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.

Join us for a fireside chat with Dame Emma Walmsley, former CEO of GSK and the first woman to run a major global pharmaceutical company, as she shares insights on leading transformation across industries and organisations through periods of significant change.

We brought together researchers, practitioners, founders, and innovators from across the healthcare ecosystem for an intimate roundtable with Dame Emma Walmsley, CEO of GSK and one of the world's leading voices in global healthcare.

For our first Laidlaw Scholars Introduction to Leadership Day, the trailblazing medical scientist Dr Hayat Sindi will join us in conversation for an inspiring opening session, where scholars will have the opportunity to gain first-hand insights into leadership, innovation, and global impact.

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.

Across Michaelmas and Lent terms, participants have put their pitches to the test during the knock-out rounds of this year’s Pitch@King’s competition. We’re delighted, now, to bring together the winners from the Michaelmas and Lent term rounds for our Easter term grand final.

Join us for a practical and candid conversation on women and entrepreneurship, bringing together founders and ecosystem leaders who are actively building and supporting ventures across sectors including climate technology, health innovation, and early-stage venture development.

Join Marina Mendes Tavares, Senior Economist at the IMF for a seminar discussion surrounding their recent SDN: Bridging Skill Gaps for the Future: New Jobs Creation in the AI Age

Join us for an end of term entrepreneurship mixer at King's!

Lent Term at University of Cambridge might have ended, but the E-Lab is open and always a space for people from diverse backgrounds to come together, make new friends amongst E-Lab members and entrepreneurially minded peers, network and pitch their ideas.

We are delighted to be hosting a celebratory reception for this year’s incoming cohort of scholars for the Laidlaw Scholars Leadership and Research Programme, which invests in and nurtures talented first-year undergraduates to become ethical leaders in every sector and geography.

Join our SPARK 2.0 Information Webinar to learn how the programme supports early-stage founders across the University of Cambridge ecosystem.

Conclude the term’s programming of the African Founders Webinar Series with a chat with 'Tokunboh Ishmael, co-founder and Managing Director of Alitheia Capital.

Come along to celebrate the book launch of ‘Dangerous Knowledge’ through conversation with its contributors for discussions on prison reform, de-colonising justice, the sensory violence of war, and how we can bridge academic thought to entrepreneurship.

Join us for a fireside chat with Lord Karan Bilimoria, drawing on his unique vantage point as both a global entrepreneur and a member of the UK House of Lords to explore how global businesses can strategically leverage the India–UK Free Trade Agreement and the evolving bilateral business corridor.

Join us for a roundtable hosted by the Building Bridges in Medical Sciences Society, held in collaboration with the King’s E-Lab.

Learn about Neo4j: a leading graph database used for working with highly interconnected data where the relationships between data points are as important as the data itself. Unlike relational databases that use tables, Neo4j uses stores data as nodes (entities) and relationships (connections between nodes) with properties (attributes) to describe them.

​​Join us for a panel on Innovations for the Smart Grid of the Future with Clementine Chambon (Axle Energy), Genna Boyle (Gridcog) and Luke Hodgkinson (Adia), organised in collaboration with Cambridge University Energy Technology Society and the University Sustainability Initiative.

Join us for a fireside chat with Greg Jackson, Founder and CEO of Octopus Energy Group for a night of insight into the role of innovation and entrepreneurial thinking in the energy sector.