Presentations
The following presentations by entrepreneurial thought leaders, senior business managers, leading scientists and innovators, as well as experienced experts are available to view online:
2011/12
Recognising Opportunities (pdf, 38KB)
Dr Robert Brady, director of Brady PLC, Cambridge IP and Hycagen
Recognising Opportunities (pdf, 522KB)
Dr Shamus Husheer, CEO, Cambridge Temperature Concepts
Serendipity or Hard Work? (pdf, 568KB)
Dr David Brown FRSC, Managing Director of Alchemy Biomedical Consulting
Creating Star Teams (pdf, 628KB)
Alex van Someren, Amadeus & Angels Seed Fund and Dr Uday Phadke, Chief Executive of Cartezia
Visions, Plans and Making it Happen (pdf, 134KB)
Mitesh Soma, Founder of Chemist Direct
Growing Your Venture (pdf, 1.13MB)
David Gill, Managing Director of St John's Innovation Centre, and Robert Sansom, Angel Investor and Founder of Cambridge Angels
Leveraging the Value of Consulting (pdf, 1.92MB)
Gerald Avison, Chairman of TTP Group and Paul Seabright, Head of Consultancy Services at Cambridge Enterprise
Leveraging the Value of Consulting (pdf, 863KB)
Claire Ruskin, PA Consulting and Interim CEO of Cambridge Network
2010/11
Increasing the odds (pdf, 1.16MB)
Mark Gerhard, Chief Executive, Jagex
Learning how to pitch your ideas (pdf, 4.70MB)
Warren Bennett, Co-Director and Founder, A Suit that Fits.com
Gathering resources (pdf, 898KB)
Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Breathing Buildings
Dr Will West, Chief Executive, CellCentric
Capturing value (pdf, 450KB)
Teri Willey, Chief Executive, Cambridge Enterprise
Dr Bill Janeway, Managing Director and Senior Advisor for Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Warburg Pincus
Recognising opportunities (pdf, 2.34MB)
Lord Karan Bilimoria, CBE DL, Founder of Cobra Beer
Which customer and why does it matter? (pdf, 800KB)
Professor Howard Chase, Head of the School of Technology, University of Cambridge
Why do it at all? The choice for entrepreneurship (pdf, 2.42MB)
Steve Temple, Founder, Templetech
Alan Richardson, Deputy CEO, Cambridge Consultants
Phil O'Donovan, Chairman, Twelve Winds
2009/10
Big visions (pdf, 2.39MB)
Warren East, CEO of ARM, one of the most iconic companies in the Cambridge cluster, talks about 'Big Visions' - the vision as it was shaped in the early days of ARM, from a collection of a dozen engineers who had to survive the demise of Acorn Computers, through to the shaping of an ambition by an emergent team led by Robin Saxby to now.
Why entrepreneurship is a real option (pdf, 5MB)
Professor Henning Sirringhaus, Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics, University of Cambridge; Martin Jackson, VP of Technology at Plastic Logic; and Bill Earner, Investment Manager at Amadeus Capital Partners
Rapid growth business: the importance of understanding your customers' needs in order to achieve and maintain business success (pdf, 4.5MB)
Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Co-Founder of InfoEdge and Naukri.com
Learn how to pitch your ideas: our experiences of starting businesses (pdf, 2.5MB)
Shamus Husheer, Co-Founder of Cambridge Temperature Concepts; Emmanuel Carraud, Co-Founder of MagicSolver.com; and Dave Lloyd, Co-Founder of Moviestorm
A real opportunity to business: the conversion of ideas into science and thence into business opportunities (pdf, 216KB)
Dr Kevin Johnson, CEO of PanGenetics BV, former Cambridge Antibody Technology executive, and General Partner at Ash Biotech Consul
Building a dream engineering team: recruiting, developing and retaining a great team (pdf, 95KB)
Steve Barlow, Co-Founder of Alphamosaic and Argon Design
2008/9
Motivation: why enterprise and entrepreneurship are important and understanding the key behaviours of successful entrepreneurs (pdf, 3.67MB)
Paul Webster, Founder and Director of Ubisense; Richard Green, CEO of Ubisense; Andy Hopper FRS, Professor of Computer Technology, University of Cambridge
Understanding your customers' needs: to have a successful business, you really have to understand your customers' needs (pdf, 61KB)
Eric Baker, Founder and CEO of Viagogo
Lifestyle or global business: your personal goals need to match your business goals in order for your idea to take off (pdf, 3.4MB)
Lord Karan Bilimoria CBE DL, Founder of Cobra Beer
Recognising opportunities: when is an idea a business opportunity? (pdf, 786KB)
Visiting Entrepreneur Dr Hermann Hauser CBE, Co-Founder of Amadeus Capital Partners
Gathering resources: how to gather the resources to make your ideas happen (pdf, 2.28MB)
Reshma Sohoni, CEO of SeedCamp; Laurence Garrett, Founding Partner at Ethean Capital; Walter Herriot OBE, Managing Director of St John's Innovation Centre; Teri Willey, Chief Executive of Cambridge Enterprise
Learn how to pitch your ideas: selling your idea and persuading people that you are the most capable person to lead and generate interest from investors, and customers, is one of the keys to success (pdf, 809KB)
Alex van Someren, Co-Founder of nCipher; Adrian Critchlow, Co-Founder and Director of AlertMe