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9 June 2011 Welcome Delegates, On behalf of Cambridge University Technology & Enterprise Club (CUTEC), we would like to welcome you to the 8th Annual Technology Ventures Conference (TVC). CUTEC has hosted the TVC since 2003 to showcase start-ups and established companies using technology to create successful businesses. At these events, we aim to bring together students, investors and technology professionals so that they can form lasting business partnerships and be inspired by new ways to take technology to market. This year’s conference, Ideas Economy: Changing the World by Connecting Ideas, will serve as a platform to explore how human progress relies on the advancement of good ideas. The future success of our nations’ economies depends critically on our ability to generate and harvest ideas that have the potential to create value for society. Transforming society into an Ideas Economy will provide its citizens the infrastructure to create and share their ideas as well as capitalise on the most important asset of all, people. We are delighted to be hosting a series of workshops this year in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline, Mozilla and Shell Springboard to provide delegates with hands-on experience in brainstorming and developing ideas. In addition, the Cambridge Diamond Exhibition and Start-up Showcase will display the latest technologies from well-established companies as well as emerging start-ups. We would like to thank our speakers, workshop facilitators, investor panelists, and the delegates for their participation and input in shaping the conference. We are also extremely grateful to our sponsors and advisors, who have kindly supported us and our efforts throughout the year.
Andrew Marin
Chairman
Vivian Chan
President
Katie Atkinson Director of Operations
Lukasz Mlodyszewski Director of Innovation
We hope you enjoy TVC 2011!
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Contents TVC 2011
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TVC Schedule
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Venue
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Workshops - Mozilla
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Workshops - Shell Springboard
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Workshops - GlaxoSmithKline/ceedd
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Technology Start-up Showcase
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Investor Panel
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Diamond Exhibition
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Speakers
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About CUTEC
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Recent Accomplishments
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TVC History
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The Team Executive Comittee Content External Relations Logistics Marketing Sponsorship Sales Advisors
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Press Releases
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Sponsors
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Other CUTEC Sponsors
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Supporting Organisations
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Changing the
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Ideas
The future success of our nations economy depends critically on their ability to generate and harvest ideas that create value in the society we live in. Ideas Economy is that which we live in today, an economy capitalising around the most fundamental resource of all – people. The ability to engage the brightest minds and connect them altogether is crucial in overcoming the biggest challenges facing our nations. Invention and innovation are no longer driven by the small but exceptional few. They are the product of extensive collaboration and synergy of increasingly diverse expertise crossing company and nation borders. Cambridge high-tech inventions are world renowned and constantly shaping the global society. However open innovation has increased with the ease of the internet allowing for increased communication and connectivity between industries and companies. Open innovation and the internet are two examples of how ‘Ideas without borders’ can be implemented. How do high-technologies and clusters fit in with this trend? TVC2011 will address the importance of Ideas Economy, specifically the process of implementing this as well as examine the effect in high tech clusters including Cambridge. It will provide delegates the opportunity to understand the concept, its benefits and applicable scenarios through direct engagement, connectivity of ideas, and problem solving at a networking level. Finally, TVC 2011 will aim to provide delegates a platform to create new ideas, form new business relationships and most importantly - catalyse inspiration. The topics addressed in the conference will be of high interest for investors, professionals, and entrepreneurial-minded students who are interested in exploring investment opportunities generated behind the concept of Ideas Economy, and the benefits of implementing this to increase existing and future ventures.
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Working at Red Gate Software Red Gate is very proud to be in the Sunday Times ‘Best Small Companies to Work For’ list for five years in a row! We have also won the Special Award for Innovation in Engagement Practice, and have been nominated two years in a row for the Special Award for Wellbeing.
People at Red Gate work in software engineering, test engineering, usability, technical communications, product management, product support, information systems, sales, marketing, human resources, finance, office services, administration and management.
