The Silicon Valley Insider Report

Amy Wilson-Wyles
April 8, 2026

Silicon Valley moves fast...but the real value is in spotting which ideas are actually worth bringing home.

Our Silicon Valley Insider Week trip brought together a remarkable group of founders, operators, investors and AI leaders for a series of candid conversations on what it now takes to build, adapt and win in this next era of technology.

We’ve now turned the biggest themes from that week into a Silicon Valley Insights Report for the wider Boardwave community, designed to be a practical guide for tech and AI leaders scaling across Europe.

Across the sessions, a few messages came through loud and clear: the old SaaS sales playbook is under real pressure, AI adoption is as much a leadership challenge as a technology one, and that culture, speed and bold decision making matters more than ever.

The report brings together the key themes, tensions, decision frameworks and practical workshop guides that emerged across the week, from pricing and product design to culture, US expansion and organisational change.

A huge thank you to the speakers, hosts and partners who helped make the programme possible.

To read to the full report, please click here.

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Amy Wilson-Wyles
April 8, 2026

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