Reboot Development: The Economics of a Livable Planet
Jan
26

Reboot Development: The Economics of a Livable Planet

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.

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Build with Browser Use: Tech Stack Workshop
Jan
27

Build with Browser Use: Tech Stack Workshop

Learn about Browser Use: an open-source infrastructure that converts website interfaces into structured text, and thus enable AI agents to interact and navigate websites more effectively than vision-based approaches. While vision-based approaches that try to "see" websites like humans, Browser Use converts web interfaces into structured text that language models can faster, more precisely and reliably.

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Build with Groq: Tech Stack Workshop
Feb
10

Build with Groq: Tech Stack Workshop

Learn about Groq: API that gives access to specialised hardware optimised for ultra-low latency and high-speed inference with large language models (LLMs). The exceptional speed comes from Groq's custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU)—a chip designed specifically for AI inference, unlike general-purpose GPUs.

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Classics x AI Workshop
Feb
24

Classics x AI Workshop

Join the E-Lab for a demonstration of how Artificial Intelligence can not only compliment the humanities, but unlock new knowledge.

Thea Sommerschield led a group of academics working together with Google DeepMind to develop a two LLM models, “Aeneas” and “Ithaca”, that can expand our knowledge of Roman and Greek epigraphy by filling in the gas in inscriptions and providing more accurate dating than ever before.

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Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures with Ben Soltoff
Feb
27

Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures with Ben Soltoff

Join us for a talk by Ben Soltoff of MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship! Ben will provide an overview of his bestselling book Disciplined Entrepreneurship for Climate and Energy Ventures, which is the first how-book specifically on climate and energy entrepreneurship. It offers a hands-on guide to building impactful solutions for people and the planet, developed from the two-decade track record of MIT’s Climate & Energy Ventures course, which has spun out over 65 ventures that have raised $2.3 billion in funding and created over 2500 jobs.

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Build with Neo4j: Tech Stack Workshop
Mar
10

Build with Neo4j: Tech Stack Workshop

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.

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Global Entrepreneurship and Bilateral Business: In Conversation with Lord Karan Bilimoria
Mar
12

Global Entrepreneurship and Bilateral Business: In Conversation with Lord Karan Bilimoria

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.

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In Conversation with James Matthews of Ocado: Transforming an Industry
May
7

In Conversation with James Matthews of Ocado: Transforming an Industry

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.

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2026 Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference (GEIRC)
Jun
5
to 15 Jun

2026 Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference (GEIRC)

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. 

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Entrepreneurial Leadership Across Systems: Opportunities, Partnerships, and Impact at Scale
Jan
14

Entrepreneurial Leadership Across Systems: Opportunities, Partnerships, and Impact at Scale

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.

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E-Lab 2026 Social Venture Residential
Jan
13
to 15 Jan

E-Lab 2026 Social Venture Residential

‍The E-Lab Social Venture Residential, run in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation programme and Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation, at Cambridge Judge Business School, is designed to support students of all disciplines in developing sustainable and ethical projects with a positive social and environmental impact.

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