BOARD Monaco 2027

BOARD Monaco 2027 takes place on 22–24 March 2027 at Grimaldi Forum, Monaco. It is organised by Board Summits Ltd, and B2DB lists 29 speakers and 95 sessions announced so far.

BOARD is a horizontal leadership forum for board members, including CEOs, Chairs, C-suite executives and non-executive directors of Europe's private enterprises. Held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco from 22 to 24 March 2027, it is built around peer-to-peer exchange and brings CEOs and their boards together with investors, technology platforms and advisors. The programme covers topics such as AI and technology, governance, strategy, enterprise risk, M&A and capital allocation.

Key facts

Speakers (29)

Compiled from the published agenda; speakers can claim and verify their own entry.

• Pierre-Antoine Vacheron Chief Executive Officer, Worldline
• Irene Skrynova Chief Executive Officer, Unlimit
• Alexandre Mars Founder & CEO, blisce
• Fabrice Grinda Founding Partner, FJ Labs
• Roozbeh Charli CEO, Einride
• Olga Megorskaya CEO of Toloka.ai, Toloka
• Asi Sharabi CEO, Wonderbly
• Alice Woodwark CEO, Vp plc
• Caitlin Burton CEO International Markets & Africa, Zipline
• Daan de Wever CEO, Dstny
• Etienne Grass Chief AI Officer, Capgemini Invent
• Felicia Williams Chief People Officer, Perk
• Fred de Gombert President, Akeneo
• Graham Donoghue CEO, Forge Holiday Group
• Hilary Gosher Managing Director, Insight Partners
• James Caan CBE Founder & Chairman, Hamilton Bradshaw
• Jean-Dominique Senard Chairman, Renault Group
• Jürgen Eckel Head of Strategy & Innovation, Airbus Defence and Space
• Lubna Qunash Partner and Head of Healthcare Europe, Carlyle
• Martin Samworth Chair & NED, Ringley Group Ltd
• Maxime Aiach President & Founder, Domia Group
• Mike Jatania Co-founder, Aurea Group / Executive Chairman & CEO, The Body Shop
• Ondrej Vlcek Founder & CEO, AISLE
• Padmaja Bommareddy Non Executive Director & former Senior Vice President, Taskrabbit and Zalando
• Robert Falck CEO, Navisalma
• Steffan Peyer Managing Director, Summit Partners
• Tim Kohn Technologist-in-Residence, Summit Partners
• Tim Wragg CEO, Human8
• Toby Southgate CEO, We Are Social

Agenda (95 sessions)

Day 1 — Monday 22 March 2027

• What Will Separate the Winners from the Losers? 14:00–14:20 · Leadership & Human Capital
• When the World Moves Faster Than the Board 14:25–14:45 · Governance & Board Dynamics
• Hard to Kill 14:50–15:10 · Risk, Security & Resilience
• The Capital Paradox 15:15–15:35 · Capital & Strategy

