Private Markets
Impact Investor Global Summit London 2024
14 - 15 May 2024,
Royal Lancaster Hotel, London
The next generation of private market opportunities
The Impact Investor Global Summit is the leading conference on how private market investors can tackle the world’s biggest social and environmental challenges through impact investing.
Generalist to thematic, the event will showcase some of the most exciting impact managers in the world as well as active institutional investors in the market. Hear from the best-in-theme managers on the latest investment opportunities and connect with attendees who share similar interests.
Join over 600 attendees from leading fund managers and institutional investors for two days of networking at the must-attend event for impact investment professionals.
Confirmed investor attendees in 2024 include:
Connect with impact investors
Are you an impact allocator or institutional investor?
A limited number of complimentary passes are available for asset owners and institutional investors to join the event.
In order to qualify for a complimentary pass, you must meet the eligibility criteria and be representing a pension fund, insurance company, sovereign wealth, private wealth manager, foundation, endowment, family office or corporate investment division.
What can you expect at the Impact Investor Global Summit?
Meet institutional investors
Hear from institutional investors who are looking to increase their exposure to impact funds. Connect with representatives from Allianz Global Investors, Alvarium, AZR Capital, British Business Bank, BII, Church Commissioners, CPPIB, EBRD, EM Impact Capital, GIC, Hitachi Digital, IMAS Foundation, KFW Capital, M&G Investment Management, Mallinckrodt Foundation, and many more.
Event content with value
The summit will explore investment opportunities across the impact market’s different thematic buckets, and how to build strategies that are measurable, scalable and deliver real world outcomes. Featuring sessions on impact benchmarking, specialist vs generalist impact strategies, allocation priorities, investments opportunities in climate, circular economy, placed-based investing, emerging markets, and many more.
Build a valuable network
Connect with industry participants in all aspects of impact investment and benefit from our expansive global community. Network in-person at interactive workshops, networking breaks, evening drinks reception, roundtable discussions and invite-only breakfasts. Build lasting relationships and compare best practices with your peers.
Event in numbers
2024 speakers include:
Themes for 2024 include:
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- Where to find returns in climate-related investing: understanding where to invest in energy transition, built environment, industrial decarbonisation, sustainable agriculture and climate adaptation
- Tap into technological trends for impact: deep dives into investment opportunities and impact applications in artificial intelligence, hydrogen, biotech and carbon capture and storage
- Understand the growing universe of impact allocators: learn about the allocation priorities of institutional investors, new allocators in the market and how they are filter managers
- Investing in the transition at scale: debate which strategies and technologies have the greatest ‘impact at scale’ potential
- Deep dive into the impact buyout playbook: going beyond venture and growth, understand the growing number of impact buyout strategies in the market
- Get to grips with emerging investment themes: hear from leaders in circular economy, oceans and blue economy, employee ownership, Just Transition and social impact funds
- Debate the necessity of the impact label: Will fundraising be just as successful if you position your fund as a climate (as opposed to impact)? We’ll ask investors for their take
- Hear from the leaders in nature-based solutions: how is the buzz around impact-in-nature translating into assets and opportunities?
- Stay on top of innovation of impact products: explore the rise of impact credit funds, secondaries and more
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.
Rabobank
Claire van der Grift, ESG Director
Very interesting programme and speakers, great event for networking. Well organised and location was top notch. Will participate next time again.
Pre-Event Resources
For more information on speaking in 2024, please contact Boris Petrovic.
boris.p@pei.group | +44 (0)204 548 4494
2024 speakers:
Amal-Lee Amin
Managing Director and Head of Climate - Diversity and Advisory, British International Investment
Christoffer Dahlberg
Managing Director - Head of Client Solutions Europe, Community Investment Management
Imraan Mohammed
Portfolio Manager – Climate Opportunities Fund, Border to Coast Pensions Partnership
Nadia Nikolova
Managing Director, Lead Portfolio Manager Development Finance & Impact Credit, Allianz Global Investors
Liz Roberts
Head of Impact Investing – Investment Management, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Francesca Spoerry
Head of Trainings and Partnerships, Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth, University of Zurich
Anjali S. Varma
Head of the Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program, Syndicated Loans and Management, International Finance Corporation
For more information on the agenda, please contact Boris Petrovic.
boris.p@pei.group | +44 (0)204 548 4494
Agenda
Impact Investor Global Summit 2024 - Day 1 - Tuesday 14th
Networking breakfast and registration
PEI welcome
Chair’s opening remarks
Xenia Loos, Co-Founder, Partner, Collective Action
Plenary #1: State of the impact market: fundraising, investment trends and the exit environment
- What are the systemic risks and opportunities for the impact investing market?
