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Seminar Theatre 7 - Sponsored By Hotels.com
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Growth can hide risks and vulnerabilities until pressure exposes them. In this practical session, Rania Bejjani reveals five common blind spots that can weaken an otherwise successful business. Attendees will learn how proportionate risk management can improve decision-making, protect performance and strengthen resilience, and leave with practical questions to identify where their own business may be exposed.
Keynote Theatre 1 - Sponsored By Prosper Squared
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From big ideas to big decisions, Touker Suleyman reveals what itr eally takes to build a brand from scratch, stand out from the crowd and turn an idea into a successful business.Speakers
Keynote Theatre 2 - Sponsored By AI For Growth
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Seminar Theatre 6
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Small businesses are drowning in admin, not strategy. BEYLA Founder & CEO Daniel Callis explores the shift from AI that answers to AI that acts, and what it means for founders running without the resources of an experienced C-suite. Learn how proactive intelligence can support finance, operations and cash flow, while freeing leaders to focus on growth, customers and the decisions only humans should make.
Seminar Theatre 7 - Sponsored By Hotels.com
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This seminar explores how Young Ladies Club is supporting girls from underrepresented groups to engage with STEM education and career pathways. Through school-based programmes and partnerships with STEM organisations, attendees will learn about the barriers facing young women in STEM, effective engagement strategies, and the impact of targeted interventions demonstrated through programme outcomes, participant feedback, and case studies.
Seminar Theatre 8 - Sponsored By AdPower
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We will show you how you get more time and grow your business by outsourcing your calls and admin. As a business owner, you're likely all too familiar with the stress and pressure that comes from juggling a heavy workload. Between managing day-to-day operations, communicating with customers, and dealing with administrative tasks, it can feel like there are never enough hours in the day.
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Seminar Theatre 9 - Sponsored By Bloom Coach
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Most founders don't have a scaling problem, they have a leadership bottleneck. As teams grow, the gap between founder judgement and team capability becomes the ceiling on growth. This talk breaks down the essential components of driving team performance: clarity, alignment, and communication, and shows how to systematically raise the leadership skill level within your business so 90% of decisions get made without you in the room.
Seminar Theatre 12 - Sponsored By Green Shift Energy Limited
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An informative overview of the evolving UK energy market, exploring wholesale market trends, backwardation, geopolitical influences, policy changes and the transition towards Net Zero and renewable generation. The seminar will examine the factors shaping energy costs towards 2030 and beyond, providing practical insight into market risk, future budget protection and the considerations organisations should understand when navigating an increasingly complex and rapidly changing energy landscape.
Seminar Theatre 13
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AI can generate code, content, and ideas in seconds, but building a successful digital product takes far more than technology. This seminar explores what separates products that succeed from those that fail, covering user-centred design, scalable development, AI, and long-term product strategy. Ideal for founders, product leaders, and organisations looking to build digital products that deliver lasting value.
Seminar Theatre 14
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Whether you're just looking to get started in property investment, growing a portfolio or building a property service business, success within the UK property industry depends on trusted knowledge, professional support and valuable connections.
Drawing on more than a decade of experience, co-founders of the National Landlord Investment Show will present and explore how landlords, investors, developers and property businesses can identify opportunities, navigate change, reach the right audiences and build the relationships needed to succeed and thrive in the UK property market through expert led education and connection.
Keynote Theatre 1 - Sponsored By Prosper Squared
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Keynote Theatre 2 - Sponsored By AI For Growth
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AI is reshaping the human experience of work, not just the technology. In this practical keynote, Christopher Lane of Accenture shows business owners how AI is changing tasks, skills and ways of working, where smaller firms should focus, and how to adopt AI safely and get started. He also introduces AI for Growth, the non-profit alliance offering free tools and support for UK SMEs.
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Many brands fight for attention on screens. But the fastest-growing businesses are finding their customers somewhere unexpected: in audio. In this session, Spotify's Tristan Toulemonde explores why listeners are more attentive, more trusting, and more likely to act than users on visual platforms, and what that means for brands that don't have massive budgets to burn.
