Speaker Lineup Announced!
Errol Damelin – Founder of Wonga.com
Joanna Shields – CEO Tech City Investment Organisation and former MD of Facebook EMEA, MD of Google Europe and President of Bebo
Anthony Thomson – Co-Founder and Former Chairman of MetroBank
Rytis Vitkauskas – Co-Founder of YPlan and formerly of Summit Partners
Jonathan Pfahl – Founder of Rockstar Mentoring Network
Panel – What do Venture Capitalists Look For?
Guy Fraser-Sampson – Senior Fellow, Cass Business School, author of ‘Private Equity as an Asset Class’ and former investor with leading US venutre firms
James King – Founder of Find Invest Grow (Venture Capital Firm)
Bindi Karia – Head of Origination at Silicon Valley Bank UK
Workshops
The World in 2020 – David Prestwich (Former Partner at KPMG)
Writing the Perfect Business Plan – Find Invest Grow
Ideation, From Idea to Reality – YPlan
The Fastest Way to Start Making Sales in Your Startup – Rockstar Mentoring
OUR MISSION
By providing a platform for a world-class line up of business leaders; we hope to inspire students and young professionals to fulfil their business ambitions and realise their potential to make a difference in the marketplace.
WHO WE ARE
Sparks@LSE is the largest and most interactive student run entrepreneurship conference throughout the whole of London. From inception to date we are proud to boast our success in igniting a sense of entrepreneurial spirit amongst the student demographic.




