14-19 March 2027

Dates

San Francisco & Silicon Valley

Location

Tech Founders & CEOs

Who's it for?

RSVP deadline

Imagine spending a week with OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar, Salesforce’s President and COO Miguel Milano and Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest, and actually having the time to ask them how they’d tackle the problems in your business.

‍That’s what Insider Week is about. There are only 20 places, so instead of watching from an audience, you’ll be sitting down with the people shaping the industry, close enough to ask a follow-up question and hear what they really think. Our guests come to talk rather than to present, which leaves time for you to ask the burning questions that matter right now to you and your business.

If you’re ambitious and want your company to compete on a global stage, these are the tables you need to be at.

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Frederic Kerrest

Co-Founder, Okta

Richard Socher

Co-Founder, Recursive

Anu Bharadwaj

former President, Atlassian

Emil Bender Lassen

Co-Founder, AIUC

Sam Bhagwat

Founder, Mastra

What the week will look like

Last year, in a single week, our group had breakfast with the co-founder who took Okta from a two-person start-up to a public company, sat down for lunch with George Roberts, who co-founded KKR and helped build modern private equity, and finished the evening over dinner with former Goldman Sachs CFO Marty Chavez.

Over the week, they also heard from Okta co-founder Frederic Kerrest, Marty Korman of Wilson Sonsini, the lawyer behind the deals that sold LinkedIn to Microsoft and Pixar to Disney, and Stanford’s Amy Wilkinson, before finishing the week inside Meta. A month later, the whole group came back together to share what they’d already started to change.

That’s the pace of Insider Week, and 2027 is shaping up to be even bigger.

Sunday: Meet the group

You’ll land in San Francisco and meet the 19 people you’ll be spending the next week with. These are founders and CEOs ambitiously building, just like you, and by the end of the night, you’ll already have swapped notes with half of them.

Monday-Thursday: Inside the Valley

From company visits and workshops to fireside dinners with the people behind the businesses everyone is watching. You’ll ask the questions you’d never get to ask from an audience, and you’ll hear the answers they don’t give on stage.

Friday: Bring it home

On the final morning, we’ll turn everything you’ve heard into the few moves that matter most for your business, so when you head to the airport from 1pm, you’ll have a plan you can start on as soon as you’re back.

“From the first day, we got to meet the people that are at the leading edge on the science for AI. I think the line-up was just incredible. It was one of the most amazing weeks I have ever experienced.”

Eirik Aalvik Stranden

Managing Director Scandinavia, Finago Group

The group you travel with

The speakers are only half of it. You’ll spend the week with around 20 founders and CEOs from across Europe, most of them running businesses between €10m and €100m ARR. Some are leading established software companies through the biggest shift they’ve ever faced, while others are AI-native and growing so fast they’re rewriting the playbook as they go.

You’ll travel together, eat together and sit through every session together, and some of the most valuable moments happen in between.

“Everyone here is thinking, how do I build my business to make it even bigger?” - Lucy Frazer, Advisory Board, Quantexa

The week ends. The group doesn’t.

When you leave San Francisco, you’ll be taking a group of peers home with you, people who have seen the same things, heard the same answers and know exactly what you’re trying to build. We keep that group going with quarterly calls through the year, so you can hold each other to what you said you’d do and compare what’s actually working.

Towards the end of the year, we bring everyone back together in person for a workshop, a chance to look back at the week and see how far each of you has taken it.

“The impacts of this week of learning, thinking and planning will be many, profoundly important and felt for years.”

Simon Hill

CEO & Founder, Wazoku

Are you joining us?

The way software companies are built and sold is changing faster than at any point in the last twenty years, and the decisions you make in the next twelve months will shape where your business ends up. These six days are designed to give you a clearer view of what’s coming.

YOUR PLACE

Insider Week is for founders and CEOs of European tech and AI businesses, typically between €10m and €100m ARR, who want to spend a week learning from the people shaping the industry.

£13,500 (excluding any applicable sales tax)

Included‍

All sessions, workships and company visits
Hotel accommodation
All meals, including the small dinners
Transport between sessions
Quarterly check-in calls through the year
An in-person workshop towards the end of the year

Not included

Flights
Airport transfers

There are just 20 places, and last year they went fast. If you can picture yourself at that table, now’s the time to book.

If you’d like to talk it through first, Katy, Boardwave’s Director of Premium Experiences, is always happy to jump on a quick call. You can reach her at katy@boardwave.org.

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“Everyone here is thinking, how do I build my business to make it even bigger?”

Lucy Frazer

Advisory Board, Quantexa

Inside Silicon Valley

A few moments from last year, from boardrooms in Silicon Valley to a wine cave dinner and evenings by the water in San Francisco, where the conversations kept going long after the plates were cleared.

Silicon Valley Insider Week 2027