Now in its fourth year, the WPEN Summit has established itself as the pre-eminent event for women who undertake, or in future expect to undertake, leadership roles in the private investment industry as investors, deal-makers, expert service providers or business leaders. The Summit is first and foremost a business-focused event, designed to bring tangible business benefits to the participating individuals and organisations.

The format and content of the Summit are designed to enable all participants to:

• understand how their organisations can improve

  performance and profitability by nurturing and taking

  advantage of the enhanced talent available from a

  gender-balanced workforce; and

• make direct connections with valuable prospective

  clients and partners that lead to real deals getting done.

We have been fortunate that from the very beginning of the WPEN initiative we have had the support and participation of many of Europe’s most progressive organisations and most successful, high-profile women business leaders. As the word and goodwill has spread, we are now able to involve more organisations and more individuals. Whilst we will develop the initiative by rolling out new events in other regions, we will adhere to the proven format for each event in order to maintain the exclusivity, quality and value for all participants.

We have worked with an advisory board of valued women thought-leaders to develop the agenda, which features a series of engaging and inspiring presentations, discussions and debates, as well as invaluable networking opportunities. This year's agenda features a number of exciting new entries, including ‘An entrepreneur's tale - lessons on building a business & securing funding' followed by a special Q&A.

Following its success last year, we’ll also get ‘the view from the top' and hear from women Board Directors from some of the UK’s top listed companies. There’s plenty of focus on private equity developments with sessions addressing investor appetite, LP allocations, deal-flow and trends in venture capital and entrepreneurship. With the growing level of media attention of women in private investment and finance, we’re keen to find out what’s really changing.  Participant numbers will be limited to 250 and we anticipate that the Summit will be oversubscribed well in advance of the event date, as has happened for the previous three events.

WHY ATTEND?

The WPEN Summit is a must-attend event if you want to:

• Accelerate your career

• Raise your firm’s profile

• Extend your professional network

• Learn from successful women leaders

• Connect with prospective clients and get deals done

 Giovanna Maag

3i

Johanna Barr

Advent International plc

Kerry Baldwin

IQ Capital

Johanna Waterous

RSA Insurance Group

Deborah Zurkow

Allianz Global Investors

Vicky Williams

Cambridge Associates

Gemma Farrell

CVC Capital Partners

Hazel Moore

First Capital

Nevena Marsili

Quadrivio Capital SGR

Fiona Hathorn

Women on Boards UK

Reshma Sohoni

 SeedCamp

Rhonda Ryan

Pavilion

Ana Lei Ortiz

Hamilton Lane

Kerstin Cooley

MOOR

Marzena Bielecka

Experior Venture Fund

Kelsey Lynn Skinner

Touchstone Innovations

Katya Zotova

Vedanta Resources

Pooma Kimis

OMFIF

Milena Grayde

J.P. Morgan

Beatrice Dupont

Venn Partners

Viktoria Habanova

Mid Europa Partners

Eleanor Blagbrough

ECI Partners