Steve King is the co-founder & CEO at Black Swan Data. Funded by Mitsui, Blackstone & Albion Capital - Black Swan Data creates better outcomes through technology, prediction & data science. Steve discusses: *his journey from DJ to enterprise software CEO *Black Swan’s preference for talent “approximately 10% crazy”! *Black Swan Data’s failed US strategy – the lessons they learned and the turnaround: the US now contributes 50% to Black Swan’s revenues *the story behind the data science insights that diagnosed Steve’s sister’s rare illness & led to Steve establishing The White Swan charity 

Pietro Bezza is a tech founder turned venture capitalist. Pietro founded Connect Ventures, an early stage VC fund, in 2011 and the fund has invested in companies like Citymapper, Typeform and SecretSales.com. Pietro discusses the vital role “perpetual learnability” plays in a company’s ability to scale-up.

Zack Urlocker helped grow a number of software companies to billion dollar exits - including Active Software, MySQL, Zendesk and most recently Duo Security. And he’s been an advisor and board member for many other successful venture-backed software companies including HubSpot and SugarCRM. He’s also written a rock opera! Zack’s worked with many Tier 1 VCs including Benchmark Capital, CRV, Index Ventures and Matrix Partners and he now lectures at the University of Michigan on Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Jan Quant is the Co-Founder and CEO of Screendragon a UK headquartered enterprise software scale-up who, soon after inception, successfully entered the US market and have continued to expand internationally despite having zero VC funding.