Seminar Theatre 6
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Whether you run one vehicle or one hundred, do you truly know what each one costs your business? This session unpacks the full picture of vehicle ownership costs, from acquisition and fuel through to maintenance, downtime, and disposal, and gives you a practical framework for taking control. Expect honest conversation, audience participation, and insight you can act on the same day.Speakers
Seminar Theatre 7 - Sponsored By Hotels.com
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You will learn exactly what drives up the value of a privately owned SME or Mid-Market business. We will set out the step-by-step actions you can take to double or triple the value of your business in the M&A market today.
Seminar Theatre 8 - Sponsored By AdPower
Seminar Theatre 9 - Sponsored By Bloom Coach
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Ai and Transformation have become the most overused words but are still something of a black box. Do i buy a platform? How can i use it to scale and grow? What if I spend my money and it doesn’t work or it grows wrong? Can i take that risk? This seminar will demystify and empower you all to rethink about how to use transformation and AI reach to the next level.
Seminar Theatre 10 - Sponsored By Case-UK C.I.C
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What if the biggest risk to your customer experience is insisting on doing everything yourself? Outsourcing has moved far beyond cheap labour and distant call centres, yet many businesses are still making decisions based on an outdated view of the industry. This session challenges those assumptions and explores how specialist partners, technology and new models of operational stewardship can help businesses grow, improve customer relationships and access capabilities they could never justify building alone.
Seminar Theatre 12 - Sponsored By Green Shift Energy Limited
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Business structures and processes that work with 10 employees create chaos with 50 employees. Growing a business successfully, from 10 to 210 employees, requires ever-changing responses, with key inflection points as employee numbers pass the 30, 50, 75 and 100 marks.
In this seminar talk, Irial O’Farrell will explore those changing needs within the context of three common organisational bottlenecks and provide practical insights to avoid the pitfalls.
Seminar Theatre 13
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Burning budget on a failing technology project because it’s "too big to fail" is the fastest way to stall company growth. Join moderator Lucy Lynch CoS at OMNIADIGITAL for a candid, fireside chat with Matthew Small (CEO, OMNIADIGITAL) and Mark Stevens (CTO, C&A). Drawing on real-world lessons from our active transformation partnership with Mark and his team, we’ll explore why knowing when to hit the 'kill switch' is a leader's ultimate superpower and exactly how to stop bleeding capital on tools that don't deliver profit.
Seminar Theatre 14
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An interactive, informative overview of The Institute of Directors, their history, how they are supporting directors and senior leaders. Also a professional overview into achieving Chartered Directorship.
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How do you transform a strong, established real estate advisory business into a truly high-performing, client-centric market leader? John Muday explores Colliers' journey to align its UK business with its global standing as the world's third-largest real estate advisory firm, highlighting the cultural, strategic and leadership changes.
Keynote Theatre 1 - Sponsored By Prosper Squared
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How do you transform a strong, established real estate advisory business into a truly high-performing, client-centric market leader? John Muday explores Colliers' journey to align its UK business with its global standing as the world's third-largest real estate advisory firm, highlighting the cultural, strategic and leadership changes.
Keynote Theatre 2 - Sponsored By AI For Growth
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In a fast-changing business landscape, continuous transformation is essential. EY research with Oxford University’s Saïd Business School shows that leaders who prioritise workforce emotions and behaviours are 2.6 times more likely to succeed. Dr Valeria Winkworth shares global insights on navigating critical “turning points” with humans at the centre—an approach that can improve transformation performance by up to 12 times.
Keynote Theatre 3
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AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace, transforming how we work, create, and solve problems. This session explores where we are today—from generative AI and intelligent agents to real-world business impact—and looks ahead to the next wave of innovation. Join us for a practical, forward-looking discussion on the opportunities, challenges, and future direction of AI.
