April 11, 2026 · Fort Mason Center · San Francisco ·
Vex Private Markets Summit
Private markets work for VCs. Vex makes them work for everyone.
Presented by Vex Holdings
The Problem
Zero price discovery on the decisions that matter.
LPs are trapped in 12-year funds with no exit. Founders hold illiquid paper while boards make billion-dollar decisions based on gut feel and politics. The secondary market is back-channel deals and 20% discounts.
The structures haven’t changed in 40 years. The scale has changed by 100x.
It’s time to fix it.
The Summit
The Program
LP Liquidity
The $100B problem: why LPs are trapped and what's being built to free them
Tokenization
Beyond the hype: what new rails actually enable for private markets
Governance Markets
Pricing outcomes, not just equity. Conditional securities that reveal what the market thinks
Private Stock Trading
Liquidity without 10-Ks and quarterly earnings calls
Fixing Private Markets for X
Why market structure is broken for longevity, space, neuro, AI, and crypto
Here's who's leading these conversations.
Early bird: 30 tickets at $249. Once they're gone, GA is $350.
Get TicketsSpeakers
Who’s on Stage
Ryan Singer
Co-founder & CEO Vex HoldingsPreviously co-founded Tradehill (first US institutional Bitcoin exchange), CryptoCorp, and Chia Network.
Host
Allison Duettmann
President & CEO Foresight InstituteDirects programs across AI safety, longevity biotech, neurotech, and space. Co-initiated The Longevity Prize.
Opening Keynote
Adam Draper
Founder & Managing Director Boost.vc4th generation VC and comic book collector. Founded Xpert Financial, an early secondary market for private securities. Now runs Boost.vc, a pre-seed fund accelerating the sci-fi future.
Private Stock Trading
Robin Hanson
Professor of Economics George Mason UniversityInventor of futarchy and prediction markets. Author of The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.
Governance Markets
Bram Cohen
Founder Chia NetworkInventor of BitTorrent. Pioneer in distributed systems and peer to peer protocols.
Tokenization
Josh Ashley Klayman
U.S. Head of FinTech, Head of Blockchain & Digital Assets LinklatersNearly two decades in securities law. Chairs the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance legal working group.
Tokenization
Omri Amirav-Drory
General Partner, NFX Bio Founder & CEO, Renewal BioScientist, operator, and investor at the intersection of biology and technology. Stanford Ph.D.
Fixing Private Markets for X
Adam Gries
Co-founder & CEO VitalismSerial entrepreneur (4 exits) building the longevity movement through policy, community, and funding.
Fixing Private Markets for X
Charles Michael Yim
Founding Partner Sync.vcSerial entrepreneur, angel investor, and Shark Tank alum.
LP Liquidity
George Burke
Co-founder Portal to BitcoinCreated the first Bitcoin debit card. Speaks on wrapping venture investments inside PPLI for estate and tax planning.
LP Liquidity
John Crossman
CEO, Vex Securities · COO, Vex Holdings Previously President, Neighborly SecuritiesOver 20 years in financial services infrastructure and broker-dealer operations.
Private Stock Trading75 person cap.
Small room, big conversations.
Schedule
The Day
Friday, April 10
VIP + Speakers Only
Saturday, April 11
Fort Mason Center, Gallery 308
The Venues
Fort Mason Center & Beyond
Gallery 308
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
Wayfare Tavern
The Barbary Room · April 10
Fort Mason Center is at 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, waterfront, north of the Marina district. Get directions →
Tickets
Be in the Room
Eleven speakers. Five tracks. One day of conversations shaping the next decade of private markets. This is who you'll be sitting with.
Early Bird
$249
- Access to all sessions
- Lunch and refreshments
- Happy hour reception
- Event recordings (post event)
- First 30 tickets only
VIP
$1,000
- Everything in GA, plus:
- Dinner with speakersWayfare Tavern, night before
- Reserved front row seatingBest seat in every session
- Private lunch with speakersOff the record, no cameras
- VIP cocktail partyFort Mason, after the summit
General Admission
$350
- Access to all sessions
- Lunch and refreshments
- Happy hour reception
- Event recordings (post event)
Audience
Who Should Attend
Community
Partners
Interested in becoming a community partner? Contact ryan@vex.capital
Presented By
Vex Holdings
Vex is building regulated infrastructure for trading private market securities: secondary liquidity, governance markets, and new fund structures. Vex Securities is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer, Member SIPC.
Founded by Ryan Singer, previously co-founder of Tradehill (the first US institutional Bitcoin exchange), CryptoCorp, and Chia Network.