Private Equity European Leadership & Innovation Summit

As the private equity sector moves into a new phase of development Private Equity Wire is pleased to introduce an event created by GPs-for-GPs.

Informed by in-depth industry consultation, our gathering for senior leaders at PE firms - from across operations, finance, legal, back-office, sales, IR and technology - will help your business evolve via big picture presentations and a series of detail orientated roundtable sessions designed for small groups.

After our industry's long absence of in-person gatherings, there will also be time for networking and informal conversations with close peers and colleagues.

Valuations - exploring the different return profiles of assets...
...and outsourcing and benchmarking valuations
Best practice in back office and optimizing and automating your firm’s reporting
Current reporting challenges and possibilities – and how to find and properly assess the right service providers for your needs
What other areas of your ops could be outsourced? And how to stay connected to remote partners and stakeholders in a ‘hybrid’ world
What disruptors and new developments are we seeing in outsourcing?
Hybrid approach: Combining the best current practices with best of breed outsourcing and lessons from the pandemic.

Creating the ‘digital’ fund – what does it look like now, where do we go to next and making the most of technology, automation and outsourcing while avoiding the pitfalls
Building consistency in business operations and digitalization, without creating headaches for staff and sacrificing the experience of allocators
More outsourcing – more risk? How to guard against insolvency of service providers and a longer tail - via more service providers (and their service providers...) of cyber attacks

Current hiring trends – what roles (new and old) will be prominent and prevalent in 2022
How has the remote working changed the staff dynamic and your approach to recruitment?
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I): Are private equity managers making progress in focus…and fact?
Are your LPs starting to track DE&I metrics in the same way they approach ESG
How to reflect DE&I in senior hires?
Is money enough – the emerging benefits that will attract the best in talent
How to create a global work force and find - and manage - international talent

How are technology platforms re-shaping the capital raising model?
What types of technology are IR teams introducing, as a result of the pandemic, to connect with investors?
How is the IR role evolving in line with tech innovation, and how is this helping improve investor communication/reporting?
What kind of best practices should managers be mindful of, when doing virtual fundraising, and what are some of the main risks to avoid?
Will we see a hybrid approach to fundraising, on a permanent basis, going forward, combining the human element with the machine?

How is artificial intelligence being used to improve cybersecurity tools i.e. better helping firms identify changes in employee behaviour ahead of a data breach?
Home is where the threat is – how is endpoint security stepping up to protect remote office working?
How to guard against emerging cyber threats, such as ‘Insider-as-a-service’ model, aimed at bad actors being recruited remotely and stealing IP.
What should today’s COO, CTO or CISO be prioritizing to maintain data security and good cyber hygiene?
What does the next evolution of the public cloud look like? And what might the long-term benefits be to asset managers?
API trends and latest areas of cloud tool application across the enterprise