A three-day private infrastructure investment conference at the Hilton Tower Bridge in London, 12–14 October 2027 (the 2026 edition had a specialist summits day and a two-day main conference), for institutional investors and fund managers, run by Informa Connect around a pre-scheduled one-to-one meeting service.
SuperReturn Global Infrastructure is an annual conference on private infrastructure fund investment and the dealmaking between institutional investors (limited partners, LPs) and infrastructure fund managers (general partners, GPs). It is run by Informa Connect as part of the SuperReturn series, which Informa says is curated by its LP Council. The 2027 edition takes place 12–14 October 2027 at the Hilton Tower Bridge, London. It is a standalone event with its own site, agenda and tickets, not a track of SuperReturn International, which is the Berlin-based flagship of the series. The organiser's tagline for 2026 is "Build foundations for future returns".
12–14 October 2027, Tuesday to Thursday. The event is held at the Hilton Tower Bridge, London, according to the organiser's listing. The detailed 2027 agenda had not been published as of 2026-11-01. The 2026 edition was held on 13 to 15 October 2026 at the Hilton London Bankside, 2-8 Great Suffolk Street, London SE1 0UG, and the 2025 edition was held at the same hotel on 30 September to 2 October 2025.
Informa Connect organises SuperReturn Global Infrastructure. The organiser's site names the legal entity as Informa Connect Limited, part of Informa, registered in England and Wales under number 01835199 with its registered office at 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Informa's own SuperReturn pages say the series is curated by its LP Council, which advises on the programme; Dr Dorothy Kelso, Managing Director of SuperReturn, chairs the Global LP Council. IPFA and AIIP appear as supporters, not organisers (see the sponsors entry below).
The organiser advertises 350+ senior attendees from 30+ countries, including 150+ institutional investors and 150+ GPs (organiser figures; no independent count exists). The audience is institutional investors (development finance institutions, insurance companies, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and, with free passes, banks, endowments, foundations, investment consultants, single family offices and wealth managers) and infrastructure fund managers of large-cap, mid-market and small-cap size. The attendees page lists a snapshot of 40 investors and 21 GPs by name, for example EBRD, International Finance Corporation, National Wealth Fund, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, Universities Superannuation Scheme, Brookfield and Partners Group; it states no percentages and no job-role split. Placement agents, advisers and service providers also attend.
The 2027 speaker roster had not been published as of 2026-11-01. For the 2026 edition, the speakers page of the organiser's site listed 115 speakers on 10 October 2026, under the heading "100+ expert insights". The page may not show the full roster. Name (organisation), in the order published:
Hugh Garnett and Peter Walker speak for IIGCC (media partner). The agenda names Adam Bouzelmate (Weybridge Partners) as chair of the main conference on both days, Andrew Charlesworth (Kylemore Capital) as chair of the Energy Summit and Julia Prescot (Board Chair and Co-Founder) as chair of the UK Summit. Gareth Davies MP, Shadow Minister of State for Business and Trade, and Lord John Hutton, Chair of AIIP, are the two political figures on the list.
The 2027 edition moves to 12–14 October 2027 at the Hilton Tower Bridge, London, and its programme had not been published as of 2026-11-01. Against the 2025 edition (30 September to 2 October 2025), the 2026 edition changed three things. First, the dates moved to 13 to 15 October 2026. Second, Tuesday 13 October was built as two parallel specialist summits, Energy and UK, with a £300 saving for booking a summit with the main conference; 2025 promotional material described an Energy Infrastructure Summit and a Digital Infrastructure Summit with an inaugural awards ceremony (unverifiable information), and no awards ceremony appears on the 2026 agenda pages. Third, the 2026 programme gives space to defence and dual-use infrastructure, water security, nature as infrastructure and private wealth, none of which is named in the 2025 coverage reviewed. The 2025 promotional pages quoted 130+ LPs and 150+ GPs; the 2026 pages quote 150+ of each, with the same 350+ total (organiser figures).
