In-person and virtual: Paris Marriott Champs Elysees Hotel, France
Join Europe’s leading investor relations teams in Paris on October 6 to perfect your IR strategy in preparation for 2023.
The IR Magazine Forum is Europe’s largest gathering of investor relations officers and CFOs. The conference will help public companies understand changes in the capital markets, provide insight into next-level investor targeting and improve ESG practices by showcasing award-winning investor relations case studies.
Join us in Paris to attend roundtable discussions, networking sessions and in-depth panel talks about investor relations’ most pressing issues. The format, far removed from a traditional conference, consisted of fast-paced panel discussions, face-to-face networking, champagne roundtable discussions, and a networking drinks reception.
In a unique new format, the IR Magazine Forum – Europe takes exclusive IR Magazine data collected from thousands of responses from both heads of IR and investors and looks at solving some of the challenges our research reports have uncovered.
Join us in Paris this October to gain data-driven insights into the changing nature of investor relations in 2022 and beyond.
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08:30 AM
Registration and networking
08:55 AM
Welcome to the IR Magazine Forum – Europe
Laurie Havelock, editor-at-large, IR Magazine
09:00 AM
Opening keynote: Investor relations in uncertain times
As part of our opening keynote, we look at the impact of a bear market on investor relations priorities and activities, to prove their value, and maximize opportunity in tough times.
Moderator: Laurie Havelock, editor-at-large, IR Magazine
09:30 AM
Delivering roadshow and corporate access success
Economic trends and changes to how we work and communicate approaches have drastically transformed the roadshow space. In this session, we examine how these trends impact shareholder registers and advise on strategies to maximize quality engagement with investors.
Moderator: Laurie Havelock, editor-at-large, IR Magazine
Sophie Palliez, vice president of corporate stakeholder engagement, BIC
10:00 AM
Morning refreshments and networking
10:30 AM
ESG during a bear market
The notion of ESG is increasingly scrutinized by a portion of the capital markets community. We debate whether the ESG backlash is a signal of maturity or if the change in perception is due to economic pressures.
Join this session to explore sentiment around ESG in this environment, the impact of inflation and employment changes on human capital management, and changing expectations around various environmental, social, and governance factors.
Moderator: Laurence Taylor, senior conference producer, IR Magazine
Ronan Marc, group vice president of investor relations, financing and treasury, Legrand Group
Sarah Spray, head of investor relations, Maersk Group
11:30 AM
Tech-talk: Enhancing your digital IR strategy
Events from the past two years have increased the importance of a digital presence for investor relations. Opportunities for investor relations officers increase as technology advances, and this session helps you understand how investor relations teams are changing their approach to technology and IR websites.
Moderator: Steven Wade, head of event content, IR Magazine
Markus Holtz, head of investor relations, Baloise Group
Ben Riley, UK business development specialist, Lumi Global
12:00 PM
Next-level earnings calls
In a volatile environment, concise, consistent, and comprehensible communications are a must, especially around the financial health of your business. In this session, we explore data related to the earnings call and understand how you can refine your practices to better communicate with the market.
Moderator: Tim Human, senior reporter, IR Magazine
Cynthia Alers, director of investor relations, AO
Jean-Benoit Roquette, senior vice president of investor relations, Ubisoft Entertainment
Joanna Trup, head of SparkLive, London Stock Exchange Group
12:45 PM
Lunch
13:45 PM
Targeting and engagement in a downcycle
This session investigates how companies and IR professionals can access capital in the current market and explores what the investment community expects from their meetings with companies in the current environment.
Moderator: Laurence Taylor, senior conference producer, IR Magazine
Daniel Alvarez, investor relations associate director, HelloFresh
Guillaume Moinet, co-CEO and founder, Scalens
Richard Whiteing, vice president, head of investor relations, SES
14:30 PM
Afternoon refreshments and networking
15:00 PM
Progressing your IR career: Opportunities in today’s environment
Reflect on the changes to the labor market and understand to progress further in your investor relations career (and beyond.)
Moderator: Laurie Havelock, editor-at-large, IR Magazine
Louis Igonet, head of investor relations, Tikehau Capital
15:30 PM
Champagne Roundtables
Settle down with a drink and discuss today’s topics with your fellow attendees in this interactive session.
Share your thoughts, experiences, challenges, and feelings while hearing your peers’ advice and perspective on the most critical topics facing IROs in this environment.
