Events

Cambridge University Entrepreneurs run many events throughout the year relating to our business planning and creation competitions. These events may be found on the calendar.

Cambridge University Entrepreneurs is also a supporter of Cambridge Business Lectures, which brings in a variety of speakers to talk on a wide range of topics.  Registration for upcoming talks can be found here.

In addition, the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning run the popular Enterprise Tuesday series of talks. The details for these may be found here.

Cambridge Enterprise run free Specialist Surgeries on various topics of interest to our members. The details of these may be found here. 

2009/10

The major events that took place in the Michaelmas Term have been very successful with many of them being oversubscribed.  Details of the major events held are described below:

Grand Launch -Wed 14th Oct '09

On 14th Oct, CUE held its Grand Launch and celebrated its 10 years anniversary presenting a panel of successful CUE alumni, stretching back from the origins of CUE through to our most recent winners. The
room was packed, the panel was very engaging and the audience was animated. To add to the excitement, competition winner 09 "MagicSolver Ltd", dazzled the audience with their new magic iPhone App, FaceShift.

Alumni Venture Lecture Series Wed 21st Oct '09 - jointly organised with Oxford Entrepreneurs

First of four lectures: Keynote speaker - Sir Paul Judge, Panel with Victoria Lennox (NACUE), Rajeeb Dey (CEO Enterships.com).  Lecture and network with drinks and catering.

Cambridge Apprentice Sat 14th Nov '09 - jointly organised with CUTEC

18 teams (two teams per set of mentors from nine external organisations e.g. Papworth Trust).  5 hours for each team to address one of the following aspects of a real business task: business creation, fundraising, product design, marketing, and sales.  Teams pitched proposal at the end, competing against the other team who worked on the same task.  Finally, networking with drinks and catering. 

• Keynote speech given by Alex van Sommeron 
• Mentors were: Chris Walthew (Managing Director) and Beth Walthew - Prospect Research, SimeoneSalik and Janice Dalton (Founder) - Blinds-in-a-Box, Gareth Roberts - Pneumacare Ltd, Alan Barrel - Entrepreneurs in Residence, JBS, Bridget Orchard (Head of Fundraising) - Papworth Trust, Alan Moore (Founder) - SMLXL, Tim Hill and Michael Colledge (fouders) - PocketPubs, Tim Evans (Founder/CEO) - Think Product Design Ltd, Phil Pethybridge (Trustee) - 209radio, Daniel Spencer - Foodshare Network.
• Press coverage by Cambridge Evening News

SVC2C (Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge) - organised jointly by Sherry Coutu, MBAs, CfEL, CUTEC, CUE

• Masterclasses, workshops, debates and networking

• Speakers included: Allen Morgan - Mayfield Fund (Managing Director), Biz Stone - Twitter Co-Founder, Blake Krikorian - Sing Media (Founder), Bob Cart Greenvolts (Founder & Executive Chairman), Brett Bullington (Angel Investor), Caterina Fake - Flickr (Founder), Charles Seely - Esos Ventures (Founder), Hans Peter Brondmo - Plum (Founder), Hugh Campbell - GP Bullhound (Partner), Hugo Barra - Google Mobile (Group Product Manager and Global Product Lead for Mobile at Google), James Rosenthal - Google (Strategic Partnerships), Jeff Saperstein - Jeff Saperstein & Associates (Writer, and a global consultant), Jigar Shah - Carbon War Room (CEO), Julie Hanna Farris - Kiva (Chair of the Board Entrepreneur. Executive. Director. Advisor), Limvirac Chea - Google London (New Business Development), Mark Mitchell - Serious Materials (COO), Marc Tarpenning - TESLA (Co-founder), Nick Heller - Google London (Strategic Partnerships), Premal Shah - Kiva (Founder), Reid Hoffman - Linkedin (Exec Chairman & Co-Founder), Rob Jonas - Google (Director of Strategic Partnerships), Robert Swerling - Google (Principal in Google's New Business Development team), Salar Kamangar - Google San Fran (Adwords inventor), Ted Shelton - The Conversation Group (Partner).

Enterprise Tuesday discussion group - organised jointly with CfEL

• Informal discussion group to discuss entrepreneurial ideas and plans
• Panel speakers: Roger B Goetze - Business Link, Simon Crossland - Business Link, Shamus Husheer - CTC (CEO), Panel chair Daniela Krug

1K Training Day

• Morning of talks on writing an executive summary, marketing, corporation lifecycles, finance and intellectual property.  Team task in the afternoon, building and launching rockets, followed by Belbin analysis.  Networking in parallel with surgeries on drafts of executive summaries teams had prepared.  Morning coffee break, lunch, and drinks reception provided.
• Speakers: Grant Warrel - CEO at GJDW Partners Limited - Venture Capital; Chris Lamaison - Cambridge Resolution - Market Research; Quentin Golder - Partner at Taylor Vinters Solicitors; Chris Chapman - Founder and CEO at Sopris - Virtual Accountants; Chris Hirsz - Senior European and UK Patent Attorney HLBBshaw
• Enterprise societies from Anglia Ruskin University, University of East Anglia, University of Hertfordshire, Cranford University, the Open University and University of Essex invited and offered travel money.