The 2027 programme had not been published as of 2026-11-01. The 2026 programme covered these themes: traditional and renewable energy, digital infrastructure and AI, transport and logistics, utilities, healthcare infrastructure and fund strategy, plus defence, water security, nature, private wealth and secondaries. Sessions by day, as published for 2026:
Tuesday 13 October, Energy Summit: Capital flows in an evolving energy economy (Emma Champion, BloombergNEF); Energy investing: time to take stock; Energy security: critical capital for a secure supply; Powering uninterrupted operations: the hunt for sufficient grid capacity; Realistic renewables: are feet back on the ground?; Making nature investable: spotlight on biodiversity and natural capital; Net returns, net zero and net exposure: what matters to investors today?; Financing the future: private energy's play in the UK. Interactive discussion group: Transition fuels on the road to energy transition.
Tuesday 13 October, UK Summit: Home turf advantage: mobilising private capital to advance UK infrastructure; Nature as infrastructure: from UK policy-driven demand to institutional returns; The UK's pension pockets: innovations for private markets access; A new generation of PPPs: aligning risk, value and delivery; Aligning policymakers and private capital to meet UK infrastructure needs; Power, planning and private capital: investing in the UK's digital infrastructure; Unleashing UK utilities: tangible solutions for densely populated cities; How we urgently unlock capital into the UK's social infrastructure. Interactive discussion group: Is money really neutral?
Wednesday 14 October, main conference day one: Global infrastructure outlook: signals from the data (Alex Oppong, BlackRock, Chatham House Rule); Defining infrastructure today: blurred lines and converging asset classes; Strategic asset allocation in a changed world: the role of infrastructure assets (Christian Andersson, Worthwhile Capital Partners); Mid-market momentum: unlocking value across regions; The case for investing in infrastructure: directs, co-investments and funds; Infrastructure's secondary market: firmly on the map; The intersection of infrastructure and fixed income; Performance bifurcation across subsectors: what drives returns?; The rising demand from private wealth: risk versus reward and threat versus opportunity.
Thursday 15 October, main conference day two: AI and digital infrastructure: ensuring momentum doesn't run ahead of fundamentals; Strapped for cash: digital infrastructure and continuation vehicles; Understanding water security: time to pay attention; Defence, dual-use and defending critical infrastructure: defining the scope; Beyond the megatrends: investing in infrastructure's white spaces; Going global: risk, returns and real impact in growth markets; The bridge to returns in transport: navigating the junctions; Capital for care: national health infrastructure.
A keynote by Laura Galante of WestExec Advisors on "Infrastructure in the Crosshairs" appears in a search-engine summary of the organiser's agenda but not on the agenda pages read on 10 October (unverifiable information).
Panel discussions of 35 to 40 minutes make up most of the agenda, with chair's opening and closing remarks on each day. Alongside them the organiser runs: interactive discussion groups; fund manager presentations (pre-registration required); a speed networking session (pre-registration required); closed-door sessions for institutional investors and fund managers, several under the Chatham House Rule; a single family office discussion group (pre-registration required, limited spaces); an institutional investor-only lunch; and a pre-scheduled one-to-one meeting service run through the ConnectMe app. The organiser quotes 6,500+ meetings across the event (organiser figure). The 2026 ticket structure separates the formats: a summit day pass does not include the attendee list or the networking functions of the app, which need a main conference booking.
Side events for 2027 had not been published as of 2026-11-01. The 2026 edition had a networking drinks reception for the summits day, Tuesday 13 October, at the Distillery Bar, listed from 16:45 to 18:30 on the networking page and from 17:05 to 18:50 on the agenda page. Networking drinks reception on Wednesday 14 October, 17:00 to 18:30. Speed networking on Wednesday 14 October, 17:00 to 17:45 (pre-registration required). A women in private infrastructure networking lunch on Thursday 15 October, 12:55 to 13:55 (pre-registration required, spaces limited; enquiries to abbie.punter@informa.com). An institutional investor-only networking lunch on Tuesday 13 October, 12:30 to 13:30 (pre-registration required). A free ConnectMe Networking Lounge in the Bankside foyer, bookable through the app, and private meeting spaces for hire through the sponsorship team. The programme is CPD certified by the CPD Certification Service, and attendees can request a certificate.
