Day One
Day One
- Andrew Williamson - Managing Partner, Cambridge Innovation Capital
- 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
- Till Burges - Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners
- Jonathan Heiliger - Founder & General Partner, Vertex Ventures US
- Doreen Huber - Partner, EQT Ventures
- Miriam Schmitter - Managing Director, CF Private Equity
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?
- Arik Oslerne - Head of Europe, Carta
- Mohadeseh Abdullahi - Investor, Molten Ventures
- Jonathan Biggs - Partner, Top Tier Capital Partners
- Frederic Court - Founder & Managing Partner, Felix Capital
- Jessica Schultz - Partner, Northzone
- 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?
- Ben Taylor - Associate, Goodwin
- Leyla Holterud - Managing Director, StepStone Group
- Asaf Horesh - Managing Partner, Vintage Investment Partners
- Adam Niewiński - Co-Founder & General Partner, OTB Ventures
- Susanne Schorsch - Partner, Amadeus Capital 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
- Shaun Chaudhuri - Principal, The Westly Group
- Moritz von Nathusius - General Counsel, Cherry Ventures
Managing founder and investor team conflicts
Run under the Chatham House Rule. Open to 30 attendees and closed to press.
- Julius Bachmann - Executive Coach, Bachmann Coaching
- Joshua Haynes - Founder + Managing Partner, Masawa Fund
- Sebastian Pollok - Founding Partner, Tomorrow 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
- Ibrahim Köran - Head of GovTech, Heliad AG
- Chris Hopkins - Managing Director, Venture Capital, Legal & General Capital
European Women in VC showcases its latest report on venture capital.
- Kinga Stanislawska - Founder, European Women in VC
- Rachael Reid - Investment Director, BP Ventures
- Anne Germain - Senior Investment Director, BPI France
- Saemundur Finnbogason - Fund Manager, Kira
Join one of three topic-focused roundtables. Spaces are first-come, first-served.
- Total portfolio approach: how should investment professionals assess TPA for their organisation?
- AI: evolving at pace
- Women in VC roundtable: returning to work from maternity leave
- John L. Bowman - President, CAIA Association
- Charles Schrager - Venture Partner, Isomer Capital
- Check Warner MBE - Founding Partner, Ada Ventures
- Sophie Winwood - Operating Partner, Foxe Capital
Can secondaries, co-investments or GP stakes 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
- Bibhash Mukhopadhyay - Co-founder & Managing Partner, Sound BioVentures
- Chirantan Patnaik - Director, Venture Capital, British International Investments
- Lindsay Sharma - Managing Director, Industry Ventures
- David York - CEO & Managing Director, Top Tier Capital Partners
- Manu Gupta - Founder, Blue Lion Global
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?
- Check Warner MBE - Founding Partner, Ada Ventures
- Elodie Donjon - Senior Investment Manager, European Investment Fund (EIF)
- Paco Navas - Managing Director, Arcano Partners
- Monik Pham - Founding Partner, Pact
- Andrew Williamson - Managing Partner, Cambridge Innovation Capital