Join us for an inspiring evening with Cho Tak Wong (Cao Dewang), founder and Lifetime Honorary Chairman of Fuyao Group and one of the most influential entrepreneurs and philanthropists of his generation. From a small township factory in southeast China, Cho built Fuyao into the world's leading automotive glass manufacturer, supplying the likes of Bentley, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, and Toyota, while giving back nearly RMB 26 billion to charitable causes along the way. In this fireside chat, he will share the philosophy, conviction, and sense of social responsibility behind four decades of building, scaling, and giving.

Join us for a conversation with Sim Shagaya, a celebrated Nigerian entrepreneur, investor, and visionary leader in technology and education, on transforming commerce and education in Africa.

Join us for the launch of SPARK 2.0, King’s E-Lab’s venture-building programme supporting ambitious founders as they develop, refine and scale their ideas.

Hosted at Balderton, the evening will bring together the newly selected SPARK 2.0 cohort, investors, mentors and members of the King’s E-Lab community. It will be an opportunity to welcome the new cohort, introduce them to the wider ecosystem, and celebrate the next generation of ventures coming through King’s E-Lab!

Join us for the launch of SPARK 2.0, King’s E-Lab’s venture-building programme supporting ambitious founders as they develop, refine and scale their ideas.

Hosted at Balderton, the evening will bring together the newly selected SPARK 2.0 cohort, investors, mentors and members of the King’s E-Lab community. It will be an opportunity to welcome the new cohort, introduce them to the wider ecosystem, and celebrate the next generation of ventures coming through King’s E-Lab!

Join us for an inspiring evening with Sara García-Alonso, research scientist, member of the European Space Agency’s astronaut reserve, and trailblazer. Sara will share her remarkable journey through biotechnology to becoming a leading cancer researcher and one of Spain’s most influential women in science and technology.

Join us for a fast-paced, no-fluff series of lightning talks on how large language models (LLMs) are reshaping the legal world. Hosted alongside the LLM x Law Hackathon, this event brings together sharp minds from across law, legal tech, academia, and the public sector to share ideas, challenge assumptions, and drive the conversation forward.

The 2026 LLM x Law Hackathon Opening Ceremony will feature two keynote addresses. The first will focus on the policy, governance, and regulatory dimensions of AI in the legal sector, while the second will provide a technology-focused perspective on the latest innovations driving the future of legal AI.

The 2026 LLM x Law Hackathon Opening Ceremony will feature two keynote addresses. The first will focus on the policy, governance, and regulatory dimensions of AI in the legal sector, while the second will provide a technology-focused perspective on the latest innovations driving the future of legal AI.

Get hands-on with the tools available on this year’s LLM x Law Hackathon. A series of practical, fast-paced sessions—no filler, just what you need to know to build. Workshops run back to back, so you can pick the ones that match your project or curiosity.

Deep dive into the foundations of Generative AI, covering the history of Natural Language Processing (NLP) leading up to Large Language Models (LLMs) and their limitations, particularly the grounding problem. It then focuses on modern methods to enhance LLM capabilities, specifically Function Calling and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), before introducing the Agent Development Kit (ADK) as a flexible framework for developing and deploying multi-agent systems, complete with concepts for tools, conversational context, and evaluation.

Join us for our fifth Nobel Prize lecture with Kati Karikó, whose research was crucial to the development of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines, as she discusses her journey and breaking barriers in the field.

As part of the Dialogues for Post-Conflict Futures Webinar Series, this session centers the lived experience and personal journey of Dr Nooralhaq Nasimi MBE, who fled Afghanistan with his family in 1999, undertaking a dangerous three-month journey across Europe before seeking asylum in the United Kingdom. From these beginnings, he went on to found one of the UK’s leading refugee support charities in London and has become a prominent advocate for refugee rights.