Seminar Theatre 6
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Most small business marketing struggles not due to a lack of effort, but a lack of direction. In this live presentation Alex Moon will break down COMPASS - his propietary 7-step framework taking SMEs from confusion to clarity. You'll learn how to define your cause, read the market through Observation, build a Monetisation offer that converts, set Purposeful Objectives, choose the righ Approach, rund focused Sprints, and build marketing Systems that compounds results without constant reinvention.
Seminar Theatre 7 - Sponsored By Hotels.com
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Calling all entrepreneurs, how do you break into a booming property industry? How do you start creating cash and passive income from a property business right now?
As one of the UK’s youngest property investors, with a portfolio size within the top 1%, Vishaal will be sharing with you the proven system that has allowed him to do this part-time.
Join the entrepreneurial property revolution and attend this seminar.
Seminar Theatre 8 - Sponsored By AdPower
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Running your own business can be lonely and there is very little guidance out there which is why so many start-ups fail. This seminar will highlight some simple steps to give your businessthe best chance of success.
Seminar Theatre 9 - Sponsored By Bloom Coach
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Are you paying more tax than you need to? Discover 10 powerful tax tips every SME business owner should know to keep more of your hard-earned profits.Learn smarter ways to extract money, maximise tax reliefs and structure your business tax-efficiently. We’ll reveal practical opportunities and common tax mistakes that could be costing your business thousands. One seminar. 10 tax tips. Potentially significant savings.
Seminar Theatre 10 - Sponsored By Case-UK C.I.C
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Most business owners are the bottleneck in their own company. Every call, invoice and question routes through them. Patrick Mattis shows his firm running on an AI Operating System live: the morning brief, the inbox, the invoice chasing. A working system, not slides about the future, an honest comparison of doing it yourself versus having it done, and how to put a pound figure on the hours you lose.
Seminar Theatre 12 - Sponsored By Green Shift Energy Limited
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Two costly failure points hit UK business owners repeatedly: deals that stall without a clear reason, and offshore hires that never quite click. SpecifiVA founder Kemka Emereole and Axis Consulting director Zahida Omar reveal the overlooked skill behind both — reading people and situations accurately — and show how mastering it closes more deals and builds remote teams that perform from day one.
Seminar Theatre 13
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FreeAgent CEO Roan Lavery reveals candid lessons drawn from real scaling stories. Learn how to stay in control of your business finances, forecast blind spots and avoid hiring and firing mistakes. This session delivers honest, practical wisdom that the textbooks skip - giving attendees a shortcut to smarter growth decisions.
Seminar Theatre 14
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The next generation of AI acts like an employee handling sales, support, operations, and customer communication. Discover how companies are implementing AI employees today, the mistakes to avoid, and the practical steps to turn AI into a measurable business advantage.Speakers
Keynote Theatre 1 - Sponsored By Prosper Squared
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AI Won't Fix a Broken Business: Every business is being told to build a brand and adopt AI. Far fewer are told what to fix first. Drawing on running a £1.2bn business and a £170m capital raise, Vineta Bajaj shares what genuinely paid back, what was expensive theatre, and why data, process and ownership have to come before tools.
Keynote Theatre 2 - Sponsored By AI For Growth
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How do we build a marketplace customers trust, sellers value and brands want to join.
Keynote Theatre 3
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AI transformation isn’t about automating yesterday’s processes faster. It’s about fundamentally rethinking how operations work. Drawing on the
complexity of global trade, this session explores how LLMs, intelligent document recognition and logic-based decisioning can combine to transform operational workflows; augmenting human expertise, simplifying complexity and unlocking scale. It will offer a practical framework for leaders considering how AI can move from isolated use cases to the operational engine of their business.
Seminar Theatre 6
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Most organisations already have wellbeing policies, leadership frameworks and training programmes. What's missing is the nervous system literacy that determines whether any of it actually works under pressure. This seminar introduces Nervous System Literacy as a strategic imperative equipping leaders to recognise regulation, activation and shutdown in real time and close the gap between policy and practice, reducing escalation, absence and costly decision-making failures and a universal organisational language.
