Alan English, Associate Editor with our Media partner The Currency attended the Entrepreneur Experience for the first time in 2025. During the event he interviewed David McKernan which I think will go down as one of the best dinner interviews during our 15 years!! Here Alan looks back on the 2025 Entrepreneur Experience and draws some excellent insights on why startups and entrepreneurs should attend the 2026 event.

Alan really gets to the heart of the event and saw how “the people taking part use words like “trust” and “openness” and describe an atmosphere in which people who are trying to break through in business find that they can allow themselves to be vulnerable – after a very short time in the same room as other participants. Sometimes, there can be tears, because building a company is almost always hard. There’s a reason for the letting go of inhibitions and frustrations that people arrive with. Much of it comes down to the gentle encouragement of those who recognise what they’re witnessing, because they’ve been through it themselves at various stages in their own business careers.”