A two-day annual conference held each May in Frankfurt, gathering around 800 institutional investors, analysts, and listed-company management teams for structured CEO and CFO presentations and one-on-one meetings under a MiFID II-compliant format.
The German Spring Conference – Equity Forum is the spring edition of the biannual Equity Forum conference series organised in Frankfurt by Equity Forum in association with Deutsche Börse Gruppe. The event brings together CEOs and CFOs of German and European listed companies, institutional investors, financial analysts, and financial journalists for public company presentations and scheduled one-on-one meetings between corporate management and investors. It occupies a distinct position in the Frankfurt financial calendar as a public equity forum rather than a private capital fundraising summit.
The 2026 spring edition runs from 11 to 12 May at Le Méridien Frankfurt. The venue address referenced in organiser materials is the Flemings Selection Hotel in Frankfurt, though Le Méridien Frankfurt is the listed conference venue. No edition number is published for the 2026 event, and no overarching thematic title for this edition has been disclosed publicly as of verification.
The spring conference fits within the EMEA spring cluster of strategy-specific gatherings that runs from March through June. Frankfurt in May is a natural anchor for an event centred on German and European public markets: the city hosts Deutsche Börse and sits at the intersection of German corporate finance and institutional investor flows from across the continent. The autumn counterpart to this edition brings the same format back to Frankfurt later in the year, making Equity Forum one of the few recurring biannual conference series on the German financial events circuit.
The event is explicitly structured around listed companies rather than fund managers seeking LP commitments. CEOs and CFOs present publicly disclosed financial figures and business outlooks to an audience of institutional investors, analysts, and specialist press. This distinguishes it sharply from private equity and venture capital fundraising conferences, where the currency is undisclosed deal flow, fund performance data, and bilateral LP-GP negotiations. At Equity Forum, the format is governed by MiFID II disclosure requirements, which shapes both the content permitted on stage and the one-on-one meeting structure between management teams and investor attendees.
The conference is structured around MiFID II-compliant disclosure norms throughout. The number of stages, breakout session titles, and any special formats beyond the core presentation and one-on-one structure are not publicly documented as of verification.
The one-on-one meeting programme between listed company management and investor attendees is pre-scheduled, with advance applications reviewed by the organiser before access is confirmed. This means investor attendance is not open registration but requires an application that is assessed for eligibility. The MiFID II-compliant framing governs what information can be exchanged in both the public sessions and the bilateral meetings. No dedicated networking application is listed by the organiser for the 2026 edition.
The published programme themes span the following areas:
Speaker representation is drawn from CEO and CFO roles at listed German and European companies. Two speakers are confirmed as of verification; the full speakers list for the 2026 edition is not yet published.
Self-reported by organiser
| Delegates | 800 |
| Duration | 2 days |
| Confirmed speakers (as of verification) | 2 |
| LP or GP breakdown | Not disclosed |
| AUM represented | Not disclosed |
| International visitor share | Not disclosed |
The event is a listed-company investor conference, not a private fund fundraising summit. Publicly traded German and European companies send their senior management to present financial results and strategic outlooks to institutional investors, analysts, and specialist press. The MiFID II-compliant structure defines the content and meeting format throughout.
Several profiles are a poor fit. Private equity fund managers seeking LP capital commitments will find no structural mechanism here for fund marketing. Investors focused exclusively on unlisted assets, private credit, or infrastructure will encounter an audience and a programme oriented toward public equity. Early-stage investors or accelerator programmes expecting a startup pitch format will not find one: the presenting companies are already listed. Attendees who require a large exhibition floor or a high density of vendor stands will find neither, as the format centres on presentations and scheduled bilateral meetings. Finally, professionals from outside Europe with no mandate or interest in German and European listed equities are unlikely to find sufficient audience alignment to justify attendance.
Institutional investors, financial analysts, and venture capital or private equity investors attend at no charge. The event is structured as complimentary access for qualified financial professionals under a MiFID II-compliant model. Access requires an application that is reviewed by the organiser; admission is not automatic upon registration.
The two editions share the same format and organisational structure but are distinct events in the annual calendar. The spring edition runs in May; the autumn edition takes place later in the year in Frankfurt. The two-event structure makes Equity Forum one of the few biannual German investor conference series. The data available confirms a partial overlap in event identity with a related listing (noted in the source record), though both editions are independently scheduled.
Le Méridien Frankfurt is the listed conference venue for the 2026 spring edition. The organiser's materials also reference the Flemings Selection Hotel Frankfurt address, which suggests the venue may be co-located or that the address designation reflects the hotel group operating the site. Frankfurt's position as Germany's financial capital, home to Deutsche Börse, the European Central Bank, and the majority of Germany's major investment banks and asset managers, makes it the natural host city for a listed-company investor conference of this format. Specific room configuration, capacity figures, and side event facilities at the venue are not disclosed in publicly available materials as of verification.
Equity Forum operates as the organising entity for this conference series, working in association with Deutsche Börse Gruppe, the Frankfurt-based exchange operator that runs Xetra, Eurex, and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Deutsche Börse's institutional involvement gives the event structural credibility within Germany's listed equities community and provides a direct channel to the exchange's corporate client base of listed companies. Equity Forum is classified as a commercial publisher. The founding year of Equity Forum as an organisation and the size of its broader event portfolio are not publicly disclosed as of verification. The organiser's primary web presence is at equityforum.de.
The German Spring Conference – Equity Forum occupies a specific and well-defined niche: a MiFID II-governed public equity forum backed by Deutsche Börse, offering listed companies a structured bilateral meeting channel with institutional investors in Frankfurt, which no generalist private capital summit replicates.
Institutional investors, financial analysts, and VC and PE investors attend free of charge. Access is not open registration: applications are reviewed by the organiser, and attendance is confirmed subject to eligibility assessment. Registration and application are handled through the official event website at equityforum.de. Delegate pricing for listed-company participants and any sponsorship or stand rates are not publicly disclosed as of verification.
| Official website | https://equityforum.de/ |
| Register / Apply | https://equityforum.de/ |
| Programme | not disclosed |
Applications are submitted through equityforum.de. The organiser reviews each application before confirming access. The process is described as application-required, which means attendance is not guaranteed by completing a registration form. No additional application portal separate from the main website is listed.
Presenting company fees and sponsorship rates are not publicly disclosed on the organiser's website as of verification. The complimentary access model applies specifically to investors, analysts, and financial journalists on the attendee side.
MiFID II (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II) is a European regulatory framework governing how financial information can be communicated between companies and investors. At the German Spring Conference – Equity Forum, MiFID II compliance means that CEO and CFO presentations are structured to meet disclosure rules that apply to public companies when addressing institutional investors. This affects what can be said in both public sessions and private one-on-one meetings, ensuring the event operates within the legal parameters that govern investor relations activity in European public markets.
No information on remote access, livestreaming, or hybrid format components is publicly disclosed for the 2026 edition. The format described by the organiser is an in-person two-day conference in Frankfurt.