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We welcomed leaders and experts in share registration, corporate governance and share plans to the Guildhall London on 3rd October 2024 to take part in the latest conversations happening in the industry.
The day started with Thera Prins, CEO, Shareholder Services UK providing a warm welcome to the EQ Conference and launched the updated vision for EQ.
Technological innovations and the drive to digitisation
An update on EQ, our strategy and our product and service development. Find out how our digital developments are keeping our clients at the forefront of the changing regulatory landscape, driving changes in shareholder and employee behaviour, and enhancing stakeholder experiences. Additionally, they share insights into some innovations that will be coming soon.
Speakers: Mathew Clarke, Darren Charles, Sarah Bullen, Kirsty Coulston
Achieving The Right Balance Of Simplification Of Regulation And Attracting Investment In The UK Capital Markets
As consecutive UK Governments confirm their support in making the UK a more attractive listing venue, key areas of focus seek to unlock investment and provide companies the freedom to explain their governance decisions.
The panellists consider how relaxing regulations can be balanced with providing sufficient investor protections. This includes simplification of the listing and prospectus rules.
Host: Anthony Hall
Speakers: Wayne Slyfield, Charles Hall, Maureen Beresford
Employee share plans question time
Watch our interactive session where we explore the topical employee share plan issues of the day. The panel share their views and experience, providing practical information on a range of subjects covering trends, participation rates, impacts from regulatory and tax changes, as well as what lies ahead.
Host: Jennifer Rudman
Speakers: David Ellis (BDO),Bradley Richardson (Linklaters), Anna Watch (BT Group), Gill Macari (Lloyds Banking Group), Lorna Parkin (Tapestry Compliance)
Rallying Shareholder Support In Preparation For Shareholder Meetings And Executive Remuneration
EQ’s Anne-Marie Clarke chairs our diverse panel of industry experts, to provide attendees with an interesting and stimulating discussion on how UK plc can construct and implement executive remuneration structures that incentivise growth in line with the UK government agenda.
Listen how alignment between companies and their shareholders on this topic can be achieved and what the future could look like as we listen and learn from our US colleagues.
Host: Anne-Marie Clarke
Speakers: Charles Hall, Andrew Ninian, Katie Kenny, Martin McIntyre, Zally Ahmadi
How Can Technology Help You Connect With Your Investors, Whoever They Are, Wherever They Are?
We discuss the importance of connecting with retail shareholders, the challenges companies face in organising successful retail investor events, and the benefits of getting this right.
With Equiniti supporting you with retail investor engagement via our new EQ Connect platform, we can meet this challenge together.
Host: Steve Harris
Speakers: Isabel Richardson, Anne-Marie Clarke, Guy Brodie, Luke Findlay
Mastering Effective Communication: Strategies For Success
Following our theme of growth, what does effective employee engagement look like when providing information about a successful employee share plan outcome? What do the best engagement strategies achieve and how do changes in technology change the way we are communicating with employees?
Our panel share key insights and practical guidance through a variety of case studies that look at the challenges and how these are overcome with an effective communication campaign.
Speakers: Dom Harrison, Sarah Beamish, Anna Jex, Louise De Bolla
EQ Conference Afternoon Keynote: David McCandless
David McCandless captivated our audience by demonstrating how complex data can be transformed into compelling visual narratives. There was a lot of food for thought in this session!
About David
David McCandless is a London-based author, data-journalist and information designer. His blog and best-selling design-books Information Is Beautiful, Knowledge is Beautiful and Beautiful News are dedicated to visualising ideas, issues, knowledge and data. He has worked as a creative consultant for Apple, Google, and Microsoft, spoken at TED Global and hundreds of international conferences and taught his concept and story-driven approach to data-visualisation to teams at SalesForce, Twitter and others.