2022 AGENDA
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DINNER
Monday, 3rd October 2022
Operakällaren
Karl XII:s torg, 103 22 Stockholm
MAIN DAY
Tuesday 4th October 2022
Grand Hôtel
Södra Blasieholmshamnen 8, 103 27 Stockholm
08.00
Breakfast & Networking
09.00
Welcome
Uday Singh
CEO, Fast Growth Icons
09.05
Opening Remarks
Ben Fletcher
Founder, Fast Growth Icons
09.20
How story telling can help in the transition to a larger business
Oscar Höglund
Co-founder & CEO, Epidemic Sound
Founded 2009 | Employees 505 I Funding $510m | Valuation $1.4b
Humans are designed to absorb information from stories effectively. By articulating the company’s objectives and values as stories helps get them across and from everyone to spread the word. As soon as the founder or CEO can no longer personally know everyone in the business, you need to refine these stories to help.
09.45
Building an executive team and the role of the founder
Carl-Magnus Norden
Founder & Executive Chairman Volta Trucks
Founded 2019 | Employees 373 | Funding $323m | Valuation $490m
How does the founder role change with scale, and how can you build an effective management team you can trust and delegate to? Volta have grown from 20 to 400+ in the last two years. How did they plan for senior hires and give them responsibility and accountability? How do you encourage rapid decision making and accept mistakes? What is the acceptable level of process and oversight when you are trying to be as flexible as possible but you also have to align hundreds of people.
10.10
Roundtable networking and discussion session
10.55
Morning Break
11.25
How to structure a product-led company
Sarah Al-Hussaini
Co-founder & COO, ultimate.ai
Founded 2016 | Employees 140 I Funding $27.4m | Valuation $100m
Sarah shares how Ultimate has introduced a new product-led cadence that puts product at the heart of their business, helps bring GTM teams together, makes marketing an extension of their product team, and ensures that major, customer-driven, product releases happen mid-quarter, every quarter.
11.50
A practical approach to international expansion
Davis Siksnans
Co-founder Printful
Founded 2013 | Employees 1700+ I Funding $130m | Valuation $1b
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.
12.15
Roundtable networking and discussion session
13.00
Seated Lunch
Enjoy three courses from exclusive menu
14.30
Welcome Back
14.35
How trust enables speed of execution
Stefan Tilk
Vice Chairman & Group CEO NEVS
Founded 2012 | Employees 500 | Valuation $1.8b
The critical issue for effective operations is trust. Stefan will talk about how transparency and effective communication has helped them navigate an uncertain funding environment and layoffs, but while maintaining motivation and engagement. He’ll also talk about the importance of communicating the good and bad to build trust, and the importance of face to face time.
15.00
Roundtable networking and discussion session with coffee served to the tables
16.00
Keeping customer focus
Anna-Karin Edstedt Bonamy, MD, PhD.
CEO Doctrin
Founded 2016 | Employees 94 | Valuation $86m
It’s all too easy to assume you know what product or features your market requires, but be completely wrong. As your organisation scales the voice of the customer gets further away from the senior team. Anna-Karin will discuss how the initial product failed to match the customers’ needs, how they changed the team make-up and structure to resolve it, and her ongoing thoughts about how to ensure the customer stays at the heart of product decisions as they scale.
16.25
Closing Address
Uday Singh
CEO, Fast Growth Icons
16.30
Drinks Reception
17.30
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