This event will present key insights from the World Bank’s flagship report Reboot Development: The Economics of a Livable Planet. The report examines how development strategies can deliver prosperity while reducing environmental damage. It highlights the economic costs of environmental degradation, the distributional impacts across countries, and policy pathways to align growth with a livable planet.

This online event will provide information about the Laidlaw Scholars programme at the University of Cambridge, covering what is involved and the application process. There will also be the chance to ask the E-Lab team any questions.

Sir Ronnie Cohen, a pioneering social innovator who is driving forward the global Impact Revolution, joins us to discuss the new edition of his book IMPACT: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change. 

As part of the E-Lab Social Ventures Residential, this fireside conversation brings Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, Honourable Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to the University of Cambridge for a wide-ranging discussion on entrepreneurial leadership and how social ambition is translated into real-world impact.

Join King’s College Provost Gillian Tett for a conversation with Pinterest CEO Bill Ready as they explore the role of positive social media platforms, Pinterest's use of AI, particularly in visual search, and the need for safe online environments, particularly for young people.

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.

Join us for the global launch of the Cambridge Digital Innovation and Regulation Initiative (C:\>DIR) - a new global policy convening platform bringing together policymakers, regulators and innovation leaders to help shape the future of digital regulation,

Join us for this event, co-hosted with climaTRACES Lab, when Lily Hsueh (Arizona State University) will be discussing her work on “Corporations at Climate Crossroads: Multilevel Governance, Public Policy, and Global Climate Action” with plenty of time for discussion. The event is brining together a diverse group of people from economics, geography, politics, engineering, business, earth sciences, natural sciences, and history, generating interdisciplinary discussion.

We look forward to welcoming the winner and runners-up of the 2025 Entrepreneurship Essay Competition Prize.

The purpose of the competition is to encourage UK Sixth Form students to pursue entrepreneurial aspirations and understand better how to launch an enterprise. We are particularly keen to foster this entrepreneurial spirit among students who might not traditionally consider entering the world of business and further hope this competition encourages more young people, who might not think about it, to apply to Oxbridge and Higher Education.

Join us for a conversation with Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, Chief Strategy Officer and Corporate Vice President for Corporate Strategy at Microsoft, as we explore “Strategy in the Era of AI.”

In partnership with the Innovation Hub for Prosperity at Cambridge Judge Business School, Foundation for the Interoperability of the Digital Economy (FIDE), and the University of Cambridge climaTRACES Lab, the E-Lab will host a summit to shape the Digital Energy Grid — which revolutionises energy markets through real-time coordination, universal access, and scalable sustainability — a transformation as profound as the mobile and internet revolutions.

A fireside chat between Susanna Kempe, CEO of the Laidlaw Foundation, and Gillian Tett on investing in education and inspiring the next generation of global leaders as part of a week celebrating the launch of Cambridge’s 2026 Laidlaw Scholars Programme.

Join King’s College Provost Gillian Tett for a conversation with Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Founders Factory Brent Hoberman.

Susanna Kempe is the CEO of the Laidlaw Foundation, which invests in education globally to break cycles of poverty, reduce inequality and develop a new generation of ethical leaders. She is also CEO of Laidlaw Scholars Ventures, a venture capital fund investing in the start-ups of Laidlaw Scholars.

Learn about Kiro: an AI-powered IDE from AWS that helps developers build software using a specification-driven approach. It converts a user's initial prompt into clear requirements, design documents, and actionable tasks, which AI agents then execute. Main features include multimodal chat, automated task execution through "agent hooks," the ability to guide AI behaviour (agent steering), and integration with other AWS services.

Come join at Newnham College for an event celebrating Cambridge’s 2025 Laidlaw Scholars as they share the outcomes of their exciting summer research projects.

For prospective applicants, this will also be an opportunity to find out more about the programme by talking to previous scholars and staff attached to the programme.

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.