AGENDA

DINNER

Monday 11th March 2024
Flora Danica, Paris
18.45 Dinner | 22.30 Carriages

Opening Remarks
Uday Singh
Founder & CEO, Fast Growth Icons

Welcome Address
Greg Revenu
Managing Partner Bryan, Garnier & Co

MAIN DAY

Tuesday 12th March 2024
Hotel Lutetia, 45 Bd Raspail, Paris

8.30
Networking Breakfast

9.00
Opening Remarks
Uday Singh
Founder & CEO, Fast Growth Icons

9.10
Welcome Address
Ben Fletcher
Founder & Host, Fast Growth Icons

9.30
Louis Chatriot
Co-founder & CEO at Alma

How do you get the right experience into your company, at the right time?
In a rapidly growing business, there are usually problems you know you have, and problems you don’t know you have. How do you strengthen the board, the exec team, and your own abilities to best deal with these issues? How do you structure the company for maximum accountability (should the board be able to fire you for example)? When should you bring in outsiders and when should you promote from within?

09.55
Charles Gorintin
Co-founder & CTO, Alan

The role of AI for effective operations
How you can apply AI throughout your business to improve productivity, improve customer communications and reduce costs. As a founding advisor for Mistral, Charles will also touch on the future for the AI space in Europe.

10:20
Roundtable networking and discussion

11.00
Morning Break

11:25
Benoit Dupont
Co-founder & CEO, WeMaintain
Jade Francine
Co-founder & Chief of Growth, WeMaintain

Building and maintaining a culture that works in the good time and the bad times
How do you come up with meaningful and authentic values that drive the sort of culture and performance you want? How do you get them built into day to day decision making? How do you know if it is working, and what happens when times get tough?

11.50
Roundtable networking and discussion session

12.35
Alessandro Petazzi
Co-founder & former CEO at Musement

Life after the exit
Musement’s acquisition by travel giant TUI represents the most important exit in their sector in the last decade, Alessandro talks about why and how they pivoted to gain competitive advantage and vie for attention from a limited pool of potential buyers. What the process was like and the unforeseen challenges they faced in the run-up. Then, how he felt immediately after the win, what it feels like on the other side and why you should ‘be careful of what you ask the gods for…’

13.00
Seated Lunch

14.30
Diederik Den Dekker
Managing Director, Picnic Technologies

Effectiveness and the path to profitability
We’ve all witnessed the change in environment that means funding is harder to come by and companies are having to focus much more on profitability than growth at all costs. Picnic have also been on this journey and will share how they set the top-level objectives, how they identified the right levers to get them there and how they created a culture of accountability to drive engagement and results. The session will also look at managing the trade-off of profit vs growth, and focusing on margin to drive profitability.

15.00
Roundtable networking and discussion session
Coffee served to the tables

16.00
Clémentine Piazza
CEO, Inmemori

How to disrupt one of France’s last oligopolies?
Two players currently dominate the funeral services market in France, resulting in a lack of guaranteed quality of service, excessive margins and demoralized employees. Inmemori has introduced a new standard of support and experience for the bereaved. Clémentine will share how she was able to create this new standard, attract top talent to a profession known for its challenges and transform the perception of an unloved sector.

16.25
Closing Address
Uday Singh
CEO, Fast Growth Icons

16.30
Drinks Reception