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For details of our latest vacancies, visit www.red-gate.com/careers Or you can follow us on twitter @redgatecareers
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TVC 2011 Schedule 8.15
Registration & Breakfast
9.00
Vivian Chan - President’s Welcome
9.05
Rory Cellan-Jones (Technology Correspondent, BBC) Introduction
9.15
Ted Shelton (CEO, Open First) How to stay competitive using Internet/ Web 2.0/ Cloud Computing
9.30
Mike Addison (Global Business Development, P&G) Open Innovation in big Corporations
9.45
Roland Harwood (Co-founder, 100% Open) Hands-on Open Innovation
10.00
Q & A (moderated by Rory Cellan-Jones)
10.25
Coffee
10.45
CUE pitches Implemen ng innova ve skills worldwide
11.00
David Rowan (editor of WIRED) Introduction
11.05
Mikkel Frandsen (CEO, Vestergaard Frandsen) Innovating for the developing world
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Walter De Brouwer (CEO, OLPC Europe) One Laptop Per Child, UK
11.35
Pamela Hartigan (Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship) Frugal Innovation
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Q & A (Moderated by David Rowan, Editor of WIRED)
12.10
Dick Powell (Seymourpowell) Creativity & Innovative Thinking for Technology Design
12.40
Lunch 12
Technology Showcase & Diamond Exhibition
Staying compe ve in an open environment
Workshops - Implementing Ideas Economy
15.00
Coffee
15:15
i-Teams pitches
15:30
Showcase finalist pitches in front of investor’s panel
16:05
Future Big Ideas Darren Westlake (Director, Crowdcube) Vynay Gupta & Tom Wright (Founders, Whipcar)
16:25
Showcase winner announced
16:30
Solving Big Problems Peter Boyd (COO, Carbon War Room)
17:00
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on) George Whitesides (CEO, Virgin Galactic)
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Technology Showcase & Diamond Exhibition
13:40
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Venue
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First Floor GSK Workshop (Kennedy Room)
Up to DFJ Esprit Mee3ng Room (Socie3es Room)
Gallery
(Snooker Room)
Unisex Toilets
Venue Plan
Technology Showcase Exhibi3on (Library)
Ground Floor
Entrance Deba3ng Chamber Registra3on Marquee & Lunch
Shell Springboard Workshop (Dining Room)
MountbaGen Room
Cambridge Diamond Exhibi3on (Bar)
Mozilla Workshop (Blue Room)
Toilets
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Venue - Cambridge Union Location is central to the historic city and only a minutes walk from the most famous of Cambridge’s colleges, the river and the quintessential punting trip and many of the finest restaurants around.
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The Union Building is also a unique venue for holding Corporate Events, whether in one of our excellent conference rooms, the bar, or our magnificent chamber. It also forms a wonderful background to weddings or parties for in a range of rooms at very reasonable rates.
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Workshops - Mozilla Mozilla is a global, non-profit organization dedicated to making the Web better. We emphasize principle over profit, and believe that the Web is a shared public resource to be cared for, not a commodity to be sold. We work with a worldwide community to create free, open source products like Firefox, and to innovate for the benefit of the individual and the betterment of the Web. The result is great products built by passionate people and better choices for everyone. For more information, visit www.mozilla.org
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Creativity Game: Design The Box In this session we’re going to play a creativity game called ‘design the box’. This game helps bring stakeholders together to make and document important decisions about project vision without dropping into a meeting coma. This technique can be applied at all stages of the product development lifecycle to almost any product or service you can imagine (especially those that don’t actually fit into boxes!) You will learn how to play and facilitate the game for use in your own projects.
Previously, Dees has worked as a platform developer evangelist, product architect, front-end engineer and user experience designer at numerous high profile web entities including BBC, Skype, PayPal X, eBay, Ask.com, and Gumtree.com. Dees is also a mentor at Seedcamp, a micro seed fund that invests in start-ups, where he gives Product and User Experience advice to participating teams.
Desigan (aka Dees) Chinniah is a “Firestarter, Innovator & Geek” at Mozilla, the global, non-profit organisation behind Firefox. He creates, fosters and curates open source initiatives – via the Mozilla Labs Concept Series – a hub of innovation channels forming an engaging space of interaction & collaboration between a strong community of global developers & designers.
You should follow cyberdees on – Twitter, Lanyrd, Last.fm, Flickr, LinkedIn.
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Leisa Reichelt is a freelance User Experience Consultant who works with start ups, open source communities and global organisations to help deliver better experiences to their end users and to their bottom lines. Leisa is currently working with the Drupal Community on a social architecture project code named ‘Prairie Initiative’ which aims to increase the effectiveness of the community collaboration and to make it easier for newcomers and non-coders to start contributing to the community.
