Infrastructure
Investor
Investor
Global Summit Berlin 2022
21 - 24 March 2022,
Hilton, Berlin and virtually
Sustainability, resilience, diversity: driving infrastructure for the next generation
The Infrastructure Investor Global Summit took place on 21-24 March in Berlin.
The industry’s largest event once again brought together the who’s who of infrastructure for four days of unrivalled networking and content. Attendees heard from infrastructure’s best and brightest. They connected with the world’s largest gathering of institutional investors actively allocating to infrastructure. They gained insights from inspirational out-of-industry keynotes and benefited from enhanced networking you simply can’t get anywhere else. This event was the place to be to meet the global community, expand your network, and be part of the future of the asset class.
The Global Summit 2022 put sustainability and diversity at the heart of the infrastructure investment agenda. Make sure your voice is heard.
Today’s leaders. Tomorrow’s infrastructure. The Global Summit.
Inspirational keynote speakers
Francis Fukuyama, the legendary political scientist and author, discussed if liberalism is obsolete. Liberal democracies are in retreat and under attack from both the Right and the Left. Francis dissected what has gone wrong and explained how to fix it.
Award-winning NY Times journalist Nicole Perlroth of CISA tackled cybersecurity risk and discussed critical national infrastructure, digitisation and more.
Partner and chair of Carlyle’s Infrastructure Group, Macky Tall, set out his roadmap for the asset class, explored market trends and more.
Gillian Tett, Financial Times, discussed the art and science of leadership, how we can use anthropology to understand business and so much more.
Advance your fundraising
Attendees expanded their fundraising horizons by joining the largest gathering of global institutional investors, looking for opportunities in infrastructure.
Uncover high-yield opportunities
The Summit’s world-class speaking faculty showed you where, and how, you can find attractive investments around the globe.
Save time building your network
Attendees created and will continue to nurture sustainable relationships with infrastructure’s elite by using our sophisticated networking platform ahead of, during, and post-event.
600+ global institutional investors
Speakers include:
Testimonials
Kenichiro Matsunaga
Japan Post Bank
The Global Summit is the only one conference which we can meet every single infrastructure investment professional from the globe.
Piotr Nagorka
Kommunalkredit Austria AG
Hands down the best and most important infrastructure event. Simply a must for all infrastructure investors wanting to make their mark in the sector.
Christian Wertli
Swiss Re
The Global Summit is ‘a must’ for professionals working in the infra space.
Now part of the Global Passport
By securing your place at the Infrastructure Investor Global Summit, you will instantly become part of our global network of infrastructure leaders shaping the asset class.
Members have year-round access to a directory of investors, frequent meetings with industry leaders, and a place at all Infrastructure Investor conferences throughout the year, including:
Please note, annual agenda is subject to change.
Entry requirements
To enter the event, all attendees must adhere to one of the following conditions:
- Be fully vaccinated (2x)* + show proof of a negative lateral flow/antigen test** taken within 24 hours of arrival at the event venue (first entry only)
- Proof of recovery within the last 3 months + show proof of a negative lateral flow/antigen test** taken within 24 hours of arrival at the event venue (first entry only)
- Unvaccinated to show proof of a negative lateral flow/antigen test** daily
All attendees will be required to wear a FFP2 mask without a ventilation valve. The mask must be worn so that the mouth and nose are completely covered. Masks need to be worn at all times except when eating and drinking.
*Official vaccine certificate to be shown on an official app or online certificate
**Proof of a negative lateral flow test/rapid antigen test taken prior to arriving at the event venue, Hilton Berlin, will need to be shown using an official app or an online certificate.
Covid precautions
To help keep you and our colleagues safe, we have embraced the following principles to ensure the smooth running of our event portfolio, globally.
Planning and risk assessment
The Global Summit has a detailed plan and risk assessment in light of local government and health authority frameworks, now specific to the Covid pandemic. PEI staff are working to event industry protocols to minimise and mitigate risk.
Cleanliness
PEI is working with our venue partners to ensure the highest standards of hygiene and cleanliness. This includes a deep clean pre-event and continuous sanitisation during the event, with a focus on high-contact areas such as lifts, staircases, door handles, restrooms and food and beverage delivery points.
Contactless
Where possible PEI will encourage attendees to minimise their contacts. This includes the event registration process and also contact between attendees. PEI encourages all attendees to avoid close social contact such as hand-shakes and to find digital alternatives to exchanging details rather than business cards.