Seminar Theatre 8 - Sponsored By AdPower
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In this focused 25-minute session, discover why traditional sales training fails due to the "steep forgetting curve." We will introduce the core principles of a modern, value-led approach, briefly exploring diagnostic discovery, reframing buyer perspectives, overcoming indecision, and collaborative timelines. Crucially, you will learn how applying the power of intention and belief whilst utilising neuroplasticity to recode core behaviours that create real, lasting change that maximises sales success.Professionalising the Art of Selling: A Value-Led Approach to Lasting Commercial Success In today's competitive B2B landscape, achieving predictable revenue requires more than just a charismatic pitch; it demands a robust, repeatable commercial system. However, traditional sales training consistently fails to deliver lasting results. Driven by the "steep forgetting curve", sales professionals frequently revert to deeply ingrained, reactive habits once back in the day-to-day sales environment. Instead of acting as strategic problem-solvers, they default to being transactional ‘people pleasers’, pitching features and competing on price. Simply giving your team a new set of tools and frameworks does not work without addressing their underlying mindset.
This focused 25-minute session is designed to fundamentally shift how your SMB or mid-size business approaches revenue generation. It provides an insightful overview of what it takes to transition your sales team from reactive order-takers into proactive, trusted commercial authorities. Throughout the seminar, we will introduce the core themes of a modern, value-led sales approach. Attendees will get a high-level overview of key concepts, such as using diagnostic discovery to uncover a prospect's true commercial pain, effectively reframing buyer perspectives to challenge their status quo, and systematically overcoming the customer indecision that stalls otherwise promising deals. We will also briefly touch upon the mechanics of commercial efficiency, including objective pipeline qualification and the use of collaborative shared timelines to maintain unwavering deal momentum and maximise your successful sales outcomes.
Crucially, we will explain exactly why traditional training fails to make these concepts stick. The critical differentiator of this talk lies in its focus on behavioural psychology. We will highlight the necessity of moving beyond standard sales training by exploring the utilisation of an individual’s neuroplasticity. You will understand how an individual can identify and recode their limiting subconscious rules and beliefs to affect positive behavioural change, and consequently commercial improvement. Ultimately, attendees will leave this concise overview with a clear understanding of the roadmap needed to professionalise their commercial operations. You will gain the foundational insights required to implement permanent behavioural shifts, elevate your team's market positioning, and ensure your organisation is equipped to build highly predictable revenue streams that confidently command higher margins.
Seminar Theatre 9 - Sponsored By Bloom Coach
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Search is turning into answers. Ask ChatGPT or Google now and you get one reply with two or three businesses named in it. Everyone else is invisible. I'll explain how those answers get assembled and why some businesses get picked, in plain English, without the acronyms the industry has invented to make it sound harder than it is. Then what you can do from Monday.
Seminar Theatre 10 - Sponsored By Case-UK C.I.C
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Everyone's talking about AI, but few smaller businesses are seeing real returns. Fractional CFO and Finzu founder Anne Allibone cuts through the hype to show where AI genuinely moves the needle, saving time, cutting cost and freeing you to focus on growth. Bringing a finance leader's eye for what actually drives value, she'll leave you with a practical, jargon-free way to decide where AI is worth it.Speakers
Seminar Theatre 12 - Sponsored By Green Shift Energy Limited
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Every generation of business faces a defining shift that reshapes how companies grow, compete, and scale. Today, that shift is the convergence of global talent and AI. This session explores how forward-thinking organizations can combine both to build more agile, resilient, and scalable operating models for the future.
Seminar Theatre 13
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The seminar will explore the challenges and complexities of dealing with people at work, how organisations develop, how leaders struggle, and the key steps towards making your organisation as successful as your business. Simon will discuss how the focus of an organisation changes over time, and how leaders and business owners can best engage their people.
Seminar Theatre 14
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Every leader reaches a point where being the person who decides everything stops being a strength and becomes the thing holding the team back. This session is about that shift - learning to grow out of being the final word on everything, and understanding how your everyday behaviour shapes the culture around you, often more than anything you say. Honest, practical, and relevant to any leader managing a team.
