9 September 2026
İstanbul
Decoding Growth: Aligning Company Culture with Execution Discipline
- Format
- One session, 3 hours
- Status
- Registration open
ScaleUp Sessions
In the room with Europe's scaling founders
ScaleUp Sessions bring a small, hand-picked group of founders and leadership teams together for the candid conversations that usually stay behind closed doors. No pitch. No surface-level networking. Just real challenges, and people who get it.
- Access
- By invitation only
- Format
- One session, 3 hours
- Who's in the room
- Founders & leadership teams
See it for yourself
The room where founders speak freely
No investors in the room, no team watching, no pitch to land, just founders who've built something real, saying the things that usually stay unsaid. The founders who've been in the room tend to leave wishing they'd come sooner.
ScaleUp Session Format
A curated room
By personal invitation only.
Two perspectives
An international keynote and a local entrepreneurial authority.
The right people
Founders, co-founders and C-level leaders of ambitious scaleups.
Who it's for
The room only works because of who's in it.
This isn't a networking event. It's a working conversation between people who get what you're dealing with, and are willing to talk openly about it.
- ✓Founders, co-founders and C-level leaders of scaling companies
- ✓Companies past the startup phase, facing the complexity of real growth
- ✓Leaders building a proper organisation, not just chasing the next number
- ✓People who add to the conversation, not just take from it
Free and by fit. We keep the room right on purpose. Bring one senior leader from your team; that's when the conversations go deepest.
What happens in the room
Three hours. One honest conversation.
It's the perspective you almost never get from inside your own business.
1
The outside view
An international ScaleUp authority opens with the patterns they see across hundreds of fast-growing companies, the growth barriers almost every scaleup hits, and what separates the ones that break through from the ones that stall.
2
The inside story
Then a founder who has scaled a company in that market makes it real: what those barriers looked like inside their own business, the hard calls, the things they'd do differently. No highlight reel. The real version.
3
Your turn
Then the floor is yours. Small groups, no audience, no agenda, founders at the same stage of growth, talking honestly about what they're facing right now. This is the part people tell us they came for.
Founders who have been in the room
From ScaleUp Sessions Denmark: local quotes to followLaud People
“Great to see an initiative aimed specifically at companies that have moved beyond the startup phase.”
Lau Rabjerg-Eriksen
Upcoming Sessions
Every ScaleUp Session, across Europe
20 October 2026
Sofia
ScaleUp Sessions Growth Talks: founders and owners talking openly about what growth actually costs
- Format
- One afternoon, 13:00 to 18:00. Bulgarian and English
- Status
- By invitation, free with registration
25 November 2026
Sofia
Strategic Planning Workshop: one day out of the noise to choose your focus for the next 90 days
- Format
- One day, 09:00 to 17:00. Up to three people per company
- Status
- Registration open
No Session near you yet? Tell us your city and we'll make sure you hear from us first.
ProposalThe global calendar you asked for, filterable by market. Türkiye and Bulgaria have given us dates; scaleupcompany.dk publishes none we could read, so the other markets show an honest empty state rather than invented cards. Send the Danish and any other dates and they drop straight in.
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