Attendee numbers and density
PEI will assess and manage in line with local government and health authority mandates the number of delegates in the event space and the flow of attendee traffic in and out of plenary and break-out rooms and around exhibition rooms and other meeting spaces.
Year-round infrastructure community networking
The Infrastructure Investor Global Summit will take place both in-person and virtually on our industry-leading platform.
Easily seek out relevant investors, get maximum visibility, and maintain relationships across the global industry.
Attendance at the event is now exclusive to Global Passport holders – our new investor/manager network. Book a demo to see how, in addition to attendance at the Global Summit, a membership can help grow your business.
Secure your next investor
Connect with the most active investors in infrastructure
Global Summit attendees shape the industry
Your access to the Global Summit will provide more value than ever before, with year-round access to a directory of global infrastructure’s most influential network.
Advance your fundraising
Expand your fundraising horizons by joining the largest gathering of global institutional investors, looking for opportunities in infrastructure.
Uncover high-yield opportunities
The Summit’s world-class speaking faculty will show you where, and how, you can find attractive investments around the globe.
Save time building your network
Create and nurture sustainable relationships with infrastructure’s elite by using our sophisticated networking platform ahead of, during, and post-event.
Stay connected with the global community
Rick Walters
GRESB
Infrastructure Investor managed to pull off the best infrastructure investing conference of 2020!
Fraser Hughes
GLIO
Great event again. The virtual platform was extremely well done – congrats on hosting a top-quality event.
John Anderson
Manulife
One of the best events of 2020 for connecting with other market participants.
Global Summit attendees get more
By attending the Infrastructure Investor Global Summit, you will join infrastructure’s most influential global network. A subscription will give you:
- In-person access to the Global Summit
- Virtual access to all of Infrastructure Investor’s global events
- Access to the investor directory
- Frequent virtual and in-person networking opportunities
- And much more…
Please note, annual agenda is subject to change.
Highlights from the 2021 Summit
The industry’s most prominent event successfully connected and informed the global community once again on 18-21 October.
The event brought together 1500+ attendees to meet with the largest global gathering of institutional investors. They heard from inspirational keynote speakers and industry leaders sharing content covering everything infrastructure including digital, debt, ESG, social and much more. Attendees were able to build invaluable relationships, keep up to date with this everchanging market and push the asset class forward.
Global institutional investor attendees included:
Highlight speakers
Insights from the industry
Helen Beatty
Partner
Herbert Smith Freehills
Mark Florian
Global head
BlackRock Infrastructure Funds
Paul Polman
Former CEO
Unilever
Cameron Talbert-Stern
Senior Responsible Investment & ESG Manager
APG Asset Management
Sadek Wahba
Chairman and Managing Partner
I Squared Capital
Rick Walters
Chief of Standards and Innovation
GRESB
Testimonials
Piotr Nagorka
Kommunalkredit Austria AG
Hands down the best and most important infrastructure event in Europe. Simply a must for all infrastructure investors wanting to make their mark in the sector.
Tom Maher
Whitehelm Capital
Brilliant event. The conference provided a great opportunity to get the infrastructure community back together.
Thomas Engelmann
KGAL Investment Management
Infrastructure Investor’s Global Summit 2021 was again one of the best organised and orchestrated finance events in the global infrastructure market.
Sponsorship opportunities 2022
The Infrastructure Investor Global Summit offers a unique opportunity for organisations to raise their profile as part of the premier meeting for infrastructure investment professionals.
For more information on available sponsorship opportunities please contact Alexander Jakes: alexander.j@peimedia.com, +44 (0) 20 3862 7498.
Pre-Event Resources
2021 content highlights
This year’s Global Summit saw some of the industry’s biggest names come together to share exclusive insight and discuss some of the current topics of the infrastructure industry.
Keynote interview: hear from GIP’s chairman and managing partner on the state of infrastructure today
Adebayo Ogunlesi
Managing Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners
Keynote interview: an industry leader sets out their roadmap for the infrastructure asset class
Sadek Wahba
Chairman & Managing Partner, I Squared Capital
Keynote Panel: building back better – lessons learned from a difficult 18 months
Chantale Pelletier
Global Head of Infrastructure, Schroders Capital
Profit with purpose: investing to succeed both financially and socially
Paul Polman
Former CEO, Unilever & co-founder, IMAGINE
2021 and climate change: making sense of net zero, SDGs, EU taxonomy and COP26
Oliver Schubert
Senior Partner, Vantage Infrastructure
A key plank: how infrastructure debt has moved to the mainstream
Jonathan Stevens
Managing Director, BlackRock
All content from 2021 is available to Global Passport holders. By registering for the 2022 Global Summit you will instantly become part of our global network of infrastructure leaders shaping the asset class.
