Day One
Day One
- Ross Morrison - Partner, Adams Street Partners
How is the market evolving in 2024 and beyond? Are emerging managers equipped to deal with today’s reality and how are experienced VCs utilising lessons learned for today’s investment landscape? How is liquidity playing into conversations with LPs and what are expectations for current vintages?
- Olaf Neubert - Managing Director, TopCap Partners
- Ted Persson - Partner, EQT Ventures
- Miriam Schmitter - Managing Director, Commonfund Capital
How strong is Europe’s early stage? How do pre-seed, seed and Series A compare across the ecosystem? Are we still seeing an influx of emerging managers at this stage? Are early stage funds getting smaller?
- Adam Niewiński - Co-Founder & General Partner, OTB Ventures
- Jessica Schultz - Partner, Northzone
- Mohadeseh Abdullahi - Investor, Molten Ventures
- Glenn Gore - CEO, LemmaTree
How are the later stages evolving in Europe? Is there still a gap and to what extent is this being filled by US firms?
- Leyla Holterud - Managing Director, StepStone Group
- Adam Niewiński - Co-Founder & General Partner, OTB Ventures
- Susanne Schorsch - Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners
- Abe Finkelstein - General Partner, Vintage Investment Partners
Avoiding confusion: ESG reporting harmonisation
LP-only discussion group run under the Chatham House Rule and open to 30 pre-registered development finance institutions, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. Places are limited; to enquire please email nisa.pun@informa.com.
- Johannes Lenhard - Affiliate lecturer and researcher, University of Cambridge & Co-Director, VentureESG
- Theresa Bardubitzki - Sustainability Manager, KfW Capital
- Suzanne Tavill - Partner, Global Head of Responsible Investing, StepStone Group
Pushing forward: challenges and solutions for ESG integration
Discussion group run under the Chatham House Rule and closed to press. For VC pre-registration email micah.passman@informa.com. For LP pre-registration email nisa.pun@informa.com.
- Hannah Leach - Co-Director, VentureESG & Partner, Houghton Street Ventures
- Ashleigh Brown - Sustainability Manager, Atomico
- Moritz von Nathusius - General Counsel, Cherry Ventures
- Laura Weidman Powers - Operating Partner, Base10 Partners
Managing fonder and investor team conflicts
Run under the Chatham House Rule. Open to 30 attendees and closed to press.
- Julius Bachmann - Executive Coach, Bachmann Coaching
- DPI vs. TVPI: where should LPs focus?
- AI: evolving at pace
- DEI: Women in VC
What are some of the recent success stories coming out of Europe? What does the region have to be proud of and where are the up-and-coming hot spots as we look ahead?
- Michael Sidgmore - Co-Founder & Partner, Broadhaven Ventures
- Dr Jörg Goschin - CO-CEO, Senior Managing Director, KfW Capital
- Christine Hockley - Managing Director, Funds, British Patient Capital
- Elodie Donjon - Senior Investment Manager, European Investment Fund (EIF)
European Women in VC showcases its latest report on venture capital.
In an era where liquidity is scarce, can the secondary market offer solutions that are attractive to founders, VCs and LPs? Or do different objectives make alignment difficult or even unachievable?
- Mrinalini Lhila - Founder & Managing Principal, 360 Capital Advisors
- Omolade Adebisi - Principal, Isomer Capital
How are government-backed and private LPs allocating capital? How much capital is going to diverse teams and how are LPs classifying diversity within VC funds? Are LPs looking inwards at their own diversity?
- Francesca Warner MBE - Founding Partner, Ada Ventures
- Monik Pham - Founding Partner, Pact
- Elodie Donjon - Senior Investment Manager, European Investment Fund (EIF)
- Fransisco Navas - Managing Director, Arcano Partners