Florida Family Office & High Net Worth Conference

The Florida Family Office & High Net Worth Conference is DC Finance's Miami event and the one with the most distinctive shape in the series. It gathers more than 150 high-net-worth individuals and family office executives, runs at the Ritz-Carlton on Miami Beach, and is timed to sit alongside Art Basel week, with a separate programme of art and lifestyle events attached to it. Editions go back to 2014.

Who attends

The stated audience is high-net-worth individuals and family office executives. DC Finance publishes no eligibility test, no asset threshold and no limit on the number of places taken by firms selling into the room, so this is an open industry conference rather than a screened peer forum.

The Art Basel timing shapes the room as much as the agenda does. Families who come to Miami for the fair are already in town, which lifts attendance by people who would not travel for a conference alone. It also means the event competes for attention with everything else happening that week.

How access works

Registration is open online through the conference site, which routes to DC Finance's central portal. No ticket price is published, and no separate family office rate is advertised. The art and lifestyle programme is described separately from the conference itself, so confirm with the organiser what a given ticket includes.

What attendees get

The conference day follows the DC Finance pattern: a wide agenda and a long speaker list covering markets, real estate, technology and alternatives, estate planning, the next generation, family business, philanthropy and impact investing.

The surrounding week is what sets this edition apart. DC Finance runs lectures by figures from the art world, yacht events and access to the main fairs. For families who collect, or who are working out whether art belongs in the balance sheet at all, that combination is hard to assemble any other way, and the informal parts of the week tend to produce more conversation than the panels do.

The flip side is that this is the least peer-focused event in the series. Anyone whose main aim is quiet comparison of notes with other principals will do better at a screened forum. Anyone whose aim is South Florida coverage, art, and a wide cross-section of the wealth market in one trip will find the format well suited.

DC Finance runs the same conference format in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Houston and London.