Tech Nation Programme Manager - Deeptech

About Founders Forum & Tech Nation Founders Forum Group is an event-powered community and family of businesses supporting innovative entrepreneurs at every stage of their journeys. Founded in 2005, our invite-only forums unite founders, investors, corporate and government leaders to tackle era-defining questions in iconic locations across the globe. Since 2019, Founders Forum has partnered with Informa Tech to celebrate the strength and diversity of UK tech through London Tech Week. Fuelled by the connections and ideas forged at our flagship events, Founders Forum businesses support the needs of today’s founders via networking, education, professional services, investment and charitable giving. In 2023, Founders Forum acquired Tech Nation to further our mission to empower tech entrepreneurs and scale innovative startups. Tech Nation is the leading platform for tech insights, connections, collaboration and talent, empowering ambitious founders and their teams with the access and knowledge they need from seed stage to success story. Under the FFG umbrella, Tech Nation has relaunched our first set of initiatives and reports as part of the new Tech Nation. We are now in a growth phase and are looking to shape the next phase of our early stage initiatives - this is where you come in! The Opportunity We are looking for a Programme Manager to manage Tech Nation’s Deeptech initiatives. Our newly launched Tech Nation Deeptech programme, backed by fantastic scaleup founders and partners, offering brilliant exposure. A cohort-based programme for post-spin out and Series A founders across the UK. Running twice a year with 10–15 companies per cohort, each programme lasts for 3 months rolling and grows into a lifelong community. As our Programme Manager, you will be responsible for planning and delivering these programmes, with the strategic and commercial oversight of the Director of Climate & Nature as part of our sector specialisms pillar. You will also set up and pilot the launch of a new Founders Forum x Tech Nation deeptech event. You will identify and build a strong relevant network rallied around these initiatives, and engage strategic and commercial partners as well as later stage speakers. The result will be delivering a calendar of events and advisory support for selected companies, alongside establishing a deeptech network with strong engagement. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of Tech Nation's next journey of growth in a new sector area. Responsibilities Programme research, ideation, & content curation Input and iterate the strategy for the deeptech initiatives, working with the Director of Climate & Nature and wider team, ensuring it is truly valuable to the community and the tech ecosystem. Keep yourself informed and at the forefront of all things happening in Deeptech - be amongst the first to know, and develop ideas to iterate your initiatives accordingly. You will become our inhouse specialist in the deeptech…