Moderator: Laurie Havelock, editor-at-large, IR Magazine
16:30 PM
Summary and drinks reception
Laurie Havelock, editor-at-large, IR Magazine
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Sarah Spray
Head of investor relations
Maersk Group
Ronan Marc
Corporate vice president of investor relations, financing and treasury
LEGRAND
Born on March 9, 1974, Graduate of ESSEC, Ronan Marc joined the Group in 2000 after a first experience at Ernst & Young Audit.
He headed up the Group Internal Audit from 2003, then focused on M&A from 2006 before going through several experiences as
country CFO in France, Russia and India.
He is appointed Corporate VP Investor Relations, Financing & Treasury in January 2020.
Jean-Benoit Roquette
Senior vice president of investor relations
Ubisoft Entertainment
Sophie Palliez
Vice president of corporate stakeholder engagement
BIC
Louis Igonet
Head of investor relations
Tikehau Capital
Daniel Alvarez
Investor relations associate director
HelloFresh
Daniel heads up the Investor Relations team at HelloFresh SE, having joined the company in 2021 to initially focus on ESG and Sustainability stakeholder engagement. Daniel moved to HelloFresh from Barclays, where he developed a career in investment banking, gaining expertise in equity capital markets and sustainable finance. Daniel graduated from Imperial College Business School with a Masters in Finance.
Richard Whiteing
Vice president, head of investor relations
SES Satellites
Markus Holtz
Head of investor relations
Baloise Group
Lindsey Stewart
Director of investment stewardship research
Morningstar
Cynthia Alers
Director of investor relations
AO
Guillaume Moinet
Co-CEO and founder
Scalens
Guillaume is co-founder and CEO of Scalens.
Before founding Scalens, Guillaume accumulated a rich and varied experience in the financial industry acquiring expertise in the fields of equity capital markets, M&A, capital raising and investment strategies at Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and Rothschild.
Guillaume holds a MBA from ESSEC Business School, major in finance, and a degree in business law from Pantheon-Assas University
Joanna Trup
Head of SparkLive
LSEG Issuer Services
Ben Riley
UK business development specialist
Lumi Global
Ben Riley is one of Lumi’s leading IR and AGM experts, and has wide ranging experience of delivering successful results presentations, quarterly updates, capital market days and wide ranging IR events in many markets. His technical expertise has helped companies successfully harness the power of virtual meetings and, coupled with Lumi’s leading on-premise capabilities, has delivered hundreds of successful physical, hybrid and virtual investor relations events.
Tim Human
Senior reporter
IR Magazine
Tim Human is senior reporter at IR Magazine. He rejoined the publication in 2019 after two years working as a freelance writer for a range of international clients. Previously, he was editor of IR Magazine between 2013-2017. He has also written for Corporate Secretary, IR Magazine’s sister publication, and CorpComms, the UK-based magazine for corporate communications professionals.
Laurence Taylor
Senior conference producer
IR Magazine
Steve Wade
Head of event content
IR Magazine
Laurie Havelock
Editor-at-large
IR Magazine
Forum Partners
Lumi is the leading digital platform facilitating in-room, hybrid and virtual AGMs for the world’s largest corporations, membership organisations, associations, legislative bodies, faith based organisations and partnerships.
It is the only platform that digitises the entire lifecycle of an AGM in a single solution that enables sophisticated meeting facilitation before, during and after the live meeting – including authenticated registration, live secure polling, Q&A management and relevant reporting.
Lumi is headquartered in Hampshire, UK where central functions including finance, product development and marketing are based, but has offices in 11 countries across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. Highly differentiated in the majority of markets where it is active, Lumi benefits from extremely strong, experienced and renowned MDs who head up each in-country team.
Its mobile solution enabled Lumi to facilitate the UK’s first electronic AGM held by a listed company, Jimmy Choo, in June 2016. The onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic rapidly accelerated the adoption of the Lumi virtual meeting platform, and Lumi has run over 2500 virtual and hybrid AGMs during 2020, in 35 different countries, including several hundred here in Canada.
For more information, visit www.lumiglobal.com.
Scalens is a software company providing listed companies with digital solutions to manage more efficiently their investor relations.
We deliver to top management, behavioral and qualitative data about investors’ expectations and opinions with the objective to ease benchmarking and targeting exercise.
