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Value Creation Summit
Sep 9, 2026
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10:00 am
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5:00 PM
Summit Room 4
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Summit Room 4
Sep 9, 2026
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
Value Creation | The big picture on value creation
Take a moment to reflect on where the [private equity] industry is today compared to the last IPEM Global, and where it may be by the next.
Summit Room 4
Sep 9, 2026
10:15 AM
10:45 AM
Value Creation | More levers, more complexity, more cost. Is the value creation model starting to...
Take stock of where private equity's value creation agenda has landed and whether the old playbook is still working. Which levers are delivering, which are oversold and what GPs are doing...
Summit Room 4
Sep 9, 2026
10:45 AM
11:25 AM
Value Creation | Is AI earning its keep in portfolio companies?
The AI conversation has moved from experimentation to expectation but the gap between ambition and execution remains stubbornly wide. What does a credible AI value creation plan look like? How are...
Summit Room 4
Sep 9, 2026
11:25 AM
12:05 PM
Value Creation | The data reckoning
What does a realistic data transformation roadmap look like? How do you fix data foundations under time and cost pressure, and when does digitalisation genuinely shift valuation multiples at exit?...
Summit Room 4
Sep 9, 2026
12:05 PM
12:45 PM
Value Creation | Why finding and keeping the right people remains PE’s most persistent headache
AI has scrambled job architectures across sectors, hybrid work has reshuffled where people will and won't agree to live, and the premium on leaders who can manage through technological disruption...
Summit Room 4
Sep 9, 2026
2:00 PM
2:30 PM
Value Creation | Going global, carefully: The internationalisation playbook for an unpredictable...
The operating environment for international growth has become dramatically more complex. Trade barriers are rising, currency volatility has returned, regulatory fragmentation is accelerating, and...
Summit Room 4
Sep 9, 2026
2:30 PM
3:10 PM
Value Creation | Procurement as a profit centre: the underrated lever that keeps delivering in a...
This session examines how leading PE operators are building procurement capability from scratch, deploying AI-powered spend analytics to find savings that management never knew existed, and...
Summit Room 4
Sep 9, 2026
3:10 PM
3:50 PM
Value Creation | Rethinking supply chain in an era of permanent disruption
With geopolitical shocks, climate events, logistics bottlenecks and the structural rewiring of global trade the supply chains that private equity underwrote in 2021 and 2022 have been stress-tested...
Summit Room 4
Sep 9, 2026
3:50 PM
4:30 PM
Value Creation | To buy or to build that is the question
The consolidation thesis has never been more popular, or more competitive. Has buy and build matured into a genuinely differentiated model or merely a way of dressing up a busy M&A function? How do...
Summit Room 4
Sep 9, 2026
4:30 PM
5:00 PM
Value Creation | Four walls and balance sheet: real estate as a value creation lever
How much liquidity is realistically trapped in a typical mid-market portco's real estate footprint, and how quickly can it be unlocked? When does a sale and leaseback genuinely create value versus...
