​LIMITED SEATING CAPACITY — This private event is designed to cultivate lasting partnerships. To maintain its curated nature, we are limited to 30 guests.

​◉◉◉◉◉ GUESTS ◉◉◉◉◉

​Our events bring together family offices, funds, institutional investors, sovereigns, and leading capital allocators who are committed to our shared values: responsible wealth for good. Our guests *routinely stay hours beyond the end of our transformative gatherings, enjoying conversations.

​​​​◉◉◉​​ WELCOME TO WVC's SYMPOSIUM EXPERIENCE ◉​​​◉◉

​​​​Throughout history, we’ve seen how certain civilizations, places, and time periods have produced remarkable individuals who changed the course of history through their ideas and innovations. From ancient Greece to Silicon Valley, these hubs of creativity and expansive growth were built on a foundation of collaboration, diversity, and free thinking.

​​​​Diving into the underlying patterns, we discovered that it was often in a lively social atmosphere, where these geniuses would exchange ideas and challenge each other’s thinking.

​​​​The secret was in a space where it was socially acceptable to throw out one piece of the puzzle, trusting that someone else had the other. In fact, it was a safe space to just be that allowed such genius to unravel—a space where all ideas are welcome and encouraged, no matter how unconventional or outlandish they may seem.

​​​​These were the places and spaces where their ideas took shape, grew, and flourished. The greats have been gathering in this way for centuries and it remains the key to unlocking groundbreaking innovations that benefit all of humanity.

​​​​Inspired by this concept, we design masterful “flow state” experiences and intellectual discussion salons where we can tinker with profoundly novel ideas, architect an abundant & sustainable vision of the future, and make the extraordinary happen.

​We curate creative spaces that allow world-changing ideas to emerge by bridging thoughtful perspectives at the intersection of ancient wisdom, technology, and finance.

​Sustainable finance and responsible investment are at the heart of our community. When more of us invest through a climate-informed and humanity-conscious lens, we scale change quickly. We must go beyond net zero and shift into regenerative and nature-positive systems, across all asset classes.

​​​​The Wealth Visionaries Collective is an intellectual playground for leading family offices, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, and other high-level capital allocators.

​​​​We host bespoke virtual learning journeys, curated experiences, special events and programming (hosted during events like SXSW, New York Climate Week, Davos 2025), and more.

​◉◉◉ CO-HOSTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ACA GALLERIES ◉◉◉

​The American Contemporary Art Gallery (ACA) was established in 1932 by Herman Baron. The founding charter members included three modernist painters Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Adolf Dehn.  At that time, ACA was one of only three galleries in New York dedicated to exhibiting American art.  Over the years ACA’s breadth and scope expanded and now includes 19 th century, Modern and Contemporary painting, sculpture and photography.

​Throughout its history, ACA has presented over 800 exhibitions and published over 400 books and catalogues.  ACA also organized traveling museum exhibitions nationally and abroad.  For over 80 years ACA has advised private collectors and public institutions how to strengthen their collections.

​ACA’s pioneering interest in progressive American art was established early on in exhibitions featuring, and often introducing the work of Rockwell Kent, Alice Neel, Barnett Newman, Irene Rice Pereira, David Smith and Charles White, among a myriad of others.  In 1935, ACA hosted the inaugural meetings of the American Artists’ Congress (AAC), the influential precursor to the Federal Art Project (FAP) and Works Project Administration (WPA), the federal programs that aided American artists and funded public art projects during the depression.  In 1944, in cooperation with Pablo Picasso, ACA organized a groundbreaking exhibit of Picasso’s paintings. They were shown with the African sculptures that so deeply influenced him.  In the 1960s, ACA established its first foreign branch in Rome as well as The ACA Heritage Gallery in Los Angeles and New York City, signalling a vital foray into 19 th and early 20 th century American art. During the 1990s, ACA opened a gallery in Munich and organized the first exhibitions of Andrew Wyeth and Jackson Pollock in Hong Kong.

​In 2001 ACA moved from the Fuller Building at 57 th Street and Madison Avenue to its current location at 529 West 20 th Street in Chelsea. In 2006 ACA presented the first major American and European exhibition in Dubai featuring over 80 masterpieces ranging from Brueghel to Warhol. The centerpiece was the Pearl Carpet of Baroda.

​Today, ACA Galleries continues to break new ground, representing and exhibiting distinguished artists and estates.  The artistic and humanitarian mission of the gallery still endures and ACA is committed to upholding this tradition by continuing to support artists from all around the world, in their united commitment to make significant and brave contributions to the field. Please see an extended biography of ACA Galleries with images here.

​​​​◉◉◉ EVENT AGENDA — Friday, Sept. 27th ◉◉◉

​We kindly request that guests arrive promptly and remain for the full duration of the event, as your presence is essential to the experience.

​Welcome Tea Ceremony

​​​​4:00-4:30 pm: Guest Introductions

​4:30-5:00 pm: Collective Curiosity Setting Workshop

​Event Programming

​5:00-5:45 pm: [Panel] Unlocking Institutional & Family Capital For Climate

​5:45-6:30 pm: [Workshop] Driving Change with Systemic Investing & Blended Finance

​Conscious Wealth Workshop x Immersive Art Experience

​6:30-7:00: Art as an Asset Class

​7:00-7:30 pm: Conscious Wealth Workshop x “Portraits of The Subconscious” Art Exhibit by ACA Galleries — Immersive Meditative Experience

​Beth Ames Swartz, one of the artists featured in the exhibit, will be flying in from Phoenix for the event.

​*Agenda subject to change

​​​◉◉◉ YOUR EVENING HOSTS ◉◉◉

​As the Founder and Executive Director of The Wealth Visionaries Collective, Arooj Sheikh is a cross-industry, cross-asset class connector of dots and people.

​Select speaking engagements include "DNA of Family Capital Success" in Davos, Switzerland, during the World Economic Forum and "How Women Can Create World-Changing Companies" at Harvard University.

​Please contact Arooj to request an invitation to the symposium or inquire about sponsorship opportunities.

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​Vaughn Bergen is on a mission to expand the art world’s potential to galvanize the next Renaissance of social transformation. Being the fourth generation of his family's art gallery, ACA Galleries est. 1932, Vaughn continues the gallery’s legacy of using art and finance as a spearhead for positive change.

​Vaughn's life work is to support the awakening of an ancient art of living, an expressway to optimal health and wellbeing through alignment with the forces of nature. After traveling the world and learning from many wisdom keepers, this model is now ready to support artists and entrepreneurs to embody elevated states of creative expression and fulfillment.