DINNER
Tuesday 3rd November 2026
Flora Danica, Av. des Champs-Élysées
18.45
Drinks reception
19:50
Opening Remarks
Uday Singh
Co-Founder & CEO, Fast Growth Icons
19:55
Welcome Address by our Dinner Sponsor
David Laroque
Managing Director, STIFEL
20.00
Seated Dinner
Enjoy a three-courses from Flora Danica’s Exclusive menu
22.30
Carriages
MAIN DAY
Wednesday 4th November 2026
Mandarin Oriental Lutetia
08.00
Breakfast & networking
09.00
Host
Uday Singh
Co-Founder & CEO, Fast Growth Icons
09.20
How to Add Structure and Process to a Maturing Business to Enable Further Growth
Camille Tyan
CEO, Swan
Every scaling business has to decide when to swap fluidity for structure. Camille Tyan has seen the perils of professionalising too early and too late. At Swan, he inherited an open platform that said yes to everything and grew rapidly. Stepping up from the board to run the company, he has spent 18 months industrialising it. This session will cover how process can help or hinder growth, and when it’s the right time to grow up.
09.45
Alan Goes AI-First: From €500k to €1M+ ARR per Employee
Charles Gorintin
Co-Founder & CTO, Alan
Alan has grown from €400m to €870m ARR, with a valuation of $5.5b. AI has helped transform and double its productivity economics from €500k to €1M+ ARR per Employee. Gorintin shares how Alan became AI-first, achieving 100% employee adoption, deploying agents across the business and using AI to drive productivity, B2B growth and innovation. He also explores the choices behind the transformation, from build vs buy to AI investment and cost and its impact on employment.
10.10
Roundtable Discussion Sessions on The Economics of AI Investment
How should you set a target for AI token consumption, and what should it be tied to: payroll, headcount, revenue, or something else?
Should different roles and teams have different AI budgets and how do you measure
the return on investment in AI?
11.10
Morning break
11.35
How to Change Your Strategy: Taking Decisions, Getting Buy-In, and Restructuring for the New Mission
Pu Jian
CPO & Deputy CEO, Cailabs
Most strategy case studies are told backwards, as if the right answer was obvious at the time. Pu Jian’s is not. Cailabs sells laser communication systems into a market that keeps moving, and three times the company has had to climb the value chain to meet it, from supplying a single subsystem, to selling a full system, to operating a service. In this session, Pu will walk through how those calls were actually made and the reorganisation that follows once the decision is made.
12.00
Roundtable Networking and Discussion Sessions
13.00
Seated lunch
Seated founder’s lunch by the chef at Mandarin Oriental Lutetia
14.30
Welcome Address by our Champagne Sponsor
Guillaume Vitrich
Partner, White & Case
14.35
Taking the Wheel from the Founders: Resetting Culture in a 150-person Business
Marc Montserrat
Former CEO, DNA Script
Marc Montserrat became CEO of DNA Script when its technology was ahead of its market. Together with the founding team, he refocused the company on a bioproduction platform, cut operating costs by two-thirds, brought in non-dilutive capital to fund separable business lines that extended its runway to 2029. In this session, he explains why companies built on a breakthrough outgrow the model that created them, how to reshape structure and processes to protect what makes the company valuable, and how to bring founders, investors and teams behind the change.
15.00
Agentic AI: The Power of Knowledge and Context Management Obsession
Cyril Chiche
CEO, Lydia Solutions
Companies have struggled with knowledge management for decades. Vital information and context about ‘why’ things are done the way they are is either not recorded or not accessible. When teams change, that context can be lost forever, and wheels need to be reinvented. Lydia has been codifying their operations for the last 3 years and is now perfectly placed to build agentic systems. This session covers the why, the what and the how of what they did.
15.25
Roundtable Networking & Discussion Sessions
16.25
Closing Address
Uday Singh
Co-Founder & CEO, Fast Growth Icons
16.30
Champagne Reception
17.30
End
