All businesses start with ideas and visions. However, as they grow in size and complexity, the need to convert the vision into strategy and the governance mechanism to deliver becomes crucial. 

 

Success in scaling up businesses delivers many benefits for the wider economy, ranging from creating wealth; boosting innovation; increasing research and development; providing skilled jobs; generating export earnings; to contributing  to GDP.

 

This event will discuss how policy-makers, investors and corporates can support high-growth companies in Europe. A particular focus will be given on measures to address Europe’s equity financing gap as well as need to remove regulatory and legal barriers from start up to scale up.  

 

Draft agenda

11.45am Registrations and sandwich lunch

12.30pm Welcome speech, Maggie McGhee, Executive Director Governance, ACCA

12.40pm Keynote speech, Neena Gill, MEP

12.50pm Panel moderated by Salla Saastamoinen, Director for Civil and Commercial Justice, DJ JUST, European Commission

Starting with a presentation by Jo Iwasaki, head of Corporate governance at ACCA on  How vision and strategy helps small businesses succeed: Governance needs of SMEs 

• Inge Stoop, Senior Project Coordinator, Guberna

•Luc Hendrickx, Director of Enterprise Policy and International Affairs, UEAPME

• Armando Melone, COSME Financial instrument, DG GROW, European Commission

• Sean Duffy, Head of Technology, Media and Telecoms at Barclays Bank PLC, tbc

14.05pm Q&As

14.20pm Concluding remarks, European Investment Bank, name tbc

14.30pm end