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LPEA Insights Conference | 28.10.2021 | Luxembourg | Parc Hotel Alvisse & Live Streaming
Technology Disrupting Private Equity
Decentralised Finance (DeFi) and Blockchain
The Rising Exposure of LPs to Venture Capital
Impact Through VC: Making Money Responsibly
The LPEA Insights conference is tailored to bring together PE/VC investors and practitioners, with only GPs-LPs as speakers. The audience stems from Luxembourg and abroad. Find the coverage of the event on this page.
Attendees of the LPEA Insights conference can re-watch the conference sessions in the following link. A password is required. If you don’t have the password request it from events@lpea.lu.
PHOTO COVERAGE
ATTENDING LPs & GPs
2be.lu, 3i, Ananda Impact Ventures, Atypical Partner Group, Blackrock, BC Partners, BI-Invest Endowment Management, Bootstrap Labs, Bpifrance, Coller Capital, Columbia Threadneedle, De Raekt, EIB, EIF, EQT Fund Management, European Investment Fund, Expon Capital, FUCHS Asset Management, Genii Capital SA, ICG Europe Sarl, Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital, Karista, LBAN, Lio Capital, Lombard International Assurance, LRLUX SA, Luxempart, M Consulting Sarl, Mangrove Capital Partners, MiddleGame Ventures, MYN Capital Partners Ltd., NMI Partners, Nordea Investment Funds S.A., Norvestor Investment Management S.à r.l., Oakley Capital, Partners Group, Privalux management, Pure Capital, Quadriga Capital Eigenkapitalberatung GmbH, R+V aifm, Raiven Capital, Smart Beehive, SOLMONDO, Stealthy New Venture, Sustainability Investors, Teseo Capital SICAV SIF, Trois I, WEALINS SA, Wendel Luxembourg, WeInvest Capital Partners
Are PE firms as technology driven as their portfolio companies?
What major tech mutation you foresee in the sector?
AGENDA
8.30 Registration & Breakfast
9.30 WELCOME
Claus Mansfeldt, Chairman of LPEA
Stephane Pesch, CEO of LPEA
9.40 TECHNOLOGY DISRUPTING PRIVATE EQUITY
Solenne Niedercorn-Desouches, Fabric Ventures, Senior Advisor, NED
Private Equity & Artificial Intelligence
From deal source to monitoring tool. How far can AI go into the investment teams’ work? Case Study on EQT’s Motherbrain AI tool.
Antoine Servais, GP Director, EQT Fund Management
A Systematic edge in Private Equity
BlackRock’s view on how big data and data science techniques can provide breadth, speed & certainty in growth equity.
David Wright, Systematic Active Equity Team, BlackRock
» Check David Wright’s view on “Big Data“
eFront Advanced Research
How data is transforming the industry and ripping more value from excel sheets.
Pierre Marie Nowaczyk, Strategic Relationship Manager, Blackrock
Showcase of PE Tech Tools
Accelex, Greenomy, Domos FS, Rundit
11.00 Coffee Break
11.30 KEYNOTE Private Equity for Retail Investors
‘Retailisation’ of PE is on the way with Bpifrance Entreprise 1 (BE1) fund reserved for individuals.
Gorka Gonzalez, Responsible for Retail Activity, Bpifrance
» Check Gorka Gonzalez’s recent interview on “Le capital investissement à la conquête des Français“
11.45 DECENTRALIZED FINANCE (DeFi) AND BLOCKCHAIN
Blockchain, Crypto, DeFi, and the Future of Finance
Junhaeng Lee, CEO & Co-Founder, Gopax
European blockchain strategy and CBDC initiative of ECB
Jean Diederich, President of APSI and vice-chair of the Digital Finance work group at Digital Europe
The genesis of new asset classes and tokenisation
Maya Zehavi, Stealthy New Venture (Israel)
Pascal Bouvier, Middle Game Ventures
» Check Pascal Bouvier’s “Carried Weekly” interview
Mikhail Epishkin, Chief Strategy Officer, VNX
Alexander Tkachenko, Managing Partner, 2BE.LU
How Defi and Blockchain will reshape the future and PE-VC
The future of PE and VC and how LPs and GPs will be impacted by the metaverse, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DeFi and open standards.
