Agenda from Stockholm 2024
The 2025 agenda will be published in July
DINNER
Monday 7th October 2024
TAK, Stockholm
18.45
Dinner
19.45
Opening Remarks
Uday Singh
Founder & CEO, Fast Growth Icons
22.30
Carriages
MAIN DAY
Tuesday 8th October 2024
Grand Hôtel, Stockholm
08.00
Breakfast & Networking
09.00
Host
Uday Singh
Founder, Fast Growth Icons
09.15
Opening Remarks
Ben Fletcher
Co-founder and Chair, The Mothership
09.35
The psychological & process elements of delivering high performing teams
Douglas Stark
Co-founder and COO, Voi Technology
Founded 2018 | Employees 651 | Funding $491m | Enterprise valuation $1.0b
We all want highly motivated, accountable, and productive teams. But at scale it gets harder and harder. This session will look at how you create the right environment for top performance, how you minimise blockers, and how far you can impose ways of working to get the job done.
10.00
Roundtable networking and discussion session
10.45
Morning Break
11.10
A playbook for rapid and early international expansion
Erik Fjellborg
CEO & Founder, Quinyx
Founded 2005 | Employees 350+ | Funding $100m | Valuation $500m
Expanding overseas is hard. It’s easy for the culture to be diluted, communication becomes complicated and you can lose alignment. The key is having a strong senior team and a playbook you can replicate. This session will cover how Erik built the team, how the company was structured and the steps they followed.
11.35
Roundtable networking and discussion session
12.30
Seated Lunch
Seated founder’s lunch by the chef at the Grand Hôtel
14.00
Resolving healthy tensions between teams to create alignment
Dr. Jan Goetz
Co-CEO and Co-Founder, IQM
Founded 2018 | Employees 268 | Funding $210m | Valuation $486m
How do you reconcile the demands of sales and marketing with the capacity of the technical team? This is a classic challenge for all businesses and can lead to conflict. Getting the business aligned on the roadmap and objectives is critical. It’s also something that gets harder with scale. This session will look at how workshops and OKRs can create alignment and resolve differences, how company structure needs to evolve, and you can get full bottom-up input.
14.30
The Lessons Learned from Rapid Growth
Amra Zacina
Co-Founder & CMO, Ministry Of Programming
Founded 2015 | Employees 150
In 2022, Ministry of Programming expanded from 100 to 190 staff. While this growth brought in talented individuals and opened new opportunities, the pace of hiring without sufficient planning led to some structural and cultural challenges. When market conditions shifted, it became clear that a more strategic approach was needed. Amra shares how these experiences have driven meaningful change, including better workforce planning, formalizing processes, and empowering the leadership team. These steps are helping to build a stronger, more adaptable business that’s prepared to thrive in a rapidly changing market.
14.55
Roundtable networking and discussion session
Coffee served to the tables
15.55
Closing Address
Uday Singh
Founder & CEO, Fast Growth Icons
16.00
Champagne Reception