Organised by the Cambridge University Energy Technology Society, in collaboration with the King's E-Lab and the University Sustainability Initiative (USI).

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.

Africa’s digital economy is expanding rapidly. Yet millions of small and informal businesses still operate without structured records, financial visibility, or access to formal systems.

Join us for the next session of the African Founders Webinar Series (AFWS) as we explore how a fintech innovation is formalising the informal economy and unlocking growth at scale.

Join us for a talk by Ben Soltoff of MIT’s Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship! Ben will provide an overview of his new 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.

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.

‘Colossal Wreck’ is a feature documentary journeying into the depths of the COP climate conference in Dubai. Are these enormous get-togethers all about false promises that hinder change? Or are they the only hope we've got for world-saving unity?

With his innocuous selfie-stick, filmmaker Josh Appignanesi moves unnoticed through Dubai's seductive slickness to reveal the talks, meetings and backroom parties behind the strange mixture of global cry for help and political jostling that is a COP.

Learn about Lovable: an AI-powered platform that allows users to create full-stack web applications and websites through natural language prompts instead of traditional coding. You can describe your desired app, and the AI generates a functional application, which can then be refined through further chat or an editor.

Join us for a lecture and Q&A with Janet Echelman, the internationally acclaimed artist behind monumental and site-specific fibre sculptures that transform public space. Drawing on engineering and architecture, Echelman will discuss her creative process, the politics and poetics of working at scale, and how her immersive installations invite collective reflection. The talk will be followed by an open Q&A, moderated by the King’s E-Lab.

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.

Join us to talk for an evening with Nigel Newton, Founder and Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing.

Following on from last year’s hit series, these sessions will connect the Cambridge community with African founders building high-impact ventures across the continent to discuss venture creation, leadership, failure, ethics, and scaling in African contexts.

Pitch@King’s offers you the opportunity to practice your pitching skills with support from across the E-Lab.

This year's Climate Challenge competition has a final prize of £5,000. Attend training sessions to learn how to pitch a solution, and build a team with fellow postgrads and postdocs. The next session focusses on ‘What works and what doesn’t in Climate Entrepreneurship’, delivered by Carbon13 CEO Dr Nicky Dee (as seen in The Times).

Are you building an entrepreneurial venture? Are you a current student, post-doc, or Alumni of University of Cambridge?

If so we have an incredible opportunity for you to incubate, fund, and grow your venture with Kings E-Lab this summer.

Join us on Thursday 12th Feb where we will celebrate the opening of applications for our second cohort. This event will share more about our residential incubator programme and host a fireside with alumni of SPARK 1.0.

Learn about NVIDIA: The company behind the GPUs and AI infrastructure powering modern AI development. From hardware to foundation models to deployment tools, NVIDIA's ecosystem supports millions of developers building everything from chatbots to autonomous systems. It’s currently the most valuable company in the world with a market cap of over $4.5 trillion.

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

Join us for a fireside chat with Billy Boyle, co-founder and CEO of Owlstone, on his experience spinning out of Cambridge in the med tech sector.

In a twist on our usual Thursday Speaker Series, come along to the launch event of the Climate Challenge, an early-stage climate entrepreneurship training programme for postgrads and postdocs, and hear from our exciting panellists.

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.

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.