Subsidiary Governance Conference 2026

08:30 Registration and exhibition hall open

09:25 Welcome and opening remarks

09:30 Opening Keynote

09:50 Evidence‑led outsourcing: Getting the right information and working seamlessly with corporate service providers

As governance teams increasingly rely on outsourced partners for essential functions, from minute taking to entity management and compliance, ensuring those relationships are effective, transparent, and aligned with organisational standards has never been more critical.
This session explores how to establish evidence‑led outsourcing arrangements that genuinely enhance governance outcomes rather than create new risks or blind spots.

Our panel will discuss practical ways to communicate requirements clearly, set expectations where service agreements lack detail, and embed good governance practices across global subsidiary portfolios, including jurisdictions where norms around ESG, data management, or internal controls may differ significantly.

We will also examine how to assess the maturity, ethics, and operational resilience of your service providers, ensuring their policies, systems, and values align with your organisation’s frameworks and risk appetite.

Moderator: Justine Blakesley FCG, Founding Partner & CEO, Blakesley Consulting

Speakers:

Marco Murray, Director, EY

10:30 Strengthening subsidiary oversight through better data and cyber preparedness

As regulatory expectations intensify and organisational structures become increasingly complex, the ability to capture, analyse, and report high‑quality compliance data has never been more essential.

 This session explores how governance teams can build robust data systems that enable timely insights, transparent reporting, and more effective oversight across all subsidiaries.

The panel will also examine cyber governance as a critical component of this framework. With cyber threats evolving at speed, boards must ensure that every subsidiary, regardless of size or location, operates under a clear, aligned, and resilient cyber security policy. We will discuss what 'good' looks like when assessing policy adoption, how to verify implementation, and the importance of equipping subsidiary boards with the skills, training, and response plans needed to manage a cyber attack with confidence.

Speakers:

April Skipp, Principle Product Compliance Advisor, Diligent

11:10 Refreshments and Networking

11:40 A choice of breakout sessions

1) Developing and implementing subsidiary governance champions

12:15 A choice of breakout sessions

1) From Group Policy to Subsidiary Practice: Building a CoSec Compliance Framework That Works

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2) Sponsored breakout session 

12:50 Networking Lunch

13:50 Regulatory update from the CGIUKI

14:15 Movement break

14:20 A choice of breakout session

1) The Accountability Chain: Governing Supply-Chain and Human-Rights Risk

As regulatory expectations and stakeholder scrutiny continue to grow, organisations are facing increasing pressure to demonstrate effective oversight of human-rights risks throughout their global operations and supply chains. For multinational groups, subsidiaries play a pivotal role in identifying, managing and escalating risks ranging from labour exploitation and modern slavery to supplier misconduct, environmental harm and broader ESG concerns.

This session will explore how boards, governance professionals and subsidiary leaders can strengthen governance frameworks to address supply-chain and human-rights risks across complex corporate structures. We will discuss evolving regulatory requirements, the challenges of maintaining consistent oversight across jurisdictions, and practical approaches to due diligence, risk assessment, reporting and remediation.

Speaker: Zaneta Sedilekova, Sustainability Risk Lawyer, Director, Planet Law Lab

2) Subsidiary governance meets innovation: Is your current model fit for the future?

15:00 Movement break

15:05 A choice of breakout sessions

1) Navigating EU CSRD expectations across complex subsidiary structures

As the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) reshapes the landscape of non-financial disclosure, directors are facing heightened expectations around how sustainability oversight is embedded across entire corporate groups. This session explores what CSRD means for main boards, particularly those headquartered in the UK with subsidiary operations spanning multiple jurisdictions, many of which may not yet require ESG reporting.

Our speaker will examine how group boards can effectively communicate, embed, and monitor group‑level sustainability strategy across subsidiaries with differing regulatory maturity. We’ll look at practical approaches for engaging local management, ensuring that group‑wide standards are understood and adopted, and creating reporting channels that allow insights, risks, and data to flow both ways, from subsidiary to parent and from parent to subsidiary.
This session will provide pragmatic guidance on aligning governance expectations, managing regulatory divergence, and building reporting ecosystems that support accurate, compliant, and meaningful CSRD disclosures at group level.

Speaker: Terri Le Couteur FCG, Founder TLC Governance

2) Legal Entity Rationalisation: Simplifying Your Corporate Structure in Practice

Most groups carry more entities than they need. Dormant companies, legacy acquisitions and structures nobody has revisited in years quietly add cost, filing burden and risk. Deciding to simplify is the easy part.  In practice, most programmes stall less over the legal detail and more because of thin internal resource, and momentum lost when expectations weren't aligned from the outset.

This session looks at how legal entity rationalisation actually gets delivered. We will cover how to build the internal case for simplification, run due diligence, set decision criteria for what stays and what goes and use entity management technology to stay on top of the data and the process. We will be honest about what separates a rationalisation that completes from one that quietly drifts. 

Expect a practical, candid session with time for your own questions through live interaction. You will leave with a clear view of where to start, what to watch for, and how to keep a simplified structure simple once you have it.

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15:45 Refreshments and networking

16:15 Subsidiary Governance Workshop session 

Kate Rosie, Director, Teneo

16:55 Closing remarks

17:00 Drinks reception 

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