2023 Agenda
Day 1
31st January 2023
Registration, coffee & networking
Chair’s welcome and opening remarks
Opening presentation
ESG outlook 2023: the impact of rising geopolitical tensions on global ESG strategies
Panel discussion
Big picture: integrating ESG into every level of organisational strategy
- What resources do you need to have in place to develop and build ESG capacity?
- How do you arrive at the right measures for an ever-evolving market?
- Techniques for seamlessly merging financial and sustainability reporting
- Developing a practical and uniform approach to ESG and DEI
Coffee & speed networking
Case study
Getting started with ESG: what does and doesn’t work?
Panel discussion
Regulation, disclosure, and reporting: how can ESG be measured and reported in a way that keeps all parties happy?
- ESG disclosure landscape: finding the right approach for your organisation
- Preventing green, SDG or impact washing via comprehensive reporting
- What is the existing regulation? And what are the real-world liabilities?
- Overcoming the challenges of matching and reporting against investors’ priorities
The Big Debate
This house believes that standardised frameworks for ESG do not work for private markets
Lunch & networking
WORKSHOP STREAM A
Biodiversity: from a niche topic to principal sustainable finance challenge
- What does biodiversity mean for investors and asset managers?
- How can investment in the preservation of biodiversity be unlocked?
- What are the financial opportunities arising from natural capital?
- Will nature-based investing be the next hot asset class?
WORKSHOP STREAM B
Tackling the unconscious bias: the importance of diversity in driving innovation
- How are investors rating companies to ensure they are diverse and inclusive of people and ideas?
- Do your DEI initiatives really work? How do you measure success?
- What are the links between corporate diversity and market performance?
- What can be done to drive DEI forwards?
WORKSHOP STREAM A
Biodiversity: from niche topic to principal sustainable finance challenge
- What does biodiversity mean for investors and asset managers?
- How can investment in the preservation of biodiversity be unlocked?
- What are the financial opportunities arising from natural capital?
- Will nature-based investing be the next hot asset class?
WORKSHOP STREAM B
Tackling the unconscious bias: the importance of diversity in driving innovation
- How are investors rating companies to ensure they are diverse and inclusive of people and ideas?
- Do your DEI initiatives really work? How do you measure success?
- What are the links between corporate diversity and market performance?
- What can be done to drive DEI forwards?
Coffee & networking
Panel discussion
Data, data, and more data: developing ESG metrics for private equity
- Creating a critical mass of meaningful, performance-based ESG data via standardised data collection
- What data are LPs asking for? And what are they doing with it?
- Exploring ILPA and UNPRI initiatives to improve data collection and reporting
- Cybersecurity and how to ensure data protection
Champagne roundtable discussions
A: Impact investing
B: Decarbonisation
C: DEI
D: Biodiversity
Cocktail reception
Day 2
1st February 2023
Registration, coffee & networking
Chair’s welcome and opening remarks
Panel discussion
SFDR in focus
- How has SFDR re-shaped the ESG fund landscape?
- Best practice for integrating SFDR at the portfolio and fund level
- How can GPs implement articles 8 and 9? What are the key inconsistencies managers are facing?
- To what extent are the distinctions between articles 6, 8, and 9 fully understood?
Panel discussion
Responsible investment and LP requirements: from fundraising to reporting
- How do LPs view ESG? Does it vary globally?
- What is the impact on fundraising? How are investors choosing their managers?
- What sort of data are LPs looking for on ESG? And what are they doing with it?
- Are investors interested if your fund isn’t article 8 or 9?
Case study
Successfully navigating the LPA investment exclusions maze
Coffee & networking
Panel session
Best practice for decarbonising your firm and your portfolio
- Key opportunities and challenges in the path to net zero
- Beyond reporting: implementing real world actions to reduce carbon emissions
- Dealing with conflicting challenges: weighing up the E vs. S of decarbonisation programmes
Case study
Carbon reduction
Lunch & networking
Case study
ESG’s role in valuation
Panel session
ESG from a risk aversion strategy to a driver of value creation
- How can ESG data be used to drive performance and create value?
- How are large firms driving ESG through their organisations?
- ESG at valuation: what premiums can managers achieve by enhancing a portfolio companies ESG credentials?
- What happens to ESG as it moves into the mainstream?
Case study
ESG as a value creator
Panel discussion
Demonstrating ESG value on exit
- Implementation of ESG at portfolio level to enhance the exit
- Communicating ESG credentials to potential buyers
- What buyers expect from a company’s ESG policies