- How large is the pool of capital earmarked for impact investing, and how quickly is it growing?
- What issues are getting funding, and which aren’t?
- Is the age of the generalists over, and will we only see more specialisation in the market?
Moderated: Laurie Spengler, President and CEO, Courageous Capital Advisors
Plenary #2: Institutional investor outlook: what is driving allocation to impact funds for different types of LPs?
- What are the allocation priorities of institutional investors in 2024 and beyond?
- How are allocators filtering managers?
- Does the impact label, article 8 or 9 classification, SDG reference, or thematic positioning matter in the investment decision?
- Is the sophistication of impact products sufficient to meet the needs and risk appetite of investors?
Moderated by Rhys Davies, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis
Break
Plenary #3: Investing in the transition: how to achieve impact at scale?
- What strategies, technologies and innovations have the greatest ‘impact at scale’ potential?
- Have middle-market growth-stage opportunities been overlooked by private market investors?
- Is it time to also be considering climate resilience and adaptation investing?
- Is the climate sector capable of absorbing a significant influx of capital without overinflating valuations?
Moderated by Marieke Spence, Executive Director, Impact Capital Managers
Interview: Economics of widening inequality - what can impact do?
- How is widening inequality impacting the broader economy?
- What are some of the themes driving the inclusive growth thesis which looks to tackle inequality?
- Which models within the inclusive growth space have the best impact, scale and return potential?
- How do you think about the returns in this space compared to traditional private equity strategies?
Greg Shell, Managing Partner, Head of Inclusive Growth Strategy, Goldman Sachs
Interviewed by Marieke Spence, Executive Director, Impact Capital Managers
Plenary #4: Beyond venture and growth – deep dive into the impact buyout playbook
- What is the impact market’s composition in terms of funds looking at venture, growth and buyout strategies?
- In what geographies and themes are buyout opportunities most present?
- What are the unique considerations at play when investing in more mature companies?
- What are some good examples of buyout strategies with clear impact stories?
Moderated by Marjoleine van der Peet, Partner, Collective Action
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.
Biotech: what’s on the investment and impact horizon?
- Which advances in biotech that are reaching commercial maturity?
- What is the intersection between biotech, life sciences and impact investing?
- What is the impact potential of different biotech technologies and innovations?
- How can impact investors access deployment opportunities in the biotech space?
Moderated by Catherine Boule, Managing Partner, Karista
Impact Investing & megatrends: how to take good risky bets?
- How can investors identify unique opportunities and make well-informed investment decisions in a fast changing world?
- What are the ‘megatrends’ that you should invest against?
- Being the fund of choice: How can early-stage impact funds find, attract and support the their entrepreneurs?
- What is the practical methodology of good megatrend investing?
Moderated by Johannes Weber, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Ananda Impact Ventures
Addressing inequality: Just Transition and the social impact landscape
- What are some examples of assets in a Just Transition context?
- Social impact funds resonate most with their locally-based investors, what can be done in increase their appeal to other types of investors?
- What models provide the most promise in scaling impact on inequality?
- Is it possible to both provide above market returns and deliver genuine impact on the ground in a social impact context?
Moderator: Inès Mertens, Impact Investing Lead, Impact Europe
Liz Roberts
Head of Impact Investing – Investment Management, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Read bioImpact PE in healthcare: where are the most impactful opportunities?
- Are healthcare investments impact-by-default?
- Are LPs looking for increased healthcare exposure?
- What are the investment stories that exemplify impact funds in the healthcare space?
- How is impact measurement practiced in the healthcare context?
Moderated by Anita Bhatia, Investment Committee Chair, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Energy transition: what’s next, what’s new?
- Which aspect of the energy transition value chain is underfunded?
- To what extent are funds in the market taking an impact lens to their investment strategy?
- What is the scale of investment opportunity in clean energy revolution?
- What is the next wave of energy transition opportunities and how do this intersect with impact investing?
