CEOs
Chairs
NEDs
Tech & Advisory

CEOs

You are building something serious. Past the startup stage, scaling across markets, managing a board, and thinking about the next capital event – whether that’s a raise, a refinancing, or an exit. The challenges you are navigating are the same ones faced by the most ambitious CEOs across every industry in Europe.

At BOARD, you will find the investors actively deploying capital into companies at your stage, the directors who have sat on boards like yours, and the peers who understand, without explanation, what it means to be responsible for a company at this point in its growth.

Why CEOs attend

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Access Private Capital

  • Meet the PE firms, VCs and family offices actively deploying capital into Europe's most ambitious growth companies, outside of competitive auction processes.
  • Engage directly with investors on M&A strategy, consolidation opportunities and exit timing.
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Learn from Peers Who've Done It

  • Exchange perspectives with peers navigating the same decisions on capital allocation, operating model evolution, founder succession and governance maturity.
  • Learn from founders and CEOs who have successfully navigated pivots in business model, market focus or strategic direction, and understand what made the difference.
  • Stress-test your strategy with a room of experienced peers who have no agenda other than honest exchange.
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Get Clarity on What Matters Now

  • Get direct, grounded answers to the questions your board is asking about AI adoption, workforce restructuring and data ownership.
  • Understand your risk exposure, from cyber liability and regulatory fragmentation to geopolitical volatility and supply chain concentration.
  • Take away practical frameworks for the decisions that define enterprise value, developed by people who have made them.
  • Explore what a fractional career in advisory and NED roles could look like at this stage of your journey.

 

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Chairs

You set the tone for the entire board. You manage the relationship between the executive team and the investors. You are the first call when something goes wrong, and the steadying hand when the pressure is highest. It is one of the most demanding and least visible roles in private business.

The Chair's agenda has never been more complex. AI governance. Founder succession. Institutional investor expectations. Regulatory fragmentation. The boards that navigate this well are the ones where the Chair has the right intelligence, the right peer network, and the right relationships with capital.

BOARD is built for Chairs who take that responsibility seriously.

Why Chairs Attend

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Sharpen Your Board Leadership

  • Set the strategic agenda for your board with sharper context on the challenges defining European private markets right now.
  • Understand how peer Chairs are navigating the tension between supporting the executive team and holding them to account.
  • Develop your thinking on founder-Chair dynamics, one of the most consequential and least-discussed relationships in private business.
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Stay Ahead of What's Expected

  • Benchmark board composition, structure, and remuneration against comparable growth-stage companies across Europe.
  • Get ahead of the governance expectations that institutional investors and PE firms are increasingly placing on the boards they back.
  • Strengthen your ability to lead the board through complexity: AI oversight, cyber risk, regulatory change, M&A governance, with practical insight from people who have done it.
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Build the Relationships That Count

  • Access the investor community directly; build relationships that matter when your company's next capital event arrives.
  • Find your next board appointment through direct proximity to CEOs actively building or refreshing their boards.
  • Connect with fellow Chairs in a confidential, peer-level environment where honest conversation is the standard, not the exception.
  • Position yourself as the kind of Chair that ambitious CEOs and serious investors want in the room.

 

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Non-Executive Directors (NEDs)

You were appointed because of what you know, who you are, and the network you bring. But the role has changed. The board agenda has expanded well beyond the boundaries of any single career or specialism. AI. Cyber resilience. ESG accountability. Geopolitical risk. Founder dynamics. The NED who thrives in this environment is the one who never stops learning and never stops building relationships.


Yet 94% of board directors receive no official training once appointed. There is no structured development pathway. No curriculum. No cohort. Just the discipline to seek it yourself.

BOARD is built for NEDs who take that seriously.
 

Why NEDs attend

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Sharpen Your Board Leadership

  • Set the strategic agenda for your board with sharper context on the challenges defining European private markets right now.
  • Understand how peer Chairs are navigating the tension between supporting the executive team and holding them to account.
  • Develop your thinking on founder-Chair dynamics, one of the most consequential and least-discussed relationships in private business.
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Stay Ahead of What's Expected

  • Benchmark board composition, structure, and remuneration against comparable growth-stage companies across Europe.
  • Get ahead of the governance expectations that institutional investors and PE firms are increasingly placing on the boards they back.
  • Strengthen your ability to lead the board through complexity: AI oversight, cyber risk, regulatory change, M&A governance, with practical insight from people who have done it.
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Build the Relationships That Count

  • Access the investor community directly; build relationships that matter when your company's next capital event arrives.
  • Find your next board appointment through direct proximity to CEOs actively building or refreshing their boards.
  • Connect with fellow Chairs in a confidential, peer-level environment where honest conversation is the standard, not the exception.
  • Position yourself as the kind of Chair that ambitious CEOs and serious investors want in the room.

