Your Summit Agenda
Our carefully curated agenda features intimate fireside chats, dynamic panel discussions and focused breakout sessions where successful founders and CEOs share their triumphs, setbacks and wisdom.
Join Business Leader’s editor-in-chief Graham Ruddick as he sets the scene for a day of transformative insights.
Simon Arora and his brothers bought the struggling discount retail chain, B&M, for £525,000 in 2004. Today, it is valued at more than £5bn and is part of the FTSE 100. In our first keynote, he will tell the story of how B&M went from an ailing medium-sized business in Blackpool to one of the biggest companies in the UK, what he learned along the way and his advice for leaders wanting to scale up.
The UK Budget has a profound impact on medium-sized businesses. In this session, we will dive into the implications and offer you practical advice on how to position your company for growth.
Your people are the most important part of your business – so getting them to work well together is critical. In this fireside chat, leadership and mindset expert Catherine Baker talks to Brentford football club’s Ben Ryan about how to build a team that excels and why performance is more than the sum of its parts.
Join us for an exclusive session with one of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs as they discuss how they scaled their business.
Richard Harpin founded HomeServe in 1993 with an investment of just £50,000. Thirty years later, he sold the company to the private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management for £4.1bn. Here, he will reflect on his journey and share his eight secrets to build a billion-pound business.
Take a deeper dive into the topics impacting your business as you scale. Pre-book the session you would like to attend.
Your people are the most important part of your business – so getting them to work well together is critical. In this fireside chat, leadership and mindset expert Catherine Baker talks to Brentford football club’s Ben Ryan about how to build a team that excels and why performance is more than the sum of its parts.
Simon Arora and his brothers bought the struggling discount retail chain, B&M, for £525,000 in 2004. Today, it is valued at more than £5bn and is part of the FTSE 100. In our first keynote, he will tell the story of how B&M went from an ailing medium-sized business in Blackpool to one of the biggest companies in the UK, what he learned along the way and his advice for leaders wanting to scale up.
Take a deeper dive into the topics impacting your business as you scale. Pre-book the session you would like to attend.
Join Business Leader’s editor-in-chief Graham Ruddick as he talks through the day and shares what he has learned.
In this session, we’ll be getting the inside view on accessing capital, navigating lending criteria and securing the best financing solutions for those running medium-sized companies.
Join us for an exclusive session with one of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs as they discuss how they scaled their business.
Take a deeper dive into the topics impacting your business as you scale. Pre-book the session you would like to attend.
Take a deeper dive into the topics impacting your business as you scale. Pre-book the session you would like to attend.
Join us for an exclusive session with one of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs as they discuss how they scaled their business.
Take a deeper dive into the topics impacting your business as you scale. Pre-book the session you would like to attend.
Euan Blair co-founded the apprenticeships company Multiverse. In this session, he will discuss scaling his business with our editor-in-chief Graham Ruddick.
Tom Beahon set up Castore alongside his younger brother Phil in 2016. Just eight years later, it is worth almost £1bn with revenues rising to £200m. In this session, he will be joined by a special guest from the world of sport to discuss leadership, performance, and what motivates them both.
The US is twice as good at building large companies as the UK. In this panel, we will hear from those who have expanded to the US and explore key business strategies from across the pond that could help to create growth for UK businesses.
For the final session of the day, we’ll be joined by a pioneering industry leader who will give their insight into accelerating growth and making the most of the opportunities in the UK’s evolving business landscape.
Join Business Leader’s editor-in-chief Graham Ruddick as he talks through the day and shares what he has learned.