SZ Sustainability Forum 2022 | Süddeutscher Verlag Veranstaltungen GmbH | 6 February 2022 | SZ high-rise building, Hultschiner Str. 8 81677 Munich, Germany

Sustainable finance has long been on the way to becoming a megatrend. Investors are increasingly relying on sustainable and green capital market products and are integrating ESG and sustainability into their investment and corporate strategies. The new EU taxonomy also provides an important set of rules on the way to a uniform ESG standard. The awareness of investors has been further heightened by the Corona crisis, so that companies will have to completely rethink in the future in order to remain attractive to investors on the capital market.

What opportunities impact investing and ESG offer and how they can best be integrated into one's own investment strategy is on the agenda at this Forum. Discuss with investors from insurance companies, pension schemes, pension funds and top-class representatives from industry, politics and science. The evening before we start with an exciting dinner discussion on the topic "How do we proceed with the integration of sustainability and ESG in economic and financial processes?". Further details can be found in the program booklet.

Unfortunately, due to the current Corona situation, this Forum can only take place as a digital event this year and will be streamed live via our conference platform. There you can exchange ideas and join the discussion with other participants and speakers. We look forward to exchanging ideas with you in this way and hope to offer all interested parties a platform for discussion about how the industry can contribute to a more sustainable and social economy, even under pandemic conditions.

Main Topics:
• From a sideshow to a corporate goal – how will the integration of sustainability and ESG in economic and financial processes continue?
• How can politics and business work together to shape the future in a more sustainable and social way?
• Strategies of the federal government - current status and outlook
• Sustainability as a corporate goal - governance and reporting as a current challenge and opportunity
• EU taxonomy - on the way to a uniform ESG standard?
• One year after the introduction of the Disclosure Regulation - experiences and perspectives for the future
• From ESG to Impact Investing - Integrating sustainability criteria into the investment process
• Transparency and comparability of ESG reports
• Experience with total impact portfolios across all asset classes
• Sustainability strategies in the investment process of large investors: What is currently keeping institutional investors from doing real impact investing? Return expectations and goals for the future
• Double dividend? What sustainable investments can do
• Innovative technologies as drivers of sustainability - strategies for more investable products - how can cooperation between science and finance pave the way here?
• Real estate as a driver for more sustainability - experiences of investors and project developers
• High Impact Investing - How can young entrepreneurs and start-ups make our education and health systems more sustainable?

2022 Speakers

Jorg Asmussen
Chief Executive, Member of the Executive Committee, General Association of the Insurance Industry GdV

Professor Dr. Alexander Bassen
Professor of Business Administration · University Hamburg and member in the Council for Sustainable development

Dr. Karin Bassler
Manager, Working group of ecclesiastical Investors (AKI) of possibly Church of Germany

Nicole Becker
Head of the staff office for board matters and sustainability Bavarian supply chamber

Dr. Hauke Brede
CEO · up2invest

Susanne Eickermann-Riepe
CEO, RICS Germany and CEO, ICG Institute

Markus Ferber
Economic policy, Spokesman of the Christian Democrat EPP Group, European Parliament

Joachim Fröhlich
Member of the Board, Evangelical Bank eG

Dr. Klaus Gabriel
Member of the Board, CRIC e.V.

Mirjam Garzon
Senior Advisor Europe, Global Impact Investing, Network GIIN

Dr. Reiner Götzen
Managing Director, Interboden GmbH & Co. KG

Dr. h.c. Helmut Hildebrandt
CEO, OptiMedis AG

Manuel Holzhauer
Industry Executive – Insurance, Microsoft Deutschland

Jens Kreiterling
Board, Landmarken AG

Matthias Kopp
Head of Sustainable Finance, WWF

Dr. Magdalena Kuper
Head of Sustainability, BVI

Arndt Kwiatkowski
Founder and CEO, Bettermarks

Dr. Catherine Marchewitz
Department of Climate Policy, German Institute for economic research

Dr. Michael Menhart
Chefvolkswirt · Head of the Central Division„Economics Sustainability & Public Affairs“ · Munich Re

Wiebke Merbeth
Head of Sustainability, BayernInvest

Dustin Neuneyer
Head of Germany & Austria, PRI

Anja Nieberding
Country Head Germany, NN Investment Partners

Janina Lin Otto
Businesswoman, Keynote Speaker and Philanthropist, Holistic Foundation

Marion Paroli
Head of ESG, Coros

Claudia Reim
Director, Generation Investment Management LLP

Dr. Andreas Rickert
Board, Phineo and Co-CEO, Nixdorf Kapital AG

Dr. Udo Riese
Head of Risk & Monitoring, Allianz Investment Management SE

Harald Rosenberger
Member of the Board, Nuremberg life insurance company

Timm Sassen
Managing Director · Greyfield
group

Antje Schneeweiß
Managing Director, AKI

Prof. Dr. Helmut Schonenberger
Honorary professor, Entrepreneurship Practice, Technical University Munich TUM

Edda Schroeder
Founder and CEO, Invest in Visions

Kristin Seal
Independent Investment Advisor, Head of EMEA, Toniic – the global action community for impact investing

Dr Christopher Strelczyk
Lawyer and Local, Partners GSK Stockman

Hans Jürgen Walter
Global sustainability Leader, Deloitte

Lisa Waterman
Attorney and Counsel, GSK Stockman

Volker Weber
Board, Forum for Sustainable Investments (FNG) and Chief Sustainability Officer, NIXDORF Capital Ltd

Prof. Dr. Marco Wilkens
Chair of Finance and Banking Institute for business administration, University of Augsburg

Christian Wolf
Head of Investment Controlling, BVV insurance association of the banking industry a.G.

2022 Sponsors

• Coros
• Deloitte
• GSK Stockman
• Microsoft
• NN Investment Partners