PowderSummit
Raising and Investing Capital in Alternative Investments
Two days for the people who raise capital and the people who invest it. One room, live deals, and the legal, tax, and lending framework that sits under every one of them.
Monday the 18th is MLK Day, a day many investors already have off.
Learn the mechanics
PPMs, capital stacks, tax treatment, and the rules around raising, taught plainly.
Meet both sides
Investors and the operators raising capital, working the same room.
See real deals
Vetted operators pitch live, with a panel that presses on the numbers.
Leave with a plan
A framework, a workbook, and follow-up conversations already booked.
On stage at Colorado RE•CON
The same team, the same standard. Real operators and real experts teaching to full rooms.
Both sides of the table
Capital raisers and the people who back them, in the same room. Every session is framed for both, so nobody has to translate.
LPs & aspiring LPs
Accredited and aspiring passive investors who want to put capital to work without guessing.
- Learn how to read a deal before you wire a dollar.
- Understand the tax treatment that decides your real return.
- Put retirement capital to work through self-directed accounts.
- Meet operators face to face and ask your own questions.
GPs, sponsors & fund managers
Operators raising capital, and the private lenders funding deals alongside them.
- Build a capital raising process that holds up to scrutiny.
- Get the securities framework right from the first conversation.
- Pitch a vetted deal live and take the follow-up in the same room.
- Grow a network that keeps producing capital after the event.
Also in the room: the attorneys, lenders, custodians, and CPAs who serve both sides, on stage and at their tables between sessions.
Working agenda
One room, back to back. Sessions teach, and the conversations around them are where deals start.
Get to Denver early and meet a few faces before Day One.
Meet & greet happy hour
An informal get-together the night before. Not hosted, so order what you like and come as you are. Location to be announced.
Foundation, framework, and market context. The day you learn how the machine actually works.
Registration & coffee
Badges, coffee, and a soft start.
Legal & securities framework
PPM walkthrough, 506(b) versus 506(c), the capital stack, and deal structure. Workbook provided.
The 5 C's of credit
How lenders actually read a borrower, and what that means for your next deal.
Lunch & open networking
Room organized by attendee type so the right people find each other.
State of alternative investments
Where the capital is moving and why. Macro and data driven, one clear voice.
Opportunity sessions, back to back
What each asset class is really buying, from the people running it.
- Real estateMike HillsAtlas Real Estate
- Oil, gas, and landKhris AllenEckard Enterprises
- Debt fundsBrandon McKnightPine Financial
Day check-in from stage
What you learned, what you're still looking for, and a preview of tomorrow.
Networking happy hour
Informal and not hosted. Find the speakers, ask your own questions, and book follow-up time.
Tax, strategy, and live deals. The day the room gets specific.
Registration & coffee
Second-day start.
Tax advantaged investing
Cost segregation, opportunity zones, and passive losses at the investor level, in plain terms.
Self-directed IRAs & solo 401(k)s: a sit-down conversation
How investors put retirement capital to work in private deals, and how operators structure deals to welcome it.
Break & open networking
Coffee, and time at the sponsor tables.
Aligning investment objectives
Matching the deal to the goal, for both the investor and the operator.
Build a capital raising machine
The process operators use to raise consistently and stay compliant.
Networking lunch
Pick a table by interest area and sit with the operators and advisors you want to keep talking to.
Curated deal pitches
Vetted operators, fifteen minutes each, with a panel that presses on the numbers after.
- Senior housingVern Harris & Jim FlintABW Senior Investments
- Steel-built cabins & homesMytikas Industries
- More operatorsTo be announced
Heavy hitter panel
The operators who have done it at scale, taking real questions.
Goal setting & close
Turn two days into a plan, then a short survey and the close.
Working agenda, subject to change as speakers confirm. All times Mountain.
Dry powder needs somewhere to go
Most investors never get a clean way to evaluate what they are buying, and most operators never get a network that keeps producing capital. Powder Summit puts both problems on one agenda.
Capital that is committed and ready to deploy, waiting on the right deal.
There is plenty of it. This is where it meets the operators raising it, with the legal, tax, and lending framework on the same agenda.
