About the Event

SuperReturn Real Assets North America is a newly launched three-day conference held at The Houston Grand Hotel - River Oaks in Texas from 15 to 17 September 2026. Organised by Informa Connect as part of the SuperReturn series, the event is dedicated to private investing across energy, infrastructure, and real estate. The programme opens on 15 September with a specialised Real Estate Summit, followed by two full days of main conference sessions, investor-only networking sessions, working groups, and evening receptions. The event is CPD certified and curated with input from the SuperReturn LP Council.

Audience and Attendees

The event draws senior institutional investors, fund managers, GPs, and real assets specialists from across North America and beyond. Institutional investors confirmed to attend include AIMCo, Allianz Capital Partners, Apogem Capital, CalSTRS, CF Private Equity, LACERA, NC State Investment Fund, and Tokyu Land US Corporation. GP attendees include Artemis Real Estate Partners, Crow Holdings, Five Point Infrastructure, Longbow Capital, Manulife Investment Management, Outfitter Energy Capital, Partners Group, and Quantum Energy Partners. Complimentary passes are available to qualifying institutional investors including pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, insurance companies, and RIAs.

Programme Structure

The programme opens on 15 September with the Real Estate Summit, covering private real estate strategy, investor portfolio fit, real estate secondaries, and data centre demand. Main Conference Day One on 16 September runs from 8:30am and includes sessions on the convergence of energy, infrastructure, and real estate, investor portfolio allocation, private credit in real assets, oil and gas investment, real asset secondaries, data centre infrastructure, and geothermal energy, closing with a networking drinks reception. Main Conference Day Two on 17 September opens with an institutional investor-only networking breakfast and covers energy needs, defence infrastructure, natural gas, critical minerals, co-investments and secondaries, transport infrastructure, water, healthcare, food and education infrastructure, future-proofing real assets, and agriculture and timberland. A Women in Real Assets networking lunch and parallel investor and fund manager closed-door discussion groups run alongside the main stage programme.

Main Topics

The agenda addresses the full spectrum of real assets private investment across North America. Key themes include the convergence of energy, infrastructure, and real estate in a power-intensive environment; the role of real assets in LP portfolio construction; private credit opportunities in North American real assets; oil and gas as a private capital growth engine; the data centre supply chain including land, power, and water; geothermal energy as an emerging strategic priority; defence-related infrastructure investment; reliable gas in the context of energy security; mining and critical minerals; transport infrastructure; water, healthcare, and agricultural infrastructure; real asset secondaries and co-investment structures; and strategies for future-proofing infrastructure portfolios against macroeconomic and regulatory risk. Agriculture and timberland as return-generating asset classes also feature on Day Two.

Closing Session

The conference concludes on 17 September with the chair's closing remarks delivered from 4:50pm to 5:15pm by Daniel Strachman, Co-founder of IMDDA, bringing the three-day programme to a close following an afternoon of sessions on infrastructure resilience, agriculture, and timberland investment strategy.

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