Speakers

Mike Tempest is a product-obsessed builder and unapologetic contrarian fixing marketing's cluttered status quo with automation and ruthless prioritisation. Across 18 years in tech he has directed high-scale product and engineering teams from Silicon Valley to London, taking one platform from zero to two million users. He now leads Elysium Studios, the venture studio turning customer frustrations into outcome-driven SaaS, and Espy Go, an Al-powered SEO engine giving lean teams unfair leverage. As CTO at fintech scale-up Risika he blended data rigour with lightning-fast experiments, refining a playbook founders still borrow. Mike codes, designs and sells with equal fluency, yet his mantra stays simple: build boldly, explain simply, measure obsessively. He advises startups, jabs at agency fluff, and publishes tactical playbooks that swap hype for proof. Off-grid he's trail-running or hacking workflows — because speed, clarity and impact beat vanity metrics in every go-to-market he owns, from brief to boardroom.