Capital sits idle
Money waits on the sidelines because there is no steady flow of deals worth evaluating.
No honest way to vet
Investors are handed a pitch, not a method for judging the operator behind it.
The rules are not optional
506(b) versus 506(c), accreditation, and disclosure decide whether a raise is even legal.
Tax treatment decides the return
Depreciation, cost segregation, and opportunity zones move the real number more than the headline yield.
Retirement capital stays stuck
Self-directed IRAs and solo 401(k)s sit unused because nobody walked the investor through them.
One room, both sides
Every session speaks to the investor and the operator out loud, so the conversation afterward starts on level ground.
Speakers & experts
The people who teach the sessions, host the conversations, and stay for your follow-up questions.
Byron Elliott
3 Pillars Law
Securities & syndication framework
Monfort Companies
Heavy hitter panel
Lessons learned and what's next
Trinity Bradley-Anderson, CPA
Sorren
Tax advantaged investing: cost segregation, opportunity zones, and passive losses
Mytikas Industries
Steel-built cabins & homes
Live deal pitch
Anne Marie Rogers
Directed IRA
Self-directed IRAs & solo 401(k)s, in conversation with Byron Elliott
Khris Allen
Eckard Enterprises
Oil, gas, and land opportunity session
Brandon McKnight
Pine Financial
The debt fund opportunity session
Mike Hills
Atlas Real Estate
Real estate opportunity session
Vern Harris
ABW Senior Investments
Live deal pitch: senior housing
Ben Banner
3 Pillars Law
Co-host & emcee
Troy Miller
Colorado RE•CON
Host & emcee
Shane Phillips
Parkside Financial Bank & Trust
The 5 C's of credit: what lenders look for
Tait Duryea
Turbine Capital
How to build a capital raising machine
Jim Flint
ABW Senior Investments
Live deal pitch: senior housing
Market analyst
To be announced
The state of alternative investments
Coming soonMore speakers announced as they confirm.
In the Room at Past Colorado RE•CON Events
Seats step up as they fill
One price for everyone, in three tiers. A tier that fills closes for good and never reopens. That is the only clock on this page.
- Both program days
- Lunch both days
- The legal & securities working session and workbook
- Pre-event webinars with 3 Pillars Law
- The Sunday meet & greet
- Both program days
- Lunch both days
- The legal & securities working session and workbook
- Pre-event webinars with 3 Pillars Law
- The Sunday meet & greet
- Both program days
- Lunch both days
- The legal & securities working session and workbook
- Pre-event webinars with 3 Pillars Law
- The Sunday meet & greet
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Why people keep coming back
Powder Summit is new. The team running it is not. Here's what past attendees say about Colorado RE•CON events.
From newbie to $12M portfolio.
From local deals to investing internationally.
A network that's invaluable.
From one meeting to a high-end flip.
Value that far exceeds other investor groups.
I would've given 10 stars if I could.
An amazing community of investors who help each other.
Insightful education, masterfully run.
Leadership and support that changed everything.
An enormous amount of invaluable information.
Invaluable to the Denver metro real estate investor.
From past Colorado RE•CON attendees and members.
The companies in the room
The firms that teach on stage and take your questions at their tables between sessions.
Presented by
Featured sponsors
Participating sponsors
Sponsors here are experts, not wallpaper
You are in the room as a subject matter expert. After each session, attendees have a place in the same room to ask their own questions and book follow-up time. A few placements remain.
Grand Hyatt Denver
Both days sit in the heart of downtown Denver, with the Rocky Mountains out one window and the skyline out the other. Registration, every session, lunch, and the sponsor tables all happen under one roof, so nobody has to choose between the stage and the conversation.
- Downtown, a short walk from the 16th Street Mall and Union Station
- Rocky Mountain and city skyline views
- Both program days and all networking in one room
- Informal meet & greet Sunday evening, January 17, location to be announced
Stay in our room block
We are holding a block of rooms at the Grand Hyatt at our group rate for the January dates. The booking link posts here as soon as the hotel confirms it.
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