DINNER
Monday 18th May 2026
The Bulgari Hotel, Knightsbridge
18.45
Drinks reception
19.50
Opening Remarks
Uday Singh
Co-Founder & CEO, Fast Growth Icons
19.55
Welcome Address by our Dinner Sponsor
James Peterson
Managing Director, Rothschild & Co
20.00
Seated Dinner
Enjoy three courses from The Bvlgari's exclusive menu
22.30
Carriages
MAIN DAY
Tuesday 19th May 2026
Claridge's, Mayfair
08.00
Breakfast & Networking
09.00
Host
Uday Singh
Co-Founder & CEO, Fast Growth Icons
09.10
Opening Remarks
Ben Fletcher
Co-Founder and CEO, The Mothership
09.30
Welcome address by our Lead Sponsor
Glen Waters
Head of Tech & Life Sciences, HSBC Innovation Banking
09.35
Raising the bar: changing the culture to drive profitability
Luisa Barile
CEO, ManyPets
After transitioning from CFO to CEO, the key challenge for Luisa was getting to profitability, which meant changing the culture. In this session we explore how a mixture of changing personnel, adapting the narrative and focusing on the new behaviours drove change.
10.00
Making 'Strategy' practical and operational
Ruth Handcock OBE
ex CEO, Octopus Money
A lot of people misuse words like strategy but don't actually have a proper articulation of how they expect to win, and a clear mission that motivates people. This interview will discuss how to create a clear and powerful mission and strategy and make it operational. We'll cover story-telling, linking objectives to the mission, and how to drive accountability."
10.25
Roundtable networking and discussion sessions
11.10
Morning Break
11.35
Building Product Organisations for an AI-Driven Future
Richard Davies
CEO, Allica Bank
This session explores a CEO’s perspective on the practical, human and technical challenges of scaling product and engineering organisations from small cross-functional squads to single-threaded teams that own clear services. We’ll cover the architectural, operating-model and governance moves needed to break dependencies, the "home and away" practices for safe cross-team changes, and the real impact of AI tooling on roles, resourcing and reskilling.
12.00
Roundtable networking and discussion sessions
13.00
Seated lunch
Three-course founders’ lunch at Claridge’s
14.30
Welcome address by our Champagne Sponsor
14.35
Learning by Making: building a learning organisation for maximum flexibility in an uncertain world
Raj Khaira
Deputy Global CEO, AutogenAI
Traditional lecture-style learning can be a waste of time, and public courses can date as soon as they are created. This session focuses on practical ways to create a learning-by-making culture: protected time for hands-on projects, clear incentives, iterative planning, and examples of how small experiments unlock new capabilities. AI will be used as the current case study and the session is fundamentally about how to structure learning, accountability and scaling so people deliver results while they upskill.
15.00
Speaker to be announced shortly
15.25
Roundtable networking and discussion sessions
Coffee served to the tables
16.25
Closing Address
Uday Singh
Co-Founder & CEO, Fast Growth Icons
16.30
Champagne Reception
17.30
End