Head Straight for the Exit: Preparing Your Technology Investment from Day One
What to Expect:
● Technology as a Value Driver: How scalable and sustainable technology platforms can enhance buyer confidence and business valuation.
● Digital Readiness for Exits: Streamlining systems, data, and processes to support due diligence and post-sale integration.
● AI's potential to enhance deal sourcing, due diligence, portfolio management, and value creation.
● Cybersecurity and Compliance: Mitigating risks through robust governance.
● Leadership in Tech Transformation: The CEO’s and CIO’s roles in fostering a technology-driven culture.
About the Speakers:
Steve Lydford is COO at Codurance, a global software consultancy born out of the Software Craftsmanship movement. With a 20+ year career in software engineering, Steve has worked on complex projects in a wide variety of sectors including retail e-commerce, finance, education, media, government and healthcare, developing large-scale, resilient, distributed systems on an assortment of platforms.
Steve is a pragmatic problem solver with a focus on the delivery of high-quality, robust and maintainable code. He is a passionate advocate of continuous improvement, both for software and software developers and believes that the future success of the software industry relies on the sharing of knowledge gained through experience.
A published author, Steve regularly gives back to the software engineering community through delivering talks at industry events and hosting meetups across the UK.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevelydford/
Elizabeth is an award-winning UK tech entrepreneur. She was named as one of The Telegraph’s ‘Most Disruptive Entrepreneurs’ and named West Midlands Woman of the Year for her ‘Outstanding Contribution to Technology’. She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s jubilee birthday honours in 2012, in recognition of her achievements in delivering significant benefits for clients with the products she designed. Following the acquisition of eg solutions plc, Elizabeth founded The Tech Growth Factory. Acting as Non-Executive Director, Investing Director, Coach or Mentor she now assists the founders of UK Tech StartUps and ScaleUps to achieve their growth potential.
David Green is CTO at IWSR and brings extensive technology experience in software development across various industries. His expertise spans sports betting, finance & Formula One and includes rising to CTO of a multi-billion-pound turnover high frequency trading company as well as a stint building a new data analytics platform for a world-famous F1 team.
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