Scalens serves 70 corporations representing 300 paying users and covers 600 companies in Europe.
Please visit our website: www.scalens.com
Supporting Partners
Association of Bulgarian Investor Relations Directors /ABIRD
For 12 years now, the Association of Bulgarian Investor Relations Directors /ABIRD/ has been actively working to unite the interests and improve the qualification of local Investor Relations Directors – members of the organization, to improve the investment climate in Bulgaria and introduce high standards for presentation of the Bulgarian public companies to investors in the country and abroad.
We unite more than 110 Investor Relations Directors of public companies and other issuers of securities, and in 2016 we opened the doors of ABIRD for all colleagues who disclose information in accordance with the Bulgarian and European legislation, and communicate with institutions such as the Financial Supervision Commission, BSE – Sofia and the Central Depository.
ABIRD is an active participant in the Bulgarian capital market, a basic corrective in terms of amendments to the regulation and implementation of the European legislation. Our activities are focused on enhancing the professional qualification of Investor Relations Directors and all of the other officials engaged with investor communication and communication with the institutions on the capital market with the purpose to improve the best disclosure and transparency practices in the activities of public companies and other issuers of securities. We actively cooperate with all institutions and participants in the Bulgarian capital market.
The Association of Bulgarian Investor Relations Directors is a collective member the National Corporate Governance Commission, the Capital Market Development Council in Bulgaria, the Corporate Social Responsibility Council to the Minister of Labor and Social Policy, the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association. Together with our national partners we strive to make Bulgaria a more attractive place for investments.
Contacts: +359 2 9882413 and [email protected]
Web: www.abird.info
Since 1991, AERI has been bringing together the most relevant IR professionals and other stakeholders in Spain, focusing on the development of best practices, but also on providing the best possible options for networking. AERI Members are well known for their top performance in the capital markets, always developing the highest standards in the Investor Relations world.
For more information, please visit www.aeri.es
For more information, please visit www.ir-romania.ro.
Supporting the Investors Relations in Belgium. We are a community that actively exchanges experiences and ideas around investor relations. We help people grow active in investor relations by networking, knowledge exchange & meetings.
For more information, please visit www.belgian-ir.be
Created in 1987, the Cliff is the French association of financial communication professionals and is a recognized voice for the profession in France. With an active programme fostering the sharing of experiences, of expertise and of evolving topics, a successful education training programme in partnership with a renowned French University (Paris-Dauphine) and its contribution to the annual publication of the “Financial Communications: Framework and Practices” together with the OCF, the Cliff helps promote the status of Investor Relations professionals.
For more information, please visit www.cliff.asso.fr
About DIRF
The Danish Investor Relations Society (DIRF) was established by investor relations officers, financial and communications executives in a few Danish companies in 1988. The objective was and still is to promote communication between listed companies and their investors thereby increasing investor interest in Danish shares and company bonds.
DIRF represents some 270 members from approximately 100 companies. Members are primarily listed companies, and the member base represents about 95 per cent of the Danish market cap. However, also not-listed companies, organisations, service providers and consultants working with financial communications are represented, cf. DIRF members list.
DIRF activities
The DIRF network seeks to meet its objectives by arranging members’ meetings and conferences dealing with current IR-topics, sessions with academics researching in IR-related areas, trends and new ways of performing the IR-profession, new media developments, new evaluation methods, and once a year the Copenhagen Stock Exchange hosts a network meeting etc. Members’ meetings normally take place 5-6 times a year.
For more information, please visit www.dirf.dk.
For more information, please visit our website.
IR Club is a well-established investor relations community that allows IR professionals to network with peers from all over the world.
IR Club was formed in 2011, to address the need for an online investor relations community. Since then, it has become an overwhelming success and has around 1,400 members!
The main objectives of IR Club include the promotion of networking, communication, exchange and transfer of knowledge among investor relations professionals – we are particularly interested in the use of social media in investor relations.
IR Club is open to anyone interested in investor relations such as scientists, students and those wishing to make a career change. For the opportunity to mingle with practising IROs at all levels, as well consultants and service providers. Colleagues from the areas of private equity, open-end and closed-end funds, unlisted companies and of course all those who deal with the communication with lenders (creditor relations / fixed income) are welcome, too – we are all one ecosystem.
It takes no time to register as a member and it’s free of charge!
