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Programme
Please see below the programme for The Auditorium at Sustain.Social. Need to book a ticket? CLICK HERE
The Auditorium
9:40am - 10:25am
Thematic investing: why it’s good to look beyond regions and asset classes
Learn more about thematic investing and how it can be applied to sustainable and impact investing. The panel share information about how it can be used in portfolios, how it can support impact/thematic investing and the key risks/benefits for investors to consider.
Panel Session: Chaired by Jack Dominy, Research in Finance; with Nenna Hemeson, (Echiche); Alastair Clark (Portfolio Manager, M&G Wealth/&me), Claire Smith (Beyond Impact), Robert Gardner (Rebalance Earth) and Nnenna Hemeson (Echiché)
10:30am - 10:55am
How to use your money as a force for good
Robert Gardner, a financial activist whose mission, in his role at Rebalance Earth, is to drive the transition to a nature based economy by enabling the flow of private capital to protect and restore nature. Rob will explain how individual investors have a vital role to play in helping this transition to a better, more sustainable world.
Robert Gardner, Rebalance Earth
11:00am - 11:15am
Keynote Speech
Sustainability: The Next 10 Years
As Headline Sponsors of the Sustainable & Social Investing Conference 2023, CIO of &me, Shanti Kelemen, gives the KeyNote Speech.
Shanti Kelemen (CIO M&G Wealth / &me)
1:00pm - 1:50pm
The Lunchtime Summit Panel Session:
"The Global Economic Outlook for 2024: From emerging markets to the eurozone and UK - where do the opportunities lie for private investors and traders?"
The annual Lunchtime Summit at the London Investor Show take a global view, with the panel discussing different areas and considering where the most exciting opportunities lie. On a general note, the panel will give their thoughts on current global economic policies and how these will affect private investors and traders during 2024.
Chaired by Nadira Tudor, with Dan Jones (Deputy Editor, Investors' Chronicle); Wander Rutgers (COO, Lightyear); Yohay Elam (FXSTREET); Mark McFee (RiF)
2:40pm - 3:20pm
How to choose stocks for your own sustainable portfolio
What do you need to consider when you start to think about building your own sustainable portfolio? The panel, chaired by Nadira Tudor, will share their own stock screening processes and give you some insight into how you can be sure that a potential investment is suitable for your sustainable portfolio. Find out how the panel start to identify and then research potential investments.
Chaired by Nadira TudorPanel Sam Mahtani, Claire Smith (Beyond Impact), Rodney Hobson and Amy Clarke (TRIBE) (tbc)
Welcome to the Programme of Events for Sustain.Social. This programme shows you all panel sessions, workshops and seminars taking place across the day - including those at the other two events, London Investor Show and London Trader Show. Your entry ticket to any event, gives you access to all. Simply use the "Filter by Event" function below to see the sessions specific to each event.
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Please see below the programme for the OpenStage Theatre at Sustain.Social. Access to all seminars taking place in the OpenStage Theatre is included with your entry ticket to the event. Need to book a ticket? CLICK HERE
OpenStage Theatre
10:00am - 10:25am
The Black Hole of Economics
HNWI media calls for abolition of inheritance tax, describing it as the most hated tax in Britain, while Chancellor after Chancellor squanders the government’s levy on these carefully built-up savings for the future by spending it on mending the roads and paying interest on public debt. Meanwhile at various points over the past four hundred years great economists have wrung their hands to deplore the polarisation of wealth, but none of them have contemplated using the human life cycle as the tool for re-balancing. Join me at 10 am on Saturday 21st October to hear how we can resolve this black hole of economics.
Speaker: Gavin Oldham, Director, Share Alliance
11:00am - 11:20am
The Paradox that is 'Sustainability of Fashion'. How do you invest for impact?
There is an inherent contradiction between the fashion industry's traditional model of growth and consumerism and the principles of sustainability. Fashion, by its nature, encourages constant change, promoting trends and styles that drive frequent purchase. However, this rapid turnover of styles and the "throwaway culture" that often accompanies it are fundamentally at odds with the principles of sustainability, which emphasize long-term environmental, social, and economic stability.
Speaker: Nnenna Hemeson, Founder & Chief Editor of Echiché and Jo-Anne Godden (Rubymoon)
11:30am - 12:30pm
Meet the Sustainable Company
This is your opportunity to hear directly from the founders and CEO's of three, very exciting, growth companies in the sustainable sector. Multus, Grazer and Bigyard each have very different businesses - with a single unifying aim - to deliver positive impact as well as financial return to investors. You can read more about each of the companies HERE.
Panel Session: Chaired by Claire Smith, Beyond Impact; with speakers from 3 exciting sustainable growth companies
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12:35pm - 1:00pm
Impact Investment and realising commerciality
In this seminar, Justin will be speaking about: What Impact means to us. Why it’s so attractive as a commercial investment. The age of problem solving via tech and science, and how Impact is key. Delivering Impact, delivery commercial performance. Summary.