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Keynote Theatre 1 - Sponsored By Prosper Squared
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Adopting generative and agentic AI is rapidly reshaping how organisations design workflows, deliver services, and manage risk. This session explores how enterprises can move from experimentation to scaled deployment, drawing on practical lessons from early adoption across regulated and complex environments. It will cover real-world use cases, governance and risk considerations, and the regulatory and trust frameworks needed to enable safe, responsible, and value-driven AI adoption at scale.
Keynote Theatre 2 - Sponsored By AI For Growth
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The Hidden Code of Growth shares Jigar Sagar's framework for building scalable businesses. Through five key growth principles, it challenges common entrepreneurial beliefs and explores how to identify opportunities, create customer-focused products, build repeatable systems, develop defensible ecosystems, and transition founders from operators to leaders, combining practical growth mechanics with real-world business insights.
Seminar Theatre 6
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Growth creates work that cannot be ignored: customers waiting for answers, sales leads needing follow-up, admin pulling people away from higher-value tasks and collections requiring steady attention. Outsourced staff can take on these pressure points, giving businesses the capacity to move faster, stay organised and grow cost effectively without overloading the team they already have.
Seminar Theatre 7 - Sponsored By Hotels.com
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The biggest AI risk isn't the technology. It's not knowing how it's being used. Can you prove your AI security, compliance and control? Discover how Microsoft Copilot helps businesses unlock productivity while reducing the risks of Shadow AI, GDPR breaches and compliance failures. Learn practical steps to adopt AI safely, protect your contracts and certifications, and gain a competitive advantage. Includes a FREE AI Readiness Assessment and Review for attendees.
Seminar Theatre 9 - Sponsored By Bloom Coach
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Calling all entrepreneurs, how do you break into a booming property industry? How do you start creating cash and passive income from a property business right now? As one of the UK’s youngest property investors, with a portfolio size within the top 1%, Vishaal will be sharing with you the proven system that has allowed him to do this part-time. Join the entrepreneurial property revolution and attend this seminar.
Seminar Theatre 10 - Sponsored By Case-UK C.I.C
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AI agents are no longer experimental — they are being deployed inside real businesses right now. But most organisations are either ignoring them entirely or bolting on tools without a strategy, and both approaches are expensive mistakes. This session cuts through the noise to explain what the AI agent era actually means for your business, what to build first, and how to avoid the traps that are catching most companies out.Speakers
Seminar Theatre 12 - Sponsored By Green Shift Energy Limited
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You get your numbers every month but something doesn't feel right - and you're not really sure how to use them to move your business forward. Claire Hancott explains why so many growing businesses feel this way - and what it looks like when your finances are actually working for you. This is finance like you've never heard it before.
Seminar Theatre 13
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Most accountants only talk to you at tax return time. This session flips that. Discover the five numbers from break-even to runway to your real tax rate. These separate businesses that grow on purpose from those that just get by. Practical, no jargon, and built for owners who want their accountant working for them all year round.Speakers
Seminar Theatre 14
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Discover The Surprising Truth About Small-Scale Property Development For First Time Developers
Most people come with pre-conceptions about what's involved in developing property. Not only are they usually wrong, they're frequently AMAZED by the reality.
Discover how small development projects are perfect for first-time developers and can generate life-changing results in relatively short-timescales
Keynote Theatre 1 - Sponsored By Prosper Squared
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Keynote Theatre 2 - Sponsored By AI For Growth
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Sharing key insight building the worlds biggest brands ( HelloFresh, Google, Pinterest, Tinder)
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Discover PracticalAI workflows you can use right away to make your global content supply chain up to 50% more effective. This session will show tools and techniques you can apply today, with real-world examples and live demonstrations that help you create, adapt, and validate content across markets faster, smarter, and with measurable impact.
Seminar Theatre 6
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As a founder, your bandwidth is your scarcest resource - it drives your growth and, left unmanaged, becomes your biggest growth blocker. This session covers how to guard it and future-proof your business: protecting your time like it's capital, identifying single points of failure, understanding the importance of SOPs and workflows, using AI as a force multiplier (not a crutch), and how capacity doesn't necessarily mean hiring full-time headcount.
