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May 19-20, 2026
The Brewery, London
Today’s capital, tomorrow’s generation
The Impact Investor Global Summit 2026 is back – bigger and better than ever! Join 700+ leaders in impact and transition investing, including 250+ active allocators on 19-20 May, returning to the Brewery, London.
As the leading global event in impact investing, the Summit is your chance to dive into how private capital is fuelling a sustainable and equitable future – and uncover the investable opportunities within this shift.
Meet the most active LPs
Meet the world’s most active LPs and forge meaningful connections with pensions, sovereign wealth funds, insurers and foundations investing for impact and long-term success.
Stand out in fundraising
Gain a competitive edge in fundraising. Learn what LPs prioritise in governance, transparency and long-term value creation and apply these insights to strengthen your strategy.
Benchmark your approach
See how you measure up. Discover what’s driving success across asset classes as top managers embed sustainability into every stage of fundraising, investment and value creation.
Hannah Maunder, SV Health Investors
"The Impact Investor Global Summit provided a huge amount of clarity on all things impact investing and did so in an engaging and enjoyable way."
2026 Speakers include:
Key themes shaping this years' agenda
The AI revolution: risks, returns and integration
Harnessing artificial intelligence for sustainable performance
- Impact investing in AI safety, security, and governance – building the safeguards of the AI era
- Integrating AI into investing functions: due diligence, selection, and portfolio management
- Balancing innovation, accountability, and long-term value creation
The evolving global impact landscape
Adapting to a new era of impact investing
- How allocators and fund managers are adapting to a transformed post-COVID market
- Fundraising trends, investor appetite and the outlook for 2026 and beyond
- Evolving LP expectations on transparency, returns and measurable impact
Expanding the impact toolkit: credit, secondaries and security
Broadening strategies to meet evolving global challenges
- Beyond equity: how credit and secondary strategies are scaling impact
- The intersection of impact, defence, and dual-use technology in Europe
- Evaluating opportunities and ethics within defence-linked investments
Transition and transformation: energy, infrastructure and industry
Powering the global shift to sustainable systems
- The future of world energy: fusion, decentralised generation, and grid optimisation
- Data centres as critical infrastructure in an energy-constrained world
- High-return opportunities at the intersection of private equity and infrastructure
- Japan’s GX strategy as a blueprint for industrial and national transition
2025 event in numbers
Let’s start a conversation - we’ll tailor a package to suit your brand goals.
Showcase your expertise to the responsible investment community
Partner with the leaders shaping sustainable private markets
We’ll tailor a partnership package to meet your brand goals and position your firm at the heart of the global impact investing community. Showcase your expertise to the leaders shaping sustainable and equitable private markets. Connect with institutional investors, fund managers, consultants and global associations driving the impact and transition investment agenda.
By partnering with the Impact Investor Global Summit: Europe, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Raise your visibility among 700+ senior decision-makers and align your brand with PEI’s flagship global event for impact and transition investing.
- Demonstrate thought leadership by speaking alongside industry pioneers and positioning your firm as a trusted voice in shaping the future of sustainable capital.
- Build credibility and influence with allocators and managers actively investing in measurable impact and long-term performance.
- Stay ahead of market evolution and emerging regulation while being recognised as a key contributor to the next phase of impact investing.
Get in touch today to explore how we can design a bespoke partnership that supports your commercial objectives and puts your brand at the centre of the global impact conversation.
Pre-Event Resources
For more information on speaking in 2026, please contact Boris Petrovic.
boris.p@pei.group | +44 (0)204 548 4494
2026 speakers:
Jaime Alvarez
Portfolio Manager for Sustainable infrastructure, Natural Capital and Private Equity, Brunel Pension Partnership
Kelly Goddard
Managing Director and Chief Sustainability Officer, Renewable Power & Transition Group, Brookfield
Download the 2026 agenda
For more information on the agenda or speaking opportunities, please contact Boris Petrovic.
boris.p@pei.group | +44 (0)204 548 4494
Explore the 2025 agenda below.
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Agenda
Impact Investor Global Summit 2026 - Day 1 - Tuesday 19th
08:00 - 09:00
Networking breakfast and registration
Plenary
09:00 - 09:05
PEI welcome
09:05 - 09:10
Chair’s opening remarks
09:10 - 09:20
Data presentation
09:20 - 10:00
Plenary #1: State of impact: evolution of the market and global ecosystem
- Where is capital most flowing into impact and thematic opportunities?
