IPEM Global and the LP Congress

September 8-10, 2026 – Paris, France

Why attend as an LP?

IPEM Global is designed to help LPs source opportunities, meet leading and emerging GPs, explore curated funds and connect with peers.

The LP Package unlocks a VIP experience with access to the LP Congress, summits, fast-track registration, dedicated LP spaces, and the networking hub.

Because your time is scarce, IPEM brings the right opportunities and the right people together in one place.

*IPEM certified LPs are active investors and decision-makers whose investment activity has been certified by IPEM’s IR team. This includes professionals in charge of primary fund investments, with a confirmed investment program.
Peer learning and expert-led sessions
Gain forward-looking perspectives through peer learning, expert-lead sessions and curated content designed to help LPs navigate strategy shifts, manager selection and private markets trends with confidence.
LP Community
Identify differentiated deal flow through targeted meetings with leading and emerging GPs, structured networking formats and a digital platform showcasing funds in market and company insights.
Roundtables to interactive workshops
Connect with a high-quality international community of investors, share challenges and benchmarks, and build relationships that extend far beyond the three days of IPEM Global.

IPEM LP Congress

September 8, 2026 – Paris, France

Back on September 8th for its second edition, the IPEM LP Congress is the must-attend forum for LPs in private markets, designed by allocators for allocators. Through high-level panels, roundtables, workshops and research sessions, it tackles the key challenges LPs face today, from macro and geopolitical shifts to portfolio allocation, liquidity and GP-LP dynamics, while exploring opportunities in AI, climate tech, healthcare and emerging markets.

*LP Registrations for IPEM Global 2026 have closed on August 31st

IPEM Global LP Congress
IPEM LP Congress 2025

A Unique Focus

The LP Congress is a content-rich gathering combining practical training, real-life case studies, and insights from leading experts.
IPEM LP Congress 2025

Purpose-Driven

Built to strengthen both hard and soft skills in private markets investing.
IPEM LP Congress 2025

Top tier qualified LPs

Reserved solely for primary fund investors (approved by IPEM Investor Relations Team), fostering a neutral and unbiased environment for deep collaboration.
IPEM LP Congress 2025 - First Timer Breakfast

Peer Learning & Networking

Offers unparalleled opportunities for LPs to connect with peers, engage in valuable exchanges of ideas and experiences and join focus groups.

Program Overview

IPEM Global 2025 - LP Congress

Plenary Sessions - Performance, Portfolio Construction & the Future of Allocation

Across a full day of keynote discussions and peer-led conversations, LPs will explore the trends redefining private markets investing. From infrastructure and portfolio allocation strategies to liquidity management, diversification and the evolving GP-LP relationship. Sessions will also examine performance benchmarking across private equity and private debt, the growing role of secondaries, and how AI is beginning to transform the allocator function.

Featuring already confirmed senior voices from organisations including Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Summation, OMERS, LGPS and leading global investment offices.

Breakout Rooms

Move beyond keynote discussions with smaller-format sessions designed for practical learning and candid peer exchange. Through research presentations, allocator case studies and interactive discussions, LPs can dive deeper into the operational and strategic challenges shaping investment programmes today.

Manager Selection

Explore how leading LPs are refining manager selection strategies through research insights, allocator experiences and practical case studies.

🔶 11:30 AM | What to look for in the lower mid-market
🔶 12:00 PM | Our Journey: Manager Search & Selection
🔶 2:00 PM | How to build international manager relationships
🔶 3:15 PM | Getting emerging managers past the IC

Liquidity

Discover practical approaches to liquidity management, portfolio pacing and resilience in a more constrained market environment.

🔶 11:30 AM | Who pays the price for Liquidity?
🔶 12:00 PM | How to diligence a CV
🔶 2:00 PM | Our Journey: Liquidity solutions
🔶 3:15 PM | Evergreens for institutions – are LPs too closed-minded?
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3:45 PM | How to spot when there’s too much leverage in Private Markets?