She is also currently working with a number of London based start ups and charities. She blogs at www.disambiguity.com and you can follow her on twitter @leisa
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Workshops - Shell Springboard Shell Springboard is a programme that provides a financial boost to innovative, low carbon business ideas from across the UK. Since launch in 2005, Shell has awarded ÂŁ1.92 million to 53 businesses among over 900 applications from small business owners from all over the UK.
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The programme has also commissioned research that explored the attitudes of small businesses to climate change and the business opportunity in the UK and global low carbon markets. Businesses supported by Shell Springboard then embark on a journey to further develop their ideas, bring new products to market, increase their profit margins but most importantly, help to reduce greenhouse gases.
Workshop This workshop will provide the attendees with an opportunity to explore what support is required to enable small and medium sized businesses to best exploit the low carbon market in the UK. The attendees will brainstorm and discuss solutions for the problems such businesses are facing. The guest moderator of the workshop is Miss Jennifer Marsden of Shell International who manages Shell Springboard.
Jennifer Marsden is Social Investment Programme Manager at Shell International.She manages two UK national social investment programmes as part of Shell’s voluntary contribution to the UK. Shell Livewire supports and rewards young entrepreneurs and Shell Springboard provides no strings £40k awards to UK-based SMEs in the UK.
Jennifer will bring the Shell Springboard winners to the workshop, so the attendees of this workshop will have the chance to meet beneficiaries of Shell Springboard, consider realistic problems, and discuss practical solutions.
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Agenda Introduction to Shell Springboard • Brainstorm • What are the main issues that small/medium enterprises face when trying to set up? • What are the main barriers to start-ups in the low carbon business in the UK? • Find solutions • Potential ways to reduce barriers to entry for SMEs in the UK • How to improve offering to small/medium enterprises in the UK • Feedback • Findings throughout Jennifer Marsden’s work with the start-ups
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Jennifer has worked as a communications adviser to Shell International and worked on high profile projects in Sakhalin and Alaska. Previous to Shell, Jennifer worked for Santé Communications where she executed PR campaigns for pharmaceutical blue chip companies. She also worked for Defra on the Science Strategy Team where she managed the Science Forward Look and supported the Chief Scientific Adviser in his communication activity.
Workshops - GlaxoSmithKline/ceedd In order to access the best in the world innovation, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) established a team of about 20 drug discovery scientists in 2005 - the Centre of Excellence for External Drug Discovery (ceedd - www.ceedd.com). The ceedd was the first team in GSK R&D to be truly externally focused with no internal programs to manage, working across all therapy areas, tasked to form multi-program, risk reward sharing alliances with biotech companies. We are looking for innovative scientific platforms and compounds through our collaborations and nurturing them to their full potential to provide differentiated medicines that will deliver significant benefits to patients.
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We have nine ongoing collaborations, and in five years have successfully transitioned three assets at clinical proof of concept into GSK for further development. A ceedd alliance can include programs starting at any point in development from target to clinical proof of concept (PoC). Ideally these programs will be generated from an innovative platform technology and GSK will have an exclusive right to option these programs at clinical PoC. This is a very different approach to classical in-licensing which tends to focus on single products, which are often much later in development, and brought immediately into GSK for further development. Our team, based in two geographical centres in the U.K. and the U.S, has extensive experience in drug discovery and development. We are experts in the fields of biology, chemistry, preclinical and clinical development, and project and alliance management. Our multidisciplinary specialists also have commercial and investment responsibility, allowing for a close working relationship scientifically and operationally with our biotech partners. We are looking for innovation, wherever it may originate!
Workshop The workshop is designed to help us with new ways of thinking about the contractual and financial aspects of collaborations with Biotech companies, in the light of the current challenges in funding, particularly in the UK. How can we work with a young Biotech company or University Spin-Out to help them get beyond the early seed/series A funding, while delivering something of value to GSK?
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The Team Declan Jones Head of European ceedd
Keith B Smith Ph.D. Alliance and Project Leader
Declan joined the ceedd in 2007 as a Director of Biology. Prior to this, he spent 14 years in roles with increasing responsibility in CNS drug discovery within GlaxoSmithKline. He has co-authored more than 75 peerreviewed publications and has recently completed a 3 year term on a grant committee for a major U.K. research funder (Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council or BBSRC). Dr. Jones is currently working with the ceedd alliances Targacept, Prosensa and Chroma Therapeutics.
