The 2022 GenderSmart Investing Summit took place in London on Oct 18-19. Although I could not attend physically, I could feel the enthusiasm, power, and passion through reading and watching the takeaways, highlights, and videos. This powerful movement to mainstream and integrate gender across the whole capital spectrum and all value chains is accelerating.

GenderSmart’s merger with 2XCollaborative into 2XGlobal (as of Jan 2023) was announced at the Summit. 2XGlobal‘s mission is “to equip and engage the full spectrum of investors, intermediaries, and innovators capable of transforming systems of finance through the gender-smart deployment of capital across asset classes and markets.”

Also during the Summit, the GenderSmart State of the Field 2022 the most extensive and qualitative survey capturing the broadest and most in-depth spectrum of insight and experience across the gender-smart investing field to date was released.

Kudos to the GenderSmart community and especially to Suzanne Biegel for her leadership and contagious passion for advancing this field forward.