Kingdom Business Gala Dinner · 21 October 2026

Dinner Speakers

Keynote Speaker

Dr John Kirkby CBE

Founder and CEO of Christians Against Poverty. John’s legacy is more than 20,000 individuals set free from the prison of debt. It’s a network of over 700 churches working together to tackle the root causes of poverty here in the UK. And it’s thousands of lives transformed by the love and healing of Jesus, with thousands more to come. Having stepped down from CAP, John founded the Isaiah 61 Movement, an initiative that seeks to see a culture change in our churches to see the gospel impact lives and communities.

Andreas Frankner

Andreas is a Senior Partner in the EuroAcademy Leadership Institute. EuroAcademy is a value based European leadership institute that supports and develops leaders, teams and organisations for leadership success — both personal and professional. Andreas has many, many years of experience seeing businesses grow and develop as well as being the leader of a vibrant church in Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr Robert Glover OBE

Founder and Executive Director of Care For Children, a charity dedicated to moving vulnerable orphans and disadvantaged children out of institutions and into local family foster care. To date Care For Children has seen more than 1,000,000 children in China alone moved into families and this has continued to grow into many nations across the world. Robert serves as an advisor at conferences, events, and consortiums worldwide, sharing his expertise and insights on child welfare and family placement.

Tradeshow Speakers

Sara-Louise Martin

Sara-Louise is Co-Founder of and Chief Communicator at Impact Central: an accelerator and mentoring community for impact start-ups ready to take their business to the next level. Impact Central seeks to support start-up founders committed to rebuilding our society and environment. Sara-Louise is a creative, entrepreneurial and people-orientated marketing & comms director with a track record in driving integrated cross-channel campaigns.

Scott Smith

Scott Smith has many years of experience working in big tech product management companies, driving early stage and growth products and is now part of the leadership team at Living Hope VC, an organisation that backs exceptional European technology founders for the long term, investing in startups and scale-ups in a meaningful way that will have long-term impact, supporting the journey of founders and investors in many ways.

Jeff Warin

Chartered accountant, retired business owner, investor and trustee/director to various not-for-profit organisations in the UK and mainland Europe. Hewett-Warin placed first in the regular giver category at the B1G1 Awards in 2018.

Onno Weststrate

Over 30 years of turbomachinery industry experience. Business Development Manager at TURBOCAM. Personal experience in Kingdom property investment projects in Sweden, Romania, Poland and Croatia.