Future of Pensions Summit 2023 | Reward & Employee Benefits Association (REBA) | 20 September 2023 | Royal Society of Arts, London, 8 John Adam St, London WC2N 6EZ, UK

At REBA we aim to ensure that Reward and Benefits practitioners are aware of what is coming down the line that will impact their wider strategies. So, we’re here to tell you that, after several years of silence, the area of pensions is about to face big changes that will impact Reward and Benefits.
The changes will largely be driven by the Mansion House Reforms announced in 2023. Still in consultation, but strongly backed from across the political divide, these are likely to become legislation in the coming two to three years.
However, wider changes are also impacting how employers are rethinking pensions offerings, strategies, advisers and suppliers. Especially when there is no longer a Pensions Manager or Trustee Board in place, so it is falling to the Benefits or Reward Director. New retirement journeys and decisions, workforce skills mapping, the ageing workforce and cost pressures on all generations are shifting ideas around pensions and related financial benefits.
By attending the summit, you’ll quickly get up to speed on the expected changes plus hear how other Reward and Benefits Directors plan to react and adapt to this drive to secure better outcomes for employees.
At this invitation-only event you will:
• Get the latest word on the street on which of the Mansion House Reforms are likely to become legislation.
• Understand what the Value for Money Framework is likely to mean for your employees’ pension plan.
• Gauge whether changing legislation will speed up the rush to pensions consolidation, CDC and Mastertrusts.
• Be alerted how the State is going to lean more on employers in the face of changing population demographics – and what this will mean for your future-planning.
• Network on how the role of pensions within their wider HR, reward and benefits is adapting to support an ageing workforce and younger generations’ money needs.
• Learn how employers are responding to employee demands for both better investment returns and sustainability-linked options; as well as deal with lack of engagement in pensions.
• Explore how workforce transformation, HR pressures and employee expectations are all driving the future of defined contribution (DC) pensions and retirement.
The programme will feature:
• an opening keynote address
• high-level panel debates with senior reward and benefits professionals
• several spotlight sessions
• dedicated time for knowledge and insight exchange through hosted workshop groups.
The key aim is to provide a stimulating networking, learning and information-sharing opportunity for senior reward and benefits leaders with responsibility for pensions in their organisations.
Who will attend?
• Key stakeholders will be personally invited to come together to analyse and discuss the future of DC pensions and retirement solutions
• Reward and benefit directors with overall pension responsibility from a range of forward-thinking employers*
• Strategy and proposition development leaders from pension providers
• Key pension consultants and intermediaries
• Reward and benefit directors with overall pension responsibility from a range of forward-thinking employers
• Industry commentators

2023 Speakers

Debi O'Donovan
Co-founder & Director, REBA

Claire Barnes
Client Director, Vidett

Simon Biddlecombe
Business Development Manager, HUB Financial Solutions

Rita Butler-Jones
Head of DC, Legal & General

Stella Chaplin
Director, Pensions & Benefits, Total Reward UK & Europe, Atkins (member of the SNC-Lavalin group)

Adrian Cooper
Business Development Director, HUB Financial Solutions

Patrick Coyne
Policy Business Lead, The Pensions Regulator

Emma Douglas
Chair of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) and MD – Workplace, Aviva

Caroline Eastwood
Client Director, Vidett

Hannah English
Head of DC Corporate Consulting, Hymans Robertson

Kathryn Fleming
Partner, Hymans Robertson

Matthew Gregson
Executive Director, Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing

Emma Hadley
Head of Pensions, Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing

Alex Hadonou
Senior Consultant, AON

Rachel Haggarty
DC Consultant, Hymans Robertson

David Harvey
Master Trust Leader, Cushon

Chris Inman
CFA, CAIA and CFA UK Certificate in ESG Investing, AON

Emma Moore
Associate Partner, Aon

Ray O’Sullivan
Director, Benefits EMEA & LATAM, Adobe

Katherine Patel
Head of DC Responsible Investment, AON

Tony Pugh
Head of DC Solutions - EMEA, Aon

Alessandra Santiago
Head of Pensions & International Benefits, Inchcape

Sir Stephen Timms MP
Chair, Work and Pensions Committee

Steve Watson
Director of Policy & Research, Cushon

Sir Steve Webb
Partner and former Pensions Minister

2023 Sponsors

• Adobe
• Aegon
• Aon
• Atkins
• Astellas
• Avanade
• Aveva
• Barnett Waddingham
• Bnp Paribas
• Aviva
• Broadstone
• Buck
• C Charlotte Tilbury
• Breedon
• Carnival Uk
• Columbia Threadneedle
• Coupa
• Danone
• Cisco
• Cushon
• Ebc.
• Exact Sciences
• Fis
• Flutter
• Gowling Wlg
• Gsk
• Haleon
• Havas
• Hilton Worldwide
• Howden
• Hsbc
• Hub Financial Solutions
• Hymans # Robertson
• Improbable
• Inchcape
• Incora
• Informa
• Investech Folkard & Hayward
• Lcp
• Lseg
• Lumentum
• Mercer
• Mishcon De Reya
• Legal & General
• Mitsubishi Electric Changes for The Beer
• Molson Coors
• Money & Pensións Service
• Moody's
• Nest
• Nomad Foods
• Now: Pensions
• Cocado
• Quient Sciences
• Qqvc
• Rathbones Look Forward
• Redington
• Rentokil Initial
• Santander
• Siemens Sig
• Skanska
• Sky
• Slalom
• Smart
• the Francis
• Synthomer
• Tbc Bank
• the Lang Cat
• the Pensions Regulator
• Vidett
• Visa
• Vmware
• Tik Tok
• Vodafone
• Wealth at Work
• Wells Fargo
• Wickes
• Work and Pens C
• Home Experience Opportunity