So you want to be a record-breaker
It’s official. IPEM’s decision to host its popular private markets conference for the first time in Paris (in addition to Cannes) was vindicated with a record number of attendees. Some 1,200 LPs and 751 GPs representing over 2,000 firms from 54 countries made IPEM Paris 2023 one of the most well-attended conferences of its type. Over 6,100 attendees were there to soak up the atmosphere and listen to some of the industry’s sharpest minds including Stephen A. Schwarzman from Blackstone, Dominique Senequier from Ardian, and James Zelter of Apollo Global Management. This was a global festival for private markets investors – has PE ever felt so much in vogue? For IPEM’s organizers, this was a spectacular aLPine summit record – which begs the question: How much bigger could IPEM Paris 2024 end up being?