- Have impact investments provided good returns to LPs to date?
- How has the market evolved in the post-covid era in terms of management and measurement maturity?
- What is the outlook for the coming 5 years?
10:00 - 10:45
Plenary #2: Global impact allocators: where is impact capital opening, and where is it going?
Nancy Curtin
- What are the priorities occupying allocator agendas in today’s uncertain environment?
- Which long-term, structural opportunities are allocators building their strategies around?
- What are the most investable and sought-after thematic opportunities?
- How are allocators navigating liquidity challenges in private markets?
Nancy Curtin, Global Chief Investment Officer, AlTi
Hazman Hilmi Sallahuddin, Chief Investment Officer, KWAP
Networking
10:45 - 11:15
Break
Plenary
11:15 - 12:00
Plenary #3: The bigger picture – rethinking sustainable investing in a changing global context
Clara Barby,
Kieron Boyle
- Can technology and markets prevent further ecological collapse?
- Are societal values changing, and what will be the implications for impact investing?
- What are the implications for collective impact goals from the move to a multipolar and post-globalised world?
- With sovereignty and resilience being the key strategic priorities in Europe, will sustainability goals be in the rear-view?
Clara Barby, Senior Partner, Just Climate
Kieron Boyle, Chair, Impact Investing Institute
12:00 - 12:20
Keynote #1
12:20 - 13:00
Plenary #4: The future of world energy investment
Liza Rubinstein Malamud
- What’s most investable and bankable currently in the energy transition?
- How dependent is the European and global energy transition on cheap technology coming from China?
- How are corporates solving their own energy security, and what’s the opportunity for investors?
- How is the growing populist surge in Europe going to impact the will-to-energy-transition?
Liza Rubinstein Malamud, Co-founder & Chief Climate Impact, Carbon Equity
Networking
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
After lunch the conference splits into four streams, the streamed sessions are designed for you to hear about the latest investment opportunities from best-in-theme managers and get detailed insights on innovations on the horizon.
Energy & tech
14:00 - 14:40
A1: Investable energy solutions: Grid-tech, geothermal, batteries, heat pumps and beyond
Béla Hanratty,
Willem Huidekoper
- What are the most investable PE and credit investment opportunities currently in energy transition?
- What are the niche opportunities in energy generation, transmission and end-users?
- Is energy transition the main megatrend in LP allocation strategies?
- How many solutions and technologies are reaching mainstream ‘bankability’ grade for financing?
Bela Hanratty, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Keeling Capital
Willem Huidekoper, Head of Sustainability and Non-Listed Equities, IMAS Foundation
14:40 - 15:20
A2: AI’s digital and energy infrastructure: can it become green-ed?
- What can do done in reducing externalities of AI infrastructure?
- Data centres have vast energy and water needs– are there plausible sustainable solutions?
- Can climate-conscious investors back AI and still meet decarbonisation goals?
- What are the green investment opportunities in AI datacentres value chain?
15:20 - 16:00
A3: Impact in digital safety: AI assurance and cybersecurity
- What is the investment opportunity set that is emerging in AI assurance and safety?
- Some leading impact investors have shifted their focus toward safeguards for tech, why have they done so?
- What are the risks of inaction on safety considerations in the tech sector?
- What is the opportunity set within this theme, in things such as AI safety, ethical cloud, deepfake detection, cybersecurity, privacy, etc?
Environment
14:00 - 14:40
B1: Circular economy investing: moving into the mainstream
- How is circularity, as a trend, evolving?
- What technologies and innovations are driving progress in materials recycling and reuse?
- What are the regulatory trends in sustainable consumption and waste?
- Is corporate interest and investment in circularity likely to grow?
- How do private investors access waste reuse, recycling tech, and circular business models?
Yi Jean Chow, Investment Partner, Clean Energy Ventures
14:40 - 15:20
B2: Between land and sea: investments and impact in food systems
- What’s new in food system investing?
- What are leading corporates doing about food supply chain resilience, and what opportunities does it present to PE funds?
- What is new in land and ocean based food sustainability?
- How will local food systems look in a de-globalised world?
15:20 - 16:00
B3: Nature: what’s most investable?
- Where are the latest developments in nature-related strategies?
- Is the market maturing?