Register now and catch up on all the 2021 content ahead of the Global Summit 2022 in March.
Seven Forums. One Global Summit.
The Infrastructure Investor Global Summit consists of seven specialist forums across the week. Each forum will focus on a key area of infrastructure, and will allow for focused networking with investors and managers.
Day one.
The role of infrastructure in the route to net-zero post-COP26
- Practical considerations when infrastructure funds are setting science-based targets
- To what extent are investors challenging fund managers on their approach to climate?
- Ensuring emerging market assets contribute to the just transition
- How ESG is increasingly being used within wider value creation strategies
Pursuing the momentum for change in emerging and frontier economies
- The results of COP26 and the repercussions for emerging markets
- How emerging market investors are integrating ESG requirements to their investment processes
- Familiar faces: Where do the traditional sub-sectors of infrastructure sit within the emerging markets?
- Joining the dots – connecting the private capital to emerging market practitioners
Investing in assets which provide essential services
- A seat at the table – what is social infrastructure’s position within the infrastructure investment landscape?
- Building back better? The global outlook on social infrastructure
- The role, challenges and changes of PPP structures
- The impact of SDGs, sustainability and impact in social infrastructure
Day two & three.
The private infrastructure industry’s annual general meeting
- What ‘building back better’ means for the asset class
- The new ESG landscape-making sense of net zero, climate change, COP26 and more
- Putting COP22 promises into action: what infrastructure investors can do today
- How sector-focused strategies can capitalise on market dislocations
- Debating the future of specialist and generalist products post-pandemic
Day four.
Navigating the route towards an inclusive global digital economy
- Closing the digital connectivity gap across the world
- The role digital infra can play in achieving sustainability targets
- Increased competition, generalist funds vs dedicated and more – assessing the evolving GP landscape
- Deploying at scale and perfecting operational capabilities – the keys to success for the future
The evolving role of lending in the private infrastructure world
- The new core infrastructure class? How debt is providing security & opportunity for forward-thinking investors
- Moving with the times – how debt managers can improve their ESG integration
- Pinpointing the key infrastructure sectors ripe for debt investment in 2022 and beyond
- A preferred route to market? Investor appetite for infrastructure as a gateway to a broader debt mandate
Investing in the energy transition as the world moves towards net-zero
- What investment themes have come out of COP 26?
- What is a ‘fair’ return for renewables and is there further yield compression to go?
- Balancing the grid & what full on electrification means
- Is green hydrogen the missing link in the energy transition?
Seven Forums. One Global Summit.
The Infrastructure Investor Global Summit consisted of seven specialist forums across the week. Each forum focused on a key area of infrastructure, and allowed for focused networking with investors and managers. Take a look at the seven agendas below or download the full week agenda.
Day one.
Day two & three.
The private infrastructure industry’s annual general meeting
The Global Investor Forum is the core of the Global Summit. Meet and hear from the best of the best in the asset class.
Day four.
Today’s leaders. Tomorrow’s infrastructure.
Explore our line-up of industry leading speakers who shared their insights with you in March. Our seven specialist forums means attendees gained expert knowledge on all aspects of infrastructure.
Keynote speakers
Francis Fukuyama, the legendary political scientist and author, discussed if liberalism is obsolete. Liberal democracies are in retreat and under attack from both the Right and the Left. Francis dissected what has gone wrong and explained how to fix it.
Award-winning NY Times journalist Nicole Perlroth of CISA tackled cybersecurity risk and discussed critical national infrastructure, digitisation and more.
Partner and chair of Carlyle’s Infrastructure Group, Macky Tall, set out his roadmap for the asset class, explored market trends and more.
Gillian Tett, Financial Times, discussed the art and science of leadership, how we can use anthropology to understand business and so much more.
A snapshot of who attendees heard from:
Karsten Sinner
Head of Infrastructure Funds and Regional Head Funds in North Africa, the Levant and Turkey, EBRD
View the full list of speakers by forum:
The private infrastructure industry’s annual general meeting
The Global Investor Forum is the core of the Global Summit. Meet and hear from the best of the best in the asset class.
2021 Sponsor