Rick Cousins, Ph.D. Research Director
Nicki Thompson, Ph.D. Director, Scientific Opportunities
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Keith B Smith joined the ceedd in 2009 as Alliance and Project Leader. He has more than 20 years experience in academia, fine chemicals, food and pharmaceutical industries, most recently with GlaxoSmithKline R&D Preclinical Development where he was responsible for strategic technologies including leading GSK’s coordination of preclinical support activities for oligonucleotides. He studied natural sciences and chemical engineering at the University of Cambridge, U.K. and has a Ph.D. in the scale-up of novel mixing processes.
Dr. Rick Cousins joined the ceedd in 2006 and is currently a Research Director and Alliance & Project Leader. Dr. Cousins joined GSK (Glaxo) medicinal chemistry in 1989, after completing chemistry postdoctoral & Ph.D. studies.
Nicki Thompson joined the ceedd in 2010 as Director, Scientific Opportunities. Prior to joining the ceedd, Dr. Thompson was Head of Discovery at Syntaxin (a U.K. based Biotech company. Dr. Thompson joined Syntaxin from GSK, where she worked in a variety of drug discovery roles with increasing responsibility from target identification through to candidate selection over a 20 year period.
Dr. Cousins was program leader for several drug discovery programs in the Respiratory CEDD, successfully identifying a number of clinical candidates. Dr. Cousins is currently with the ceedd in Europe, supporting the alliances with Chroma Therapeutics and Ranbaxy and also leads the alliance with Prosensa.
Dr. Thompson has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications and patent applications.
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Technology Start-up Showcase Concept of Technology Showcase
Showcase
Technology Showcase is an essential part of the Technology Ventures Conference. It runs in parallel to keynote speeches, lunch break (peak visibility) and workshops throughout the conference day. Technology Showcase provides an opportunity for young and fresh companies to demonstrate their new and exciting technologies to conference attendees from various backgrounds: business and technology professionals, entrepreneurs and scientists. All showcased companies are invited to compete for a prize of “The most promising start-up 2011”. The best few young companies are selected by conference attendees and professional investors to enter the Dragons’ Den competition at the final part of the conference. The winner is awarded a valuable monetary and/or consultancy prize. We are looking for start-ups who are at the forefront of emerging technology applications, be it by the invention of novel technology, or by opening up a niche market with careful application of the existing or recently realised technology.
Sponsored by
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A pioneer and serial entrepreneur in the mobile industry since 2000, she formed Stradbroke Advisors, a corporate advisory agency focused on the Technology, Media and Internet sectors. Inma has held advisory positions at Nokia Corporation, HP, Blyk (mobile MVNO), the European Union Technology Commission, the UKTI and at Sport England’s Innovation Fund, the British government funding arm for sport, media and culture. As a digital media advisor Inma has created strategy for media, music, film & TV and luxury brands worldwide.
Inma Martinez
Fortune and TIME have described her as one of Europe’s top talents in social engagement through technology. She is a Liveryman of the Information Technology Company where she chairs the Digital Media Panel.
Neil Davidson is co-founder and joint CEO of Red Gate Software. Red Gate employs some 200 people, has no VC funding and has been in the Sunday Times top 100 companies to work for 5 years running. Red Gate founded the Springboard incubator in 2009 and is a regular sponsor of Cambridge University Entrepreneurs. Neil is also chairman of the Cambridge Network, was Cambridge News businessman of the year in 2009, and is a judge on the CUE software stream.
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Investor Panel
Investor Panel
Richard studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge, winning the Sir Nevill Mott Prize for his experimental project in Part II Physics. Richard supported many HP businesses over this period, covering fields from optoelectronics to IT consulting, and led the company’s UK IP Section.
Investor Panel
Richard played a significant role in the development of HP’s worldwide patent strategy and practice and was responsible for developing IP portfolios for HP businesses and successful spinout companies. Richard is now a Director of Keltie, where he advises high tech and energy clients on patent matters and leads a team providing IP consulting services.