- What is the landscape of natural capital, nature-based solutions and nature-positive investment opportunities?
- What are the realistic investment options today which tap into nature & biodiversity risk?
- How investable and bankable are nature projects, asset and business?
Social & inequality
14:00 - 14:40
C1: Systemic social investing: what is the ability of investors to make a real difference?
- What can investors reasonably achieve in addressing social problems?
- Can investments target the root causes of social issues, instead of the symptoms?
- Are there good solutions/examples of reviving communities in post-industrial contexts?
- How can growing addiction issues in left-behind communities be addressed?
14:40 - 15:20
C2: Investing in emerging markets: a changed proposition?
- In light of global aid cutbacks, can impact investing replace or supplement traditional aid and development finance?
- How are a weakening dollar and geopolitical developments going to impact the attractiveness of EM investments?
- What geographies, themes and sectors are ripe for impact in EMs over the next decade?
- How do macroeconomic risk factors (inflation, currency volatility, political instability) interact with investor returns in EMs?
15:20 - 16:00
C3: Affordable healthcare and sustainable health systems
- Is the debt crisis likely to result in decreased public health budgets in the coming decade?
- What investment opportunities exist in helping health systems become leaner and more efficient?
- What role do investors (vs policymakers) have to play in the betterment of health systems?
Investment case studies in thematic sectors
14:00 - 14:40
D1: Nature & ocean strategies
In this session we hear presentations on three investment case studies by different funds – performance, context, impact – followed by a Q&A.
14:40 - 15:20
D2: Climate & energy transition
In this session we hear presentations on three investment case studies by different funds – performance, context, impact stories – followed by a Q&A.
15:20 - 16:00
D3: Water & climate adaptation
In this session we hear presentations on three investment case studies by different funds – performance, context, impact – followed by a Q&A.
Networking
16:00 - 16:30
Networking Break
Plenary
16:30 - 17:30
Debate: Climate adaptation vs mitigation – this house believes the time has come to fully focus on adaptation
Matteo Squilloni
This is an Oxford-style debate in which we’ll have two speakers for the proposition and two speakers against, with audience voting on their views at the start and at the end of the session. This session will also be off-the-record.
The zeitgeist is shifting considerably with the effective repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act and the passing of the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’, and the viability of climate mitigation efforts is being brought into question. Certain climate scientists and advocates have conceded defeat in the climate challenge, stating the emissions train is far too big to halt meaningfully, in essence conceding the factors driving climate change are beyond our individual effort and collective control. The question is: should society and investors be preparing for damage control via climate adaptation, or to continue the mitigation grind?
The debate session will explore questions such as:
- As climate change becomes more palpable, is it time for a heavy pivot to adaptation?
- Is a disorderly transition on the horizon?
- What realistic warming scenario should investors be considering?
- Where is the progress in mitigation strategies?
- Is a focus on adaptation an implicit concession that mitigation has failed; or can you do both?
Matteo Squilloni, Head of Climate Transition – Equity Investments, European Investment Fund
Networking
17:30 - 18:30
Evening networking reception & End of Day 1
Agenda
Impact Investor Global Summit 2026 - Day 2 - Wednesday 20th
07:30 - 08:15
Networking breakfast and registration
First round of workshops
08:15 - 09:30
W1: LP-only workshop: allocating in the coming decade
Anastasia Guha,
Jake Levy
- How is the skill set of being an effective allocator changing?
- What filters are investors using to screen out bad investments?
- Which sectors, themes and strategies are most appealing at present, and why?
- How are different investors doing due diligence?
Anastasia Guha, Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment, Redington
Jake Levy, Director, Impact Investing, AlTi Tiedemann Global
Simon Oosterhof, Senior Portfolio Manager, Van Lanschot Kempen
08:15 - 09:30
W2: Being an investor in the AI age
Madeleine Evans,
Norbert Lagerweij
- How are different investors adapting to rapid AI disruption?
- What capabilities is AI allowing for in terms of better data and due diligence?
- Which AI tools and resources are investors using to stay ahead of the curve?
- What ethical considerations and dilemmas are arising for investors?
- What value will humans provide in the investment process?
Madeleine Evans, Director, Generation Investment Management
Norbert Lagerweij, Sustainability Data Specialist, Private Equity, PGGM Investments
08:15 - 09:30
W3: Embedding value creation within impact strategy
- How can IMM lead to greater value at portcos?
