Climate and ESG Data Summit 2023 | City and Financial Global | 11 June 2023 | America Square Conference Centre, 17, One Crosswall, America Square, London EC3N 2LB, UK

This summit will gather some of the most senior leaders and experts of this field to share their knowledge, experience and expertise on best practice approaches to addressing the ESG data challenges.

Key themes to be discussed:
• The criticality of sound data in the FCA’s Climate and ESG strategy for the financial services industry
• Case study in global cooperation: the development of the Net-Zero Data Public Utility
• ESG developments in the U.S.
• Impact of ESG data challenges on the EU’s SFDR, CSRD and other regulations
• Towards international cooperation on harmonising ESG data requirements and taxonomies
• A Voluntary Code of Conduct for ESG data and rating providers
• ESG data quality and consistency: meeting the requirements of the ISSB standards
• The role of auditors in providing assurance services
• Progress towards standardisation of data, methodologies and metrics among rating agencies and data providers
• Implementing an ESG data management system to meet different use case requirements, including compliance (regulatory reporting), risk management, product development and transition planning
• Finding accurate data for the ‘S’ and ‘G’ of ESG, including on diversity, culture, purpose and governance
• Top ESG data challenges: asset managers and companies discuss the issues that they currently find most challenging

Who should attend:
• Senior Management & Heads of ESG, Climate Change, Sustainability, Risk, Compliance, Responsible Investment & Corporate Responsibility at asset managers and asset owners.
• Senior Management & Heads of Sustainability, Heads of ESG, Risk, Corporate Reporting, Corporate Responsibility & Strategy at listed and large private companies.
• ESG Data Providers, Data Aggregators and Rating Agencies.
• The Advisory Community: ESG, sustainability and climate change consultants and lawyers.

2023 Speakers

Julia Armstrong D’Agnese
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder, Earth Knowledge

Pietro Bertazzi
Global Director, Policy Engagement & Public External Affairs, CDP

Frank D’Agnese
President, Chief Technical Officer, Co-Founder, Earth Knowledge

Alain Deckers
Head of Unit, Asset Management, DG FISMA, European Commission

Andreas Giannopoulos
ESG Strategy, Ratings, Reporting & Disclosures, Barclays

Rongrong Huo
Executive Director Investment Institute, Ninety One

Harriet Howey
Global Head of ESG Insights, Diageo

Stéphane Janin
Head of Global Regulatory Developments and Public Affairs, AXA IM

Stephanie Maier
Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment, GAM Investments

Elena Mariotti
Managing Director, ESG, Cerberus Operations and Advisory Company

Sherry Madera CFA
Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Government Affairs, Mastercard, Chair, Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA)

Mark Manning
Technical Specialist, Sustainable Finance and Stewardship, FCA

Mardi McBrien
Director, Strategic Affairs, IFRS Foundation

Dr Rory Sullivan
CEO, Chronos Sustainability

Kay Swinburne
Chair, International Regulatory Strategy Group (IRSG), Vice Chair of Financial Services, KPMG UK

Kanchan Mishra
Founder, Executive Director, SustainoMetric

Heather Buchanan
Co-Founder, Bankers for Net Zero

2023 Sponsors and Partners

• Earth Knowledge
• SustainoMetric

PARTNERS:
• IRSG
• City of London
• TheCityUK