ICM 2024 Spring Convening
We look forward to welcoming you in Washington, D.C. See below the agenda for this year’s Spring Convening.
Agenda (all times Eastern)
Monday, April 29 - Optional Events
Afternoon (select one at registration):
12:00pm - 5:00pm (Exact Timing TBC): Capitol Hill Visits OR
2:00pm: Group Outing — National Museum of African American History and Culture
Evening (sign up here):
7:00pm: ICM-Organized Small Group Dinners by Impact Theme
Tuesday, April 30 - ICM Members Only
8:30am: Registration + Breakouts Sign-ups + Breakfast
9:00am: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Marieke Spence, Impact Capital Managers; Hope Mago, HCAP Partners & ICM Inc. Board Chair; with Morrison Foerster
Marieke will open our annual association meeting and set the stage for the day’s events, and Hope will make important announcements about network governance.
9:30am: Ice Breakers and Round Robin Networking - Ravtegh Aurora, Senior Analyst
Get to know your fellow members by their investment stage, geography, impact sector and asset class (VC, growth/PE, debt, real estate), participation in the SBIC program, and more. Come ready to share the most exciting thing going on in your portfolio, where your biggest pain points are today, and a burning question for your table-mates!
10:30am: Coffee Break
10:45am: Plenary: Annual State of the Network - Diane Kulju, Director, IMM & Research
A first-look at ICM’s renewal survey data - a true peer benchmark - answering questions like: how many members have a responsible investment policy? How many members use impact-linked-compensation? Who closed a fund last year? How many impact funds are Article 8 or 9? Who's an OPIM signatory? How many members have dedicated in-house impact hires? How much AUM is represented across the ICM network? How diverse is the leadership in the ICM network - and its 2500+ portfolio companies? Who had an IPO last year? How many funds are RIAs? How many debt funds are there in the ICM network? We’ll talk about longitudinal trends and how this data will inform ICM’s programs and services, and future growth.
11:30am: Hill Day Read-Out - Garrett Jaso, Senior Manager, Communications & Policy
12:00pm: Lunch
1:30pm: Fireside Chat with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo
2:00pm: Breakouts Round 1
PortCo Board & Governance Best Practices, led by Eric Chapman, SustainVC & Shai Kalansky, Morrison Foerster
IMM for Early Stage Investing, led by Shafiq Vallani, TELUS Pollinator Fund
Private Capital Impact Fund Structures, with Benjamin Fox, Morrison Foerster
Leadership, Purpose, and “Impact Courage,” led by Mark Grovic, NMVP & Dave Kirkpatrick, SJF Ventures
Debt: Building the Impact Playbook, led by Liddy Karter, Mizzen Capital
3:00pm: Coffee & Switchover
3:15pm: Breakouts Round 2
Cultivating Diversity & Inclusion in Impact Investing, led by Mahila Amjad, Leeds Illuminate & Kendall Bedford, SustainVC, and facilitated by Eliya Imtiaz, Impact Capital Managers
Scaling Up Your Fund: Nuts, Bolts, Team & Software, led by Marcos Gonzalez, VamosVentures
Mapping US Federal Funding Initiatives, led by Matt Smith, St. Cloud Capital & Ted Dillon, Clean Energy Ventures
Going Global - Risks & Opportunities, led by Monica Brand Engel, Quona Capital & Radhika Shroff, Nuveen
Impact VC Fund Performance, led by Ethan Finkelstein & Dahna Goldstein, Halcyon Ventures
4:15pm: Readouts & Closing Reflections
5:00pm-7:00pm: Rooftop Drinks Reception Welcoming Limited Partners and Friends
Wednesday, May 1 - LP Day
8:00am: Optional Rooftop Early Bird Meditation Session - with Mark Grovic, NMVP & Dave Kirkpatrick, SJF Ventures
8:45am: Breakfast + Emerging Leaders Meeting
9:30am: Welcome Remarks - Diane Kulju, Director, IMM & Research, Impact Capital Managers
9:45am: Allocator Perspectives Panel - with Marieke Spence, Executive Director, ICM & featuring Mark Berryman, Caprock; Christine Looney, Ford Foundation; Jonathan Hirschtritt, GCM Grosvenor
10:45am: Simultaneous Breakouts
Impact Reporting Best Practices with discussion leaders Diane Kulju, ICM & Mark Berryman, Caprock - everything fund managers wished LPs knew about reporting (and what allocators wished GPs knew about how they use reports) - and how we can work together to increase efficiency, accuracy, consistency, and decision-useful metrics.
New Frontiers in Value Creation with discussion leaders Ebony Pope, Rethink Education & Meredith Shields, Citi Impact Fund - interrogating the financial materiality of impact and how fund managers and allocators can use levers to drive impact value creation via growth, systems change, or by transforming markets
Policy and Advocacy with discussion leaders Justin Conway, Calvert Impact; Jonathan Hirschtritt, GCM Grosvenor; and Eliza Erikson, Brown Advisory - the risks and rewards of engagement, how allocators are planning for various political futures, and how market-rate impact funds and their portfolio companies can play a unique role this year and beyond
Investing to Advance Inclusive Economic Growth with Patience Ball, Apollo Impact Mission – the opportunities and challenges faced by GPs and LPs as we work to move capital to diverse managers and founders; to companies that are working on solutions enabling access and meeting needs of the underserved; and using all asset classes and investment tools to advance equity and inclusive growth.
Impact Allocators: Foundation & Endowment Insights with discussion leader Brendon Reay, Maine Community Foundation - the journey of one ambitious community foundation toward investing for superior returns, sustainability, and impact
11:45am: Keynote: The Lost Art of Giving & Receiving Feedback - Jason Craige Harris, Perception Strategies
12:45pm: Convening Closing Reflections & Commitments
1:00pm: Lunch
2:00pm: ICM Member Lightning Rounds
Allocators will get to know ICM member funds, learn about specific impact sectors and strategies, and provide invaluable feedback to emerging managers in these short one-on-one closed-door networking sessions. Spots may be limited and sign up is required - email Marieke Spence at mspence@impactcapitalmanagers.com to learn more.
4:30pm: Lightning Rounds Close