On 11 June, V8 Nexus is a supporting organisation at the Rise London Tech Ladies Fringe Summit — an inspiring gathering taking place alongside London Tech Week 2026, hosted at iFAST Global Bank.
The keynote programme is sharp: Diana Olar on the asymmetric impact of AI, Inayat Kashif on building a global business in a digital age, and Christine Yu and Nicole Denholder on women and finance. Networking drinks follow at 8pm.
I’d love to see you there. Registration is here.
Why this partnership
When V8 Nexus was approached about supporting Rise’s summit, the answer was immediate. But it’s worth saying out loud why — because the reason matters more than the announcement.
London Tech Week is a big venue. Tens of thousands of people, hundreds of sessions, every category of tech business represented. It’s the kind of week where it’s possible to attend everything and remember nothing — to collect twenty business cards and leave without a single conversation that actually moves anything.
The interesting things happen in the smaller rooms. The fringe events. The dinners after the panels. The curated gatherings where someone has done the work of bringing the right people together around a real conversation, instead of broadcasting an open invitation and hoping for the best.
That’s the Rise Fringe Summit. Curated programme, deliberate audience, specific themes. A smaller room inside the bigger venue.
That’s also where Nexus shows up.
The pattern Nexus follows
V8 Nexus exists because traditional networking — the open-mingle mixer, the badge-and-business-card event, the chamber breakfast where you stay in your own corner — does not produce the kinds of connections that change anything.
What does work, consistently, is the small curated room. Eight to twelve people. A specific reason to be there. Real conversation about real problems. The kind of relational density that turns a one-time event into an ongoing relationship.
Nexus is built around this principle. Every gathering we host is curated. Every introduction is intentional. We optimise for who’s in the room, not how many.
When we look at events to support as an organisation, we apply the same filter. Is this a curated room? Is the audience deliberate? Is there a real conversation being staged, or is it a venue for noise? Rise’s Fringe Summit passes that filter cleanly.
The supporting partnership isn’t transactional — Nexus benefits from the visibility, Rise benefits from the audience overlap, the attendees benefit from the cross-pollination. But none of that is the reason the answer was yes. The answer was yes because the room is the right kind of room.
What you’ll find there
The summit is open to founders, technologists, investors, students, corporate leaders, and allies — anyone who believes inclusive leadership in tech is worth showing up for.
For Nexus members specifically: this is a chance to meet the wider community we’re building inside. Some of the best Nexus introductions have come from events outside Nexus itself, where members have met someone in a curated context and brought them into our circle. The Rise summit is structured for exactly that kind of meaningful first contact.
If you’re not yet part of Nexus and you’re curious about what we do, the summit is a good place to find me. The networking drinks at 8pm are deliberately unstructured — that’s the part of the evening designed for the conversations the summit is really for.
The bigger frame
Tech needs more curated rooms. Not more venues, more events, more conferences — more rooms where the work of bringing the right people together has been done thoughtfully.
Inclusive leadership doesn’t happen at scale through broadcast. It happens in the conversations where someone who’s never been asked the question gets to answer it. Where someone who’s been told they’re the only one in the room finds out they’re not. Where the conversation that changes everything happens because two people who would never otherwise have met were both in the same small, curated room at the same time.
That’s what Rise is building. That’s why Nexus is supporting it. And that’s why I hope to see you on 11 June.
The Rise London Tech Ladies Fringe Summit is on Thursday 11 June, 6:30pm–9:00pm, at iFAST Global Bank Limited (SQB, 77 Marsh Wall, London E14 9SH). Register here.
If you’d like to know more about V8 Nexus before the event, join the community — we’d love to have you.
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