What Europe actually asks of a US company
Which obligations attach the moment you have EU users or staff, which ones need a named representative on record, and which are safe to defer. Concrete thresholds rather than a list of acronyms.
Official SF Tech Week event
Scaling without “Risk” in play
Compliance + Insurance for Startups. An evening in San Francisco for US founders scaling into new markets — with EU Presence and Corgi.
DateThursday 8 October 2026
Time5:00 PM PT · until late
PriceFree — registration required
Part of SF Tech Week, 5–11 October
What we'll cover
The two things that quietly become everyone's problem
Growth into a new market rarely fails on product. It stalls on the unglamorous things nobody owns until they bite — the regulator who expects a named contact, and the cover that turns out not to apply. This session is about seeing both early enough to be boring.
Where insurance actually matters
Which risks a policy genuinely absorbs as you expand, where the gaps usually sit, and the exclusions that surprise founders after the fact. What to have in place before it is urgent.
Sequencing it without a legal team
What a two-person company can reasonably do in-house, what to outsource, and the order that avoids paying twice. Plus what genuinely can wait until you have revenue in the market.
Run of show
An evening, not a conference track
- 5:00 PM Doors, drinks — arrive whenever, no fixed start.
- 5:30 PM Talk and Q&A — compliance and insurance for startups, roughly 60–90 minutes with questions throughout.
- 7:00 PM Drinks and networking — stay as long as you like.
On the panel
Who you'll hear from
Albi Zhulali
Founder & CEO, EU Presence
Alex Harper
Head of Partnerships, Corgi
More to come
Additional speakers announced soon
Hosted by
Two sides of the same problem
Regulatory infrastructure for companies selling into Europe — representation, entity setup, hiring and the filings that come with them, across all 27 member states from one platform.
Insurance built for modern companies, and our co-host for the evening. They will cover the risk side of scaling — what cover does and does not do once you are operating in more than one market.
Spread the word
Tell people you're going
Add your name and post it — the caption is written and the pass saves itself. Half the value of a room like this is who else decides to show up because you did.
On a phone the card is attached for you. On a laptop it saves and the composer opens with your caption ready.
See you on the 8th?
Free, and the room is capped by the size of the cafe — registering is what holds your spot.