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Preliminary agenda
What Will Separate the Winners from the Losers?
Which companies will benefit from Europe's vulnerabilities and which will be destroyed by them.
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?
Hard to Kill
Building a company that can adapt before disruption becomes crisis.
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.
Main Stage
Welcome & Intro to Day 2
The Enterprise, Rebuilt
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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?
Main Stage
Grow Faster or Make More Money? Choosing between growth, profitability or long-term value
Main Stage
Welcome & Intro to Day 3
The View from Both Sides: Lessons from an Operator Turned Investor
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
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
Main Stage
Control and Capital: Managing the Tension at Scale
Stage 2
Building Depth Beyond the Founder: A Strategic Obligation
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?
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
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?
Stage 2
The Cost of Consensus: When Board Culture Prevents the Right Decision
Stage 3
Making Big Decisions with Imperfect Information
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