• How has Covid-19 impacted on your current investments, and will it have a longer-term impact on your future investment strategy?
• Compared to this time last year, are ESG considerations more/same/less important to your investment decisions?
• Do you think the new administration understands sufficiently the positive role of pension funds in investing in US infra and what more needs to be done to get that message across?

Facilitator:
Lawrence Slade, CEO, GIIA

• How can increased investments in sustainable infrastructure address the social and economic issues intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic?
• How can identifying infrastructure as an asset class help unlock private capital for sustainable development?
• How can measurement and standards help ensure the success of a project both financially and for the communities where they are built?

Facilitators:
Ron Factor, President & CEO, Airis
Daniel Feitelberg, Principal, Infrastructure Advisory and Higher Education Advisory Leader, KPMG
Kate Newman, Vice President, Sustainable Infrastructure and Public Sector Initiatives, WWF
Jim Pass, Senior Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners
Jeff Scheferman, Executive Vice President, North America of CCR Airports, CCR
Niniane Tozzi, Senior Consultant, Sustainability and Climate Change, Mott MacDonald
Lorena Zemp, Chief Operating Officer, Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (GIB)

How will the presidential election impact the funding of US Infrastructure?

Moderator:
Jordan Stutts, Senior Writer, Private Markets, PEI

Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Morteza Farajian, Executive Director, Build America, U.S. Department of Transportation

• Findings from the “LP Think Tank”
• The Impact of Covid-19
• Climate change impact, resiliency and investment
• What is the outlook for an infrastructure plan with incoming administration in Washington? Does it totally depend on the outcome of the senate races, or does the need for recovery post virus / vaccine bode well for a bi-partisan infrastructure stimulus plan?

Moderator:
Mark Weisdorf, Managing Partner, Mark Weisdorf Associates, LLC

Panelists:
Carolyn Hansard, Senior Director & Portfolio Head, Energy, Natural Resources & Infrastructure, Teacher Retirement System of Texas
Petya Nikolova, Head of Infrastructure, New York City Retirement System, Office of the Comptroller
Howard Stern, Managing Director, Northwestern Mutual Capital

Digital infrastructure has fallen dramatically in favor of investors as the next critical piece of how economies function. What are the leading trends, risks and opportunities?

Moderator:
Kanan Joshi, Executive Director, Upper Bay Infrastructure Partners

Panelists:
Dylan Foo, Senior Partner, Co-Head of Infrastructure, Apollo
Mohamed El Gazzar, Partner, I Squared Capital
Peter Gray, Director, OMERS
Kevin Smithen, Managing Director, Global Head of Strategy and Capital Formation, Digital Colony

Interest in infrastructure debt strategies continues to grow

• What is the best way to finance infrastructure?
• Which subsectors are most attractive and why?
• What types of cash yields can investors expect?

Moderator:
Peter Sipsas, Managing Director, Head of Credit, Jensen Partners

Panelists:
Jeetu Balchandani, Managing Director, Global Head of Infrastructure Debt, BlackRock
Vivien de Gunzburg, President, Ceres Infrastructure Asset Management
Jennifer Powers, Partner & Chair, GIP Credit, Global Infrastructure Partners
Jessica Thompson, Executive Director, Debt Investments, Deputy Head of North America Infrastructure Debt, IFM Investors

Moderator:
Susan Mac Cormac, Partner, Morrison & Foerster

Featured Speaker:
Chris Leslie, Global Head of Sustainability, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets

Early signs indicate that the asset class has proved to be resilient during the global pandemic; will private infrastructure be one of COVID-19’s winners?

Moderator:
Kyle Alexander, Managing Director, Real Assets Product, State Street

Panelists:
Michael Albrecht, Managing Partner, Ridgewood Infrastructure
Todd Bright, Partner, Head of Private Infrastructure Americas, Partners Group
Kevin Genieser, Senior Partner, Antin Infrastructure Partners
Mark A. McComiskey, Partner, AVAIO

• What are investors doing to return these assets back to good health?
• Can airports get their mojo back?
• What companies in this sector are thriving in the current environment?
• What are the capital markets and other financing sources’ outlook on transportation businesses?

Moderator:
James A. Abate, MBA, CPA, CFA, Managing, Director, Chief Investment Officer, & Fund Manager American Select Equity & Global Listed Infrastructure, Centre Asset Management

Panelists:
Mike Discenza, Chief Financial Officer, Transurban North America
Emmett McCann, Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager, Oaktree Capital Management
Marietta Moshiashvili, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner, Upper Bay Infrastructure Partners

• Why is InfraTech gaining so high importance now?
• What regions of the world currently offer the highest growth potential for InfraTech ?
• Where do you envisage InfraTech in 5years and in 10years?

Moderator:
Caroline Abramo, CIO and Founder, Pana LCE

Panelists:
Jeffrey Altman, Senior Advisor, Finadvice AG
Brian Barlow, Co-CEO, Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners
Charles Cherington, Managing Partner, Ara Partners
Paul Manias, Managing Partner, Climate Innovation Capital

Why are single-asset secondaries booming?

Moderator:
Pablo Caló, Partner, Fairview Capital Group

Panelists:
Mark Bhupathi, Managing Director, Strategic Partners
Scott Litman, Managing Director, Infrastructure Investments, GCM Grosvenor
Dominik von Scheven, Senior Investment Manager, HSBC Global Asset Management HSBC Alternative Investments / Infrastructure Equity