Keynote SpeakersAlex Depledge MBE is a serial tech Entrepreneur, keynote speaker and the current CEO of Resi.co.uk
Resi is the UK’s largest residential architectural practice, designed to help UK homeowners renovate and extend their homes. Furthermore, Resi is a leading company in the property tech market.
Envisioned to modernise the architectural sector, Resi has helped over 4,000 UK homeowners. It provides everything from design and contractor connections to home finance. By digitising the entire home-build and renovation journey, Resi has doubled productivity and halved lead times to site.
Before Resi.co.uk, Alex set up Hassle.com, Europe’s largest domestic cleaning marketplace, which she sold for €32 million.
As CEO of Hassle.com, Alex took the business from inception to over £8m in turnover in under two years.
She also conceived and executed Hassle.com’s expansion from one city to seven across four European countries. Across all geographies, Hassle.com’s unique model broke new ground by letting cleaners bid for jobs and build a direct relationship with customers.
In addition to her entrepreneurial success, Alex Depledge spent four years on the board of London LEAP, chaired by the Mayor of London. The board is responsible for £100m+ in London culture and communities.
In this role, Alex advised, scrutinised, and gave strategic input into key programmes, including the London C-19 Recovery Programme.
She has also served as a non-executive director of Edited, a fashion analytics software used by leading retailers in the US and Europe, including Inditex and Arcadia.
In addition to her entrepreneurial success, Alex Depledge is a TV & radio commentator and sits on the board of Persimmon Homes.
She has also won a string of awards, including:
- Emerging Technology Scale-up 2022 at the Enterprise Awards
- The Barclays Entrepreneur Award for Start-up of the Year 2020
Furthermore, in 2016, Alex was made an MBE for services to the Sharing Economy
Alex Depledge – Keynote Speaker
Start-ups shouldn’t win, but they often do. What can big businesses learn?
An established business has customers, a brand, data, a knowledgeable workforce, and, in most cases, money. Yet, in every sector, we see them challenged by start-ups with usually only two things going for them: investment and speed. They shouldn’t win, but everywhere you look, they are.
In this keynote, Alex explores what you can learn from start-ups, how to learn from them, and ways to beat them at their own game.
The future of work: How innovation can disrupt standard business models.
Many established businesses are ripe for disruption to extend their longevity and ensure survival, but they become fearful and stop dead when it comes to acting on change. However, by failing to move forward, businesses often see their long-term prospects hit hard, and growth stymied.
In this keynote, Alex looks at the key triggers for recognising the need and timing to innovate and disrupt standard business models, along with the key markers that indicate successful innovation.
We have a women problem, but is the problem maybe us?
The stats don’t lie: female-founded businesses receive less than 2% of investors’ capital, and only seven female CEOs sit on the FTSE 100. This issue has been in the spotlight for over twenty years, so why haven’t things improved? Have we ever considered that women ourselves might be part of the problem?
In this keynote, Alex discusses what each of us can do to ensure women are heard, get that pay rise, and, most importantly, achieve workplace equality.
Alex’s journey shows that being a woman in the workforce can be a superpower, and how to use it to your own and others’ advantage.
