10,000 Small Businesses UK

How Britain Can Win

5th October 2026 | London

How Britain Can Win, hosted by Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses UK, explores how British entrepreneurship can be turbocharged by spotlighting the best of UK innovation and what makes it a global success.

By showcasing the fast-growth businesses, iconic brands, and sector leaders who prove the UK can lead on the world stage, the aim of the event is to demonstrate the winning mentality required to ensure British competitiveness into the next decade.

How Britain Can Win focuses not just on the success of UK enterprise, but on the underlying mindsets and ‘winning’ characteristics that make those successes possible, showing how Britain’s top performers navigate uncertainty, make the tough decisions needed for growth, and take UK born success to the world stage.

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How Britain Can Win

To chart a clear path for How Britain Can Win, we must look to the UK's high-growth small business leaders. These ambitious entrepreneurs are at the forefront of innovation and are ready to lead national economic growth, ensuring the country wins on the global stage. To understand this in more detail, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses surveyed a diverse group of programme alumni from across the UK. 

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Featured Speakers

Amy Hunt

Olympian

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Harry Stebbings

Founder, 20VC

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Ije Nwokorie

CEO, Dr. Martens

Tara Keeney

Founder and Host, Look Who I Found!

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Lord Sebastian Coe

Athlete, Director at the British Olympic Association, and President of World Athletics

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Lord Paul Deighton

Chair of the Board of Directors of Goldman Sachs International and Goldman Sachs International Bank

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Dame Carolyn McCall

CEO, ITV

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Sean Doyle

CEO, British Airways

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Greg Jackson CBE

Founder and CEO, Octopus Energy Group

Amanda Blanc DBE

CEO, Aviva 

James Quincey

Executive Chairman, The Coca-Cola Company

Jimmy McLoughlin

Podcast Host, Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

Brent Hoberman CBE

Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Founders Forum Group, Founders Factory, Firstminute Capital

Saul Klein

Co-Founder, Phoenix Court

Sahar Hashemi OBE

Founder, Buy Women Built and Co-Founder, Coffee Republic

Sir Lloyd Dorfman CVO CBE

Chair, The Royal Ballet and Opera

Will Butler-Adams OBE

CEO, Brompton Bicycle

Andy Haldane CBE

President, British Chambers of Commerce

Steve Sedgwick

Anchor, CBC Squawk Box Europe

Rory Sutherland

President Emeritus, Ogilvy