- What do LPs most value in an IMM strategy?
- Which levers are the most effective for value creation in the impact strategy toolkit?
- How do compliance-led and investment-led value creation approaches differ?
- How best can heads of impact best work together with value creation, deal and other teams?
09:30 - 09:45
Short morning break
Second round of workshops
09:45 - 11:00
W4: The evolving inequality investing agenda
- What are the key areas of engagement for investors that are looking to address inequality?
- How are funds engaging with worker rights and issues in portcos (such as living wage, freedom of association, worker seats on boards)?
- What’s the progress on ownership, is the hype around employee ownership justified?
- What are the notable models and theories of change that can create real world outcomes?
09:45 - 11:00
W5: Structures to de-risk impact opportunities – how to blend catalytic and market-rate capital
Martin Ewald
- How can the blended finance model be applied to financing different projects and technologies?
- Is complexity the main hurdle to execution in practice?
- Can blended finance be used to scale the flow of mainstream capital into impact opportunities?
- What is the variety of structures we’re seeing in the market?
Martin Ewald, Lead, SCALED
Natalie de Wit-Solounov, Head of Strategy, DEG
09:45 - 11:00
W6: EU regulatory workshop: SFDR 2.0 and beyond
- How are investors faring with SFDR 2.0 compliance?
- What are the perspectives of GPs and LPs on the regulatory landscape?
- How does the new SFDR support impact investing as a practice?
- What will be the implications of the opt-out clause on disclosures?
- How does its impact differ between retail and institutional strategies?
11:00 - 11:30
Networking break
Stream A
11:30 - 12:15
A4: Resilience via insurance: Deep dive into insurance industry’s overlap with impact
- How are insurers viewing the world in terms of key macro trends and systemic risks?
- What’s becoming uninsurable?
- What are the most material issues for insurers?
- What role do insurance companies have as allocators?
- Which climate scenarios do they use today, given that they have to put a price on long-term climate-related policy claims?
12:15 - 13:00
A5: Secondaries strategies in the impact market
Jaime Alvarez
- With liquidity tightness in the market – how much more secondaries activity are we seeing?
- What is the split between LP-led and GP-led deals?
- What is the case for secondaries for impact GPs and LPs?
- How many secondaries transactions in the impact market are there?
- What are the considerations around continuation vehicles?
Jaime Alvarez, Portfolio Manager, Sustainable Infrastructure & Private Equity, Brunel Pension Partnership
Jaime Alvarez
Portfolio Manager for Sustainable infrastructure, Natural Capital and Private Equity, Brunel Pension Partnership
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Stream B
11:30 - 12:15
B4: The continued growth of impact credit
- What is the diversity of impact debt strategies in the market?
- How are mission-aligned debt strategies distinct from mainstream strategies?
- How can creditor have impactful influence on companies with a small window of time?
- In case of default, how can funds incorporate the impact mindset when restructuring?
12:15 - 13:00
B5: Investing in high-return infrastructure: opportunities at the nexus of PE and infra
- What opportunities do we mean by ‘high-return infrastructure’?
- How many assets have both infra and PE characteristics in energy and climate?
- How have asset owners addressed the ‘’bucketing problem’’?
- What makes these investments attractive, but tricky to allocate towards?
Stream C
11:30 - 12:15
C4: Dual use of tech: can impact have a role the defence?
- Can, and should, impact investors latch onto Europe’s defence spending surge?
- How are fund managers considering the dual-use of technologies in their portfolio, and are they equipped to understand them?
- How are investors thinking through risks of associating with the defence industry or market?
- Can impact investors genuinely be defence without fundamentally undermining their credibility as ‘doing good’?
Hugo Jammes, Managing Partner, EDT Ventures
12:15 - 13:00
C5: Key impact economies: Deep dive into Japan’s growing impact story
- How is the impact ecosystem in Japan developing?
- Is Japan’s GX strategy a game changing template for national transition and industrial strategy?
- How are asset owners in Japan structuring their approach to impact allocations?
- What are the key themes, sectors and philosophical approach of Japan’s impact market?
- What is the opportunity for European and global investors to engage with the Japanese impact market?
Networking
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Afternoon plenaries
14:00 - 14:15
Keynote #2
14:15 - 15:00
Data & presentations: Impact’s performance in facts & figures
This session will consist of presentations by investment advisors and fund of funds on impact’s financial returns performance to date. This session will be off-the-record.