Richard Lawrence
Rob is a Principal at Balderton Capital, responsible for sourcing & evaluating new investments. Balderton Capital is one of the leading venture funds in Europe, managing $1.9B of assets, investing early stage in companies with $B potential. Balderton has made over 100 investments into tech/media startups, across Europe, North America & China. Successful exits to date include MySQL (to Sun), Betfair (IPO), Lovefilm (to Amazon), Yoox (IPO) & Bebo (to AOL).
Rob Moffat
Since joining the firm in 2009, Rob has been involved in Balderton’s investments in scvngr, Wooga & TouchLocal amongst others. Prior to Balderton Rob was at Google, managing the EMEA sales strategy team.
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Rosemary is a key contributor to the investment community, she was an angel investor in Net-A-Porter, is a Partner at Waterbridge Capital and is an investor in Seedcamp.
Rosemary Forsyth
Andrew is head of the SNR Denton Corporate and Commercial department in Milton Keynes. He has not only a wide range of private equity and funding experience, but also general commercial contract experience, including customer and supply-chain issues, standard terms and conditions, agency and distributorship agreements, leasing and hire-purchase agreements, R&D, and collaboration and services agreements. Described in the Legal 500 as “dynamic and proactive”, Andrew’s period in industry with a listed group (since acquired by US company Terex Corporation) broadened his experience further and taught him valuable lessons in how to look at things from a client’s perspective. Throughout his career Andrew has advised a wide range of companies from start up to exit, with everything in between.
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Investor Panel
Rosemary founded the Forsyth Group in 1981, recognizing the potential growth of Information Technology within business. The Forsyth Group was the first Venture Search Consultancy to focus on emerging technology markets. Rosemary has developed extensive search experience across all technology sectors and conducts “C” and Board level assignments across the UK, EMEA and the United States.
Diamond Exhibition
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The ‘Cambridge Diamond Exhibition’ is an exciting new addition to the Technology Ventures Conference, which aims to feature the most successful, well established technology companies in the Cambridge area. The Diamond Exhibition will complement and run alongside the ‘start-up showcase’ providing a platform to share, inform and inspire the attendees with the shiniest Cambridge ‘diamond’ business. Exhibitors at the Cambridge Diamond will fulfill the following criteria:
Exhibition
܀Be based in the Cambridge Region ܀Have extensive collaboration or are a spin out company from University of Cambridge; ܀Are highly successful and internationally recognised. These ‘diamond’ companies will benefit from the exposure at the exhibition, as they will be presented to both the attendees (including those viewing the conference via online streaming) and media at the event. There are also invaluable opportunities for marketing, advertising and recruitment, as well as the forming of business relationships with the professional delegates and dedicated students attending the conference from around the world.
Participating Companies
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Speakers
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David Rowan
Moderator
David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the Year at the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards. He writes the monthly “Digital Life” column in GQ magazine, and the “Tech Traveller” column in Condé Nast Traveller. He has edited The Guardian’s websites, made TV films for Channel 4 News, and written long features for The Telegraph Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine and The Observer. Trained at The Times, where he wrote weekly tech and trendwatching columns, he has edited The Guardian’s op-ed, education, analysis and Saturday features sections. Most recently he edited The Jewish Chronicle. His recent speaking engagements have taken in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Geneva, Moscow and Shanghai, on topics ranging from the future of luxury brands to the new rules of business in a mobile-internet age. Recent TV appearances include BBC Newsnight, BBC Breakfast News and Channel 4 News; radio appearances include Radio 4’s Today Programme and The Media Show.
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Darren Westlake Darren Westlake is the founder of Crowdcube, the world’s first equity based Crowdfunding service. He has spent the last 20 years working in the internet and telecoms industry and has founded 2 successful internet startups.
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Crowdcube is a new web based service that uses Crowdfunding to empower entrepreneurs to raise finance from ordinary people in return for equity. Start-ups can use Crowdcube as a platform to connect with a nation of ‘armchair dragons’ to find investment.
Dick Powell Dick Powell is co-founder of internationally renowned design and innovation company Seymourpowell. Dick is the current chairman of D&AD, and has twice been president of D&AD. As Chairman, Dick is a mentor to the team at D&AD and strives to call on the government and business leaders to recognise the value of embedding design and creativity into the DNA of British businesses. Dick has sat on the boards of the Design Council, the Design Business Association and the D&AD Executive. Dick was global design advisor to Samsung Electronics and is currently a member of the International Advisory Panel for Design in Singapore.
