14–16 Apr 2027 · Bali, Indonesia
The first convening of the circle. Three days of candid roundtables, private asset visits, and dinners held under the Chatham House Rule — the conversations that set the year in motion.
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The private circle for hospitality capital
By application and invitation only.Principals — not proxies.
Why we exist
The most valuable conversations in hospitality investment were never held on the main stage.
They happened in the corners. Over a long lunch. Between two people who were quietly introduced, and who understood each other before any deal was on the table.
HI Connect+ is built around that moment, and little else. Fewer people. The right people. Enough trust for something real to follow.
The deliberate antithesis of the mass-scale conference.
The 2027 Gatherings
In-person Gathering
Three destinations a year. Worth travelling for.
A handful of curated gatherings, in select global destinations. Closed-door, by-invitation, principal-level, and deliberately boutique-scale — designed so the conversations and relationships that begin in the room continue long after.
9–11 Jun 2027 · Thailand
Halfway through the cohort year: And again, three days of candid roundtables, private asset visits, and dinners held under the Chatham House Rule, with new peers by connection in the circle.
Enquire →3–5 Nov 2027 · Abu Dhabi, UAE
The year’s intelligence, distilled — and the room where next year’s partnerships are seeded. Cross-continental conversations, and case studies you will not hear on any stage.
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Monthly Leadership Circle
Not another standard industry conference nor panel presentation.
No stages, no formal slide decks, and no one-way speeches, but ongoing exclusive, multilateral conversation and open discussion among thought leaders and decision-makers where every voice and trust around the circle matters.
Human-Centered AI into Experience
Embedding intelligence into the guest experience without losing the human warmth that makes an asset worth returning to.
Chaired by Johnny LamFounder, Dreamland Beach Club & Advisor of Blackbird.ai
Soft ROI: Beyond the Spreadsheet
The honest truth about returns in hospitality investment, then the strategies that shorten the timeline.
Chaired by Jonathan LawVice President — Mainland China & Overseas Projects, Liu Chong Hing Investment
Hospitality Leadership
From passive capital allocator to visionary industry leader.
Chaired by Wuthivet VetchabutsakornExecutive Educator of Hospitality Leadership & Founding & Managing Director, The Hotel CFO Next Door
Legacy of the Family Business
How hospitality investment extends and endures a family’s original enterprise.
Chaired by Bernardo RetanaChief Investment Officer & Private Advisor to the Chairman, Aruya Ventures
Corporate Investment as Hospitality’s Tech Catalyst and Industry Interoperability
Where strategic capital meets the platforms and standards reshaping how hospitality investment operates.
Chaired by Baybars AltuntasChairman — affiliated partner of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI), World Business Angels Forum
The Irreplaceable Hotel: Building Owner Resilience Through Hyperlocal Identity
Hyperlocal identity as the owner’s moat. How do owners build assets that guests — and, increasingly, algorithms — cannot easily substitute?
Chaired by Devkaran DoowaManaging Director, third-generation hotel owner, hospitality alchemist, and entrepreneur, Lohas Hospitality
Insight brief — in preparation
Wellness & Longevity
A candid roundtable for senior LPs and operators on the fastest-growing frontier in hospitality investment, where medicine, lifestyle, and returns now meet.
Chaired by Chester JieManaging Director, DDA Private Capital
From the room
What Our Thought Leaders Say
Bringing together investors, operators, healthcare professionals and wellness specialists created a genuinely thoughtful discussion around how wellness and longevity are evolving from a hospitality proposition into a much broader investment and operating theme.
Rather than another standard panel, it was a genuinely open, multilateral discussion among peers navigating the same commercial, operational and capital realities in wellness and longevity real estate.
The diversity of perspectives created a very open, candid, and meaningful exchange of ideas, making the discussion both insightful and engaging.
What made the conversation particularly valuable was the openness with which participants shared their experiences, challenges and points of view.
Join the HI Connect+ Circle
New to hospitality capital? You've built wealth in another sector — a business, a brand, a family enterprise — and now you want to turn it into something people can step inside: a hotel, an experience, a legacy in real form.
Already in? You know the harder question: how do you preserve it across cycles and generations — and turn capital into influence that outlasts you?
Two journeys, one room. Within a circle of trusted principals — owners, family offices, post-exit founders — explore the questions you can't raise anywhere else, and gain the knowledge, candour, and clarity to navigate your next move.
Is this for you
Two sides of the same table. One trusted room.
If you allocate capital
LPs, GPs & family offices
You see more deal flow than you can trust, and the right opportunities rarely reach an open inbox.
Proprietary access to hospitality investment opportunities, and the principals behind them, before they reach the open market.
If you own or operate
Owners, operators & developers
At the large shows you meet vendors and junior staff, never the person who can actually move.
Direct lines to capital and partners who can transact, without the noise of a trade-show floor.
Why this is different
Every seat in the room is chosen, not sold.
Principals, not proxies
You meet the person who decides, not their analyst or their business-development junior. The room is senior by design.
Built from the inside
Created by the people who built the room the industry already meets in. We know exactly who belongs, and who does not.
Trust before the transaction
Every member is introduced and vetted before money is ever discussed, so the conversations are candid in a way an open floor never allows.
A circle, not a conference
Not a three-day badge. A standing relationship across the year, with the same trusted people, deepening over time.
Our Thought Leaders
Thought leaders shaping the agenda.
HI Connect+ Intelligence
Edition One · Available now
The HI Connect+ Playbook of Insight.
Our first insight report, written by the founding committee: the themes, the questions, and the candid views shaping hospitality investment across Asia Pacific today.
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