Past Events

Every month of the academic year we dedicate an evening to a discussion about key topic in business, innovation and entrepreneurship. We invite high-caliber speakers to offer their expertise and latest industry knowledge about key topics to our community, combined with a space for questions and discussion.

The “Entrepreneurship Talks” brings leading founders, investors, academics, scientists, inventors, CEOs and managers of established companies as well as start-ups and many more, facilitating an open space for discussion about topics that shape our society.

Since the start of the series in September 2021 we have welcomed a wide range of speakers, including:

Founders, CEOs and Executives: Martin Sorrell, Warren East, Billy Boyle, Lord Blackwell, Jago McKenzie, Luke Alvarez, Matt Clifford, Ted Rosner, Judith Wallenstein, Laurel Powers-Freeling, Darren Disley, Sarah Wood, Adam Swersky, Alison Cork, Royce Van Der Zwan

Heads of State: Dalia Grybauskaitė

Nobel Laureates: Oliver Hart, Joe Stiglitz, Michael Spence, Gregory Winter

National Poet Laureate: Simon Armitage

Oscar Winners: Tim Yip

Scientists: Geoffrey Hinton

Policy-makers: Diane Coyle, Jay Clayton, Cass Sunstein, David Halpern, Indermit Gill, Marina Tavares

Journalists: Gillian Tett, Sonia Singh

We aim to make events accessible to alumni and friends of the College across the globe, as well as the wider community. Our events include a drinks reception with members of the Lab and its Advisory Board and members and friends of the College, providing an informal and welcoming space to meet like-minded individuals. Events are open to everyone and tickets are free (unless stated otherwise).

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2023 Recordings


Older events with recording available:

Featured
PAST EVENT: Business Shouldn’t be a Drag – Diversity & Inclusion Discussion with Nicci Take
Mar 17
PAST EVENT: Business Shouldn’t be a Drag – Diversity & Inclusion Discussion with Nicci Take

Nicci is a serial entrepreneur and one of the most successful and well-respected transgender global executives. She is also a presenter, commentator, and comedienne. She is a recipient of FT 100 Leading LGBT+ Executives, FT Heroes 2019, 2017, and 2020 National LGBT Awards top 10 inspirational leaders awards.

PAST EVENT: Deep dive into the Cambridge Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Mar 8
PAST EVENT: Deep dive into the Cambridge Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Diarmuid O’Brien (Chief Executive of Cambridge Enterprise) delves into the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Cambridge. He practically introduces each element of world-leading Cambridge cluster and how can entrepreneurs of all stages leverage it. The best centralised introduction a decentralised ecosystem you can get.

PAST EVENT: Let’s Talk Marketing with Martin Sorrell
Feb 21
PAST EVENT: Let’s Talk Marketing with Martin Sorrell

Sir Martin Sorrell is Founder and Executive Chairman of S4 Capital plc, a new age/new era, purely digital advertising and marketing services business (listed on the LSE with over 7,000 people and market cap in excess of $4bn).

Sir Martin was a Founder and CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1 million “shell” company in 1985 into the world’s largest advertising and marketing services company. When Sir Martin left in April 2018, WPP had a market capitalisation of over £16 billion, revenues of over £15 billion, profits of approximately £2 billion and over 200,000 people in 113 countries. He was ranked as the second-best CEO in the world by the Harvard Business Review in 2017 and was nominated as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People.

PAST EVENT: A Journey into the Entrepreneur’s Jungle
Feb 17
PAST EVENT: A Journey into the Entrepreneur’s Jungle

Panel with successful investors (David Stredder, Karin Schulte, Mike Dennis & Modwenna Rees-Mogg) chaired by Sheryl Cuisia, King’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence (Lent 2022). Read speakers bios here.

PAST EVENT: Careers in Start-ups with Jago McKenzie (Remitly)
Nov 23
PAST EVENT: Careers in Start-ups with Jago McKenzie (Remitly)

Jago McKenzie is Head of Region (UK, Ireland, and Nordics) and the international unit economics/pricing lead at Remitly, a global FinTech providing financial services to migrants. Remitly was founded in Seattle in 2011 and recently listed on the Nasdaq at an >$7B valuation. He will talk about experience of working in an early stage start-up (team under 10 people) all the way to IPO.

PAST EVENT: Inaugural Entrepreneurship Talk: Dr Hermann Hauser
Oct 25
PAST EVENT: Inaugural Entrepreneurship Talk: Dr Hermann Hauser

Hermann (KC 1973) is one of the key people in the Cambridge Cluster, with ties to more than 200 companies – and we are incredibly happy that he agreed to give us a small talk about technology that will shape the world of tomorrow. Hermann is a co-founder and active partner of Amadeus Capital Partners, a key Cambridge VC. A serial entrepreneur, he was also one of the founders of Acorn Computers and ARM, a Cambridge based microchip manufacturer. He will talk about entrepreneurship and “4 key innovations” (AI and ML, Smart Contracts and Blockchain, Synthetic Biology, and Quantum Computing) and their impact.

PAST EVENT: The Role of Business in Addressing Global Crises and Societal Change
Sep 26
PAST EVENT: The Role of Business in Addressing Global Crises and Societal Change

The official launch of the King’s Entrepreneurship Lab with a panel discussion chaired by Mike Proctor (Provost, King’s College, Cambridge). Speakers include Gemma Chandratillake (KC 1997), Malcolm McKenzie (Chair of the Lab Advisory Board, KC 1977), Andy Neely (Pro-Vice-Chancellor: Enterprise and Business Relations, University of Cambridge), and Sarah Wood (KC 1992).

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