Moderated by Marleen Dijkstra, Managing Director, Primary Fund Investments, AlpInvest Partners
Equity and debt opportunities in climate: what’s does the next wave of climate opportunities look like?
- What is the landscape of PE climate investments?
- How are climate funds looking to differentiate themselves and which verticals/sub-sectors are being most targeted?
- Is there a risk of price inflation for climate assets?
- What technologies promises scalable impact when it comes to climate change mitigation?
Moderated by Sarah Miller, Senior Vice President, Manager Research, Redington
Natural capital and biodiversity: how and why to invest in nature?
- How dependant are nature investments on the carbon markets, and to what extent is this a strategic risk?
- What are the fundamentals driving viability of natural capital as investments?
- How are managers active in the market deploying their capital?
- What are the environmental objectives and impact goals of nature funds?
Moderated by Anne Valto, Senior Development Impact Advisor, Finnfund
Misa Andriamihaja
Private Equity Lead, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)
Read bioImpact in food systems and regenerative agriculture
- What tailwinds and headwinds are facing sustainable agriculture investors?
- What are the most promising technologies being pioneered in food supply chains that can reduce emissions?
- What are the fundamentals and disruptors driving commercial opportunities in agriculture?
- What is the current status of investment in these sectors, and is enough capital being deployed?
Moderated by Charles Avery, Reporter, New Private Markets
Networking Break
The science of decarbonisation investing
- How are investors differentiating between scope, 1,2,3,4 emissions in investments, is this a useful lens for decarbonisation investing?
- What standards are GPs using the calculate avoided emissions?
- With so much venture risk in decarbonisation opportunities, how can investors ensure their due diligence is robust?
- Which subsectors are satisfied in terms of investment, and which are on the up?
Moderator: Abrielle Rosenthal, Managing Director and Chief Sustainability Officer, TowerBrook Capital Partners
Deep dive on blended finance: A new dawn for an old idea?
- How can blended finance be used to scale capital flows to impact?
- What products and models are emerging to de-risk impact investments?
- What case studies are there of genuine innovation in the impact market in terms of structures?
- Why hasn’t blended finance been a bigger thing?
Moderated by Milti Chryssavgis, CEO & Founder, Drashta Impact
Impact and Transition in EM: How to scale capital flows to emerging markets with integrity
- Is the pool of EM-focused capital growing? What would it take?
- What can be done to derisk EM through blended finance and other risk mechanisms?
- What are the impact opportunities and risks? What would it take to advance impact practice, credibility and outcomes?
- How are investors active in EM investing in the clean energy transition?
Moderated by Joohee Rand, Director & Head of Secretariat, Impact Principles, Global Impact Investing Network
Delilah Rothenberg
Co-Founding Partner and Executive Director, The Predistribution Initiative (PDI)
Read bioEducation, Edtech and impact: a burgeoning sub asset class
- How is the future of work evolving and what will it mean for education and reskilling?
- What is the impact potential in education-focused funds?
- What is the returns landscape in the education sector?
- How can institutional capital best engage with edtech and education?
Moderated by Alexander Bebov, Managing Director, BAC
Industrial decarbonisation: deep dive into industrial solutions and brown-to-green strategies
- How are corporates looking to decarbonise their operations and supply chains?
- Which technologies are being used to decarbonise?
- How capital intensive are industrial decarbonisation solutions?
- What are some examples of good brown-to-green investment stories?
Moderated by Snehal Shah, Senior Reporter, New Private Markets
Climate resilience & adaptation: overview of investment opportunities
- Is climate adaption largely an infrastructure investment story?
- How is funding for climate adaptation taking place currently, what’s the volume of capital dedicated towards it?
- What are some of the best examples of prudent climate adaption around the world
- What is the landscape of investors that are exploring climate resilience solutions?
Moderated by Xenia Loos, Co-Founder, Partner, Collective Action
Amal-Lee Amin
Managing Director and Head of Climate - Diversity and Advisory, British International Investment
Read bioOcean health and blue economy: a growing asset class
- Which types of assets are ocean funds targeting?
- Ocean and blue funds are a relative recent development, what are the fundamentals and basics of the sector?
- What is the return and impact potential of ocean funds?
- What are the challenges of allocating toward ocean impact from an LP perspective?
