Entrepreneurial thinking can be applied across a variety of contexts, from academia to the private sector, from the public sector and beyond. In each case, how it is applied throws up sector specific similarities and differences. Join the E-Lab as we speak to the Chief of Staff to the Master of the Royal Household, Jenny Ward-George, about her work in all of these different spaces and about how the lessons from these experience can help us to think about the advantages to such a such mindset.

Monthly sessions connecting Cambridge student founders with Orrick lawyers for practical 1:1 legal guidance on IP, incorporation, founder agreements, and investment matters. Orrick advises 5,000+ venture-backed companies including 100+ unicorns (recent clients: Anthropic's $13B Series F, Mistral AI's €1.7B Series C). Their lawyers volunteer time to help students navigate legal questions that impede or slow down early-stage ventures.

Pitch@King’s offers you the opportunity to practice your pitching skills with support from across the E-Lab.

Join the E-Lab as we host renowned fresh produce journalist Chris White, Managing Director of Fruitnet Media International, to reflect on managing a global media business for over 30 years—without any formal business education. Chris shares how instinct, storytelling, and experience have shaped his journey, and what he might have done differently with a structured business foundation.

Learn about GCP: Google’s computing platform that lets you build on the same global, secure, and reliable infrastructure that powers Google's own products like Search, Gmail, and YouTube. Whether you're experimenting, prototyping or building, GCP can help with: compute and storage options (Cloud Run, Google Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine), data analytics (BigQuery, AlloyDB, Cloud Storage) AI/ML capabilities (Gemini models via Vertex AI), Web & mobile (Firebase), and much more.

Do you have a problem you want solve? Maybe it's a world-changing idea or early-stage startup that uses AI and could change the status quo?

Join us for an afternoon fireside chat with Dame Julia Hoggett, CEO of the London Stock Exchange plc.

AI is rewriting scientific discovery. But the path from research to real-world impact isn't always clear. Join us to hear directly from founders and builders at the intersection of AI and science, driving this next wave of progress. They’ll share practical insights, hard won lessons and tangible next steps for how to build an AI for Science startup. 

HealthTech sounds like the perfect career path for the ambitious entrepreneur. A chance to improve lives and build a successful business. But most founders quickly learn: selling into the NHS is nothing like traditional startups. In this fireside chat, HealthTech founder, CEO Coach, and Chairman Kevin McDonnell shares the hard truths about NHS entrepreneurship with E-Lab Research Associate Coco Newton.

Learn about Momen: a no-code web application development tool and a PaaS that allows users to create custom web applications without coding. The platform features a visual canvas and a data model, offering tools for designing, developing, and deploying applications. It is designed to be accessible to individuals with limited technical experience.

Join us on the 23rd of October as we host Peter Harris, CEO and Co-Founder of Hotel Chocolat, to discuss everything from The Chocolate Tasting Club’s unique method of growth funding, ‘The Chocolate Bond’, and Project Chocolat’s unique tree-to-bar visitor experience on the oldest cocoa farm in St Lucia, to how a casual comment can transform a company’s direction and how to have the perseverance to put ideas into practice.

As a part of our Next Turing Test Conference, join us as we host creative innovator, tech founder, futurist and philanthropist, will.i.am in conversation with King’s College Provost Gillian Tett.

Join us for a fireside chat with our very own King’s alumnus and Nobel Laureate Geoffrey Hinton on Prospects of Artificial General Intelligence, followed by Q&A. This event is part of the King's E-Lab Annual Nobel Prize Lecture series as well as the Next Turing Test Conference.

As a part of our Next Turing Test Conference, join us for an afternoon keynote address by James Manyika, senior vice president for research, technology & society at Google.

Cambridge has been responsible for many world-changing discoveries, but entrepreneurship is not the first thought of most people thinking about the University. Driving economic growth requires inspiring, challenging and coaching the next generation to think boldly about how their ideas can become market realities, transform industries, create better outcomes for society and build value for all . On 15th October at the House of Lords, King’s Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab) and the Global Education Lab will showcase and celebrate how the diverse University of Cambridge entrepreneurial ecosystem is turning ambitions into ventures that contribute meaningfully to the local, regional and global economy.

Learn about Cursor: an AI-powered code editor that integrates LLMs directly into your development workflow. Built as a fork of Visual Studio Code, it preserves the familiar interface and extension ecosystem while adding conversational AI capabilities from various LLM providers (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Deepseek, Grok …). Rather than switching between your editor and a separate AI chat interface, you can write, edit, and debug code through natural language interactions within the same environment where you're working.

Step inside the fast-paced world where precision engineering meets visionary leadership. Selin Tur, Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director at Williams Grand Prix Technologies, has built her career at the cutting edge of performance, applying the relentless innovation of motorsport to solve complex challenges far beyond the track.

The E-Lab Annual Dinner acknowledges the contributions and celebrates the support of various stakeholders in the entrepreneurship community at King’s—members, associates, advisory board, research associates, entrepreneurs-in-residence, alumni, partners and sponsors—without whom the E-lab wouldn’t exist.

Join us for an evening panel with EFG International, who bring entrepreneurial thinking to Swiss private banking as we ask how the next generation of founders and innovators should think about wealth.

SPARK is the newest pathway for University of Cambridge students, researchers and recent alumni to materialise their ideas into action. On the 18th of September, we are excited to bring the programme to a close with a showcase of the teams’ ventures in a full Demo Day with pitches from our cohort of 24 ventures. These teams are at the cutting edge of life sciences, artificial intelligence, healthcare, climate technologies, nuclear fusion, semiconductors, electric vehicles and more.

A full-day gathering at King’s College Cambridge for scientists, researchers, and builders to reconnect, share progress, and set new directions. Whether you’re developing an existing project or starting fresh, the day offers space to pitch ideas, explore founder traits, and choose between ideation and milestone-driven tracks. The programme includes talks, workshops, and closing pitches, followed by networking drinks.

We are honoured to host Her Majesty Queen Diambi Kabatusuila, traditional monarch of the Bakwa Luntu people in the Kingdom of Luba (Democratic Republic of Congo), for a roundtable discussion on leadership, sustainability and entrepreneurship.

Learn how business leaders, the global medical and biotechnology community, rock stars, actors, and Cambridge students are uniting to pioneer innovative investment models to rapidly accelerate treatments and cures for rare disease. Join leaders in the industry for a conversation on how venture philanthropy, impact investing, and a medical and technological revolution is delivering unprecedented progress for treatment approvals for rare disease and pushing these communities to the precipice of cures. 

Learn how business leaders, the global medical and biotechnology community, rock stars, actors, and Cambridge students are uniting to pioneer innovative investment models to rapidly accelerate treatments and cures for rare disease. Join leaders in the industry for a conversation on how venture philanthropy, impact investing, and a medical and technological revolution is delivering unprecedented progress for treatment approvals for rare disease and pushing these communities to the precipice of cures. 

Join Gillian Tett for a conversation with Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic about the U.S. economy and monetary policy. They’ll dive into topics of the day and chat about the state of the economics profession, as well as answer audience questions.

There is growing recognition of the importance of natural capital and ecosystem services in driving economic growth and the need to include them in macroeconomic analysis. The aim of this roundtable is to discuss the current state of natural capital accounting and the latest developments in earth-economy modelling.