All E-Lab events

Technical: Aditi Goswami is a Lead Data Scientist at Boeing. Previously, she worked at Telespazio UK and Microsoft, where she gained extensive AI and Computer Vision experience. She has worked with satellite remote sensing, applying AI to analyse imagery for real-world applications.

Entrepreneurial: Michelangelo Valtancoliwas Principal at seed stage fund Stride.VC ($300m AUM) under the mentorship of Fred Destin. He's now investing as an angel alongside two unicorn founders and focusing on creating a convergence point for young undiscovered talents. 

Join KCSU and the E-Lab on the 5^th of March for a fireside chat with Noor Sweid, one of the World's Top 50 Women in Tech. The conversation will take place before the annual Women and Non-Binary Formal Hall.

Technical: Petar Veličković is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. His work has had a profound real-world impact, from improving Google Maps travel-time predictions to guiding mathematicians toward new theorems and conjectures. He also contributed to the first full AI-driven football analytics system and co-developed the first AI-assisted top-percentile result in competitive programming.

Entrepreneurial: Sam Marchant is Partner at AI venture builder Inaugural, after being a seed stage VC investor at Salica Investments. Led by the team behind Shazam, iTunes and Google Play, Inaugural uses AI to build companies across sectors. They've launched 3 AI companies in 12 months, with one reaching $3.2m annual revenue in 7 months.

This panel will explore the transformative connections between art and business, shedding light on how these intersections create dynamic networks that bridge emerging and established careers. With a particular emphasis on empowering women leaders and promoting sustainable cultural practices, the discussion will highlight the critical role of art in shaping more inclusive, forward-thinking industries.

Technical: Julian Sutherland, head of formal verification at Nethermind and former tech leader at Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, will explore formal verification's role in blockchain security and its broader industry impact.

Entrepreneurial: Edward Sloan, partner at Mills & Reeve, specialises in VC investments and investment round negotiations. He advises investors, funds, and growth companies from seed to late-stage rounds. Notable deals include the £250m Midlands Mindforge investment, Sphere Fluidics' $40m Series A, and various deep tech ventures.

Join us for a fireside chat with the founders of White Rose Mathematics and Science Education to learn more about how teachers and other public sector workers can engage in entrepreneurship and how a venture with a social purpose can be scaled to have an international impact.

Learn how to captivate an audience from your first words, the essential elements you need to include, how to avoid the most common fails, the art of effective slides, and ways to exude authority in this high energy, highly interactive two hour workshop.

Tim Bestwick is the Chief Development Officer and Deputy CEO at the UK Atomic Energy Authority. He is also the Chair of the Harwell Campus (the major science and innovation campus in Oxfordshire) and Chair of the Space Partnership (industry, government and academia growing the UK Space sector). After corporate research in optoelectronics and two start-up technology companies Tim now works for UKAEA, leading the commercialization of fusion technology.. He is passionate about the opportunities for new spin out businesses from big science programmes, and also creating mixed ‘public-private’ campuses where innovation thrives. Tim was awarded an OBE in 2023 for services to the commercialisation of science, technology and innovation.

Join us for this fireside chat with Caroline Hargrove, who will share learnings from her career as an ‘Engineering Leader’, from her 20-year tenure at McLaren, through to her journey in the world of ventures in Health Tech and now Hydrogen Power at Ceres. Caroline will provide insights on how her time in Formula 1 prepared her to lead entrepreneurial teams at the pinnacle of innovation.

Brent is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Founders Factory (global venture studios, seed programmes and accelerator programmes), Founders Forum Group (global community of founders, corporates and tech leaders), and firstminute capital ($500m seed fund with global remit, backed by over 130 unicorn founders). Previously, Brent co-founded Made.com in 2010. He left before it went public in 2021 at a valuation of $1.1bn. Brent also co-founded lastminute.com in 1998 where he was CEO from its inception and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn. Brent has backed 11 unicorns at Seed stage and technology businesses Brent has co-founded have raised over $1bn.