- What is the track record of impact investments? Has the performance been good?
- Is it true that there’s no trade-offs between impact and returns?
- How have they performed across vintages, asset classes and themes?
- How difficult has the exit environment been, and are secondaries solutions the answer?
15:00 - 16:00
The big AI picture: geopolitics, agency and political economy in the AI age
- How much agency and sovereignty can be had at a national, societal and individual level; what economic dependencies are being create by AI industry?
- What are the choke points in the physical infrastructure and the supply chain for AI (minerals, talent, software and hardware) – and the implications for resource competition?
- How is geopolitics of AI playing out (US, China, Europe and the rest of the world) and the move to multipolar world?
- Can the vast productivity gains from AI be democratised?
- What are the implications for investors, in terms of risks and opportunities?
16:00 - 16:05
Closing remarks
16:05 - 16:05
End of conference
Impact Investor Global Summit
The 2026 advisory board includes:
Natalie Adomait
Managing Partner ＆ Chief Operating Officer, Renewable Power ＆ Transition, Brookfield Asset Management
Sponsorship opportunities
Position your business with an authoritative content-led event portfolio focused on ESG & diversity and be recognised as a go-to solution provider for senior private markets professionals and institutional investors.
Sponsorship gives you the opportunity to:
- Network with senior power players and private market investors as you address the most impeding social and environmental challenges through impact investing.
- Present how your impact fund solutions deliver measurable ESG credentials to align with a strong financial performance to enable fundraising across a global investor base.
- Discover brand opportunities to position your sustainable funds to aid capital raising to a global ESG community.
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Network with the global impact investment industry
The Summit will be in-person in London. Join 700+ attendees from specialist impact fund managers, general asset managers and institutional investors for two days of networking at the must-attend event for impact investment professionals.
The in-person networking experience
Meet investors focused on impact investment
Network with active investors in the industry. Benefit from our expansive global investor community who will be in attendance throughout the summit.
Network in-person in London
Connect with your peers at interactive workshops, networking breaks, evening drinks reception, roundtable discussions and invite-only breakfasts.
Build new connections
Our past attendees included Big Society Capital, Blackstone Group, CDC Group, Goldman Sachs, Macarthur Foundation, MassMutual, New York State Common Retirement Fund, and many more.
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Testimonials from attendees
Operating Principles for Impact Management
Diane Damskey, Head of Secretariat
The event gathered some of the top names in impact investing and covered key topics to promote the understanding and growth of this market. The organization and…
SV Health Investors
Hannah Maunder, Investor Relations and Communications Associate
The Impact Investor Global Summit provided a huge amount of clarity on all things impact investing and did so in an engaging and enjoyable way.
FSN Capital Partners
Pål Dale, Senior Director, Business Development
All in all, the event provided a rich and detailed snapshot of the state of the impact investment industry, as of 2021.
Apply for a complimentary Institutional Investor pass
A limited number of complimentary passes are available for impact LPs, allocators and institutional investors to join the event.
Complimentary investor passes are limited to foundations, endowments, trusts, insurance companies, single family offices, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds who are actively making fund commitments and do not engage in third-party fundraising activities or collect fees for advisory/consulting services.
Apply for a complimentary LP pass
For qualifying institutional investors only.
What to expect at the Summit:
- Meet with the best and biggest impact funds globally – network and arrange one-to-one meetings with leading impact managers
- Networking with peers and other institutional investors – build your network of peers, understand their strategies, challenges, and allocation approach to impact
- Get insight on the latest innovations and trends in impact investing – take advantage of a world-class speaking faculty to stay aligned with developments in the market
- Find investment opportunities across the impact market’s thematic sub-asset classes from climate, healthcare, social, education, and many more
Institutional Investors at the Impact Investor Global Summit 2026
The Impact Investor Global Summit is an opportunity to connect with 250+ investors who are looking to increase their exposure to impact funds and sustainable investment strategies. The Summit is a platform for investors to gain insights from their peers, benchmark investment strategies, and share best practices.
Confirmed investor attendees in 2025 included Allianz Global Investors, Alvarium, AZR Capital, British Business Bank, BII, Church Commissioners, CPPIB, EBRD, GIC, Hitachi Digital, IMAS Foundation, KFW Capital, M&G Investment Management, Mallinckrodt Foundation, and many more.