 

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Investors

You are not here to be pitched at. You have seen the decks. You know the metrics. What you are looking for is something harder to find - genuine access to the founders and boards of Europe's most ambitious growth companies - before they are in a process, before the intermediaries are involved, and before the price reflects the competition.

BOARD is built around that access. The CEOs, Chairs and NEDs in the room are the decision-makers. The conversations are peer-level, the environment is confidential, and the relationships you build here are the ones that define your pipeline for years, not quarters.

 

Why Investors attend

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Source Better Deals

  • Access proprietary deal flow directly from the boards and CEOs of Europe's most ambitious growth companies, away from intermediaries and auction processes.
  • Build your pipeline through structured one-to-one meetings and curated introductions designed to create lasting relationships, not transactional encounters.
  • Understand how the most ambitious European founders are thinking about valuation, dilution and investor relationships, before you're in a negotiation.
  • Identify co-investment opportunities and emerging deal structures through direct exposure to how growth-stage boards are approaching their next capital event.
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Strengthen Your Portfolio​​​​​​​

  • Identify and connect with high-quality NEDs suitable for portfolio company boards.
  • Gain strategic intelligence on the governance, capital and operational challenges facing growth-stage businesses, from the people running comparable companies.
  • Access the frameworks and peer insight your portfolio CEOs and Chairs are using to navigate complexity, and bring that intelligence back into your portfolio relationships.
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Build the Relationships That Count

  • Develop relationships with the decision-makers who determine where Europe's private capital moves next.
  • Stay ahead of the themes shaping European private markets: regulatory shifts, sector consolidation, technology disruption and the evolving expectations of institutional LPs.
  • Build your reputation as a value-added partner, not just a source of capital, through visible contribution to peer-level dialogue.
  • Position your firm as a known and trusted presence in Europe's board-level community before your competitors do.

 

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Tech & Advisory

The decisions your clients make on technology adoption, risk infrastructure, strategic advisory mandates, and capital deployment, are made at board level. Not in procurement. Not in the IT department. At board level. That is where BOARD operates.

The traditional conference model gives you a stand, a logo on a lanyard, and a room full of people who have already decided to avoid eye contact. BOARD is built on an entirely different premise. Growth-stage boards are actively evaluating partners right now – for technology, for advisory, for governance support, for capital. They are in the room. And they are looking for firms that demonstrate the quality of their thinking, not the size of their marketing budget.

BOARD gives solution providers the opportunity to build genuine relationships with those boards at exactly the moment they matter. Not through pitches. Not through sponsored panels. Through peer-level dialogue, roundtable participation, and direct conversation. In a room where reputation is earned, not bought.

Why Tech & Advisory Attend

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Reach Decision-Makers Directly

  • Engage directly with the CEOs, Chairs, and investors making decisions on technology adoption, risk infrastructure, and strategic advisory mandates, without intermediaries and without the noise of a traditional trade event.
  • Build genuine relationships with growth-stage boards at the moment they are actively evaluating partners, long before formal procurement processes begin.
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Let Your Expertise Speak

  • Demonstrate capability through roundtable participation and content contribution rather than traditional sponsorship formats: let your thinking do the work.
  • Build brand credibility in a room where the audience is senior, sceptical, and immune to conventional marketing; where a single well-placed contribution is worth more than a year of cold outreach.
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Know What Boards Need Now

  • Gain intelligence on the priorities, pressures, and decision timelines of Europe's most ambitious private companies, straight from the people running them.
  • Understand the specific gaps in capability, bandwidth, and expertise that growth-stage boards are actively looking to fill, and position your firm accordingly.
  • Stay ahead of the themes shaping boardroom decision-making: AI adoption, cyber resilience, regulatory change, M&A activity, and the evolving expectations of institutional investors.
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Position Where It Matters

  • Identify complementary partnership opportunities with other technology and advisory firms whose capabilities align with your own.
  • Position your firm at the intersection of capital, governance, and growth: where the most consequential technology and advisory decisions in European private markets are made.

 

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