Michael Jackson, Venture Capitalist
12.45 Lunch
13.30 – 17:15 LPEA STARTUP FUNDING TRACK
Parallel Workshop for Selected Startups.
14.00 THE RISING EXPOSURE OF LPs TO VENTURE CAPITAL
LPs growing exposure to the asset class and why much of it is going to venture capital investments.
Rajaa Mekouar, Founder and CEO of Calista Direct Investors
» Check Rajaa Mekouar’s recent “Carried Weekly” interview
John Holloway, Venture Capital advisor
Daniele Cardoso, Founder of Trois I
Olaf Kordes, Managing Partner, Luxempart
» Check Olaf Kordes’ recent “Carried Weekly”
15.00 Showcase of PE Tech Tools
73 String, Asset Metrix, QUANTYX, Cascade Lab
15.15 KEYNOTE
Pierre Gramegna, Minister of Finance
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 KEYNOTE
Spire, a journey of global impact
Theresa Condor, Executive Vice-President, Spire Global
16.15 IMPACT THROUGH VC – MAKING MONEY RESPONSIBLY
Impact VC investments without compromising returns. Is it within every VC reach?
Jasjit Singh, Professor, INSEAD (Singapore)
Jerome Wittamer, Founding Partner, Expon Capital
Zoe Peden, Principal, Ananda Impact Ventures
Uli Grabenwarter, Deputy Director, Equity Investments & Guarantees, EIF
Ilana Devillers, Founder, Food4All
17.15 How the $30 trillion AI opportunity will change not what we invest in, but how we make those investments
The view from a Silicon Valley VC on Applied Artificial Intelligence
Nicolai Wadstrom, CEO, Founder, General Partner, BootstrapLabs
17.40 Closing Cocktail
SPEAKERS
Claus Mansfeldt
SwanCap Investment Management
Chairman & Managing Director
Rajaa Mekouar
Calista Direct Investors
Founder & CEO
Antoine Servais
EQT Fund Management
Portfolio Manager
Nicolai Wadstrom
BootstrapLabs
CEO, Founder, General Partner
Pascal Bouvier
MiddleGame Ventures
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
Jerome Wittamer
Expon Capital
Managing Partner
Jasjit Singh
INSEAD (Singapore)
The Paul Dubrule Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development
Gorka Gonzalez
Bpifrance
Retail Activity
Maya Zehavi
Stealthy new venture
Founder & CEO
Mikhail Epishkin
VNX
Chief Strategy Officer
Daniele Cardoso
Trois I
President
Theresa Condor
EVP and Board of Directors
Spire Global
John Holloway
Independent Director
Former PE Investments Director at the EIF
Pierre Marie Nowaczyk
Blackrock/ eFront
Strategic Relationship Manager
Solenne Niedercorn-Desouches
Fabric Ventures, Senior Advisor, NED
Stephane Pesch
LPEA
CEO
Alexander Tkachenko
2BE.LU
Managing Partner
Ilana Devillers
F4A
Founder & CEO
Michael Jackson
Volvo Cars
Non-Executive Director
Junhaeng Lee
Streami/ GOPAX
Founder
Olaf Kordes
Luxempart
Managing Director
Jean Diederich
APSI
Chairman
Zoe Peden
Ananda Impact Ventures
Principal
Uli Grabenwarter
EIF
Deputy Director
David Wright
BlackRock
Head of Product Strategy, EMEA, Scientific Active Equity
Pierre Gramegna
Minister of Finance
Luxembourg
VENUE
The LPEA Insights will take place in the premises of Parc Hotel Alvisse in the outskirts of Luxembourg City. The hotel can be quickly accessed from the City Centre by cab, car, bus or bike as well as from the Luxembourg airport which is located less than 15 minutes away. Free parking is available onsite.
Parc Hotel Alvisse, Route d’Echternach; L-1453 Luxembourg
STARTUP FUNDING TRACK
The LPEA Insights is open for startups! The LPEA will be running a parallel workshop to bring together VCs and startups to support the latest in their funding path. If you are a startup and have already received at least a first round of private funding, apply here before October 20th.