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George Whitesides George Whitesides is the CEO of Virgin Galactic. In his role as CEO, Whitesides is responsible for all aspects of the business, guiding VG to commercial operations at Spaceport America in New Mexico. Most recently, Whitesides served as Chief of Staff for NASA, where he was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest honor that the agency confers.
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Prior to his role at NASA, Whitesides served as Executive Director of the National Space Society and Chairman of the Reusable Launch Vehicle Working Group of the Federal Aviation Authority Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee.
Mike Addison Mike Addison has been with Procter & Gamble’s European Research &Development organization for 29 years. From 1998 to 2001 he was in charge of a $1Million internal Innovation Seed fund to stimulate innovation across the European R&D organization. From 2002 Mike has been involved in P&G’s Connect + Develop (or Open Innovation) strategy. In this work he is responsible for searching across the UK for external new business opportunities, helping screen the strong from the weak, championing the former with the relevant internal business units and ensuring a strong start to any partnership that emerges.
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Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen is the CEO of the Vestergaard Frandsen Group, a European company specializing in complex emergency response and disease control products that target HIV, malaria and diarrheal disease.
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The Vestergaard Frandsen Group operates under a unique Humanitarian Entrepreneu¬rship business model, whose profit for a purpose approach has turned corporate social responsibility into a core business. The company’s products include PermaNet® for the prevention of malaria, LifeStraw® to provide clean and safe drin¬king water, and CarePack® to prevent the spread of all three diseases.
Pamela Hartigan Pamela Hartigan is the Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School and a founding Partner of Volans, launched in 2008 to support innovative scalable solu¬tions to global challenges. From 2000-2008, she was the first Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship where she was responsible for shaping the strategy and operations pursued by the Foundation. Dr. Hartigan is the author of The Power of Unreasonable People: How Entrepreneurs Create Markets and is a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship and innovation at graduate business schools across Europe, Asia, and the US.
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Peter Boyd Peter Boyd is the Chief Operating Officer of the Carbon War Room. Peter brings over 15 years of experience in strategy, marketing, opera¬tions, and general management.
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After ten years in the Virgin Group, he was integral to the launch of the Carbon War Room serving as Launch Director from finalization of the initial concept with Richard Branson and fellow founders in early 2009. As COO, Peter focuses his time on developing and implementing the strategy in the three objectives of the organisation: Research & Intelligence, Net¬work Engagement, and Operations.
Roland Harwood Roland Harwood is the co-founder of 100%Open, the open innovation agency whose clients include Orange, E.ON and Oxfam. Roland was previously the Director of Open Innovation at NESTA and has held senior innovation roles in the Utilities and Media industries. He has also worked as a TV and film music producer for SonyBMG and has helped 100’s of start-ups to raise venture capital and commercialise technology.
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Rory Cellan-Jones Rory Cellan-Jones has been a reporter for the BBC for more than two decades, covering business and technology stories for much of that time.
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His on-screen career began as reporter for Wales Today in Cardiff, from where he moved to London as a reporter on Breakfast Time. He quickly transferred to business coverage, working across the BBC’s output from the Money Programme to Newsnight, from the Today programme to the Ten O Clock News. The stories he has covered range from Black Wednesday and the Maxwell trial to the dot com bubble and the rise of Google.
Ted Shelton Ted Shelton is currently CEO of consulting firm Open-First, based in Palo Alto and London. He has spent the past 20 years working in the high tech industry, as a software developer, in product development, marketing, and as a senior executive in both public and privately held companies. Shelton developed the principles guiding Open-First while working with Technorati in 2007. Previously Shelton served as the Chief Strategy Officer of Borland Software and Senior VP of Sales and Marketing for WhoWhere (acquired by Lycos in 1998) and several other software and Internet start-up companies.
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Walter De Brouwer In 1995 De Brouwer invested in Eunet, the former European Unix Users Group, which merged with Qwest Communications International in April 1998. From 1996-2001, De Brouwer was a sponsor of the MIT Medialab. Inspired by Negroponte’s work, he set up the ‘Fundamental Research’ laboratory Starlab, that together with Microsoft Founder Paul Allen’s Interval Research Corporation specialized in Blue-Sky research.
