Secure to Scale: Build for What’s Next.

Scaling Fast, Securing Faster
About this Event

Fast growth is exhilarating. It is also incredibly fragile.

When a technology business shifts gear from an emerging player into rapid commercial scale - potentially pursuing Series A investment and beyond or accelerating an already substantial sustainable turnover, the operational pressure mounts. In the race to capture market share; the boundaries of your technology, your legal frameworks, and your internal architecture are pushed to their absolute limits.

If you scale the front-end without ensuring the foundations are solid, you aren't just growing, you are setting yourself up for failure.

This is a closed-door evening designed exclusively for established tech founders, business owners, and corporate executives navigating the high-stakes transition of scaling up.

This is not an event for early-stage startups or lifestyle founders. This is a highly focused, peer-to-peer masterclass on how to build a resilient, investment-ready, and enterprise-grade tech company that can sustain hyper-growth without cracking under pressure.

What we will unpack:

Led by renowned corporate moderator Bob Spence, our panel of industry heavyweights and established tech founders will step away from polished PR scripts to share open, honest, and unfiltered stories of their scaling journeys. You’ll hear about the mistakes, critical pivots, and sudden curveballs that ultimately shaped their success.

• Technical assurance & platform evolution (IDS Group): How to move past tactical software experimentation and establish the robust, cloud-native, and human-first AI foundations required for mid-market, enterprise, and regulated scale. Discover how a true long-term technical partner helps you design, build, deploy, secure, and manage software engineered for permanent operational advantage.
• Investment readiness & structural protections (Irwin Mitchell): The legal realities of scaling. From bulletproofing commercial contracts and policies to ensuring your corporate structure and governance passes strict investor due diligence - and exactly how to legally navigate a crisis if things go wrong.
• The Ecosystem & Financial Runway (Barclays Eagle Labs): Navigating the funding landscape, unlocking institutional support networks, and maintaining financial resilience throughout deep scaling curves.

Who Should Attend?

To maintain a high-value networking environment, this event is strictly curated for:

• Tech Founders & Business Owners looking for Seed/Series A funding and beyond.
• CEOs, CTOs, and Managing Directors of technology companies with an existing, sustainable corporate turnover.
• Enterprise tech leaders looking to optimise their security, compliance, and cloud scaling strategies.
  

About the organisers

IDS Group

IDS Group is the technical partner for SaaS scale-ups, mid-market enterprises and regulated businesses — helping clients design, build, deploy, secure, manage and evolve software, cloud and AI-enabled platforms.
Barclays Eagle Labs

Barclays Eagle Labs are an entrepreneurial network supporting ambitious startups and scaleups. Our mission is to connect the UK’s entrepreneurial ecosystem through our networks, support and expertise, tailored learning and programmes, to help businesses innovate and grow. We’re here to help you in your growth journey through our virtual support and physical spaces across the UK. Whether you’re at idea stage, starting, growing, or scaling, Barclays Eagle Labs can support.

Irwin Mitchell

Irwin Mitchell is a UK-based law firm offering a wide range of specialist business and personal legal services to clients from across the UK and the world, with over a century of experience supporting people and businesses, representing over 1 million clients across over 180 service lines, and working on landmark cases.

Our teams bring deep expertise in some of the most complex and specialised areas of law – from company/commercial, commercial litigation, employment and property but also services for individuals from personal injury and medical negligence, family and divorce, wills and estate planning, and property.

But what truly sets us apart is how we work. Combining legal excellence with empathy, understanding, and a commitment to always put our clients first.

Agenda

🕑: 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Arrival, Networking & Registration

Info: Arrive at Irwin Mitchell LLP. Grab a coffee or a refreshment and connect with mid-market peers and enterprise tech leaders.

🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Unfiltered Panel Discussion: Scaling Fast, Securing Faster

Info: Host: Bob Spence (Renowned Corporate Facilitator)
Panelists:
Technical Partner, IDS Group
Legal Partner, Irwin Mitchell
Ecosystem Lead, Barclays Eagle Labs
Special Guests: Scale-up Tech Clients sharing raw, real-world case studies of growth curves and lessons learned.

🕑: 06:15 PM - 06:30 PM
Interactive Audience Q&A

Info: Your chance to put tough, specific scaling questions directly to our legal, technical, and financial ecosystem panel.

🕑: 06:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Drinks & Networking

Info: Decompress and continue the conversation with informal refreshments