Are you ready to do business? London’s ultimate networking event SME XPO is back

For London’s ambitious founders, switched-on investors and savvy executives, there’s only one place to be next week: SME XPO.

The Evening Standard’s free two-day event is where the capital’s thriving enterprise community will meet to share advice, develop new ventures and learn together. There will, no doubt, be more than a few handshake deals made over the course of the show.

Now in its third instalment, 2024’s SME XPO at ExCeL London is our biggest yet: hosting 5,000 entrepreneurs and senior business leaders, who will hear talks from 70 founders of firms collectively worth over £1 billion.

There’s the chance to network with 100 exhibitors including blue-chips Tesla, Salesforce, Dell and Octopus Energy, and quiz some of Britain’s biggest names in business, from retailer to Wetherspoon’s Tim Martin