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In 2001, Jobscape, his electronic employment site was bought by Stepstone before going public on the London Stock Exchange. The Sunday Times Magazine has called De Brouwer a ‘collateral thinker’ and Corriere della Sera the ‘Woody Allen del businesses’.
Tom Wright & Vinay Gupta Tom Wright is co-founder of WhipCar. Previously he founded gurgle.com, a social network for pregnant women now owned by MotherCare. Tom has held a number of senior digital strategy and development roles during his career with companies such as BSkyB and Fleming Media. Vinay Gupta is co-founder of WhipCar. Previously he has been a digital media strategist and consultant working with brands such as Fleming Media, MySpace, Emap, Vue and the Abu Dhabi Media Zone. Vinay holds an MBA from London Business School and has held senior travel management positions at AT&T and American Express.
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About CUTEC
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About CUTEC The Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC) is a leading student-run organisation comprising of a vibrant team of enthusiastic and highly ambitious individuals. CUTEC acts as a gateway between students, research and entrepreneurial communities in Cambridge by organising a series of events throughout the year that attract both international attendance and media presence.
Through CUTEC our members are able to: • Connect with leading researchers • Be exposed to the wider business communities • Promote business ideas among entrepreneurs • Build teamwork skills in “small company” environment • Discover opportunities to commercialise innovations • Work with well-established and start-up companies
CUTEC 2003-2009 181 members
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to tackle real-life problems. With a view to Global Entrepreneurship, CUTEC provides an exceptional way to work with individuals from all over the world. Over the years, we have had students representing more than 25 countries. The club promotes international awareness and multiculturalism stimulating communication skills, teamwork, and creativity. These dynamics create a powerful post-university alumni network among diverse professionals.
CUTEC 2010-2011 50 members
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Recent Accomplishments In addition to the Technology Ventures Conference, CUTEC has also hosted the following events this year:
MedImmune Open Innovation Event - 9 – 17th March 2011
Accomplishments
The MedImmune Open Innovation Event brought students into collaboration with senior management from the biotech to try to find innovative answers to one of eight key challenges faced by the business. This was a “ground-breaking experiment in which one of the world’s foremost biotechs laid itself bare to teams of students as part of an open innovation competition that has been hailed as an unqualified success” – MedImmune.
Specialist Surgeries - October - December 2010 (Michaelmas term) CUTEC ran a series of weekly surgeries from October to December of last year aimed at young, budding entrepreneurs, covering topics to help commercialise technologies and to make businesses work. Each Surgery was given by an expert Adviser (local professional service providers such as law firms, patent agents, marketing specialists, and venture capitalists) providing free and confidential advice on a one-to-one basis.
Cambridge Apprentice – 26th February, 2011 The Cambridge Apprentice saw CUTEC and CUE come together to challenge entrepreneurial minded students with real-life, hands-on problems. Representatives from some of the most innovative Cambridge-based companies joined participants in stretching imaginations and finding original and practical solutions to the problems society faces.
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Panel Discussion on “The Future of Running Business”-30th March 2011 The event sponsored by GJE. The discussion focused on the changes brought by rapidly increasing connectivity, social media boom and the rise of open innovation. Experts in intellectual property, marketing and business strategy approached these topics. Silicon Valley Comes To Cambridge – 18 – 20th November, 2010
The Cambridge Phenomenon Conference – 5th October, 2010
Accomplishments
SVC2C saw investors, serial entrepreneurs and students come together with leading serial entrepreneurs and investors from Silicon Valley to discuss today’s most disruptive technologies.
On 5th Oct 2010, 300 global business leaders, policy makers, entrepreneurs, academics and media representatives converged on Cambridge for The Future Starts Here: The Cambridge Phenomenon 50th Anniversary Conference. The day focused on the core issues of IT, Bioscience, Funding and The Future.
Cambridge i-Teams
It gave the University’s postgraduate students the chance to work with real inventions and develop commercial strategies for new technologies. Projects ran over the course of the academic year.
Enterprise Tuesday – October to March 2011 (Michaelmas & Lent terms)
Enterprise Tuesday consisted of a weekly series of guest lectures over the first two terms of the academic year aimed at introducing participants to the world of business and inspiring individuals to pursue their entrepreneurial ambitions.