Day 2 — Tuesday 23 March 2027

• The Enterprise, Rebuilt 08:45–09:25 · Main Stage
• The Dependency Problem: Building resilience across the suppliers and infrastructure 09:30–09:50 · Main Stage
• Board Brief: Cybersecurity 09:30–09:50 · Board Briefs
• Leadership Under Capital Constraint: Doing More with Less 09:30–09:50 · Stage 2
• Climate Risk, Real Money: Moving beyond ESG 09:30–09:50 · Stage 3
• The Dependency Problem: When One Customer Matters Too Much 09:55–10:15 · Roundtables
• How Do You Actually Put AI to Work? 09:55–10:15 · Stage 2
• When Climate Risk Sits in Your Supply Chain 09:55–10:15 · Roundtables
• Board Brief: AI 09:55–10:15 · Board Briefs
• The Scaleup Pivot: Changing – and Funding – What Works Before It Stops Working 09:55–10:15 · Main Stage
• Culture Is the One Thing You Can't Build with ChatGPT 09:55–10:15 · Stage 3
• The Scaleup Pivot: Adjusting your GTM Model for Scale 10:20–10:40 · Roundtables
• Not All Money Is Good Money: Choosing the Right Funding 10:20–10:40 · Stage 2
• Crossing the Border: What Actually Makes International Expansion Work 10:20–10:40 · Main Stage
• Capital Constraint: Leading a Team Through the End of Easy Money 10:20–10:40 · Roundtables
• The Cyber Basics Every Scaleup Needs to Get Right 10:20–10:40 · Stage 3
• The Cyber Questions Every Director Should be Asking 11:15–11:35 · Roundtables
• You Don't Have to Build Everything Yourself: When To Partner 11:15–11:35 · Stage 3
• More Products, More Growth – or More Distraction? 11:15–11:35 · Stage 2
• Crossing the Border For the First Time: What Do You Wish You'd Known 11:15–11:35 · Roundtables
• Designing the AI-Enabled Company 11:15–11:35 · Main Stage
• Acqui-Hire or just Hire? When is buying a team the right decision? 11:40–12:00 · Roundtables
• Board Brief: EU Regulation 11:40–12:00 · Board Briefs
• Building a Business That's Hard to Copy 11:40–12:00 · Main Stage
• The Regulator's View: Where European Enforcement Is Heading 11:40–12:00 · Stage 2
• Where Should AI Actually Sit in the Organisation 11:40–12:00 · Roundtables
• Your First 24 Hours in a Crisis: Who decides what, who needs to know, and what happens first? 11:40–12:00 · Stage 3
• Are You Still Treating Cyber Like an IT Problem? 12:05–12:25 · Stage 2
• AI and the Workforce: Overcoming Adoption Resistance 12:05–12:25 · Stage 3
• When Your Competitors Can Copy Everything You Build 12:05–12:25 · Roundtables
• Board Brief: Fundraising 12:05–12:25 · Board Briefs
• What if AI Attacks your Moat 12:05–12:25 · Roundtables
• Building to the Next 10x: How do you build and fund the company you want to become? 12:05–12:25 · Main Stage
• When Informal Stops Being Good Enough: Risk and Controls for Scale 12:30–12:50 · Stage 2
• Capital for Scale: When Does It Make Sense to Buy Growth? 12:30–12:50 · Main Stage
• How Much Cybersecurity is Enough? 12:30–12:50 · Roundtables
• Which AI Decisions Belong at the Board Level? 12:30–12:50 · Roundtables
• Not Good or Bad, Just Right or Wrong: Finding the right investor to partner with you 12:30–12:50 · Stage 3
• The First Acquisition: What You Wish You'd Known 16:15–16:35 · Roundtables
• Board Brief: ESG 16:15–16:35 · Board Briefs
• Professionalise the Business Without Killing the Culture 16:15–16:35 · Main Stage
• Risk and Controls: How Much Process is Too Much Process 16:15–16:35 · Roundtables
• Scenario Planning Beyond Compliance: Stress Testing for an Uncertain Future 16:15–16:35 · Stage 3
• Where's the Return on Digital Transformation? 16:15–16:35 · Stage 2
• How Do You Stay Ahead of Regulation Without Slowing Down? 16:40–17:00 · Stage 2
• Board Brief: M&A 16:40–17:00 · Board Briefs
• How Do You Know if Your AI Investment is Working? 16:40–17:00 · Roundtables
• What Should the Board be Asking About Controls 16:40–17:00 · Roundtables
• Funding the Bets That Matter: Trade-offs between acquisitions, technology, new markets, products and people 16:40–17:00 · Main Stage
• Regulating What Doesn't Exist Yet: AI and emerging technologies 17:05–17:25 · Roundtables
• Funding Big Bets: How Much Can We Actually Afford? 17:05–17:25 · Roundtables
• Grow Faster or Make More Money? Choosing between growth, profitability or long-term value 17:05–17:25 · Main Stage

