Agenda: IR Magazine Think Tank – Euro Leaders 2016

The agenda for the IR Magazine Think Tank – Euro Leaders 2016 has been released. The event, for senior-level IR professionals based in Europe, will take place on June 22, 2016 in London.

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Agenda: IR Magazine Think Tank – Euro Leaders 2016

8.55 am Welcome from Neil Stewart, editorial director of IR Magazine, and Bloomberg

9.00 am Briefing on MIFID II, the changing role of corporate access

• Implications for IR, corporates and services received by corporates from brokers and suppliers
• Ability of smaller brokerages to continue to offer sell-side research
• How to deal with the sell side in terms of research coverage and meetings
• How does it change the focus, strategy and research of an analyst firm?

9.15 am What’s your overhang? Macroeconomic challenges and opportunities in 2016

• What to expect in the next 12 months? Explore geopolitics, Brexit, weakening currencies, oil prices, emerging markets, interest rates, foreign exchange rates, security issues, and more
• How are these changes likely to affect investment decisions? Key drivers that cause investors to adjust portfolios or spur analysts to adjust earnings forecasts
• Which part of the world are investors putting money into? What are the risks they see?
• What do lower oil prices and emerging market turbulence mean for the large sovereign wealth funds? Will they have to retrench?
• How to effectively communicate the factors driving your stock. How it can de-risk a portfolio and reduce exposure to certain macroeconomic factors
• Communicating during uncertain times: what is expected? What do investors want to see in these special communications?

Panel + breakouts

10.30 am Morning coffee and refreshments

10.50 am Best practice case study from an IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2015 winner

11.00 am Running lean: High-impact targeting on limited resources

• Operating on leaner and leaner budgets: Being efficient and prioritizing a team's time
• Building a robust targeting methodology: exploring roadshows, various media channels, conference calls, videoconferencing, and so on 
• Differentiating your communications to engage better with different types of investors 
• What kind of events (one-on-ones, dinners, and so on) do investors prefer?
• Attracting and securing foreign investment: are there opportunities? What resources and strategies should be used to launch an IR effort in Asia, the US, or the Middle East?
• Measuring IR effectiveness: providing value to shareholders with the bigger picture in mind
• Using brokers to successfully target appropriate investors

Panel + industry breakouts

12.15 pm Lunch

1.15 pm Best practice case study from an IR Magazine Awards – Europe 2015 winner

1.30 pm Digitization of IR: Keeping up with the latest technology

• The increasing digitization of IR and communications and how to stay ahead
• Using technology to communicate effectively and choosing the tools that are right for you
• How is videoconferencing being used to access new, smaller or more remote investors?
• How are video presentations being used? How effective have other IROs found it? 
• How to ensure investors don’t see a blank screen and stream valuable information 24/7
• Using websites, digital media, webcasts, CRM systems and new forms of communication to provide quick two-minute snapshots to investors 
• What technologies ease the pressure on time? Can this replace the need for face-to-face?

2.00 pm Speed discussion topics
The setting will be six tables with different topics and discussion leaders. Participants will get to move around to three different tables during this session.

• Shareholder activism
• Communicating M&A
• Reporting sustainability
• Career 101
• Targeting US investors
• MiFID II

3.30 pm Event concludes