Women Redefining Power, Leadership & Culture

📅 Wednesday, 8th May 2026

🕘 10:00 – 17:30

📍 LSEG, 10 Paternoster Square, London, EC4M 7LS

Overview

Disruptors Festival is a curated, one-day leadership and culture gathering created by Violet Simon, supported by LSEG.

It brings together women and allies shaping how power, leadership, identity, wealth, wellbeing, and culture are being redefined — not in theory, but through lived experience, perspective, and storytelling.

This is not a conference built on performance or surface-level inspiration. It is designed for depth, relevance and conversations that stay with you.

Across two parallel rooms, the Festival brings together:

  • Short-form Disruptors Talks
  • Fireside conversations and panels
  • Grounded wellbeing and reflection sessions

All within an intentional, carefully curated environment.

Who This Is For

Disruptors Festival is for women and allies who:

  • Carry responsibility and influence
  • Are navigating leadership, reinvention, visibility, or change
  • Want conversations that are culturally relevant, emotionally intelligent, and commercially aware

The audience spans mid-level to senior leaders, founders, creatives, and decision-makers across business, media, technology, culture, and social impact.

What to Expect

Disruptors Talks

Short, impactful talks (10–12 minutes) from women reshaping industries, narratives, and leadership norms.

Panels & Fireside Conversations

Thoughtful, unscripted discussions exploring:

  • Leadership and power
  • AI and influence
  • Sex, autonomy, and culture
  • Reinvention and wealth
  • Identity, trauma, and selfhood

Disruptors 50 Over 50

Recognising women redefining legacy, influence, and leadership beyond midlife — challenging age-limited narratives of power and relevance.

Creative Pause for Life

Guided grounding, breathwork, and reset sessions woven through the day, supporting clarity, regulation, and presence.

Connection & Exchange

Intentional networking designed to encourage meaningful conversation rather than transactional exchanges.

Programme Structure

Disruptors Festival is a two-room experience, with concurrent sessions running throughout the day.

Morning

  • Arrival & networking
  • Opening plenary
  • Creative Pause grounding session
  • AI x Women conversations

Midday

  • Sex, Power & Pleasure
  • Disruptors 50 Over 50 spotlight
  • Reinvention & leadership sessions

Afternoon

  • REWIRED: Leadership & Success Unmasked
  • Reclaiming the Self
  • Girlfriends Live (unfiltered, cultural conversation)
  • Comedy act

Closing

  • Keynote: The Future Belongs to Storytellers
  • Closing with Creative Pause
  • Drinks, canapés, and conversation

Speakers 

Disruptors Festival features a carefully curated mix of leaders across culture, business, media, wellbeing, and innovation.

Speakers include:

Why Attend

  • Engage with leadership conversations grounded in real experience, not performance
  • Gain perspective on power, visibility, reinvention, and identity
  • Step out of operational mode and into reflective, future-focused thinking
  • Be in a room designed for substance, credibility, and cultural relevance

This is a space to think, listen, connect, and reset.

Tickets & Registration

Attendance is by invitation and registration approval. Capacity is limited.

Register Your Interest