2023 AGENDA
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DINNER
Wednesday 21st May 2023
Eight Members Club Moorgate, 1 Dysart Street, London
18.45
Drinks reception
MAIN DAY
Thursday 22nd May, 2023
Claridge’s, Brook St, London
08.00
Breakfast & Networking
09.00
Welcome
Uday Singh
CEO, Fast Growth Icons
09.10
Opening Remarks
Ben Fletcher
Founder & Chair of Fast Growth Icons
09.30
Akin Babayigit
Co-founder & COO Tripleot Studio
Launch – 2017, Staff – 125, Funding – $202m, Valuation – $1.4b
Being creative: how data, culture and hiring outsiders enable rapid growth
Maintaining innovation and flexibility gets harder and harder with scale. In this session we talk about how TripleDot use data to win by removing market risk and focussing on execution, how they hire bright and hungry people with no preconceptions to produce fresh ideas, and how they create and maintain a culture where people can dare to be different and fail their way to success.
09.55
Matthew Scullion
CEO and Co-founder, Matillion
Launch 2011 I Staff 663 I Funding $309m I Valuation $1.5b
The habits of highly effective growth businesses
Matthew has built Matillion into the leading force that helps enterprises get their data business-ready faster. He will share the core challenges that all growth businesses face – and how understanding them helps you be a better leader, build a world-class executive team, and scale a high-performance culture.
10.20
Roundtable networking and discussion session
11.10
Morning Break
11.35
Elaine Warburton OBE
Co Founder and NED, Quantumdx
Launch 2008, Staff – 114, Funding – $52.9m
Growing into the unknown.
How do you know when to hire the next, more senior, level of people – especially outside your areas of expertise. Once you know you need them, how do you hire and manage people that are more expert than you in their field? How can you use consultants and outside expertise to define what good looks like? And finally, how do you know if they are not good enough, and how do you part company with them?
12.00
Roundtable networking and discussion session
13.00
Seated Lunch
Enjoy three courses from Claridge’s exclusive menu
14.30
Welcome Back
Managing Director in Wealth Management, Rothschild & Co
14.35
Davis Siksnans
Co-founder Printful
Founded 2013 | Staff 1700+ I Funding $130m | Valuation $1b
A practical approach to international expansion
Going global is the key to achieving significant scale. In this session we’ll learn how to tap into global markets with a step by step process for deciding which geographies to prioritise, and a checklist for ensuring success – everything from operations, finance, HR and legal.
15.00
Facilitated discussions
Coffee served to the tables
16.00
Amandine Le Pape
Co Founder & COO Element
Founded 2017 I Staff 149 I Funding $48.6m
Moving forward smoothly
Growth is hard, and rapid growth even more so. This session will look at some of the basic building blocks to smooth transition and maintain speed of execution. Bringing in people that are strong in areas you are not, setting good objectives and putting in the right kinds of processes – and how do you guard against the entropy of scale?
16.25
Closing Address
Uday Singh
CEO, Fast Growth Icons
16.30
Champagne Reception
17.30
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