Day 3 — Wednesday 24 March 2027

• The View from Both Sides: Lessons from an Operator Turned Investor 08:45–09:30 · Main Stage
• Building the Board for the Company You're Becoming 09:35–09:55 · Main Stage
• What Will Due Diligence Reveal About Your Governance? 09:35–09:55 · Stage 2
• The Incentive Deal: Aligning Pay, Performance and Strategy 09:35–09:55 · Stage 3
• From Founder Board to Scaleup Board: What Needs to Change 10:00–10:20 · Stage 2
• Finding Directors Who Have Done it Before 10:00–10:20 · Roundtables
• Managing Investor-Appointed NEDs 10:00–10:20 · Roundtables
• The Handover: Two Chairs on What Gets Passed Down 10:00–10:20 · Stage 3
• When Your Investors Change the Goalposts 10:00–10:20 · Main Stage
• What Skills Are Missing Around Your Board Table? 10:00–10:20 · Roundtables
• Building Depth Beyond the Founder: A Strategic Obligation 10:25–10:45 · Stage 2
• Control and Capital: Managing the Tension at Scale 10:25–10:45 · Main Stage
• Governance Red Flags Investors Notice First 10:25–10:45 · Roundtables
• When Execs and Investors Have Different Time Horizons 10:25–10:45 · Roundtables
• The Cost of Patient Capital: What are you actually trading for a longer time horizon? 14:35–14:55 · Stage 3
• When Everyone Has AI, Who Wins? 14:35–14:55 · Stage 2
• The Board That Actually Works: Your Board as a Strategic Asset 14:35–14:55 · Main Stage
• How To Say No to Your Investor 14:35–14:55 · Roundtables
• What Changes When Institutional Capital Arrives 14:35–14:55 · Roundtables
• The Anthropologist in the Boardroom: What an Outsider Sees / When to Bring in an Outsider 15:00–15:20 · Stage 2
• Getting Yourself Out of the Critical Path 15:00–15:20 · Roundtables
• Would the Business Work Without You for 90 Days? 15:00–15:20 · Roundtables
• CEO to Chair: Making the Transition to a Different Type of Leadership 15:00–15:20 · Stage 3
• Betting the Business: How Much Risk is Too Much? 15:00–15:20 · Main Stage
• Sell or Keep Building? 15:25–15:45 · Main Stage
• Can Your Technology Scale as Fast as Your Business? 15:25–15:45 · Stage 2
• The Board Said No. Now What? 15:25–15:45 · Roundtables
• When Is It Time to Resign from a Board 15:25–15:45 · Roundtables
• When Your Investor's Time Horizon Changes: When patient shareholders suddenly need liquidity 15:25–15:45 · Roundtables
• Information Asymmetry and the Board: Is Your Executive Team Telling You the Truth? 15:25–15:45 · Stage 3
• Sell or Build: How Much Is Enough? 16:10–16:30 · Roundtables
• From CEO to NED: Landing Your First Board Seat 16:10–16:30 · Roundtables
• The Cost of Consensus: When Board Culture Prevents the Right Decision 16:10–16:30 · Stage 2
• Making Big Decisions with Imperfect Information 16:10–16:30 · Stage 3
• When To Take Money Off the Table 16:10–16:30 · Roundtables
• Reinvent Before You Have To: Making Big Decisions Before the Future Makes Them for You 16:35–16:55 · Stage 2
• The Numbers Say No but Your Strategy Says Go 16:35–16:55 · Roundtables
• The Right Kind of Tension: When Good Boards Disagree 16:35–16:55 · Stage 3
• Making the Decisions You Can't Undo: Acquisitions, Exits, and Restructuring 16:35–16:55 · Roundtables

Organisers, sponsors and partners

Organiser (1)

Board Summits Ltd

Sponsors (2)

Summit Partners · Environment Analyst

Source: the published agenda. See how B2DB compiles its records.