ACG Minnesota·Tuesday, October 20, 2026·The Machine Shop, Minneapolis
The 2nd Annual PE Summit, "The Big Deal". Local AI gave five talks on AI in diligence, the first 100 days, and across the portfolio.
10:30 a.m.
Much of what a deal team learns in diligence ends up scattered across memos, email threads, and a data room that goes dark after close. How AI can carry those findings into the first 100 days.
11:00 a.m.
AI's value in the data room is not faster reading. It lets a deal team test the numbers and claims that kill deals, across every document, early enough to change price, structure or the go/no-go call.
1:30 p.m.
A live look at AI reading a sample data room for a fictional middle-market company, surfacing and citing the issues a deal team would want to know about.
4 slides
2:00 p.m.
Moving one portfolio company's AI win across the portfolio: what to standardise, what to leave to each company, and how to get a dozen management teams to adopt it.
2:30 p.m.
The biggest AI opportunity is not making people faster. It is removing the constraints that keep revenue, capacity, cash and margin from moving.