All E-Lab events

This webinar series brings together key figures from the entrepreneurial sector, with a specific focus on fostering innovation that can drive economic growth and social impact across Africa. Our goal is to ignite, excite, and co-create.

Niren Chaudhary will discuss leading through values to address global challenges like hate, inequity, and climate change. Niren, a seasoned leader with experience at Panera Brands and Krispy Kreme, emphasizes the importance of compassion, accountability, and responsibility in leadership.

Technical: Henry Setiawan leads Amazon's "AI Kitchen" team developing Rufus, an AI shopping assistant. Previously at Google and Microsoft Research, he worked on Cloud, YouTube, and Bing projects. He co-founded super.ai and advises AI Singapore and Madrona Venture Labs. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and MBA from MIT.

Entrepreneurial: Ylan Steiner is a partner at Orrick's Technology Companies Group, specialising in VC and PE. With a software background, he advises tech companies and investors across multiple sectors. Recognized in Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, he serves on Cambridge University's Corporate Law Advisory Board..

Coffee. Everyone knows it; (almost) everyone loves it. It is the first thing we think about in the mornings, and the fuel that keeps us going late at night. 

In recent years, specialty coffee – those delicious, single-origin roasts served in trendy coffee shops – has become somewhat of a craze in the UK, prompting many to wonder: wouldn’t it be nice to start my own coffee shop? Travel the world to source the best beans? Maybe become the next Café de Flore and catalyse a second Enlightenment? 

In this fireside chat, we take a look behind the scenes at the reality of running a coffee business, entering into conversation with successful coffee entrepreneurs from Cambridge. 

Technical: Nethermind is a leading blockchain company with expertise in Ethereum, protocol engineering, and DeFi. They provide technology and consulting services, contribute to Ethereum core development, and collaborate with top partners to shape the future of blockchain and decentralised finance.

Entrepreneurial: Dr. Uday Phadkeis CEO of Triple Chasm, specialising in commercializing innovations. With 30+ years experience, he founded Cartezia which has built >100 companies. A former Entrepreneur in Residence at Judge Business School and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), he authored "Camels, Tigers & Unicorns: Rethinking Science and Technology-enabled Innovation" and "The Scale-up Manual: Handbook for Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Teams and Firms".

Technical: Aditi Goswami is a Lead Data Scientist at Boeing. Previously, she worked at Telespazio UK and Microsoft, where she gained extensive AI and Computer Vision experience. She has worked with satellite remote sensing, applying AI to analyse imagery for real-world applications.

Entrepreneurial: Michelangelo Valtancoliwas Principal at seed stage fund Stride.VC ($300m AUM) under the mentorship of Fred Destin. He's now investing as an angel alongside two unicorn founders and focusing on creating a convergence point for young undiscovered talents. 

Join KCSU and the E-Lab on the 5^th of March for a fireside chat with Noor Sweid, one of the World's Top 50 Women in Tech. The conversation will take place before the annual Women and Non-Binary Formal Hall.

Technical: Petar Veličković is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. His work has had a profound real-world impact, from improving Google Maps travel-time predictions to guiding mathematicians toward new theorems and conjectures. He also contributed to the first full AI-driven football analytics system and co-developed the first AI-assisted top-percentile result in competitive programming.

Entrepreneurial: Sam Marchant is Partner at AI venture builder Inaugural, after being a seed stage VC investor at Salica Investments. Led by the team behind Shazam, iTunes and Google Play, Inaugural uses AI to build companies across sectors. They've launched 3 AI companies in 12 months, with one reaching $3.2m annual revenue in 7 months.

This panel will explore the transformative connections between art and business, shedding light on how these intersections create dynamic networks that bridge emerging and established careers. With a particular emphasis on empowering women leaders and promoting sustainable cultural practices, the discussion will highlight the critical role of art in shaping more inclusive, forward-thinking industries.

Technical: Julian Sutherland, head of formal verification at Nethermind and former tech leader at Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, will explore formal verification's role in blockchain security and its broader industry impact.

Entrepreneurial: Edward Sloan, partner at Mills & Reeve, specialises in VC investments and investment round negotiations. He advises investors, funds, and growth companies from seed to late-stage rounds. Notable deals include the £250m Midlands Mindforge investment, Sphere Fluidics' $40m Series A, and various deep tech ventures.

Join us for a fireside chat with the founders of White Rose Mathematics and Science Education to learn more about how teachers and other public sector workers can engage in entrepreneurship and how a venture with a social purpose can be scaled to have an international impact.