2023 AGENDA
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DINNER
Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Flora Danica, 142 Av. des Champs-Élysées, Paris
18.45 Dinner | 23.00 Carriages
Opening Remarks
Uday Singh
Founder & CEO, Fast Growth Icons
Welcome Address
Greg Revenu
Managing Partner Bryan, Garnier & Co
MAIN DAY
Thursday 23rd March 2023
Hotel Lutetia, 45 Bd Raspail, Paris
8.00
Networking Breakfast
9.00
Welcome
Uday Singh
Founder & CEO, Fast Growth Icons
9.25
Charles Gorintin
Co-founder and CTO at Alan
Launch – 2016, Staff – 530, Funding – $542m, Valuation – €2.7b
How to scale yourself to cope with scale in your business
Charles will talk about how you need to constantly evolve your role in the business and pass on responsibility for things you have solved. The session will also cover how you move from operator to coach to get the best from people, and how you free people to make their own decisions and to challenge your thinking. He will also touch on the importance of creating and maintaining a culture that empowers people to take responsibility.
9.50
Jade Francine
Co-founder & COO, WeMaintain
Launch – 2017, Staff – 180 people, Funding – $42.7m
Growth, structure and leadership
As your company grows the accountability structures need to change, and often the people need to change too – including the founders. Jade will talk about how their company changed with scale, how the founders found the right places for themselves, and how they bought people in from outside while maintaining the culture.
10:15
Roundtable networking and discussion
11.05
Morning Break
11:35
Pierre-François Thaler
Co-founder, Co-CEO EcoVadis
Launch – Apr 2007, Staff – 1,252, Funding – $734m, Valuation – $1b
Building a category leader: The art of staying focused to create an international-scale business
The importance of a clearly differentiated strategy for growth.
How do you keep focussed on your core position and how do you turn that vision into reality in a capital efficient way?
Looking at the different forces internally and externally that can try to derail you from your strategy and how you stay on track.
12.00
Facilitated Round Table Session
13.00
Seated Lunch
14.30
Welcome back
Uday Singh
Founder & CEO, Fast Growth Icons
14.35
Zhong Xu
CEO Deliverect
Launch – 2018, Staff – 448 people, Funding – $237m, Valuation – $1.4b
Creating the foundations for hyper-growth
To grow super fast, but in a sustainable way, you need to create the right environment. That starts with culture, which you need to define early and embed into every aspect of the organisation. But then you need to hire the right people with the drive and ambition to take on the challenge, and then support them with coaching and development. Zhong will talk about how the combination of these two factors creates an attractive environment for people who want to succeed, and how you can provide rapid progression for the best people.
15.00
Roundtable networking and discussion session
Coffee served to the tables
16.00
Timo Buetefisch
Founder & CEO Cooltra
Founded 2006 | Employees 500 | Funding $100m
Innovation for growth
As you grow, you need to start looking for interesting add-ons to fuel growth. Timo will look at the why, when and how of innovation. Why do you need to create different products? What is the right time? We’re always told to focus on the main thing, when does that change and become a growth limiter? Once you decide to do something new, how do you do it effectively without diluting focus of the senior team? How do you create clarity of objectives and reporting? How do you manage risk?
16.25
Closing Address
Uday Singh
CEO, Fast Growth Icons Series
16.30
Drinks Reception
Between the Dinner the night before, presentations and structured round table discussions on the day of the main event, and our signature champagne reception, expect eleven hours of inspiring conversations with peer founders and CEOs.
*Company statistics and valuations are sourced from Dealroom