Crosstide
Crosstide 48 Full Weekend.
The full experience. Friday arrival dinner builds the trust that makes Saturday work. Saturday is the main working day. Sunday is reflection. 48 hours designed to produce insight that months of normal networking cannot.
Crosstide 48 is the core format — a full weekend of structured cross-industry peer exchange. It exists because the most valuable professional conversations require more than a dinner. They require the time to build trust, the structure to go deep, and the setting to remove the noise that prevents honesty in normal professional contexts.
Why 48 hours matters
Friday dinner isn't social filler — it's structural. Trust built over wine and honest conversation on Friday evening is what makes Saturday's hot-seat sessions productive. People share differently when they've already established a personal connection. The 48-hour container is the mechanism that makes genuine exchange possible.
The Saturday structure
Saturday is the main working day. Structured hot-seats where each participant presents a real challenge and receives structured input from the group. Collaborative problem-solving that leverages the cross-industry composition of the room. Pattern recognition sessions that surface insights invisible from within any single industry. Facilitated by Boris, who has worked across industries at the headquarters level.
Sunday: reflection and commitment
Sunday morning is deliberately lighter. Reflection on insights gained, commitments made, and follow-up actions identified. An unhurried departure that allows conversations started on Saturday to find their natural conclusion. Many participants report that the most valuable exchange happens in these informal moments.
The setting
Crosstide 48 takes place at Adriatic Retreat — a private residence on Croatia's Pelješac Peninsula, one hour from Dubrovnik airport. Not a hotel, not a conference centre. A place designed for the conditions serious conversation requires: intimacy, beauty, and distance from operational noise.
Crosstide 48 is designed for leaders who:
- —Hold VP/Director+ roles and want cross-industry peer exchange
- —Can invest a full weekend in deep professional development
- —Want to break out of industry echo chambers
- —Value structured exchange over casual networking
- —Are ready to share real challenges with peers from different sectors
Founding Exchange — Shape the Format, Set the Price
2026 gatherings are hosted on a founder basis. Boris covers accommodation. Participants contribute €700 per person — all meals, activities, and local logistics across the full weekend.
€700
per person · all-inclusive
From 2027: €2,000–2,500
Your host
Every gathering is built personally by Boris.
"I built two companies, scaled across borders, then spent years inside EMEA headquarters advising the people who run them. That's why I can build this room: I've sat on both sides of the table."
Boris builds every gathering personally, not through an algorithm, not through a team. He reviews every application, builds the room as a whole, and is present for all four days.
Boris built two companies from scratch, scaling to 35 FTE across four offices before pivoting to enterprise advisory. Through his SO DIGITAL and Otto Ziegler Consulting practice, he worked with Directors, VPs, and SVPs at EMEA headquarters: Nike across 14 markets, Uber across 46, WarnerBrosDiscovery / HBO Max across 17, Amazon Ring across 10, and global HQs like TomTom, Victorinox, and Jacobs Douwe Egberts, spanning brand, marketing, creative, e-commerce, supply chain, operations, and procurement. Parallel to this he attended dozens of cross-industry conferences both across Europe, but also across the globe from Hong Kong to Las Vegas. He saw the downsides of mass gatherings for genuine professional connection. It's this combination, founder experience and cross-industry HQ exposure, that shapes how he builds every gathering: he knows which problems are universal, which people can help solve them, and how to build a room where that exchange actually happens.
Frequently Asked Questions
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