SATURDAY 17TH OCTOBER
Take a front row seat at the Main Stage, or attend a deep-dive discussion at the Entrepreneurs Stage, Careers Stage or Tech Stage
Main Stage
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Purpose can be a great driver for success in life, but too often people look for it in the wrong places. Lord Hastings found his purpose early on, after seeing people choose kindness in the darkest of ...
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No one plans their career five years out and gets it right. The moments that actually shift a career are usually smaller: putting yourself forward for a stretch opportunity, taking a risk on a new rol ...
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Lunch Break
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Great pitches make the opportunity clear, prove real momentum, and handle questions confidently. In this competition, supported by Lloyds, four Black-owned businesses pitch live for a year-round suppo ...
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We’ve been taught how to work harder, earn more, climb higher and build successful businesses, but what is all that ambition building for us? In this practical keynote professionals and entrepreneurs ...
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What does it take to turn a small business into a market leader? This session brings together a fast-growing brick-and-mortar founder, a serial entrepreneur who’s grown and scaled multiple businesses, ...
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Long before Dean Forbes was leading billion-pound deals, he was building the grit, determination and discipline that would shape how he leads today. Across Forterro, Corten Capital, Cornerstone VC, an ...
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Emma Grede is often one step ahead, whether it’s launching a business in a category no one realised was so valuable, saying out loud what everyone else was quietly thinking, or knowing exactly what it takes to get a deal over the line. Her tenacity, insight, and drive have made her a household name, and taken SKIMS, Good American, and her own media platform to global scale. This conversation brings the honesty Emma is known for to dive into: how to see yourself clearly enough to know what actually needs to change, the employee mentality that holds so many people back, and why hard work is still the foundation everything else is built on. Emma Grede is the blueprint for success, and this conversation is where she breaks it all down.
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Entrepreneurs Stage
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If you’re running a small business in London or thinking about starting one, it can be difficult to know where to access advice and support. In this session, hear about the free business support right ...
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Getting your business in front of major companies and actually winning their contracts takes more than a great product or service. You need to understand how procurement actually works, build the right relationships, and pitch in a way that lands. You also need to manage your own costs and operations well enough to deliver at scale without losing your margins. This workshop combines insider procurement expertise with real lessons from a founder who's secured contracts with household brands and built the business infrastructure to deliver profitably.
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Lunch Break
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Franchising can take you from employee to business owner, but only if you understand how it actually works. This session breaks down what you’re really buying, what the brand gives you in return, and ...
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PANEL: Are you willing to fail in public? Why a strong personal brand is worth the risk for foundersThe cost of building in public is real: embarrassment, scrutiny, and the risk of people watching you fail before they see you succeed. It’s exactly why so many founders wait, building behind closed do ...
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You’ve spent 10,000+ hours building your skills, knowledge and experience. You’ve learned through business, your career, successes, failures and life itself. The question is: are you being paid for wh ...
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Fast growth sounds like the ideal goal, but too often it’s the thing that breaks a business. This session brings together founders who’ve launched and scaled multiple businesses to get honest about th ...
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PANEL: The business of Black hair: Building the infrastructure behind a multi-billion-pound industryBlack hair is a multi-billion-pound global industry. But the people who built it, hairstylists, barbers, educators and session artists, are still too often treated as an afterthought. Investment in pr ...
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Many entrepreneurs assume that if a bank declines their application, their growth journey stops there. In reality, a range of funding options exist to help businesses unlock growth, create jobs and bu ...
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Winning a contract is only the beginning, the real work starts once you're trying to turn a single win into something that lasts. This session brings together founders and Enterprise Nation to talk ho ...
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Careers Stage
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Most young founders start in the same place: no funding, no blueprint, just a belief that something needs to exist. That’s exactly why the early years feel so exposed, watching peers follow a more fam ...
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What does it really take to thrive at work when the workplace wasn’t necessarily designed with you in mind? In this live episode of the Everybody Hates HR Podcast, Lola and Velisa get candid about the ...
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It’s not just your job history that unlocks your next role, it’s the skills you’ve built along the way and how well you can articulate them. This session will help you recognise how your skills have t ...
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As Black women, ambition is in our bloodline, but self-preservation matters just as much, if not more, than career progression. Hear from the co-hosts of the Black Women Working Podcast on how to whol ...
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There’s a real advantage to not knowing how things are supposed to be done. Being new is what lets you ask the question everyone else stopped asking, and notice what’s been quietly overlooked. Careers ...
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The Walt Disney Company is far bigger than the roles most people picture. Alongside the creative and entertainment careers it's known for, there are opportunities for talent in finance, marketing, des ...
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You might be busy building a big career or the next great business, but are you taking time to invest in your own health? Peter Ellis’ prostate cancer journey began with a chance diagnosis during a ro ...
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Most people join an ERG for the community. Few realise that it can be a career catalyst. This live episode of the Behind the ERG podcast invites community builders to share what career progression act ...
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Tech Stage
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Every major tech company started as a fast-moving, unproven idea. This session gets into what that stage actually looks like on the inside: how founders identify genuine growth potential in a crowded ...
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You don’t need a huge following to be in high demand. More brands are choosing depth over reach, opting for smaller creators with real expertise and genuine trust with their audience, and tech is no e ...
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Lunch Break
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The tech market is tricky to navigate right now, and the cycles of restructurings and layoffs would unsettle even the most seasoned people in the industry. But you have more control than it might feel ...
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There are tech roles shaping global systems, building critical infrastructure, closing deals that bring new innovations to market, and solving problems that affect millions of people, and most people ...
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Think Lloyds is just a bank? Think again. Behind one of Britain's most recognisable brands sits one of Europe's largest technology transformations. From AI and machine learning to cloud engineering, c ...
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The secret to growing your wealth isn’t more knowledge, it’s asking the right questions and knowing who to ask them to. This session shows you how AI can become your own finance coach, risk management ...
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Around 5% of the UK tech workforce is Black, and that figure drops closer to 3% in senior roles. At the same time, every industry is being rebuilt around data and AI, and the people who understand tha ...
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Most people treat AI like a search box and get disappointing results. The shift that changes everything is moving from one-off questions to a workflow mindset, using AI as a working partner across a w ...
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