Silicon Valley Insider Week
1-6 March, 2026
Moving From Scale-Up To Global Leadership
For Europe’s most ambitious scaling founders (€10–100m+ ARR), this is an invitation-only immersion into the rooms where the internet era was built, and where the AI era is now being shaped.
Over four intensive days in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, just 15–20 founders and CEOs will go behind closed doors with the people who wrote the playbook for modern technology, and are now rewriting it for AI.
The programme carries a fee, places are strictly limited, and every session is engineered for leaders who are ready to move from “strong European player” to “global category winner” in the next 3–5 years.
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:
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George Roberts (Executive Chairman and Founder, KKR) on leadership at scale.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mike Krieger (Co-Founder, Instagram and Chief Product Officer, Anthropic) and Benjamin Mann (Co-Founder, Anthropic) on how one of the world’s most important AI companies is thinking about product, moats and the future of software.
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:
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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.
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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.
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Strategy sessions: Facilitated discussions with world-class advisors focused on global expansion, operational excellence and how today’s investors are underwriting the AI era.
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Fireside conversations: Off-the-record dialogues with founders and investors who have already navigated hyper-growth, internationalisation, exits and public markets.
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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
Practical Details:
Dates: 1–6 March 2026
Cost: £9,500 + VAT (includes events, sessions, accommodation, meals; flights not included)
Payment: 50% deposit by 19 Dec 2025, balance by 9 Jan 2026
Eligibility: CEOs and founders of European software & AI businesses (€10–100m ARR)
Who This Is For
This programme is by invitation only to Boardwave scaling members - CEOs and founders of high-growth European tech businesses with €10–100m ARR. Price includes full programme, meals, accommodation but excludes flights.
If you believe your company can be one of Europe’s defining global software winners, this is the week to step into the rooms, and the relationships, that can help make that happen.
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