Real Futures: Delivery, Team and Execution – Getting Technical Work Done Without Losing Momentum
How you manage delivery, teams, and execution determines whether technical work builds momentum or stalls under pressure. Even with a strong roadmap, progress breaks down when teams are misaligned, priorities shift, or delivery systems cannot keep pace.
This session focuses on execution in practice. It is designed to help founders keep technical work moving, align teams around clear outcomes, and maintain momentum as complexity increases.
Rather than focusing on high level frameworks, this session centres on the realities of delivery, how teams coordinate, how work flows, and how founders make decisions that keep progress consistent and measurable.
We will explore how to:
Keep technical delivery moving without losing focus or speed
Align teams around clear priorities and shared outcomes
Structure workflows that reduce friction and improve accountability
Identify and resolve execution bottlenecks early
Balance short term delivery with longer term technical goals
Maintain momentum across teams as products and organisations scale
Participants leave with:
Practical approaches to managing technical execution day to day
Clearer ways to align teams, priorities, and workflows
Stronger understanding of how to maintain delivery momentum
Tools to identify risks and unblock progress quickly
Increased confidence in leading technical work through periods of growth
Session Lead: Dewet Pretorius
Dewet Pretorius is a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience driving complex, cross-functional transformation programmes across global organisations.
He specialises in translating product and technology strategy into actionable roadmaps, building high-performance global technology teams, and delivering enterprise-level impact at scale. His work has supported Fortune 100 companies to move from strategy to execution through clear operating models and disciplined delivery.
Real Futures: Catalyst Converge Accelerator
Real Futures: Catalyst Converge is CSRI’s accelerator for ventures building sustainable real estate and built‑environment solutions. The programme accelerates bold, scalable innovation by connecting founders with researchers, industry partners, and real‑world pilot opportunities.
Ventures receive guided diagnostics, expert mentorship, access to PGIM and UCL resources, and a collaborative ecosystem focused on real‑asset transformation.
What the accelerator offers:
Tailored workshops and matched mentorship
Access to researchers, industry leaders, and investors
Pilot opportunities with PGIM
Support for innovation grant applications
Real‑world validation and market‑readiness
The accelerator integrates with the wider CSRI ecosystem - from Bartlett Invents to executive education, hackathons, and thought leadership - creating a clear path from idea to pilot to scale.
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