Seminar Theatre 7 - Sponsored By Hotels.com
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Large enterprises run finance, sales, procurement, HR, and operations on integrated, automated platforms. Most SMEs can't — juggling separate tools for each function, with data trapped in silos and no single source of truth. This session unpacks why that gap persists, what fragmentation actually costs SMEs in time, errors, and missed decisions, and why enterprise-grade integration has stayed priced out of reach. We'll look at what's changing, and what SMEs should demand next.
Seminar Theatre 8 - Sponsored By AdPower
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Most B2B businesses treat poor LinkedIn results as a volume problem - post more, connect more, message more. It rarely works, because volume is rarely what's broken. This session walks through the three things that determine whether LinkedIn produces sales, in the order that matters - and shows why fixing them in the wrong sequence wastes money. Attendees leave knowing exactly which fix to make first, and how.Speakers
Seminar Theatre 9 - Sponsored By Bloom Coach
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At Smart Corporate Stays, we help landlords reposition properties to attract corporate clients, contractors and relocation professionals, unlocking stronger demand and higher income potential.
Seminar Theatre 10 - Sponsored By Case-UK C.I.C
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Want to hire the best person for the job, wherever they're from? This friendly, practical session cuts through the jargon on UK right to work rules and visa routes for non-UK nationals in 2026. You'll learn how to complete the Right to work for all hires, what a sponsor licence involves, which visa options suit growing teams, and how to avoid compliance mistakes that catch people out. Practical and actionable guidance for building your team with confidence.
Seminar Theatre 12 - Sponsored By Green Shift Energy Limited
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This seminar explores how SMEs can access alternative finance to support growth, manage cash flow, and unlock new opportunities. We explain how Crowd2Fund connects ambitious businesses with private investors through a fast, flexible funding platform, offering an alternative to traditional bank lending. Attendees will gain practical insights into the funding process, understand what lenders look for, and discover how the right finance can help their business invest, expand, and achieve long-term success.Speakers
Seminar Theatre 13
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Discover the power of strategic networking to build profitable business relationships and drive growth through practical, actionable insights
Seminar Theatre 14
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UK businesses are expanding globally, facing rising costs, and competing for talent in an increasingly competitive market. Offshore staffing is a proven response, and South Africa is the most strategically aligned delivery location for UK operations. This session covers why, drawing on real client outcomes, the specific advantages South Africa offers UK businesses, and the best practices that make the difference in any offshore engagement. Interactive and designed to challenge assumptions.
Keynote Theatre 1 - Sponsored By Prosper Squared
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Calling all entrepreneurs, how do you break into a booming property industry? How do you start creating cash and passive income from a property business right now?
As one of the UK’s youngest property investors, with a portfolio size within the top 1%, Vishaal will be sharing with you the proven system that has allowed him to do this part-time.
Join the entrepreneurial property revolution and attend this seminar.
Keynote Theatre 2 - Sponsored By AI For Growth
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AI is now cheap and everywhere, so the tool is no longer the advantage. The firms winning major contracts are the ones that package expertise into measurable outcomes clients will pay a premium for. Drawing on 25 years across London 2012, Crossrail and HS2, and on deals with global investors, Zeena shows SMEs how to reframe what they sell, price it, and scale it.
Seminar Theatre 6
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Growing businesses are losing contracts, failing supplier checks, and leaving themselves exposed, not because they lack ambition, but because the security foundations are not in place. Audit and assurance, third-party risk management, and staff training are no longer optional extras. They are what your customers are already asking for. This session explains what the cyber security table stakes actually are in 2026, and how getting them right becomes a direct commercial advantage.
