London's executive community for the AI era
Curated business relationships, practical AI literacy, and a working pipeline for everyone in the room. Free to join.
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Why Nexus exists
Most communities trade on contact volume and event frequency. The math rarely works for anyone with a real calendar.
Nexus curates for substance — London-based decision-makers serious about modernising their businesses. Free to join, with standards that aren't. Members get curated introductions, practical AI briefings, and access to V8's broader product ladder. Network leaders are welcome too; we partner with other communities rather than compete with them.
What Nexus actually is
A short walkthrough of what Nexus members get from day one — and why we built it as community infrastructure rather than another networking event series.
Three pillars
Connect
Curated introductions matched for business synergy. Not random card swapping — real meetings between people who can move each other's businesses forward.
Innovate
Practical AI and Martech briefings, translated into plain business logic. Tools you can use the same week — not theoretical demos.
Accelerate
Skills packs, personal branding courses, and the V8 engine of resources designed to compress the timeline between problem and outcome.
Meet Gina Cheng
Gina runs V8 Nexus from London with one belief: that a community is worth joining only if its standards are higher than its noise.
A MarTech specialist with a decade of cross-border experience between Hong Kong and the UK, she built her own UK presence from zero — going from invisible in a new market to 7,000+ weekly LinkedIn impressions and 800+ professional connections in under a year. Speaking engagements at iFAST, UHBA, BNI, and (alongside V8 Global) HKTDC followed.
She handles every membership conversation personally.
What members are seeing already
The community is young. The network effects aren't.
| LinkedIn impressions per week, no paid promotion | 7,000+ |
| New LinkedIn connections since June 2025 | 800+ |
| Speaking engagements landed since June 2025 | 8+ |
| UK partner networks committed | 5+ |
| Guests routed to other professional networks since June 2025 | 100+ |
| Time invested in content production per week | 3 hrs |
| Months from zero to all of the above | 10 |
Numbers reflect the activity of community lead Gina Cheng since June 2025. Verifiable on her LinkedIn profile.
Gatherings
V8 Nexus Launch — iFAST Global Bank, Canary Wharf
On 23 April 2026, around thirty London leaders gathered at iFAST's Canary Wharf venue for the launch night — through a Tube strike, with full hospitality from our venue partner, and a programme that ran from welcome to working conversations.
Keynote by Candy Liu, Senior Strategic Global Account Director at Microsoft, on the AI shift across enterprises and SMEs. Sponsor address from Steve at iFAST Global Bank. Closing session from Alan Law on practical AI for sales and marketing.
The next V8 Nexus session is in early summer 2026.
What's available to you as a member
Joining Nexus is the entry point. Members get access to V8's broader product architecture as it suits their needs.
AI Skills Notebook
Practical prompt templates and Claude setup for business communication, ready when you join.
Skills Pack
Continuously updated AI skill sets — research, content, client communication, pipeline. Annual subscription, renews at the same price.
Personal Branding with AI
Led by Gina Cheng. Wires the mindset behind the tools — taught the same way Gina built her own UK authority from zero.
Axia — AI Operating System
For members who want the system run for them. V8 Global manages every commercial decision; you stay in control.
Why join now
The community is in its first chapter. Founding members shape the room they're walking into.
What you get on day one:
- The free AI Skills Notebook delivered immediately
- Membership conversations handled personally by Gina
- First invitations to upcoming gatherings
- Preferred pricing on Skills Pack and Personal Branding course at launch
Join V8 Nexus
Free to join. Curated by Gina personally. Your AI Skills Notebook is delivered immediately on signup.
A few details so Gina can welcome you properly and make the right introductions.
You're in
Welcome to V8 Nexus. Your AI Skills Notebook is on its way to your inbox now. Gina will be in touch within 48 hours about upcoming gatherings.
If you flagged that you run a network of your own, expect a separate note from Gina about partnership.
Frequently asked
V8 Nexus is free to join. We curate for quality of fit, not size of cheque. Paid products — the Skills Pack, the Personal Branding course, and Axia — are available to members who want to go further, but membership itself costs nothing.
Established business owners modernising their operations, professionals in legal, finance, real estate, and consulting seeking high-trust referrals, and entrepreneurs integrating AI into how they work. Members are London-based decision-makers who care about substance over volume.
We don't compete with them — we partner with them. Nexus operates as community infrastructure: members get access to curated introductions and practical AI briefings, and Nexus also brings guests into other established networks rather than trying to absorb their members. If you run a network of your own, tick the partner box on the join form and Gina will be in touch.
Gina handles every membership conversation personally — joining, fit assessment, curated introductions, and the editorial direction of community content. She's a MarTech specialist who built her own UK authority from zero between June 2025 and now, and she runs Nexus the same way she runs her own practice: substance compounds, noise doesn't.
Nexus is V8 Global's community layer — the acquisition and education tier. Members who graduate from hands-on tools to wanting AI run for them move into Axia, V8's managed AI operating system. The community is the entry point; Axia is the ceiling. You only move up the ladder if and when it makes sense for your business.
A course teaches you to build the system. A Slack community of a thousand silent members doesn't help you when something breaks. V8 Nexus is the room in between — small enough that members know each other, deliberate enough that the conversations are about real systems running in real businesses. You arrive having already done the course work. The room is where the long game gets played.
The launch night at iFAST Global Bank set the template — around thirty curated leaders in one room, a keynote from a senior practitioner, a venue partner address, a practical closing session, and unstructured time for the conversations that actually produce follow-up. No panels of strangers reading slides. No speed-networking. A room selected for quality, with a programme designed to make the unstructured time as valuable as the structured time. Future sessions evolve toward working formats with real frameworks and structured conversation.
Nexus is a peer community first and a workshop programme second. Practical AI literacy comes from being in regular contact with people who run the same questions you do — what is real, what is hype, what is worth your time. We run member-only briefings on the AI topics that matter to professionals (reputation risk, verification habits, practical workflows, vendor evaluation), peer discussions where members share what is working in their own businesses, and direct conversations that give you a sounding board before you act on something you saw online. The verification habit covered in this post — the [Check] flow — is one example of the kind of practical instinct the community builds together rather than something each of us has to figure out alone.
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