What if climate change is not just about rising seas or hotter days, but also about stolen sleep and shrinking brains? As temperatures increase, the negative consequences for sleep and for health are also on the rise, and they require us to think about innovative approaches to how we design and build. In this week’s blog, E-Lab Residential Student Hauwa Busari outlines her research into heat and sleep, calling for a serious rethink on design before climate change claims our ability to rest.

From June 19^th to June 22^nd 2025, the King’s E-Lab hosted its second annual Hackathon with Hack the Law in partnership with Stanford’s CODEX. The weekend brought together over 150 students from 14 countries representing 43 universities and produced exciting collaborations and innovative solutions to legal challenges set out by our sponsors. In this week’s blog, hear from the winners of the special category Access 2 Justice on their solution: KnowYourRights.

Sandi Toksvig took to the lectern in Keynes Hall at King’s College on the 8th of May to deliver the annual Alan Turing lecture. The subject of the speech, a consideration of bias in the era of AI, was prefaced by an extensive archival display of mementos of Turing’s time at King’s, letters from the course of his extraordinary life, and traces of the stories which make up the road (still being trodden) to equality in Cambridge. In this week’s blog, E-Lab Member Sophie Harbour reflects on the lessons from Toksvig’s talk about how to use notably human talents to tackle the challenge of bias in AI.

Next week the SPARK incubator programme, created by King’s E-Lab in partnership with Founders at the University of Cambridge, will kick off. Gathering together some incredibly exciting teams, the four weeks will be an intensive residential programme to supercharge ideas and create ventures with the potential to change the world. In this week’s blog, read about the journey of Neela Biotech, one of the selected teams, and its founders’ vision for the future. Developed by aerospace engineer Deepanshu Singh (CEO) and synthetic biologist Friederike Nintzel (CTO) who met in Cambridge through their shared passion for sustainability and climate tech, Neela Biotech brings a rare interdisciplinary edge to the future of sustainable aviation and to the challenge of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

On the 10^th of June, the King’s E-Lab hosted Ambassador Maulidah Hassan, a distinguished Tanzanian diplomat and the current Personal Assistant for Diplomatic Affairs to President Samia Suluhu Hassan – the first female Head of State in Tanzania’s history and a transformative figure in African and global politics. In conversation with Uduak Jesuthasan, Ambassador Hassan provided insight into what can we learn from navigating complex, patriarchal systems that do not ordinarily set the ground for women to hold the highest office. In this week’s blog, read Nageen Qasim’s reflections on the night.

Rhythm is a key part of sustainable entrepreneurial thinking and, today, success is still too often assumed to be the consequence of an unrelenting work schedule rather than an awareness of personal resilience and recovery. We need to shift this thinking. In this week’s blog, read Elle Whitelegg’s second post in our Wellbeing Series, as she identifies how to make this shift by reframing our understanding of cycles of achievement and performance, and by managing not just our time but our energy.

From June 19^th to June 22^nd 2025, the King’s E-Lab hosted its second annual Hackathon with Hack the Law in partnership with Stanford’s CODEX. The weekend brought together over 150 students from 14 countries representing 43 universities and produced exciting collaborations and innovative solutions to legal challenges set out by our sponsors. In this week’s blog, hear from the third-place winner Daria on her experience of the weekend and on her approach to addressing challenges in litigation: No Human Intelligence.

How can we improve civil services with modern technology so that municipal governments can provide citizens with the best service possible with limited resources? This is exactly the question that Magan Chin and Stan van Baarsen are trying to answer with their venture, FIG. On Tuesday 27 May, the pair participated in the final Pitch@King’s of the year with the hope of articulating their mission and sharing how they aim to address the bottlenecks in local government services. In this week’s blog, read the founders’ reflections on the development of their partnership, their journey to Pitch@King’s, and their hopes for their venture.

Faced with the evidence of enormous failures and low success rates, despite a wealth of talent and resources in Southeast Nigeria, Uche Ogechukwu and his cofounders decided to face the energy crisis in Nigeria head on and embrace a truly proactive approach to problem solving. Relying on their expertise, enthusiasm and, in their own words, ‘incredible luck’, the group has achieved remarkable growth successes with their start up ‘Greenage Technologies’. In this week’s blog, read the first of Uche’s three-part reflection on their journey.

Burnout among entrepreneurs is more common than many realise. The pace is intense, the stakes are high, and the demands can feel endless. Success in this space is often associated with strategy, innovation, and endurance—but beneath it all lies something less visible and just as crucial: how founders see themselves. Over time, the identity you adopt—how you define what it means to lead, work hard, or succeed—shapes not just your decisions, but your sustainability. In this week’s blog and the first of our new series on wellbeing, read about the kinds of questions founders should really be asking themselves.

At the end of June, the King’s E-Lab ran its annual LLM x Law Hackathon, in partnership with Stanford Universuty CodeX and the Cambridge Judge Business School. The four-day event brought together over 150 students from 14 countries representing 43 universities. For a second year running, it produced an array of exciting collaborations and innovative solutions to legal challenges set out by our sponsors. In this week’s blog, hear from the winner of the Hacker Track, Julia Volovich as she discusses her CounterClaim Eagle application.

On the 30^th of April 2025, Katy Tuncer, founder at Horizon37, was invited to deliver the "Invested Investor - Peter Cowley Memorial Talk’ at ARU. The event was co-hosted by CAMEntrepreneurs and Anglia Ruskin Enterprise Academy and was dedicated to Peter Cowley, who was passionate about entrepreneurship and actively provided advice and mentoring to students at ARU. In this week’s blog, read the key themes of her keynote speech on how what we should learn from the legacy of Peter Cowley and his enduring ability to purposefully pivot his mindset.

Multilateral Development Institutions (MDIs) play a crucial role in creating connections across nations and in deploying context-specific financial tools to support the development of diverse economies. These practices, while they must be open to scrutiny, should not be too easily dismissed given the value they can generate for vulnerable populations across the world. In this week’s blog, Jigar Patel and Christiaan van der Does de Willebois reflect on their recent EMBA cohort trip to the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Sao Paulo offices. They extend a call to students to use the opportunities they have to explore how we build relationships for the better of all in these complex times.

In one week, the E-Lab will host the second LLM x Law Hackathon in partnership with Stanford’s CodeX and the Cambridge Judge Business School. Following the inaugural edition in 2024, the hackathon aims to bring teams together to experiment and solve problems rapidly by developing prototypes that challenge conventional approaches and expand technological boundaries. An undoubtedly thrilling environment, the event also prompts deeper reflection on the potential outcomes of enacting faster paced technological solutions. In this week’s blog, practicing advocate and Visiting Scholar in AI Governance at Downing College, Demetrius Floudas addresses an evident and serious gap in thinking – who is left to judge the cases our newly designed AI taskforce will soon exponentially create?