Speaker: Justin MacRae, Fund Manager, Fortunis Capital
1:05pm - 1:55pm
What is the UK regulator doing on ESG and how can it help investors?
The rules and financial governance surrounding ESG is evolving rapidly, to match investor interest. It is of vital importance that investors can rely on company information regarding their ESG credentials, and new disclosure rules have come into force recently. Many of these new rules are aimed speciifically at giving investors much more detailed information on company ESG metrics. The panel discuss these new rules, and how they should make it simpler for investors to side-step greenwashing.
Chaired by Chaired by Jack Dominy (Research in Finance) with Ben Constable-Maxwell (Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing at M&G Investments), Shai Hill (Integrum ESG) and Gavin Oldham (Share Radio/Share Foundation)
2:00pm - 2:25pm
Real impact: charitable giving to tackle climate change
Donating to high-impact climate charities is one of the most effective actions individuals can take to tackle climate change. Climate charities enforce environmental law, combat deforestation, defend ocean ecosystems and more. They deliver real, identifiable impact beyond the reach of even the best sustainable funds. Join the Global Returns Project to learn how we’re making it easy to give to best-in-class climate charities as a complement to sustainable investing.
Speaker: Jack Chellman, Global Returns Project
2:30pm - 2:55pm
Impact Investing and its role achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
The SDG funding gap continues to grow and time is running out as we approach the 2030 deadline. Here we discuss the role of impact investors in providing the capital needed to tackle the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges.
Speaker: Ben Constable-Maxwell (Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing at M&G Investments)
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Democratising Finance and Impact – The Sustainable and the Social
How can ordinary people investing in the future for themselves, their families, and their communities really know their investments are making a genuine difference to people and the planet as well as making a financial return?
Speaker: Nigel Kershaw OBE on behalf of The Big Exchange
Hosted by Claire Smith, Beyond Impact
OpenStage Theatre 11.30 am - 12.30 pm
This is your opportunity to hear directly from the founders and CEO's of three, very exciting, growth companies in the sustainable sector. Multus, Grazer and BIG YARD™ each have very different businesses - with a single unifying aim - to deliver positive impact as well as financial return to investors. You can read more about each of the companies below. The companies will be on Stand No S10, alongside Beyond Impact, where you can meet and speak to the founders and CEO's.
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Grazer
We’re Grazer, the dating and friend-finding app for vegans and vegetarians. Connecting the consciously likeminded through meatless matches.
Lewis Foster
CEO, Grazer
Lewis Foster is the founder and CEO of Grazer, the dating and networking app for vegans and vegetarians. As a long-term vegan and passionate environmentalist, Lewis has made it his mission to unite and accelerate the plant-based movement across the world. Lewis led Grazer’s efforts in raising £500,000 in pre-seed from both private investors and an equity crowdfunding campaign. Lewis is a graduate of University Arts London and København Designkole, he brings his experience as an award winning designer and film maker into shaping the vision of Grazer as a voice for the meat-free community.
BIG YARD™
Juicy, Meaty and Tree-Grown. BIG YARD™ is the original British foodservice pioneer of traditional meat formats made from the world’s lowest farming emission canopy-crop, Jackfruit. Healthy, less-processed, low GI and high in fibre, BIG YARD™ makes wholefoods-based versions of Chicken, Pork, Beef, Lamb and Seafood. Want that new, hot n’ juicy meat nostalgic experience? Plant it on your menu!
Jennifer Pardoe
Managing Director
Jennifer Pardoe founded BIG YARD™, British producers of award winning tree-grown meats. BIG YARD™ supply big name B2B sectors globally, with a meaty range of Pork, Beef, Chicken, Lamb and Seafood style products. From a foundation of health-friendly whole-foods and less processing, to crazy-low carbon emissions, BIG YARD™ brings that hot n’ juicy sizzle to customer menus, growing appetites everywhere. Plant it in your mouth!
Multus
Multus is reinventing growth media for cell culture in cultivated meat and life science. From growth factors to serum-free supplements, we partner with companies looking for media breakthroughs to help accelerate their progress and de-risk their supply chain. We use a groundbreaking combination of data science, high-throughput automation and ISO-certified manufacturing to develop ingredients and formulations that reduce costs, eliminate animal-sourced components and enable scale-up. Our Mission is to make cultivated meat the sustainable and affordable choice, for everyone.
Cai Linton
CEO, Multus
Cai Linton has an MEng in Molecular Bioengineering from Imperial College London and combines technical knowledge in tissue engineering & data science with management experience. His motivation to create a sustainable future using biotechnology led him to co- found Multus to shorten routes to market and lower entry barriers in the cultivated meat industry. Multus creates the key ingredients for the affordable scale-up of cellular agriculture. The company's growth media formulations and ingredients are the building blocks of cellular agriculture and enable the affordable at-scale production of real animal products, including meat, dairy, leather, and more, using cells instead of animals.
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