19 June 2024, London
Information services is a dynamic, innovative category which helps create efficiencies, drive growth and manage risk in every industry vertical globally. The United Kingdom is a global centre of excellence with an abundance of talent, industry leaders, innovation, expertise and investor activity.
Technology continues to transform the category and its ability to harness data and create value for users. Valuations increasingly reflect this, moving to SaaS-like levels in many cases. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to create further value but also presents risk.
M&A is a proven route to creating value and expanding capabilities, datasets and harnessing new technologies and globalising.
Challenges facing information services
All information services businesses in every vertical face similar challenges in creating value, for example:
- Harnessing technology and transforming product and platform to become more like software
businesses, - Building the capabilities and skills to drive this transformation,
- Developing compelling commercial strategies and differentiated propositions to different user groups,
- Harnessing machine learning and AI to create efficiencies and go deeper into user workflows, and
- Focusing, executing and integrating M&A to create value.
Until now, there has not been a UK event which brings together senior industry leaders to share insights and
learning on these critical topics.
An event for senior leaders to share insights on these critical topics
- Intimate, curated high-value operator discussions on the strategic and growth challenges of the category
- Networking opportunities
- 19 June 2024 from 11.30am – 5pm, followed by cocktail reception until 7pm
- The Soho Hotel, London
Topics to be covered focus on the core challenges facing information industry players, including:
- Product and platform
- Commercial and go-to-market strategy
- Machine learning and AI
- Globalising and creating value through M&A
- Original research on the major value creation challenges of the industry and how they are being prioritised and tackled
Speakers and panellists confirmed to date include:
- Raju Daswani, CEO at Fastmarkets
- Craig Fuller, CEO of FreightWaves and SONAR
- Victoria Mellor, Co-Founder at Kademy
- Charlie Kerr, Founder & CEO at With Intelligence
- Tara Carter, Partner at Hg
- Spencer Wicks, CEO at Mintec
- Francois Cazor, Co-Founder & CEO at Kpler
- Lee Campbell, Founder & Exec Chair at CubeLogic
- Francesco Federico, Global CMO at S&P Global Ratings
- Gehan Talwatte, Non Exec Chair at Idwal, Lloyd’s List Intelligence, OAG, Ishka
- Rory Brown, Non Exec Chair at Realfin, Co-Founder & CEO at AgriBriefing
- Alexander Sterk, Founder & CEO of Vesper
- Chris Jones, CEO at BMJ Publishing Group
Who will be there?
- CEOs
- Chairpersons
- CFOs
- CROs
- Heads of Strategy and Cop Dev
- Chief Data Officers
- Chief Product Officers
Spanning all:
- Subscription data models: eg PRA, contributory databases, Fundamental market and forecast data, compliance
info, etc - Verticals : Energy, Financial, Legal, Agri-food, Transport, Media and marketing, retail, etc
- Ownership models and levels of maturity, eg: Listed industry leaders, PE-backed leaders and niche leaders, established independents, disruptors and early stage players