IR Club
Patrick Kiss
Email: [email protected]
Tel.: +49 177 232 0001
The IR club Schweiz was founded 1992 to promote the interests of the IR profession among Switzerland’s publicly-quoted companies. It is an interactive forum for the exchange of ideas, the discussion of current IR issues and the development of practical solutions.
For more information, please visit www.irclub.ch.
Why partner with us?
The IR Forum – Europe brings together some of the most influential people in the IR community from across Europe.
The event offers an effective approach to targeting clients when they are exploring how they can improve their IR practice. Through our unrivalled knowledge of the subject matters and commitment to in-depth agenda research, our events are guaranteed to attract a qualified audience.
The unique buzz we create at our hybrid events – a far cry from a traditional conference – makes them multi-faceted and highly interactive with great engagement in particular from heads of IR and IR teams. This allows our partners to have meaningful conversations with corporates who are deciding which parts of their IR program to invest in, which service providers to engage and which consultants to retain. By partnering with us on an event, you can generate leads, showcase your thought leadership and position yourselves as the partner of choice to the IR community.
We’d love to have a chat with you about how you can get in front of a truly engaged and motivated audience. Get in touch with Ross Ingram or call on +44 78265 38072.
Our attendees are leading IR practitioners with an established track record and strategic role within their company.
Below is a sample of some of our past attendees:
| Job title | Company | Job title | Company | |
| CG officer | IFC | Head of sustainability | Northam Platinum | |
| Chief sustainability officer | Global Fashion Group | Head of sustainability | Society Generale | |
| Corporate and investor relations assistant | Melexis Technologies | Investor relations | Société Générale | |
| Corporate communications & IR | S IMMO | Investor relations | UniCredit | |
| Corporate finance chief expert | ALROSA | IR & corporate communications manager | Conzzeta | |
| Corporate sustainability manager | Sonova | Investor relations manager | Ford Otosan | |
| Director of capital markets & strategic initiatives | EN+ Group | Investor relations manager | Stora Enso | |
| Director of corporate branding & responsibility | Sonova Group | Investor relations manager | Uniper | |
| Director of financial control & corporate reporting | Polymetal | Investor relations officer | Lenta | |
| ESG analyst | Carmignac | IR client manager | RD:IR | |
| ESG analyst | Franklin Templeton | IR manager | CCHBC | |
| Fixed income IR & SRI | Iberdrola | IRO | Mediaset | |
| Group communications director | Oxford Instruments | IRO | Sonae | |
| Group investor relations and ESG | Mediobanca | M.D. APAC & MEA | Stolt Nielson Singapore | |
| Group sustainability manager, IR | FirstRand | Organization & strategic planning director | B2Holding | |
| Head IR & sustainability | Cembra | Partner | Gibson Dunn & Crutcher | |
| Head of ESG | AO World | PR & IR manager | IP Group | |
| Head of ESG | Severstal | Research assistant | Gather London | |
| Head of investor relations | Cellnex Telecom | Research manager | SEGRO | |
| Head of investor relations | National Grid | Responsible business manager | Henry Boot | |
| Head of investor relations | Plus500UK | Responsible investing manager | Chelverton AM | |
| Head of investor relations | Rolls-Royce | Senior account manager | FleishmanHillard Fishburn | |
| Head of investor relations | Seplat Petroleum | Senior director IR | ASM International | |
| Head of investor relations | The Go-Ahead Group | Senior group corporate communications manager | GoCo Group | |
| Head of investor relations | WENDEL | Senior sustainability manager | ASOS | |
| Head of investor relations and company secretary | Good Energy Group | Sustainability coordinator | RA International | |
| Head of IR & sustainable capital markets | EIB | Sustainability manager | Virgin Atlantic | |
| Head of investor relations | Aker Solutions ASA | Sustainable development director | X5 Retail Group | |
| Head of investor relations | UBI Banca | VP, associate general counsel | Vontier | |
| Head of IR & CSR | Sanoma | VP, IR and associate general counsel | Adobe | |
| Head of IR & ESG | MASMOVIL | VP, investor relations | Esprit | |
| Head of IR, EMEA & Asia | Burford Capital | VP, IR & communications | Veoneer | |
| Head of regulatory affairs & sustainability office | SEB | VP, IR & communications | Veoneer |
Paris Marriott Champs Elysees Hotel
70 Av. des Champs-Élysées
75008 Paris
France
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