Events

A Data‑Backed View of Where Benefits Are Headed and What It Means for Your Portcos Session 1: For companies under 100 employees - Thur, May 7 at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET Session 2: For companies with 100-499 employees - Thur, May 7 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET Session 3: For companies with 500+ employees - Fri, May 8 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET As healthcare costs continue to rise, employee benefits have become a material lever for both cost control and value creation. The benefits decisions companies make over the next few months will directly shape their ability to attract talent, manage burn, and scale efficiently into 2027. Sequoia’s 2026 Benefits Benchmarking reports have insights from hundreds of people-driven tech companies on how organizations are balancing cost management with employee benefits expectations. In our most anticipated digital event of the year, our benefits experts will debut the latest insights and discuss the findings from our newly-published 2026 Benefits Benchmarking Reports. These sessions are designed to help founders, exec teams, and HR and people leaders understand where the market is moving and how to make informed benefits decisions ahead of their 2027 planning cycles. These quick, 30-minute sessions will cover healthcare, wellbeing, retirement, and leave policy data and guidance on: - What companies are adding, changing, or eliminating from their benefits mix - The real implications of maintaining (or losing) benefits competitiveness - Proven ways companies are stretching their benefits dollars - Early indicators that should inform 2027 benefits strategy decisions

​Join us for a happy hour bringing together founders and investors, graciously sponsored by the ABS Partners team. ​M13 is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive software businesses. We invest in infrastructure technology—such as AI and web3—that powers the future of work, health, commerce, and money. Alpha Partners co-invests with leading VCs in top growth-stage companies, partnering with early investors by sharing economics instead of competing.

Join us for our fourth VC/PE Talent Breakfast, a curated gathering of talent leaders to connect with peers and exchange perspectives on AI, talent trends, and the evolving needs of venture and private equity-backed companies. This event is reserved for those currently leading talent initiatives within venture capital or private equity firms.

Doers Summit (formerly Reflect Festival) is one of Europe’s most influential tech & entrepreneurship gatherings. Connecting together founders, investors, and decision-makers shaping the future of business across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.