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Day 1
Monday 22 March 2027
13:00 – 14:00
Arrival
01
14:00 – 14:20
What Will Separate the Winners from the Losers?
Which companies will benefit from Europe's vulnerabilities and which will be destroyed by them.
Leadership & Human Capital
02
14:25 – 14:45
When the World Moves Faster Than the Board
A cyber attack doesn't wait for your next board meeting. Neither does a geopolitical shock or a regulatory change. How do you structure and empower the board to be the strategic asset the CEO needs?
Governance & Board Dynamics
03
14:50 – 15:10
Hard to Kill
Building a company that can adapt before disruption becomes crisis.
Risk, Security & Resilience
04
15:15 – 15:35
The Capital Paradox
With investors sitting on so much dry powder, we dive into what has to happen for capital to flow into the next generation of European businesses.
Capital & Strategy
15:40 – 17:30
1:1 Meetings
Pre-Scheduled Roundtables
17:30 – 19:30
Welcome reception
20:00 – late
Hosted dinners (by invitation only)
Day 2
Tuesday 23 March 2027
Time
Main Stage
Stage 2
Stage 3
Roundtables
Board Briefs
08:45
09:25
Main Stage
Welcome & Intro to Day 2
The Enterprise, Rebuilt
09:30
09:50
Main Stage
The Dependency Problem: Building resilience across the suppliers and infrastructure
Stage 2
Leadership Under Capital Constraint: Doing More with Less
Stage 3
Climate Risk, Real Money: Moving beyond ESG
Board Briefs
Board Brief: Cybersecurity
09:55
10:15
Main Stage
The Scaleup Pivot: Changing – and Funding – What Works Before It Stops Working
Stage 2
How Do You Actually Put AI to Work?
Stage 3
Culture Is the One Thing You Can't Build with ChatGPT
Roundtables
The Dependency Problem: When One Customer Matters Too Much
When Climate Risk Sits in Your Supply Chain
Board Briefs
Board Brief: AI
10:20
10:40
Main Stage
Crossing the Border: What Actually Makes International Expansion Work
Stage 2
Not All Money Is Good Money: Choosing the Right Funding
Stage 3
The Cyber Basics Every Scaleup Needs to Get Right
Roundtables
The Scaleup Pivot: Adjusting your GTM Model for Scale
Capital Constraint: Leading a Team Through the End of Easy Money
10:45 – 11:15
Break
11:15
11:35
Main Stage
Designing the AI-Enabled Company
Stage 2
More Products, More Growth – or More Distraction?
Stage 3
You Don't Have to Build Everything Yourself: When To Partner
Roundtables
Crossing the Border For the First Time: What Do You Wish You'd Known
The Cyber Questions Every Director Should be Asking
11:40
12:00
Main Stage
Building a Business That's Hard to Copy
Stage 2
The Regulator's View: Where European Enforcement Is Heading
Stage 3
Your First 24 Hours in a Crisis: Who decides what, who needs to know, and what happens first?
Roundtables
Where Should AI Actually Sit in the Organisation
Acqui-Hire or just Hire? When is buying a team the right decision?
Board Briefs
Board Brief: EU Regulation
12:05
12:25
Main Stage
Building to the Next 10x: How do you build and fund the company you want to become?
Stage 2
Are You Still Treating Cyber Like an IT Problem?
Stage 3
AI and the Workforce: Overcoming Adoption Resistance
Roundtables
What if AI Attacks your Moat
When Your Competitors Can Copy Everything You Build
Board Briefs
Board Brief: Fundraising
12:30
12:50
Main Stage
Capital for Scale: When Does It Make Sense to Buy Growth?
Stage 2
When Informal Stops Being Good Enough: Risk and Controls for Scale
Stage 3
Not Good or Bad, Just Right or Wrong: Finding the right investor to partner with you
Roundtables
How Much Cybersecurity is Enough?
Which AI Decisions Belong at the Board Level?
12:50
Lunch
12:50 – 16:15
1–1 Meetings
Curated introductions across the programme
Also running
Pre-Scheduled Roundtables
16:15
16:35
Main Stage
Professionalise the Business Without Killing the Culture
Stage 2
Where's the Return on Digital Transformation?
