advantage in waiting, and the rooms that matter fill up in the last two weeks, so the earlier a request reaches the team the more likely it is to land where you want it.

It is the daytime commons: the Future 100 booths, the state and partner presences, and the daily hospitality all anchor there, the floor everyone crosses several times a day.

The confirmed public roster is Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Alex Witkoff, and Zach Witkoff.

The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute has spent 25 years as the market intelligence platform for the world's allocators, convening sovereign and institutional capital across gatherings in Japan, Singapore, Dubai, London and Dallas. The I20 Summit is its 93rd convening, neutrality and institutional trust are what allow the whole room to sit together.

Because the room contains competitors, counterparties and governments. A neutral convener with a 25-year record is what lets sovereign funds, private capital, states and companies sit at the same tables with confidence.

SWFI convenes as a gateway rather than a gatekeeper: the platform exists to open access, to capital, to markets, to relationships, and every commercial structure of the week is built to widen that door, with curation as the quality control.

By directing capital toward the systems people live on, energy, healthcare, food, water, infrastructure, education, and by opening the room's access to builders and communities historically outside it. Impact is one of the four mission pillars, held with the same seriousness as the other three.

www.i20summit.com, the program, the design thesis, the pass ladder, the Future 100 application and the participation details, updated continuously toward the week.