8:00 AM - 9:00 AM: Creative Kitchen Breakfast @ Ryde (95 Mann St, Liverpool L8 5AF)

8:30 AM - 9:40 AM: Doors Open - Coffee, Exhibitors and Networking (Content, Cain's Brewery Village, Stanhope St, Liverpool L8 5XJ)

9:40 AM - 9:45 AM: Host’s welcome remarks

9:45 AM - 10:40 AM: **Morning Keynote** Fredrik Hjelm (Founder and CEO, Voi)

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM: Ashanti Bentil-Dhue (Founder of the Competency Centre for Workplace Equity (CCWE)):“DEI as ROI - how to gain outstanding competitive advantage by building great cultures’

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM: Comfort Break

11:45 AM - 12:25 PM: PANEL: You'll Never Scale Alone (Host: Steve Stuart)

• George Stuffins (Sedulo)

• Mo Aldalou (Baltic Ventures)

• Mike Williams (Marks and Clerk)

• Kate Roberts (DTM Legal)

12:30 PM - 12:55 PM: “State of Startups and Venture, 2024” by Henry Whorwood (Beauhurst)

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM: LUNCH BREAK

2:15 PM - 3:00 PM: **Afternoon Keynote:** “From Microchips to Music - "5 Lessons for Life” by Prof Sir Robin Saxby (ARM)

3:05 PM - 3:50 PM: PANEL: How to Become a Famous Founder (Host: Sophie Wilson)

• Olivia Hanlon (Girls in Marketing)

• Nick Huber (FT)

• Jon Robinson (City AM)

3:55 PM - 4:40 PM: Gateway Angels Pitches (Host: Katie Nicholson)

4:40 PM - 4:55 PM: Comfort Break + Fundraiser for Giorgi Tukhashvili

4:55 PM - 5:00 PM: Baltic Ventures Reveal + Emma Jarvis launches “Dearbump”

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: **Evening Keynote**: Piers Linney (Former Dragon on BBC One’s “Dragons’ Den”, Serial Entrepreneur and Investor)

6:00 PM - 6:05 PM: Host's Closing Remarks

6:05 PM - 7:30 PM: Artisan Local Food

6:30 PM - 11:00 PM: DJ Ant Chandler (Garlands, Ministry of Sound, Ocean Beach, Paradisco)

——-"Evening Networking Only" ticket holders may arrive from 7:30 PM.——-