Stage 3
Scenario Planning Beyond Compliance: Stress Testing for an Uncertain Future
Roundtables
The First Acquisition: What You Wish You'd Known
Risk and Controls: How Much Process is Too Much Process
Board Briefs
Board Brief: ESG
16:40
17:00
Main Stage
Funding the Bets That Matter: Trade-offs between acquisitions, technology, new markets, products and people
Stage 2
How Do You Stay Ahead of Regulation Without Slowing Down?
Roundtables
What Should the Board be Asking About Controls
How Do You Know if Your AI Investment is Working?
Board Briefs
Board Brief: M&A
17:05
17:25
Main Stage
Grow Faster or Make More Money? Choosing between growth, profitability or long-term value
Roundtables
Regulating What Doesn't Exist Yet: AI and emerging technologies
Funding Big Bets: How Much Can We Actually Afford?
Evening
18:30 – 20:30
Hosted Dinners
By invitation only
21:00 – late
BOARD Cocktail Party
Day 3
Wednesday 24 March 2027
Time
Main Stage
Stage 2
Stage 3
Roundtables
08:45
09:30
Main Stage
Welcome & Intro to Day 3
The View from Both Sides: Lessons from an Operator Turned Investor
09:35
09:55
Main Stage
Building the Board for the Company You're Becoming
Stage 2
What Will Due Diligence Reveal About Your Governance?
Stage 3
The Incentive Deal: Aligning Pay, Performance and Strategy
10:00
10:20
Main Stage
When Your Investors Change the Goalposts
Stage 2
From Founder Board to Scaleup Board: What Needs to Change
Stage 3
The Handover: Two Chairs on What Gets Passed Down
Roundtables
Finding Directors Who Have Done it Before
Managing Investor-Appointed NEDs
What Skills Are Missing Around Your Board Table?
10:25
10:45
Main Stage
Control and Capital: Managing the Tension at Scale
Stage 2
Building Depth Beyond the Founder: A Strategic Obligation
Roundtables
Governance Red Flags Investors Notice First
When Execs and Investors Have Different Time Horizons
10:50
Lunch
10:50 – 14:35
1–1 Meetings
Curated introductions across the programme
Also running
Pre-Scheduled Roundtables
14:35
14:55
Main Stage
The Board That Actually Works: Your Board as a Strategic Asset
Stage 2
When Everyone Has AI, Who Wins?
Stage 3
The Cost of Patient Capital: What are you actually trading for a longer time horizon?
Roundtables
What Changes When Institutional Capital Arrives
How To Say No to Your Investor
15:00
15:20
Main Stage
Betting the Business: How Much Risk is Too Much?
Stage 2
The Anthropologist in the Boardroom: What an Outsider Sees / When to Bring in an Outsider
Stage 3
CEO to Chair: Making the Transition to a Different Type of Leadership
Roundtables
Getting Yourself Out of the Critical Path
Would the Business Work Without You for 90 Days?
15:25
15:45
Main Stage
Sell or Keep Building?
Stage 2
Can Your Technology Scale as Fast as Your Business?
Stage 3
Information Asymmetry and the Board: Is Your Executive Team Telling You the Truth?
Roundtables
The Board Said No. Now What?
When Is It Time to Resign from a Board
When Your Investor's Time Horizon Changes: When patient shareholders suddenly need liquidity
15:50 – 16:10
Break
16:10
16:30
Stage 2
The Cost of Consensus: When Board Culture Prevents the Right Decision
Stage 3
Making Big Decisions with Imperfect Information
Roundtables
Sell or Build: How Much Is Enough?
From CEO to NED: Landing Your First Board Seat
When To Take Money Off the Table
16:35
16:55
Stage 2
Reinvent Before You Have To: Making Big Decisions Before the Future Makes Them for You
Stage 3
The Right Kind of Tension: When Good Boards Disagree
Roundtables
The Numbers Say No but Your Strategy Says Go
Making the Decisions You Can't Undo: Acquisitions, Exits, and Restructuring
17:30Programme concludes