Moderated by Diane Damskey, Secretariat Emeritus, Operating Principles for Impact Management
Circular economy and plastics: the next big wave of impact opportunities
- What is the return opportunity in circular economy?
- What technologies are driving progress in materials recycling and reuse?
- What the regulatory trends in sustainable consumption and waste?
- Why are big corporates making substantial investments in circularity?
Moderated by Martijn Lopes Cardozo, Venture Partner, Regeneration.VC
Evening networking reception
Agenda
Impact Investor Global Summit 2024 - Day 2 - Wednesday 15th
Networking breakfast and registration
Invite-only, GP workshop: How to fundraise for an impact fund
This session will be an off-the-record, interactive workshop so participants will be expected to contribute with their own perspectives, lessons learnt and challenges. You can apply for a place to the fundraising workshop here.
The workshop will explore questions such as:
Off-the-record, interactive workshop
- How are impact funds finding the current fundraising environment?
- What tactics and propositions are working with investors and which are not?
- What new types of investors are entering the market?
- How to raise capital with limited fund track record?
Chaired by Marieke Spence, Executive Director, Impact Capital Managers
Short morning break
Best practices and lessons learnt: how to do a good impact report?
- Is reporting being done for reporting’s sake?
- How are advances and innovation in impact benchmarking being felt in the reporting sphere?
- How are LPs using reports and what can be done to increase transparency?
- How rigorous are verification practices by LPs into impact funds?
- What frameworks are leading impact funds using to demonstrate impact and how comparable are these from an investor’s perspective?
Moderated by Diane Kulju, Director of IMM and Research, Impact Capital Managers
Anja Gräf
Managing Principal - Head of Impact Private Markets, HSBC Global Asset Management
Read bioNetworking break
Impact PE in healthcare: where are the most impactful opportunities?inable finance regulations and impact: the reality vs the ideal
This session will aim to be holistic and practical by featuring both PE sponsor and portfolio company perspectives. In a fast changing regulatory environment we’ll explore what the current landscape for impact is, how funds are dealing with it and discuss what would be the ideal from the perspective of investors and portfolio companies. The discussion will address:
- What regulations are being felt by funds at the moment (e.g. SFDR) when pursuing “impact” and does this help or hinder? What are the implications for responsible investing, sustainability and impact investing?
- What is the reality on the ground – how do portfolio companies prioritize and align with the many interacting interests across the investment chain whilst also prioritizing value creation?
- What do we need to see to create a regulatory environment that is more conducive to fostering sustainable and/or impact investments?
100% impact: a deep dive into the perspective of asset allocators
- What are the investment priorities of investors seeking 100% impact in their portfolios?
- Which investment opportunities will they pursue across asset classes?
- Is the pool of impact-driven capital growing?
- How do impact-driven investors think about the risk, return and impact dimensions of a fund?
Moderated by Francesca Spoerry, Head of Trainings and Partnerships, Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth, University of Zurich
Francesca Spoerry
Head of Trainings and Partnerships, Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth, University of Zurich
Read bioInvite-only, LP workshop: Impact allocator working group (invite only)
This session will be an off-the-record, interactive workshop so participants will be expected to contribute with their own perspectives, lessons learnt and challenges. You can apply for a seat at the LP workshop here.
The workshop will explore questions such as:
- What filters are investors using to screen bad impact investments?
- What are the best practices for engaging with impact fund managers?
- How are different investors doing due diligence?
- How important is verification of impact claims?
Chaired by Paige Nicol, Director, Europe & Asia, Bluemark
Short morning break
Impact debt funds: a good time for credit?
- With interest rates high, what are the opportunities in credit investments in an impact context?
- Which funds have impact debt products and in what impact context are they being applied?
- How do credit strategies differentiate themselves from an impact perspective?
- How influential can credit be to the achievement of impact goals?
Moderated by Rajen Gokani, Executive Director, Absolute Return Strategies, GCM Grosvenor
Christoffer Dahlberg
Managing Director - Head of Client Solutions Europe, Community Investment Management
Read bioNadia Nikolova
Managing Director, Lead Portfolio Manager Development Finance & Impact Credit, Allianz Global Investors
Read bioAnjali S. Varma
Head of the Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program, Syndicated Loans and Management, International Finance Corporation
Read bioNetworking
Elevator pitches: The best up-and-coming managers across impact investment themes
In this new format session, you’ll be hearing from some of the most innovative and exciting emerging managers in the global impact space. We’ll hear a set of 5-minute pitches from five of the most exciting managers we’ve found in the impact market, followed by an open Q+A with the speakers facilitated by the chair.