Ticket prices for the 2027 edition had not been published as of 2026-11-01. The figures in this entry are the 2026 edition's standard-rate prices on the booking page on 10 October 2026, in pounds sterling, before VAT at 20 per cent: main conference plus specialist summits £4,198 plus £839.60 VAT (£5,037.60 in total), 13 to 15 October; main conference only £2,799 plus £559.80 VAT (£3,358.80 in total), 14 and 15 October; one specialist summit day £1,699 plus £339.80 VAT (£2,038.80 in total), 13 October, which gives ConnectMe app access but not the attendee list or networking functions. The page states that earlier booking prices were lower and that all prices reverted to the standard rate on 9 October 2026; no early-booking amounts are published. Booking both a summit and the main conference saves £300. The third and each further delegate from a group of registrations gets 30 per cent off, and sponsors get 20 per cent off delegate places. Orders of £5,000 or less are paid by credit card; larger orders can use invoice. Qualifying institutional investors attend free: the pass covers banks, corporate investors, development finance institutions, endowments, foundations, insurers, investment consultants, pension funds, RIAs, single family offices, sovereign wealth funds and wealth managers, for members of an investment team whose main focus is investing in GP funds, with no deadline stated; apply through the "Apply now" link or to Imogen Pearey (commercial contact for free institutional investor passes) at Imogen.Pearey@informa.com, +44 73 4167 7255. IPFA members were offered 10 per cent off through a code on IPFA's event listing.
Not publicly disclosed: no call for speakers or proposal form was found on the organiser's site. Speaker enquiries go to Abbie Punter at abbie.punter@informa.com (+44 7990 006467), listed on the contact page as the speakers contact. Sponsors can buy a solo speaking slot or a place on a panel, according to the organiser's sponsorship page, so a paid route exists. Fund manager presentations require attendee pre-registration.
Email Nandita Shrestha, who handles sponsorship and exhibition, at sponsorsuperreturn@informa.com or sponsorsuperreturn@informaconnect.com (both addresses appear on the organiser's pages), or call +44 20 8052 2031. The options on the sponsorship page are: a one-to-one meeting service with senior decision makers and private meeting space; a solo speaking slot or panel place; sponsorship of the institutional investor or speaker lounge, or an exhibition stand; hosted breakfast, lunch or dinner; InvestorInsights, a data hub combining event data with Preqin; and year-round branded content through SuperReturn channels. Packages and prices are in a brochure and are not published on the page. No exhibitor is named on the sponsors page. Sponsors get 20 per cent off delegate places.
The 2027 sponsor roster had not been published as of 2026-11-01. The 2026 roster on the organiser's sponsors page, 10 October 2026, was as follows. Co-sponsor: King & Spalding. Associate sponsors: Astatine Investment Partners, Duration Capital Partners, Greenberg Traurig, JLC Infrastructure, Mirova, NERA, Perella Weinberg Partners, Ridgewood Infrastructure, Swiss Life Asset Managers, Worthwhile Capital. Networking app sponsor: Perella Weinberg Partners. Endorsed by: The Association of Infrastructure Investors in Public Private Partnerships (AIIP) and Frenus. ESG partner: GRESB. Data partner: Preqin, a part of BlackRock. Media partners: 100 Women in Finance (media partner), Diversity Talks Real Estate (media partner), IIGCC (media partner), IPFA (media partner), PeakLoad (media partner), Pension Mandate (media partner), SpainCap (media partner), TresVista (media partner).