Seminar Theatre 7 - Sponsored By Hotels.com
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Most sales teams don 't underperform because they can 't hire or won 't invest in training. They underperform because talent, training and technology aren 't connected. In this session, Sarah Skelton, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Flourish, shares how recruiting for potential over pedigree, combined with AI and technology, helps businesses build high-performing teams and drive sustainable growth
Seminar Theatre 8 - Sponsored By AdPower
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AI is everywhere. But implementing AI isn't the same as adding value. For SMEs, the challenge isn't whether to use AI; it's knowing what's worth implementing and what's just noise. This session shares three practical, low-cost ways small businesses can use AI right now: keeping leads warm, spotting deals going cold, and handling routine follow-up without hiring. Clear guidance on what to automate first, and what to leave alone.Speakers
Seminar Theatre 9 - Sponsored By Bloom Coach
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Size Doesn't Matter! The Bid Winning Top 10 for SMEs Customeric's high-energy 'chart countdown' of bid-winning tips will debunk the myth that public sector bidding is only for large organisations. In fact, of the UK's £385 billion annual public procurement spend, £45 billion goes directly to SMEs (2025) - Size doesn't matter! We'll cut through jargon, simplify the process, and equip you with tools and confidence to bid, win, and fast-track your growth.
Seminar Theatre 10 - Sponsored By Case-UK C.I.C
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Small businesses can be AI's biggest winners, and Anthony Karibian reveals why the business phone number you already have is your fastest AI win, the hidden cost of every bad or missed call and what happened when real businesses switched it on. Leave knowing exactly where Voice AI can give your business a massive boost without losing the human touch.
Seminar Theatre 12 - Sponsored By Green Shift Energy Limited
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Businesses have evolved—but has commercial property? As hybrid working, AI, ESG and changing employee expectations reshape the workplace, many organisations still rely on outdated property strategies. Discover how aligning commercial property, workplace strategy and facilities management with business objectives can reduce risk, unlock value and create a genuine competitive advantage.
Seminar Theatre 13
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The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of today’s ever-changing business world, using real-life examples to bring key issues to life. We’ll highlight emerging opportunities, practical lessons from recent successes and failures, and the risks businesses need to prepare for. From challenges you’d rather avoid to realities you can’t ignore, this session focuses on what you need to know to stay resilient, informed, and one step ahead of change.
Seminar Theatre 14
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A business is an organism - its documents, compliance, and financial data are the neural connections that hold everything it knows about itself. This talk asks a provocative question: could that brain eventually run on its own? It explores what's technically possible today, starting with the piece most SME founders are blindest to - their finances - and what it means to build toward the rest.
Keynote Theatre 1 - Sponsored By Prosper Squared
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Luke Tobin has built and exited multiple businesses, including scaling Digital Ethos from a £100k start-up to an eight-figure exit. Drawing on that journey and his work advising agency founders through Unusual Group, Luke shares why founders don't fail from lack of ability - they fail from overload - and the practical frameworks that let you grow the business without losing yourself in it.
Seminar Theatre 6
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Sharing the journey from start up to multiple successful business exits using the power of Finance to Transform any business. A warts and all success story for any business owner showing the power than finance can bring to achieve substantial growth and ultimately success
Seminar Theatre 7 - Sponsored By Hotels.com
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How AI is helping small and mid-sized businesses to do more without increasing headcount — from the answering phones to processing paperwork - without complexity and without the hype.
Covers examples including customer service, sales, HR, finance and operations. We'll walk through case studies for small and mid-size businesses, and finish with three things you can do to find out if AI is the missing pair of hands your business needs.
Seminar Theatre 12 - Sponsored By Green Shift Energy Limited
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Discover what it takes to successfully enter and expand in the UAE market. This seminar provides practical guidance for international investors on business setup, choosing the right activities and facilities, understanding local requirements, and planning for sustainable growth.
Learn how UAQFTZ can support your journey from establishing a UAE presence to building and expanding your business across the region.
Seminar Theatre 14
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Everyone's talking about AI; far fewer are actually using it well. Drawing on a year of integrating AI across two established businesses, Sascha Lopez cuts through the hype to show what works in practice. Whether you're starting out or running an existing company, you'll leave with practical, affordable ways to apply AI to sales, operations and customer service, plus the mistakes to avoid along the way.Speakers
