Marlow & Sons
Both days, hour by hour
Published in full before tickets go on sale, because you should know what you are buying. Times move by a few minutes; the shape does not.
- 08:30 – 09:30BreakThe Mill floor
Doors, coffee, breakfast
Come early. Most of the good conversations happen before anybody has said anything from a stage.
- 09:30 – 09:45Main stage
Welcome
The organisers
- 09:45 – 10:30KeynoteMain stage
Pricing like you mean it
Maya Okafor
The opening keynote. Thirty minutes, fifteen for questions, and nobody has ever asked fewer than a dozen.
- 10:30 – 11:15Break
Long break
Forty-five minutes, deliberately. This is the hallway track.
- 11:15 – 12:00Main stage
Building calm into the org chart
Adelina González
- 12:00 – 13:30BreakThe Mill floor
Lunch, served at long tables
Seated, not standing. You will meet the eleven people either side of you.
- 13:30 – 14:15Main stage
The maths of bootstrapped software
Sam Whitaker
- 14:15 – 15:00KeynoteMain stage
The real cost of always-on leadership
Eve Wallander
- 15:00 – 15:45Break
Afternoon break
- 15:45 – 16:30PanelMain stage
Founder panel: the year that broke us
Four founders, one moderator, no slides. Recorded but never livestreamed.
- 16:30 – 17:00Main stage
Close of day one
- 19:00 – lateSocialThe waterside terrace
Speakers' dinner + bar
Included with every ticket. Patron tickets sit with the speakers; everyone else ends up there anyway.
- 09:00 – 09:30BreakThe Mill floor
Breakfast
- 09:30 – 12:00WorkshopRoom A
Workshop: sales for people who hate sales
Tobias Mensah
30 seats. Bring a deal you are stuck on; leave with it unstuck.
- 09:30 – 12:00WorkshopRoom B
Workshop: pricing surgery
Maya Okafor
30 seats. Bring your pricing page and thick skin.
- 09:30 – 12:00WorkshopRoom C
Workshop: ops that survive your holiday
Adelina González
30 seats. Leave with a written handover doc, not a plan to write one.
- 12:00 – 13:30BreakThe Mill floor
Lunch
- 13:30 – 14:15KeynoteMain stage
Grief, recovery, and the seasons of a founder's life
Dr. Sherry Lin
The talk people quote all year. Tissues on every seat, and we are not joking.
- 14:15 – 15:00PanelMain stage
Unconference: whatever the room wants
Topics proposed at breakfast, voted at lunch, run in the afternoon.
- 15:00 – 15:30Main stage
Closing + where we go next year
- 15:30 – 17:00Social
Last coffee, slow goodbyes
Nobody has ever left at 15:30.