Two groups, by the organiser's own breakdown with no percentages. Investors, by category: insurance companies, pension funds, single family offices, sovereign wealth funds and development finance institutions, and banks and investment consultants. GPs, by region: UK (Ancala, Equitix, M&G Investments, Quinbrook), Europe (AIP Management, Partners Group, Swiss Life Asset Managers, Cube Infrastructure Managers) and North America (Brookfield, Manulife Investment Management, OMERS Infrastructure, Ridgewood Infrastructure). The main sectors on the agenda are energy, digital infrastructure, transport, utilities, social and health infrastructure, water and defence-related infrastructure. Law firms, advisers and placement agents also hold sponsor and speaker places (King & Spalding, Greenberg Traurig, Perella Weinberg Partners, NERA).
Email Georgia Paisis, listed as press, media and website contact, at georgia.paisis@informa.com (+44 20 8052 0743), through the "Apply for Media Pass" link on the organiser's press page. Eligibility criteria and a deadline are not publicly disclosed. The press page lists Altafrica, IJGlobal, New Project Media, PeakLoad (media partner) and PitchBook News as press attending, under a heading that refers to 2025, so the list may not have been refreshed for 2026. The registration terms prohibit unauthorised photography and recording and give the organiser the right to record the event.
Little independent coverage was found. What exists is mostly listings and previews: IPFA (media partner) carries an event listing with a member discount, GRESB hosted a 2025 promotional page, and Alternative Credit Investor posted a promotional summit page dated 30 September 2025 that quotes the organiser's own figures. The organiser publishes SuperReturnTV interviews and on-demand video through Streamly, but the sources read do not say these cover this event. No post-event independent attendance count for the 2025 edition was found.
Low as evidence, in three tiers. Placed coverage: IPFA (media partner) and the other media partners named in the sponsors entry are in a commercial relationship with the organiser. Independent but promotional: the GRESB page and the Alternative Credit Investor page repeat the organiser's 350+ attendee and 6,500+ meeting figures with booking links, and the Alternative Credit Investor page does not say whether it is a partner. Claimed by the organiser without proof: all attendance, LP and GP counts and the meeting total, none audited. No journalist booked as a speaker was found on the 2026 roster.
Three profiles. Anyone whose work is public-sector procurement or project delivery rather than investing in private infrastructure funds: the agenda, ticket structure and free pass are all built around LPs and GPs. Investors who want only the stage content: a summit day pass excludes the attendee list and app networking, and the value claimed by the organiser sits in the meeting service. Anyone seeking a large trade show or exhibition floor: the attendance is 350+ (organiser figure) and no exhibitor is named. Non-investors cannot use the free LP pass, which requires an investment-team role focused mainly on investing in GP funds.
It is the infrastructure event of Informa's SuperReturn series, held in London in October (12–14 October 2027 for the next edition). In 2026 it came after SuperReturn Real Assets North America in Houston (15 to 17 September 2026) and SuperReturn Energy and Infrastructure Asia in Singapore (28 September 2026, a one-day event), and before SuperReturn Europe in Amsterdam (3 November 2026). It overlaps in date with SuperReturn Middle East in Dubai (listed from 13 October 2026). SuperReturn International, the generalist flagship, is held in Berlin in June, so this event is not co-located with it; earlier database text that said so was wrong. Informa's events page lists SuperReturn Private Credit Europe and SuperReturn Secondaries Europe in London in March 2027.
No edition outside London was found. The 2025 edition was held at the Hilton Bankside in London on 30 September to 2 October 2025, and the 2026 edition was held at the same hotel; the 2027 edition is listed at the Hilton Tower Bridge, London. The earlier venue history of the event is not publicly disclosed on the organiser's pages. The organiser's edition number is not stated on the 2026 pages: a figure of "11th anniversary" for 2025 appears in a search-engine summary (unverifiable information). Related Informa events with infrastructure content in other cities include SuperReturn Real Assets North America (Houston) and SuperReturn Energy and Infrastructure Asia (Singapore), both held in September 2026.
Not publicly disclosed. The organiser's site and agenda are in English, and no interpretation or translation is mentioned on the pages read or in the terms and conditions.
