SME investment specialist shares first details for the return of Scaleup Week

SME investment specialist BGF and the ScaleUp Institute have announced the return of Scaleup Week, “the UK’s largest gathering of growth businesses”, to take place from September 19 to 22.

Scaleup Week 2022 brings together industry leaders, policymakers, and businesses from across the UK to explore the important issues facing growing businesses and how they can navigate the pressing external challenges to “continue to thrive”.

Through a series of in-person events, panels, virtual debates and roundtables, business leaders, founders, and scaleup teams will discuss how growing businesses can respond to economic uncertainty, the cost-of-living crisis, geopolitical instability, and an urgent need to address net zero, while continuing to scale up their businesses and “foster innovation”.

In-person events will be taking place in London in addition to a series of nationwide fringe events, complemented by a schedule of free virtual debates and a dedicated online content hub.

This year’s event will also include a new segment, ‘Scale Up Spotlights’, which will see seasoned founders and veterans of industry interviewed about their experience in creating new technologies, disrupting global industries and driving good growth.

Senior representatives from major businesses, scaleups and industry organisations will be in attendance, including: Andy Shovel, founder & co-CEO, THIS; Rodney Appiah, Cornerstone Partners; Tessa Clarke, co-founder, OLIO; Greg Jackson, founder & CEO, Octopus Energy; Rajeeb Dey MBE, CEO of Learnerbly and Anna Brailsford, CEO of CodeFirst Girls.

For the second year in a row, the event has the endorsement of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and 10 Downing Street.

The return of Scaleup Week follows a successful digital launch in May last year, which saw thousands of attendees come together to drive forward the post-pandemic recovery and discuss how to support the levelling up agenda, culminating in a series of proposals from BGF to support the growth of scale up businesses.

Stephen Welton, Executive Chair at BGF, comments: “Bringing together the leading business figures from across the UK is not only a privilege but a truly vital exercise in ensuring we are collectively equipped to tackle the pressing economic, environmental, and geopolitical challenges facing business communities across the UK.

“By tapping into leading industry expertise, we can better support our wealth of growing businesses – enabling them to prosper and ensuring they feel emboldened to continue seeking growth opportunities.”

By Matthew Neville – Correspondent, Bdaily

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