CEO Roundtables London
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The London Network Event, Startup Founders, Tech Entrepreneurs, Investors
Wed, Jun 10, 5:00 PM**The London Network Presents: Exclusive Weekly Business Networking Event** Are you a business owner, entrepreneur, or tech professional looking to make valuable connections? Join **The London Network**'s recurring networking event, designed for leaders and innovators across industries. Whether you're a CEO, executive, finance expert, IT professional, or an aspiring entrepreneur, this is your opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals and forge meaningful business relationships. 📍 **Location:** Meet us at Sycamore Covent Garden, 66 Great Queen Street, WC2B 5BX, a stylish and modern bar in the heart of London, just a short walk from Liverpool Street Station. Enjoy a stylish atmosphere and dynamic setting, perfect for mingling and great conversations. 🕒 **Schedule** * **6:00 pm – 6:30 pm**: Meet & Greet * **6:30 pm – 9:00 pm**: Informal networking over drinks (complimentary alcoholic welcome drink included) 👔 **Dress Code**: Business smart casual. ### **Why Attend?** * **Build Connections**: Network with business owners, executives, investors, and professionals across London and beyond. * **Unlock Opportunities**: Establish relationships that can lead to new business partnerships, collaborations, or investment. * **Stay Ahead**: Gain insights into the latest trends and innovations in business, finance, and entrepreneurship. This event is perfect for anyone seeking to expand their professional circle, grow their business, or gain fresh perspectives from a dynamic mix of professionals. **Limited to 30 spots!** Register today and hit **Follow** for updates on future weekly events. 📸 **Event Photography:** Please note that photos and videos may be taken for promotional purposes. [Event media by CineEye, a London-based video production and photography provider](https://www.cineeye.co.uk/ "https://www.cineeye.co.uk/"). **Location Details**: Sycamore Bar Covent Garden inside Middle Eight Hotel, London 🚉 Just a 3-minute walk from Holborn Station. **Note**: Proof of ID required for alcoholic beverages. 18+ only. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your business network in a relaxed, engaging setting! **Sign up now** and start building connections that last.
London Fintech & Finance Networking (Founders & Investors)
Tue, Jun 16, 5:30 PM**Welcome to Networx London!** Are you a finance, banking, investment, or fintech professional looking to grow your network? Join an engaging evening for leaders, innovators, and executives across industries. Whether you’re a CEO, founder, investor, or business professional, this is your space to connect, share insights, and spark new opportunities in finance, corporate banking, risk, and investment management. 📍 **Venue: The Sycamore, Holborn** A modern, relaxed venue in central London, just steps from Holborn station. Perfect for after-work networking, drinks, and great conversations. 📅 **Event Schedule** **18:30 – 19:00** \| Welcome & Warm intro **19:00 – 19:30** \| Open Networking **19:30 – 21:30** \| Informal Networking \(no pitches\, no pressure 💡 **Why Attend?** Connect with professionals in finance, banking, investment, and fintech in a focused networking setting. Share insights, explore opportunities, and meet people driving innovation across the industry. **Who Should Attend:** CEOs, founders, co-founders, finance and banking professionals, investment managers, fintech professionals, investors, and business leaders looking to expand their network and connect with industry peers and innovators. **Limited spots!** Register today and hit **Follow** for updates on future weekly events. 📸 **Event Photography** Please note that photos and videos may be taken for promotional purposes. **WhatsApp**👉[https://chat.whatsapp.com/GisOCaIiMeKEehV5Lv7qxg]()
How a Startup is Changing a Legacy Org from the Inside
Tue, Jun 16, 4:30 PMThree and a half years ago, our 17-person startup was acquired by a 4000+ person organisation with a 30-year-old technology estate. We were placed in a new city, a new hub, and an org where teams wouldn't even give us read access to their codebases. This is the honest story of how we went from outsiders to partners — and how a small team with zero positional authority shifted engineering culture across an organisation that had accumulated decades of process debt. What we got right: Starting with empathy instead of expertise. Understanding that past decisions were rational given past constraints. Earning trust through small wins before suggesting any change. Starting with the willing — not trying to boil the ocean. What we got wrong: Trying to introduce an Internal Developer Portal before we had the political capital to navigate process debt — we couldn't even get a VM. The frustration and near-burnout when the org wouldn't let us contribute. The turning point: A RAG system built across 8 teams — 16 languages, 25 countries — that became the first true cross-team collaboration in the org's history. No Agile lead, no scrum ceremonies. People just solved a real problem together. The numbers: Deployment frequency from once every 2 months to every 10 days. Build times down 80%. Excel-sheet environment booking replaced with self-service ephemeral environments. Every new service ships with monitoring, observability, docs, and tests from day zero. The culture shifts: We flattened PR reviews so every dev — not just the EM — gives feedback. Devs and QAs now present directly to stakeholders across 25+ squads. Decision-making moved from a Tech Lead bottleneck to distributed RFCs where anyone can propose and comment. We removed executive offices — everyone sits on the open floor. We introduced 360-degree reviews where none existed. And we built a 2000+ person tech community from zero. Where we are now: Experimenting with 3-person pods working in flow beyond sprints, leveraging AI, solving customer problems daily. Invite over inflict — the teams that