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Agenda
| 8:20 AM | Registration, networking & morning coffee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8:50 AM | Introduction Maurice Button, Chief Executive, City & Financial Global | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8:55 AM | Chair’s opening remarks Rongrong Huo, Managing Director, Head of International Business, Ninety One | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:00 AM | The criticality of sound data in the FCA’s Climate and ESG strategy for the financial services industry Mark Manning, Strategic Policy Advisor on Sustainable Finance, FCA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:20 AM | ESG Data Journey: barriers and solutions Amir Sokolowski, Global Director, Climate Change, CDP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:40 AM | Impact of ESG data challenges on the EU’s SFDR, CSRD and other regulations Alain Deckers, Head of Unit, Asset Management, DG FISMA, European Commission | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:00 AM | Towards international cooperation on harmonising ESG data requirements and taxonomies Moderator Rongrong Huo, Managing Director, Head of International Business, Ninety One Panellists Mark Manning, Strategic Policy Advisor on Sustainable Finance, FCA Alain Deckers, Head of unit, Asset management, DG FISMA, European Commission Rongrong Huo, Executive Director Investment Institute, Ninety One Martina Macpherson, Head of ESG Product Strategy and Management, SIX; Board Member and Co-Chair, Policy & Regulations Working Group, FoSDA Gavin Starks, Founder and CEO, Icebreaker One | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:50 AM | Networking & morning coffee break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:10 AM | Keynote address Michael Collins, Chair, ESG Committee, IRSG and Director of Government Affairs, M&G plc | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:30 AM | A Voluntary Code of Conduct for ESG data and rating providers Moderator Kanchan Mishra, Founder and Executive Director, SustainoMetric Panellists Stéphane Janin, Head of Global Regulatory Developments and Public Affairs, AXA IM Andreas Giannopoulos, Director, Sustainability & ESG, Barclays Christopher Rich, General Counsel, Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12:35 PM | Networking & lunch break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1:45 PM | Progress towards standardisation of data, methodologies and metrics among rating agencies and data providers Moderator Chris Hall, Editorial Director, ESG Investor Panellists Dr Rory Sullivan, CEO, Chronos Sustainability Julien Grolee, Investor Practices Programme Manager, IIGCC Flávia Bedicks, Manager - ESG Data Policy & Regulation, CDP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2:30 PM | Implementing an ESG data management system to meet different use case requirements, including compliance (regulatory reporting), risk management, product development and transition planning Moderator John Martin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Plutus Consulting Group Limited Panellists Ankit Jain, Managing Director - Senior ESG, Data and Technology Advisor Elena Mariott, Managing Director ESG, Cerberus Operations and Advisory Company | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3:10 PM | Networking & afternoon tea break | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3:30 PM | Beyond ‘climate’ in the ‘E’ of ESG: data for nature-impacts and biodiversity Julia Armstrong D’Agnese, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Earth Knowledge Dr. Frank D’Agnese, President/Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder, Earth Knowledge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3:50 PM | Finding accurate data for the ‘S’ and ‘G’ of ESG, including on diversity, culture, purpose and governance Diana van Maasdijk, Co-Founder and CEO, Equileap | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4:10 PM | Top ESG data challenges: asset managers and companies discuss the issues that they currently find most challenging Moderator Lutfey Siddiqi, Visiting Professor-in-Practice, London School of Economics Panellists Stephanie Maier, Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment, GAM Investments Heather Buchanan, Co-Founder and Chief Executive, Bankers for Net Zero Kristina Church, Global Head of Sustainable Solutions, BNY Mellon (BNYM), ACA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4:55 PM | Chair’s closing remarks Rongrong Huo, Managing Director, Head of International Business, Ninety One | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5:00 PM | Close of proceedings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
