IR Webinar: Reputation at Risk: Navigating Cyber Incidents

This event will examine the reputational impact of cyber incidents and provide insights on how to reinforce stakeholder trust during critical moments through incident preparedness.

The session will include:

• Exploring the intersection of cyber incidents and reputational risk through the lens of investor expectations and concerns.

• Insights from Aon’s Reputation Risk Database to integrate data-driven intelligence into your cyber risk management strategy.

• Best practices for preparing and executing an effective communications response in the wake of a cyber incident.

Guest speaker: Rory Godson

Senior Managing Director, Sodali & Co

Senior Managing Director, Sodali & Co

Rory Godson is Senior Managing Director at Sodali & Co, founder and former CEO of Powerscourt, ex-Goldman Sachs corporate affairs director, and former Business Editor at The Sunday Times. He chaired the Ireland Funds GB and studied journalism at Dublin Institute of Technology.

Guest speaker: Alison Owers

Senior Managing Director, Sodali & Co

Senior Managing Director, Sodali & Co

Alison joined Sodali & Co. in 2023 and is responsible for designing and overseeing the strategy around IR, ESG and shareholder engagement services to clients across the UK and Europe.  Prior to joining Sodali & Co., Alison spent 12 years at Orient Capital and D.F. King Ltd in various senior leadership roles, and most recently as their Global CEO, working with some of the world’s largest companies to support shareholder engagement and investor relations activities.  Previously she spent seven years at Capita plc as Managing Director of IR Services. She started her career within investment banking at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. 

Alison has a French & German Languages degree and began her IR career working in-house for a mining company in Canada.  

Guest speaker: Jenny Pirault

Manager, Cyber & Crisis Communications, Sodali & Co

Manager, Cyber & Crisis Communications, Sodali & Co

Jenny is a Manager at Sodali & Co and has targeted expertise on cyber-related issues and concerns. Having spent nine years working as a senior risk consultant for a global insurance broker, before joining Sodali & Co in 2024. During her career, she has led a variety of consulting engagements, including reputation risk assessments, quantification analyses, incident communication plan development, and runs stress testing exercises. Following the recent retail sector attacks, she has been advising organisations on cyber incident readiness, ensuring practical measures are in place for an effective response.

Guest speaker: Richard Waterer

Global Risk Consulting Leader, Commercial Risk, Aon

Global Risk Consulting Leader, Commercial Risk, Aon

Richard Waterer is the global leader of Aon’s risk consulting business, overseeing the advice, analytics and risk management solutions delivered by his team of 1500 colleagues to multinational clients around the world. Richard has worked in risk management advisory for 30 years, beginning in boutique consulting firms before moving into the insurance industry in 2000. In late 2022, Richard spearheaded Aon’s acquisition of Pentland Analytics’ renowned reputation crises database and algorithms, which today enables his team to profile and model the financial impacts of reputation risk events for clients. Richard graduated with a BA (Hons) in Politics and Communication Studies from the University of Liverpool and is the co-author of the forthcoming book Strategy and Change: Finding Opportunity in Disruption through Insight, Choice, and Risk, which will be published by Wiley in September 2025.

Dates

  • 12.00pm to 1.00pm Wednesday 9 July, 2025

Location

  • Online - Zoom

With thanks to our Events Programme Sponsor

Open to Members and Non-members

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  • Free to members
    £0
  • Non-members - £25+VAT
    £30

IR Webinar: Engaging U.S. Investors Amid Shifting Global Capital Flows

Amid ongoing political volatility in the U.S., investors are actively rebalancing portfolios to increase exposure to developed non-U.S. markets, presenting a timely opportunity for European companies to initiate and strengthen relationships with U.S. investors.

Rose & Company is pleased to lead a panel of investor-engagement experts to discuss recommendations for effective investor engagement and how to help gain new shareholders during this reallocation of capital. The panel will share actionable insights and best practices for meeting new and relevant investors, particularly during this period of heightened interest from U.S. investors.

The webinar will provide attendees with a thorough understanding of current capital flow trends and equip them with the knowledge needed to attract new names to their registers. While each company faces unique challenges in engaging with investors, commonalities can be drawn across strategic ownership, market capitalization, and sector.

