SuperReturn Family Office Middle East

SuperReturn Family Office Middle East is the one-day family office forum Informa Connect runs as part of SuperReturn Middle East. The 2026 edition is on 13 October at the Ritz-Carlton, DIFC, on the opening day of the wider private capital conference (13 to 15 October). It is the Gulf counterpart to SuperReturn Family Office Asia and SuperReturn Family Office Europe.

Who attends

Informa states the restriction plainly: strictly single family offices only, limited seating, first come first served. The page addresses principals, executives, CIOs and trusted advisors from single family offices in the Middle East and further afield. Multi-family offices, fund managers and journalists are not admitted through the delegate route.

Discussions run under the Chatham House Rule and are closed to the press. That is the same privacy rule Informa uses on the Asian and European family office days, and it is the reason a family can talk about a decision that went badly without seeing it attributed a fortnight later.

How access works

Single family offices apply by email to Informa's named contact on the event page, not through an open ticket shop. Informa does not publish a delegate fee for this forum. On the Asian and European editions, qualifying single family office principals and investment executives attend free; do not assume the same here until the organiser confirms it.

Sponsorship exists, and Informa says those opportunities are limited. Anyone who is not a qualifying single family office should treat this as a screened room they will not buy their way into.

What attendees get

A day on how family offices are institutionalising their platforms, refining investment structures and allocating in a more complex global environment. The published themes include risk, diligence, real estate, energy and long-term portfolio strategy. Speakers named on the page have included CIOs and principals from family offices and family holding companies in the region and beyond.

The surrounding SuperReturn Middle East days are the other half of the proposition. A family that allocates to private markets can use 13 October for peers and the rest of the week for general partners, in the same DIFC venue.