ACG San Diego Mid-Year A&D Capital Markets Update

ACG San Diego’s Mid-Year A&D Capital Markets Update is the chapter’s aerospace-and-defense plus private-capital evening—Tuesday, September 1, 2026, 3:30–6:30 PM PDT at Deloitte’s Carmel Valley office, 12830 El Camino Real, Suite 600. Check-in runs 3:30–4:00. Joel Weinstein, managing director at RA Capital, presents on capital markets from 4:00–4:30 (ACG notes more than 20 years advising public and private companies on M&A, capital raises, and financings). A private-capital panel follows 4:30–5:30, then networking and refreshments until 6:30. Listed panelists: Dan Magy, CEO of San Diego defense-tech Firestorm Labs (containerized micro-factories to 3D-print drones at the tactical edge; ACG’s page notes an $82 million Series B in April 2026); Tasia (Anastacia) Blazevich of Deloitte as moderator (national life-science IPO co-leader and local accounting & reporting advisory market leader); Paul Weisbrich, managing director at KAL Capital in Long Beach (aerospace and defense M&A); and Edward Lake, chief administrative officer at Solana Beach–based AEVEX Aerospace (ACG notes a NYSE IPO in April 2026 under ticker AVEX). ACG members pay $55; non-members and guests pay $105. Space is limited.

Carmel Valley / El Camino Real is Circuit San Diego’s defense-and-PE geography sitting next to the Torrey Pines biotech mesa. The hub already names Navy, Marine, and contractor careers as a parallel stack to life sciences; this room is where that stack meets sponsors. ACG also lists a Private Capital Markets Update in the same date and Deloitte slot—treat it as one event and use the A&D page. Blazevich’s life-science IPO lane is the biotech crossover if you arrived from LaunchBio’s founder night the week before. It is not SABPA, not BVS, and not a Convoy chamber mixer.

Tuesday, September 1, 2026, 3:30–6:30 PM PDT at Deloitte, Suite 600. Register on the ACG A&D page. I-5 / El Camino Real evening traffic is real; leave buffer. Bring ID matching your registration. Labor Day is September 7; this is the Tuesday before that weekend, not a holiday-week ghost town by default—still confirm live inventory.

Bring a firm-lane introduction. This is a capital-markets briefing, not a vendor cattle call.

This briefing is right if you work aerospace and defense, PE, corp dev, or life-science capital markets in San Diego County and can pay chapter rates. SABPA’s picnic, BVS’s scientist lunch, and LaunchBio’s free AI session were earlier in August.