We are committed to providing a platform for new managers that are doing exceptional work but may not have the profile or track record just yet, the presenters will only be from funds with less than 5 years in the market and selected by our LP advisory board as being noteworthy for their innovative and unique investment propositions.
- Robert Ryan, Founder, CEO and Head of Impact, Aristata Capital – Financing impact litigation
- Reem Mobassaleh Wyndham, Founding Partner, Pact VC – All-women led; access, betterment, climate
- Jeroen Kelder, Managing Director, Infinity Recycling – Circular economy
- Bruce Simpson, Partner, AgeTech Capital – Aging society
- Michael Kleindl, Managing Partner, Collateral Good – Sustainable fashion
Impact secondaries: what’s the theory of change?
- What is driving continued activity of impact secondaries?
- Is the increase in secondaries activity in impact investing a good thing?
- What is the outlook for secondaries in LP-leds and continuation funds for 2024?
- What opportunities do secondary structures and vehicles present for impact managers?
Moderated by Madeleine Farman, Senior Reporter, Secondaries Investor
Marta Hervás Melgarejo
Managing Director - Private Equity & Impact Investing, Arcano Partners
Read bioLunch
Presentation: Impact fundraising over the past year
This is a data breakdown of fundraising in the impact market in the last 12 months.
- Who are the biggest funds and allocators in impact investing?
- What are the most significant trends in allocation to impact investing?
- Which strategies and themes are gaining the most capital?
- To what extent is the denominator effect impacting impact?
Panel #8: Debate: The impact label provides a fundraising advantage in the current market?
This is an Oxford-style debate session 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.
The substance of the debate is whether the ‘impact label’ is advantageous or a hindrance for fundraising across different regions. This is a question that goes to the heart of what impact investing represents, how it is likely to evolve in the future as a market, what is driving interest in impact products from institutional investors, and intersects with topical issues such as the fiduciary duty debate being felt in the US.
With:
Andreas Nilsson, Managing Director Impact Team, Golding Capital Partners
Michele Giddens, Co-founder and co-CEO, Bridges Fund Management
Mark Berryman, Managing Director of Impact Investing, Caprock
Katharina Sommerrock, Head of Investor Relations, Lightrock
Chaired by Heike Schmitz, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills
Networking break
Keynote presentation: Climate tech phase 2.0: How the industry has evolved in climate tech’s second wave
In this keynote session we look analyse and learn from history to plot the way forward for climate investing and decarbonisation investing. In this keynote presentation from leading investment house, Cambridge Associates, we’ll explore questions such as:
- What was the impairment ratios of clean-tech companies to the broader PE/VC benchmark during the first cleantech wave?
- What lessons can be learnt from the 2005-2011 clean-tech phase 1.0 bubble?
- How has the industry has evolved in climate/clean-tech’s second wave?
Panel #9: Exploring the next frontiers of impact innovation & management
- How are funds due diligencing for impact, and how are they measuring impact performance within their portfolio companies?
- To what extent are funds differentiating between the different ‘shades’ of impact across their portfolio?
- What approach are funds using to measure and reduce carbon emissions in their portfolio?
- A lot of resources are poured into impact management: is there a leaner model for understanding impact outcomes?
- Where is innovation still needed in impact management?
Moderated by Toby Mitchenall, Editor, New Private Markets
Closing remarks
End of conference
Impact Investor Global Summit
Our leading advisory board
Yasemin Saltuk Lamy
Deputy CIO, Head of Asset Allocation and Capital Solutions, British International Investment
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.
For more information on available sponsorship opportunities please contact chris.w@pei.group | +44 (0) 7584 018 707
2024 sponsors
Network with the global impact investment industry
The summit will be in-person in London. Join 500+ 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.
Past attendees included
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.
Institutional Investors at the Impact Global Summit 2024
The Impact Investor Global Summit is an opportunity to connect with 200+ 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 include 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.
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 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
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 pass and a member of our team will follow up with you to confirm your eligibility.