adopted these ways of working did so because they saw the outcomes, not because anyone mandated it. This talk is grounded in systems thinking, game theory, Team Topologies, InnerSource. Mostly the talks is around the learnings of hardest engineering problems aren't technical — they're human. AI can write the RFC. It can't build the trust that gets it accepted Takeways: Will leave with practical patterns for influencing organisational change without authority — whether they're a small team inside a large org, or a single leader trying to shift how their corner of the world works. **Jeevan D C** Solving tech problems at scale A problem solver keen on Distributed Systems, System Architecture, Scale, Performance with core expertise in building high throughput, resilient, fault-tolerant applications in multi-cloud environments. Passionate about teaching and mentoring. Got extensive experience in Digital transformation, Cloud migrations, Startup acceleration in Telco, Insurance, Banking domains at scale.
The People Problems No Founder Sees Coming
Tue, Jun 16, 5:15 PMDate: Tuesday 16th June, 6:15-9 PM UK Time Location: [1 Warwick by Maslow’s](https://share.google/MnxwD6w1PqaJ512K6) [Sign up for this event here!](https://founders500.com/session/startup-session-15-the-people-problems-no-founder-sees-coming/) Please note that clicking attend on Meetup will not give you the correct QR code to enter this event. Please sign up for your Universe ticket using the correct link. ### Most founders think scaling is a hiring problem. It’s not, it’s a people problem. Building and scaling a startup is hard, but turning it into an organisation is where things really start to break. At around 15 to 30 people, what once felt easy suddenly becomes more complex. Communication slows down, expectations become unclear, performance becomes inconsistent, and founders often find themselves stuck in the middle of everything. Many assume it’s a hiring issue, but in reality it runs deeper. In this interactive session, we’ll unpack the people challenges founders don’t see coming as they scale, brought to life through real stories, honest reflections, and practical insight from working inside growing organisations. Through a conversational, interview-style format, we’ll explore five of the most common areas where founders underinvest early, and the impact this has as their companies grow. This isn’t a lecture. It’s an opportunity to step back, reflect on your own business, learn from others in the room, and leave with practical ideas you can apply immediately, whether you are just starting to build a team or already navigating the pressures of growth. ## About the Speakers: **Katherine Ray** Katherine works with founders and senior leaders to identify what actually needs to change in their leadership and people approach before it becomes costly as they scale. With over 20 years’ experience across early-stage, scaling businesses and large global organisations, she brings a broad and grounded perspective on how people and leadership challenges show up at different stages of growth. As an executive leadership coach, Katherine focuses on helping leaders build the clarity, capability, and confidence needed to lead effectively as their organisations evolve, while enabling teams to perform during periods of growth, change, and increasing complexity. **Kuldish Sibia** Kuldish is a fractional People leader and founder of Scaling People Solutions, with over 20 years of experience across global organisations, scale-ups, and high-growth environments. He specialises in helping businesses put the right people foundations in place before growth exposes the cracks. From performance challenges to complex people issues, Kuldish brings a practical, no-nonsense perspective on what happens when early decisions start to catch up, and what it takes to fix them. ## What to Expect on the Night: Doors open at 6:15 PM with a welcome drink and networking. Starting at 6:45 PM, this 75-minute interactive session including Q&A will include: **Real Stories and Insights (Interview Format)** We’ll explore five key people challenges founders face as they scale, including: * Creating clarity on roles and expectations * Investing in people management including performance, feedback, and accountability * Workforce planning, who you hire, when, and why * How leadership needs to evolve as your company grows * Building foundations before tools Each theme will be brought to life through real examples and honest reflections from working with scaling businesses. **Founder-to-Founder Discussion** You’ll have the opportunity to reflect on one of the five key challenges that resonates most with you or is most relevant to your business right now. Through guided prompts, you’ll explore: * What’s currently feeling difficult in your organisation * How this challenge is showing up as you scale * What you might need to do differently **Q&A** A chance to ask questions and explore specific challenges you’re facing. **Community and Connection** From 8:00 PM, connect with fellow founders, operators, and builders in a relaxed setting designed for meaningful conversation. You’ll also have the opportunity to speak with Katherine and Kuldish one-to-one about any specific people or organisational challenges you’re currently navigating. Doors close at 9:00 PM. ## Who Should Attend: * Founders and co-founders building and scaling a team * Leaders in growing companies where things are starting to feel more complex than they should * Anyone hiring, managing people, and noticing that what worked early on is no longer working This session is particularly relevant for companies moving beyond the early stage, around 10 to 50 plus people, where people challenges become more visible and more impactful. [Sign up for this event here!](https://founders500.com/session/startup-session-15-the-people-problems-no-founder-sees-coming/) Please note that clicking attend on Meetup will not give you the correct QR code to enter this event. Please sign up for your Universe ticket using the correct link.