Key topics to be covered include: 

  • Defining the total addressable market & available money pools.
  • Understanding the growing demand for non-U.S. equities among global investors.
  • The challenge of attracting and engaging long-only shareholders.
  • Best practices for developing relationships with the buy-side.
  • Identifying and correcting inefficient uses of resources and time.
  • Corporate access versus investor access: what’s the difference?
  • The importance of fundamental investor targeting and peer analysis.
  • Why investor feedback matters and how to leverage it effectively.

Dates

  • 4.00pm to 5.00pm Wednesday 16 July, 2025

Location

  • Online - Zoom

With thanks to our Events Programme Sponsor

Open to Members and Non-members

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  • Free to members
    £0
  • Non-members - £25+VAT
    £30

IR Networking: Pub Quiz

The IR Society pub quiz returns for another fun-filled and intellectually stimulating evening for IR professionals to come together and showcase their knowledge, build connections, and catch up with their peers. Please note that this event is for IR Society members only. 

It's a fantastic opportunity to network across the membership and meet the executive team over some friendly competition.

We encourage individual registrations to allow a mix of teams on the night which will help with networking opportunities, but if you do wish to be paired with your colleagues, please let us know. 

Agenda

18:00: Arrival, drinks, bar snacks and networking

18:30: Quiz begins, with snacks and drinks throughout

20:30: Winners announced, followed by networking

21:00: End

Dates

  • 6.00pm to 9.00pm Tuesday 23 September, 2025

Location

  • The Lamb Tavern, 10-12 Leadenhall Market, London EC3V 1LR

With thanks to our Events Programme Sponsor

Exclusive to Members

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  • Free to Members
    £0

IR Masterclass: Capital Market Days

Save the date - further details to be announced soon.

Agenda

08:30 - Registration, networking and breakfast

09:00 - Welcome and introductions 

09:15 - Roundtable discussions 

10:45 - Thank you and close

Networking until 11:00

Dates

  • 8.30am to 11.00am Tuesday 14 October, 2025

Location

  • National Grid, 1 Strand, London WC2N 5EH

With thanks to our Events Programme Sponsor

Open to all Members and Non-members

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  • Free to Members
    £0
  • Affiliate Members - £50 + VAT
    £60
  • Non-members - £100 + VAT
    £120

IR Networking: Senior IRO Breakfast

This series of in-person networking events are designed to allow Senior IROs to share ideas and engage in peer group discussion in an informal environment. The event will be attended by in-house-IR practitioners along with a member of the IR Society Board and Executive Team. 

This event is for IR Society IRO members only. Premium members can attend for free if their allowance allows; for other members a fee of £25+VAT will apply.

Please note, as numbers are limited, priority will be given to those who have not previously attended. Chatham House rule will apply.

Moderator: Siobhán Andrews

Interim Head of Investor Relations, Smiths Group

Interim Head of Investor Relations, Smiths Group

Siobhán has more than 18 years’ expertise in Investor Relations, and more than 10 years’ capital markets experience in equity research and within investment management. She is currently Interim Head of IR at Smiths Group, and was previously Head of IR at Spectris and Deputy Head of IR at BG Group. Prior to her career in IR, Siobhán was a research analyst covering the utilities sector at UBS, and also worked at a leading UK investment management company.

Dates

  • 8.15am to 9.45am Thursday 16 October, 2025

Location

  • City of London, Venue TBC

With thanks to our Events Programme Sponsor

Exclusive to Corporate Members

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  • Free to Premium Members
    £0
  • Corporate Members - £25 + VAT
    £30

Best Practice Awards 2025

Please head to the dedicated Awards website for further information, entries and bookings.

The 25th IR Society Best Practice Awards offer a truly meaningful opportunity to showcase best practice in investor communications. Each award category covers companies from the largest to the smallest - across the UK, Europe and internationally - in recognition of the diverse range of listed businesses looking to the UK for excellence in IR. The real value of this awards programme is that it allows the IR Society to feedback to the IR community what great looks like in terms of how companies are communicating with their stakeholders. Join us for the announcement of the IR Society's annual best practice award winners for 2025 taking place at Royal Lancaster on Tuesday 25 November 2025. 

For further information, entries and bookings visit the dedicated awards website.

Dates

  • 5.30pm Tuesday 25 November to 12.30am Wednesday 26 November, 2025

Location

  • Royal Lancaster, Lancaster Terrace, W2 2TY

Open to all Members and Non-members

Book now

  • Individual tickets: £500 + VAT
    £600
  • Table of 10: £4,500 + VAT
    £5400