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.

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.