There is something fitting about beginning here, at The Lido Theater.

For nearly ninety years, people have walked through these doors, taken their seats, watched the lights fall, and waited for something they had never seen before.

That is still what this room is for.

Only today, the stories are being written in code and capital. In laboratories and boardrooms. In rockets leaving the atmosphere, machines learning to think, and technologies moving from impossible to inevitable.

Welcome to Sway Minds 2026.

Welcome to Insights Into the Brave New World.

Sway Capital is honored to bring together investors, founders, operators, creators, and some of the most consequential minds shaping what comes next.

Today we will move from artificial intelligence to space, from humanoid robotics to sports, from capital markets to culture. Different industries, different ideas, but a common question beneath all of them:

Where is the world going, and who is brave enough to build it?

Before we begin, we want to recognize the organizations that helped make this gathering possible.

At the center of that support is our Title Sponsor, PwC.

PwC works alongside many of the companies, investors, and institutions represented in this room at the moments that matter most. When businesses are being built, transformed, financed, acquired, challenged, or reinvented, they are often already there.

Their partnership with Sway Minds reflects something we share: a belief that the future is shaped not only by great ideas, but by the people willing to stand behind them.

We are proud to have PwC as our Title Sponsor.

Our Silver Sponsors represent another extraordinary group of institutions supporting the people building that future.

• Citrin Cooperman, bringing deep accounting, advisory, tax, and transaction expertise to private companies, investors, family offices, and entrepreneurs.

• SouthState Bank, providing the financial infrastructure and relationships that allow ambitious businesses to move faster.

• BDO, helping organizations navigate the increasingly complex financial, operational, and strategic decisions that come with growth.

• NFP, an Aon company, helping businesses and individuals understand risk, protect what they have built, and prepare for what comes next.

• And Sheppard, providing sophisticated legal counsel to founders, companies, investors, and institutions operating at the frontier of business and innovation.

Our Bronze Sponsors extend that partnership across nearly every dimension of the Sway Minds experience.

• Piermont Bank, built around the needs of entrepreneurs and growing companies.

• Rocket Lab, one of the companies turning what once belonged to science fiction into infrastructure. Rockets, satellites, spacecraft, and an entirely new economy above us. Later today, we will hear directly from CFO Adam Spice about where that economy is headed and what happens as access to space becomes a platform for entirely new industries.

• The Wright Hospitality Group, bringing the craft of hospitality and experience to this gathering.

• Thrive Recruiting, helping companies find the people capable of turning ambitious ideas into enduring organizations.

• HUB International, helping businesses understand and navigate the risks that inevitably accompany growth.

• Pryor Cashman, advising companies, investors, creators, and entrepreneurs across business, media, entertainment, and law.

• Archive Rentals, whose creative fingerprints are already all around you, and whose work will help transform tonight’s experience as well.

• And The Current Club, helping us create the settings where some of the most important conversations at Sway Minds happen long after the stage lights go down.

To PwC, Citrin Cooperman, SouthState Bank, BDO, NFP, Sheppard, Piermont Bank, Rocket Lab, The Wright Hospitality Group, Thrive Recruiting, HUB International, Pryor Cashman, Archive Rentals, and The Current Club, thank you.

You helped build the room.

Now it is time to see what happens inside it.

Welcome to Sway Minds 2026.