Not publicly disclosed. The 2026 pages describe an in-person event and mention no livestream or recordings. The organiser links to SuperReturnTV on YouTube and to on-demand videos on Streamly for the SuperReturn brand, but does not say they cover this event. The terms prohibit unauthorised recording of sessions.
Under the organiser's terms and conditions, a cancellation received 57 or more days before the event gets a refund of fees paid less a 10 per cent administration charge plus any taxes. At 56 days or fewer before the event, or for a no-show, the full fee remains payable; for 13 October 2026 that cutoff was 18 August 2026. Substitutions with colleagues from the same organisation are accepted at any time, but registrations cannot be sold or transferred to others. Cancellation requests go to connect.cancellations@informa.com for the attention of Customer Services. Cancellations are not accepted once any member of a registration party has used the pre-event networking tools. The organiser may change format, speakers, venue or programme without liability; if it changes the date, registrations move to the new date and a delegate may decline within 21 days for a credit note or refund. Registrations contact: gf-registrations@informa.com, +44 20 8052 2013.
Not publicly disclosed by the organiser. Its sustainability page mentions "wellbeing and accessibility" as a social responsibility focus without detail, and the terms and conditions say nothing on accessibility. Third-party hotel listings for the Hilton London Bankside show a stair-free path to the entrance, a lowered registration desk and wheelchair-accessible restaurant and lounge (unverifiable information). General event support is gfsupport@informa.com.
The 2027 venue is the Hilton Tower Bridge, London; no street address or directions had been confirmed as of 2026-11-01. The 2026 venue was the Hilton London Bankside, 2-8 Great Suffolk Street, London SE1 0UG, on the South Bank in Southwark. The organiser's pages give the address but no directions. Third-party hotel listings put Southwark Underground station about five minutes on foot, and Blackfriars and Borough Underground stations about eleven minutes (unverifiable information). The organiser offers negotiated rates at the venue and nearby hotels through its hotel page, which lists no rates or deadlines. In 2026 the sustainability page named "Hilton Tower Bridge" in one passage, which then appeared to be an error on the organiser's side; the 2027 listing names that hotel.
A conference that charges GPs £4,198 plus VAT for the full three days and gives qualifying investors a pass at no cost is selling the LP room to fund managers, and the facts above show the design: the organiser advertises 150+ institutional investors, gates the free pass to people on an investment team who mainly invest in GP funds, and runs a meeting service that pairs them with GPs. For a fund manager raising capital, the question is therefore whether the LPs who qualify are the ones allocating to infrastructure.
For an investor the trade is different: the pass is free, but the closed-door sessions, investor-only lunches and speed networking exist to introduce them to GPs, so the programme serves the buyer of the delegate ticket first. The speaker roster of 115 names, led by fund managers and advisers rather than LP chief investment officers, points the same way.
Every number about the audience is the organiser's own. The 2026 pages quote 350+ attendees, 150+ institutional investors, 150+ GPs, 30+ countries and 6,500+ meetings; the 2025 promotional pages quoted the same 350+, 30+ countries and 6,500+ meetings, with 130+ LPs. Identical totals across two editions read as a template of targets, not a measured count, and no independent attendance figure for 2025 was found.
Two other numbers are weaker still. The attendee names are described as a snapshot, not a list of who registered. The database held a figure of 700 attendees from an earlier source that confused this event with a co-located conference in Berlin, which it is not; 350+ is the only figure the organiser states for this event.
Official site: https://informaconnect.com/superreturn-infrastructure/. Agenda, speakers, sponsors, attendees, networking, hotel and terms and conditions pages sit under the same address. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/superreturn/. Contacts are listed on the organiser's contact page: sponsorship and exhibition (Nandita Shrestha), speakers (Abbie Punter), free institutional investor passes (Imogen Pearey), press, media and website (Georgia Paisis), registrations and cancellations, and general support (gfsupport at informa.com). Email addresses are given in the entries above. Dr Dorothy Kelso is Managing Director of SuperReturn.