Among the LP Congress 2026 Speakers

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Andrea Auerbach

Head of Global Private Investments
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Cambridge Associates
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Sessions:

LP Congress
Sept. 8
9:30 AM – 9:50 AM
Views on asset allocation

IPEM LP Congress - Taffi Ayodele - Office of the New York Comptroller

Taffi Ayodele

Head, Diverse and Emerging Manager Strategy
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Office of the New York Comptroller
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Sessions:

LP Congress
Sept. 8
2:40 PM – 3:10 PM
Getting emerging managers past the IC

Gregory Brown - IPEM Speaker

Gregory Brown

Professor & Research Director
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Institute for Private Capital
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Sessions:

LP Congress
Sept. 8
11:30 AM – 11:50 AM
Benchmarking private debt returns

Deepah Colombel - IPEM Speaker

Deepah Colombel

Head of Private Debt
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CAA
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Sessions:

LP Congress
Sept. 8
11:50 AM – 12:20 PM
Private Debt – the road to 2030

IPEM LP Congress - Kasey Ji - OMERS

Kasey Ji

Associate Director, Head of New Funds Programme
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OMERS
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Sessions:

LP Congress
Sept. 8
10:40 AM – 11:20 AM
How to manage the tension between primaries and secondaries

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Gabriel Mollerberg

Managing Director (XIG)
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Goldman Sachs
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Sessions:

LP Congress
Sept. 8
9:10 AM – 9:30 AM
Rethinking illiquidity, and active portfolio management

Gregory Schmitt - IPEM Speaker

Gregory Schmitt

Head of Private Equity and Co-Investments
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MEAG
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Sessions:

LP Congress
Sept. 8
4:25 PM – 4:55 PM
The big summary

Sharcus Steen - IPEM Speaker

Sharcus Steen

CIO
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University System of Maryland Foundation
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Sessions:

LP Congress
Sept. 8
3:55 PM – 4:55 PM
What’s in the CIO’s inbox?

Benoit Valentin - IPEM Speaker

Benoit Valentin

Head of EMEA
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Temasek
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Sessions:

LP Congress
Sept. 8
9:50 AM – 10:20 AM
What does a new era of partnership looks like?

IPEM LP Congress - Ellen van den Broek - LGPS

Ellen van den Broek

Portfolio Manager Private Markets
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LGPS
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Sessions:

LP Congress
Sept. 8
2:35 – 3:10 PM
Where diversification goes next

Stay tuned, more speakers announced soon!

Continue the conversation at IPEM Global

The LP Congress sets the stage for two additional days of meetings, networking and content at IPEM Global. Continue discussions with GPs, fellow allocators and industry leaders through curated networking, thematic sessions and the broader IPEM programme.

Download the IPEM Global 2026 Program

Among the 2026 participating LPs

Institutional Investors

🔶 AFORE COPPEL
🔶 ALECTA
🔶 ALLIANZ GROUP
🔶 BANK OF AMERICA
🔶 BRITISH INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT
🔶 CAISSE DES DÉPÔTS ET CONSIGNATIONS
🔶 CDPQ
🔶 DAI-ICHI LIFE INTERNATIONAL EUROPE
🔶 EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT
🔶 KFW CAPITAL
🔶 METLIFE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
🔶 OHIO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM
🔶 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY INVESTMENT CO.
🔶 PUBLIC INVESTMENT FUND
🔶 RAG STRIFTUNG
🔶 SAN FRANCISCO EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM

🔶 STATE OF WISCONSIN INVESTMENT BOARD
🔶 TEACHER RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF TEXAS
🔶 VARMA MUTUAL PENSION INSURANCE COMPANY

Single Family Offices

🔶 ABEGG & CO AG
🔶 ARTS ET BIENS
🔶 CNP – COMPAGNIE NATIONALE À PORTEFEUILLE
🔶 ERGENY
🔶 ESAS HOLDING
🔶 FAMILLE C PARTICIPATIONS
🔶 FORB
🔶 H14 S.P.A.
🔶 ISSARTS CAPITAL
🔶 KOEJANS CAPITAL
🔶 KRESK DEVELOPPEMENT
🔶 LUXEMPART
🔶 ORILLA ASSET MANAGEMENT
🔶 STAGS
🔶 STRATFORD CAPITAL
🔶 SWISSDORMANT TRUST
🔶 TIRA MANAGEMENT SA
🔶 TSAO FAMILY OFFICE
🔶 VEDIHOLD

Others

🔶 ADVANTAGE INVESTMENT PARTNERS
🔶 ALBERTA INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
🔶 AIMCO
🔶 AMPEGA ASSET MANAGEMENT
🔶 AMUNDI
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APG ASSET MANAGEMENT
🔶 BNP PARIBAS WEALTH MANAGEMENT
🔶 HAMILTON LANE
🔶 IIP DENMARK (INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT PARTNERS DENMARK)
🔶 J.P. MORGAN ASSET MANAGEMENT
🔶 MEDIOBANCA
🔶 MERCER ALTERNATIVES
🔶 PGGM
🔶 SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE PRIVATE BANKING
🔶 WILSHIRE