InvestOps Europe Connect 2024

Engage in Preselected 1-1 Meetings

With COOs and Heads of Investment Operations

A senior-level benchmarking forum of pre-qualified COOs, Heads of Investment Operations and hand-picked service providers

At InvestOps Connect, you’re in control. Your schedule is completely customised to your needs, so you can get your strategic benchmarking and vendor evaluation needs covered in just two days..

As attendance is restricted to senior-level budget holders from the top buy side firms and a select group of best-of-breed vendors you will:

Brainstorm real and practical ideas to transform your business through private sessions led by market leaders
Evaluate the leading service offerings during 1-1 meetings with only the vendors that you select based on your current investment priorities.
It’s a Platinum Members’ Club offering a bespoke experience for those shaping the future of Investment Operations. It’s where you make the connections you need to make, when you want to make them.

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"The breadth of topics covered, and the quality of information exchanged on how to solve specific challenges for transforming middle and back-office operations was fantastic"
April Wilcox, Director of Investment Services, CalSTRS

Be Inspired. Learn From…

Martha Fee

COO EMEA
Northern Trust Asset Management

Mike Tumilty

COO
Aegon Asset Management

Malcolm Palmer

COO, Fidelity
International

Danielle Johnston

COO, Europe
Principal Global Investors

Siobhan Clarke

Chief Investments Operations Officer
Royal London Asset Management

Olivier Elalouf

Chief Operating Officer, Private Assets
Lombard Odier Investment Management

Martin Kwiatkowski

Global Operations Director
Abrdn

Amanda Brady

Head of EMEA Investment Operations
Vanguard

Sam O'Neill

Head of EMEA Investment Operations
JP Morgan Asset Management

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The Connect Difference

Transformative Content

We only cover strategic content and hand-pick senior-level speakers and attendees. And because we pre-qualify based on decision-making responsibility and budget, you get invaluable peer-to-peer information and take-aways.

Personalised Connections

Because you tell us your priorities, we create closed-door tailored interactive sessions and connect you with the right solutions partners in 1-1 meetings, saving you time on competitor benchmarking and vendor evaluation.

A Luxury Experience

We only select luxury venues in a captive location, a perfect environment for quality learning and networking with no distractions. Plus, we pick up the tab for your pass and hotel stay, including various drinks and dinner experiences!

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Highest Priority Content. Created for Decision-Makers.

You’ll learn about:

Upgrading analytics and automation capabilities to build a best-in-class global operating model
Enhancing data management capabilities to boost operational performance and cut costs
Building a strategic roadmap to successfully make the transition to T+1 settlement cycles
Expanding operational capabilities to meet the growing demand for alternative asset class investments

How It Works

A Bespoke, Senior-Level Experience

If you qualify to attend, we’ll ask you about your strategic priorities and we’ll build your personalised agenda and meeting schedule. You’ll have your hotel stay, including drinks and dinner experiences, covered by us too!

Connect with Hand-picked Solutions Providers 1-1

Based on your profile we’ll match you with leading solution providers, assisting with the vendor selection process. You are in full control as you will only meet with the providers you are interested in evaluating.

Speak Freely in Interactive Formats

Sessions are not recorded or covered by press. The ‘closed-door’, interactive discussions encourage openness, so you get more detailed information and takeaways than at any other event.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Our Attendees

Connecting You To More Leaders From The Top Asset Managers Than Anyone Else

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"Tackles some of the biggest challenges and hottest opportunities in our market today. It’s a crucial event for any buy side operations leader to ensure they have the right contacts, knowledge and tools to succeed"
Chrisitan Mahrbeck, Head of Back Office and Derivatives Operations, Nordea Asset Management

Interact

Get ideas from all the great minds in the audience through a variety of small working group discussions. With all the major Buy Side leaders in the same place at the same time- can you afford not to be there?

Network with the leaders of the Investment Operations community

We’ve created a haven for leading minds in the Investment Operations community to reconnect in-person again. With 70 COOs and Heads of Operations attending, from Europe’s leading Buy Side firms, and 4 hours of pure networking scheduled, InvestOps Connect is the unrivalled opportunity make connections that will help you address your challenges and capitalize on the latest opportunities.

Interactive Panel Discussions

Take part in interactive discussions with peers and get great ideas for solving your biggest challenges.
Our panelists share their thoughts and experiences then invite you and the wider group to benchmark and find common ground and ways in which operational challenges can be resolved.

Drill Down Roundtable

An exceptional way to genuinely get to grips with your key challenges. Your chance to probe an industry expert along with your peers to source practical solutions collaboratively.

Creative Boardroom

Draw up a new, 3-step action plan to take back to the office and test. Work together with your peers to tap into their knowledge and challenge each other to find a new way forward!

Synergy Workshop

Turn theory into practice and bring an idea to life. Collaborate with your industry peers on a new forward-looking project to create a step-by-step action plan to launch it.

Head of Investment Operations think tank

Connect with COOs and Heads of Invest Ops from leading firms to understand how other industry leaders are prioritising transformational objectives.

Connect. Benchmark. Evaluate. Faster.