We stand at a critical inflection point. Rising geopolitical tensions, trade conflicts, technological decoupling and macroeconomic volatility are fundamentally reshaping the landscape for innovation and entrepreneurship. Tariff wars, supply chain disruptions and shifting alliances are fragmenting once-integrated global markets. Meanwhile, the race for technological advancement in AI, quantum computing, semiconductors and clean energy is intensifying national industrial policies and redefining competitive dynamics. 

Join us for a fireside chat with Steve Smith as we chat about the company's efforts to modernise its energy networks, accelerate the energy transition, and navigate regulatory frameworks to achieve a cleaner, more reliable, and affordable energy future.

The third Cambridge Mastercard Foundation Scholars Programme Entrepreneurship Prize Competition, run in collaboration with the King's E-Lab, is taking place on Wednesday 9th of June 2026. Six shortlisted entrants are asked to submit a seed investment pitch slide deck (expanding on their previously submitted business idea) and pitch their ideas to a panel of judges.

​In this conversation with Kinza Athar, Mimi Ikonn, entrepreneur, author, and co-founder of Luxy Hair and Intelligent Change, will take the audience inside her journey of building globally recognised consumer brands at the intersection of content, community, wellness, and entrepreneurship.

As part of the Dialogues for Post-Conflict Futures Webinar Series, this session explores the evolving realities and future trajectories of the Tibetan diaspora in India. Grounded in the series’ commitment to listening before intervention, this conversation will centre voices with lived experience alongside critical scholarship to examine how displacement and identity intersect across generations.

Join us for a fireside chat with Grace Forrest, Founding Director of Walk Free, exploring one of the most urgent human rights challenges of our time: modern slavery and exploitation in the global economy. This conversation will examine the hidden realities of forced labour, human trafficking, and exploitation across global supply chains, and what governments, businesses, investors, and civil society can do to drive meaningful change.

Pairing innovation with leadership excellence through its new home at the King’s E-Lab, The Laidlaw Scholars Leadership and Research Programme is a fully-funded programme that invests in the next generation of global citizens.

In this conversation, Allison Ellsworth, Founder and CEO of Poppi, will take the audience inside her journey of building a category-defining beverage brand from a homemade kitchen experiment into a multi-billion dollar company acquired by PepsiCo. In just nine years, she scaled Poppi from zero to a $2B exit, redefining what modern consumer brand growth can look like.

What does it take to invest behind transformation at global scale? Join us for a fireside chat with Simon Patterson of Silver Lake as he shares insights from some of the most consequential technology investments of the past decade, including Dell’s turnaround into an AI infrastructure leader.

From evaluating companies beyond public market narratives to building a European technology investment platform, this conversation explores how capital, technology, and leadership intersect in high-stakes environments.

Join us for hands-on problem-solving with LEGO® and let your creativity help create new perspective!

In this feature-length, personal essay documentary, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, filmmaker and philanthropist Abigail Disney grapples with America’s profound inequality crisis. The story begins in 2018, after Abigail encounters workers at the company that bears her name struggling to put food on the table. Could she, a descendent, with no role in the multinational conglomerate, use her famous last name to help pressure Disney and other American corporations to treat low-wage workers more humanely?

In this conversation, Dianna Cohen, Founder and CEO of Crown Affair, will take the audience inside her journey of building a category-defining brand in one of the most crowded consumer markets.

Rather than reinventing the product itself, Dianna reimagined how it is experienced, transforming everyday haircare into a ritual-led, design-forward brand now stocked in global retailers such as Sephora.

In this conversation, James Matthews, Deputy CEO of Ocado Group, will take the audience on a journey through 25 years of innovation - from Ocado’s early days of conveyor systems and manual picking to today’s AI-driven, fully automated fulfilment grids and robotic picking systems that serve grocery partners across continents.

Come to the Grand Final of the Cambridge Climate Challenge and watch teams pitch for prizes before drinks and canapés.

After a highly competitive selection process, nine teams have reached the final stage of this year's competition.

The finalists – whose ideas span sustainable food systems, the circular economy, and low-carbon technologies – will each pitch bold climate ventures and push early‑stage innovations toward meaningful, real‑world change.