Why Silicon Valley? Why Now?

The leaders you’ll meet didn’t just ride the internet era, they defined it. Today, they sit at the centre of the AI revolution that will determine which software companies dominate the next decade. Waiting to plug into their thinking and networks risks ceding advantage to faster-moving competitors.

This week gives you rare, direct access to the people setting the rules of the new game, not speaking on conference stages, but shaping markets, deploying billions, and building the AI platforms the world now relies on. You’ll be in small, off-the-record rooms with them, asking the questions that matter to your board, your team, and your investors right now.

Across the week, participants will engage with many “Valley trailblazers”. Contributors so far confirmed include:

• George Roberts (Executive Chairman and Founder, KKR) on leadership at scale.
• Marty Korman (Partner, Wilson Sonsini). Marty is one of the leading dealmakers in Silicon valley. He notably played a significant role in the sales of Twitter to Elon Musk, LinkedIn to Microsoft, and Pixar to Disney, among others. He will unpack how US tech M&A works, the difference with the European market and key factors in a successful US market entry strategy
• R. Martin Chavez (Partner and Vice Chairman at Sixth Street; Board member at Alphabet Inc., former CFO at Goldman Sachs.) on how AI is transforming financial markets, governance and technology leadership – and what that means for your strategy now.​​
• Frederic Kerrest (Co-Founder & Co-Chair, Okta) on building and scaling a global SaaS category leader through hyper-growth, IPO and beyond, in one of the most competitive markets on earth.​
• Richard Socher (Co-Founder, You.com) on competing and winning as an AI-first company in a world dominated by hyper-scalers and foundation model giants.​​
• Amy Wilkinson (Entrepreneur, Author of The Creator’s Code, and faculty member at Stanford GSB) on the founder patterns behind outlier success, delivered at the heart of Stanford University’s innovation ecosystem.​

These are the leaders your team reads about, quotes, and benchmarks against, and for one week, they’ll be in the room with you. There is no other setting where you can probe their thinking this deeply, with a group this focused, at a moment when AI is moving this fast.

What the Experience Includes

The programme is built to turn inspiration into concrete strategic moves the moment you get home:​

• Immersive visits: Hosted sessions inside leading technology companies and with top-tier investors who are actively backing and building the next wave of global winners.
• Private workshops: Hard-edged working sessions on US market entry, AI adoption, scaling culture and value creation, tailored to the realities and constraints of €10–100m ARR businesses.
• Strategy sessions: Facilitated discussions with world-class advisors focused on global expansion, operational excellence and how today’s investors are underwriting the AI era.
• Fireside conversations: Off-the-record dialogues with founders and investors who have already navigated hyper-growth, internationalisation, exits and public markets.
• Curated Experiences: High-trust dinners, cultural visits and structured peer-to-peer exchanges that create a “founders’ alliance” you will lean on long after the week ends