GEORGE TOWN, Cay­man Is­lands-The world's lead­ing in­sti­tu­tion­al in­vestors, chief ex­ec­u­tives, econ­o­mists and aca­d­e­mics, in­clud­ing Sir Richard Bran­son, the founder of Vir­gin Group, will gath­er in the Cay­man Is­lands No­vem­ber 1-2 to dis­cuss and de­bate the cru­cial in­gre­di­ents for sus­tain­ing a vi­brant glob­al al­ter­na­tive in­vest­ment in­dus­try.

The key theme of the sum­mit is: In­no­va­tion in Al­ter­na­tive In­vest­ments: See­ing What's Next. This event will bring to­geth­er in­dus­try pro­fes­sion­als, and will fea­ture a pan­el of speak­ers who will ad­dress the eco­nom­ic chal­lenges that af­fect the al­ter­na­tive in­vest­ment in­dus­try. Or­gan­ised by Al­ter­na­tive In­vest­ment Re­search Ltd, the Cay­man Al­ter­na­tive In­vest­ment Sum­mit (Cay­man AI Sum­mit) will unite some of the great­est minds in the al­ter­na­tive in­vest­ment in­dus­try.

With more than 9,000 open-end­ed in­vest­ment funds reg­is­tered in the Cay­man Is­lands, the Cay­man AI Sum­mit will con­nect the lead­ing domi­cile of choice for off­shore in­vest­ment funds with the al­ter­na­tive in­vest­ment in­dus­try's most in­flu­en­tial lead­ers and will lead the de­vel­op­ment of a new nar­ra­tive for the in­dus­try; on what it stands for and what it can de­liv­er in the post-cri­sis world.

"I am ex­cit­ed to be in the Cay­man Is­lands for the Cay­man Al­ter­na­tive In­vest­ment Sum­mit," said Bran­son, one of the keynote speak­ers. "The event has a very im­pres­sive range of speak­ers from the al­ter­na­tive in­vest­ment in­dus­try that will make for some very in­ter­est­ing dis­cus­sions on the fu­ture of the in­dus­try."

"The Cay­man Al­ter­na­tive In­vest­ment Sum­mit is an op­por­tu­ni­ty for the in­dus­try's elite to take an in­tro­spec­tive look at it­self, see­ing where the in­dus­try has been and pre­dict­ing where it will go in the fu­ture," said An­tho­ny Cow­ell, part­ner in al­ter­na­tive in­vest­ments at KP­MG in the Cay­man Is­lands and ed­i­to­r­i­al chair.

Con­sis­tent with the com­mit­ment of the event's ma­jor spon­sors to cor­po­rate cit­i­zen­ship and fol­low­ing Bran­son's phil­an­thropic lead, the Cay­man AI Sum­mit char­i­ty is Vir­gin Unite-the non-prof­it foun­da­tion of the Vir­gin Group. Vir­gin Unite's mis­sion is to "con­nect peo­ple and en­tre­pre­neur­ial ideas to make change hap­pen; to help rev­o­lu­tion­ize the way gov­ern­ment, busi­ness and so­cial sec­tors work to­geth­er-busi­ness as a force for good." Caribbean News Now