Rise Fringe Summit London Tech Week
Thu, Jun 11, 5:30 PMJoin us at the **Rise London Tech Ladies Fringe Summit**, an inspiring gathering taking place alongside London Tech Week — bringing together innovators, leaders, founders, and allies who are passionate about building a more inclusive future in technology. [Please register here](https://londontechweek.com/fringe-events-2026/rise-london-tech-ladies-fringe-summit-london-tech-week?&ownerid=71733&sortby=ownerorder%20ASC%2CpublishedDate%20DESC&searchgroup=libraryentry-fringe-events-2026) This year, we explore three powerful conversations shaping the future of tech: ✨ **The Asymmetric Impact of AI** ✨ **Building a Global Business in a Digital Age** 💡 **Women & FinTech** 🥂 **Closing Networking Drinks from 8:00 PM** Stay after the summit to continue conversations, meet fellow innovators, exchange ideas, and build meaningful connections within London’s vibrant tech community. Hear from trailblazers in fintech who are redefining finance through innovation, entrepreneurship, and ethical technology. Discover how women are shaping the future of digital finance, investment, and financial inclusion. This summit is open to **everyone** — founders, technologists, investors, students, corporate leaders, and allies — who believe in empowering women in tech and accelerating diverse leadership across the industry. 🌍 Connect. Learn. Collaborate. Let’s build a tech ecosystem where opportunity, innovation, and leadership are truly inclusive.
Founder Mixer & Business Networking | Saturday Social in Covent Garden
Sat, Jun 6, 5:30 PM**Looking for a business networking event in London with a more social, founder-led atmosphere, and on a Saturday?** **Join us for a Business Networking & Founder Mixer in Covent Garden. Hosted by London tech startups GMax Card, Ciitab, and Getshop Today.** **What to Expect** **Quality** **conversations****, relaxed socialising/****networking****, and** **a live DJ throughout the evening** **\- a business crowd in a social setting\. Meet new people\, exchange ideas\, build** **partnerships****, and** **grow your network** **in a relaxed but professional atmosphere.** **Our hosts will help introduce guests early in the evening, before the event naturally flows into open networking, drinks, and** **DJ music****.** **Who You’ll Meet** **•** **Founders** **and** **entrepreneurs** **•** **Business owners** **and** **decision makers** **•** **Finance****,** **FinTech, banking****, and** **investment professionals** **•** **Tech****,** **startup, AI, digital, and product professionals** **• International** **business professionals visiting London** **How the Evening Flows** **18:30 - Arrival & welcome** **19:00 - Short guest introductions** **19:30 - Open socialising/networking with live DJ** **21:30 - Close** **Venue - Sycamore Bar, Middle Eight Hotel** **A refined cocktail bar inside the 5-star Middle Eight Hotel in Covent Garden, just a short walk from Covent Garden, Holborn and Tottenham Court Road stations.** **Dress Code** **Business or smart attire. Think polished Saturday evening out with a professional touch.** **Tickets & GMax Cards** * **Limited promotional Free RSVP tickets include only the access to the event.** * **Selected paid tickets include a premium contactless GMax Card.** **Hosted by founder-built tech startups:** **•** [GMax Card – digital & contactless business cards](www.gmaxcard,com) **•** [Ciitab – AI-powered LinkedIn networking](www.ciitab.com) **•** [Getshop Today – UK ecommerce platform](www.getshop.today) **Important Details** **• 18+ event. ID may be required at the bar.** **• Photography and filming may take place for promotional use by** [Cine Eye (Audiovisual Production).](Audiovisual%20Production) **• Attendance is at your own risk. Organisers and venue accept no liability for loss, damage, or injury.** **Spaces are limited and early booking is recommended.**
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