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TVC History The 7th Annual CUTEC Technology Ventures Conference took place on 10 June 2010 at the West Road Concert Hall. The conference, on the overarching theme of ‘Human Performance Running on Technology’ attracted an audience of over 300 delegates who listened to panel discussions on three different themes: Digitising Sports, Engineering your Performance and Advancing through Biomedical Innovation.
TVC 2009
The entrepreneurial fever ran high as start-up companies, business plan competition winners, and the renowned Cambridge i-Teams delivered pitches to venture capitalists and angel investors. Inspiring keynote speeches were delivered by Arne Ljungqvist (Chariman of the IOC Medical Comission), Roger Mosey (BBC Director of London 2012), Graeme Obree (World Champion Cyclist) and Mark Forster (Commonwealth Swimming Champion). The day did not go unnoticed, with media coverage by the BBC, WIRED magazine and Angel News.
TVC History
Iqbal Quadir, Grameenphone, Founder Marissa Mayer , Google, VP of Search Products
TVC 2008
Garre Camp, Stumble Upon, Founder Peter Hartzbech, iMo on Technology, CEO Michael Liebreich, New Energy Finance, Founder
TVC 2007 Seth Sternberg, Meebo, CEO Mar n Varsavsky, FON, Co-founder
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TVC 2006 Ray Anderson, Bango, CEO Prof. Chris Abell, Astex Therapeu cs, Scien fic Founder
TVC 2005 Prof. Hasso Pla ner, SAP AG, Co-founder Sir Robin Saxby, ARM Holdings, Board Chairman
TVC 2004
Paul Harvey, Abbey Road Ventures, Co-founder
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Executive Committee Vivian is a Cambridge Commonwealth scholar pursuing her PhD in Biochemistry, focusing on the structural and biochemical studies of RNase E using X-ray crystallography. Prior to her postgraduate studies, she worked as an Investment Process Manager at a venture fund in Brisbane, Australia. She has vast interests in entrepreneurship and commercialisation of science, and was selected to represent Australia in the Novartis BioCamp, held as a platform for exploring the innovative and entrepreneurial aspects of biotechnology. Vivian joined the CUTEC content team last year and is currently the President for 2010-2011.
The Team
Vivian Chan President
Andrew completed his undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology and is now in the third year of his PhD in the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge where his research focuses on the electrical properties of metal oxide nanowires for hybrid solar cells under the direction of Professor Judith Driscoll. Andrew is passionate about the introduction of new technology into industry and has gained a diverse range of experiences from working with multiple technology companies. Andrew joined the CUTEC team in October 2008 and was the President from 2009 to 2010.
Andrew Marin Chairman
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Executive Committee Katie is a Merck CASE student studying for a PhD on liquid crystal materials for next generation displays. Prior to this, she graduated with an MSci in Experimental and Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University.
Katie Atkinson Director of Operations
She spent the third year of the course at MIT as part of the Cambridge-MIT exchange. Katie joined the CUTEC team in October 2009 as a member of the content team.
The Team
Sebastian is a PhD student at the Cavendish Laboratory working on organic electronics. His research focuses on understanding the electrical transport mechanisms happening within conducting polymer field-effect transistors.
Sebastian Schoefer Director of Development
He received his Masters degree in physics from The University of Texas at Austin, USA, developing gas sensors based on hybrid inorganic/organic transistor structures. Before coming to Cambridge, he shortly worked on mechanically flexible solar cells for the University of Freiburg, Germany, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. Sebastian has attended numerous business workshops such as a McKinsey workshop in San Francisco and the Ignite programme in Cambridge.
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Lukasz is studying Business Management at Ashcroft. His main area of study is marketing, with personal focus on market data analysis and consumer behaviour.
Lukasz Mlodyszewski Director of Innovation
The Team
Lukasz worked as a retail day trader in 2009-2010 and still does it occasionally. He was the President of AIBS Student Representatives. He was also a finalist of IBM Business Challenge 2008-09 and a semi-finalist in 2009-10. He is also a professional diver and sailor. Lukasz joined CUTEC marketing team in October 2009 and is currently the Director of Innovation.
Hristo is reading for MBA degree at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the Technical University of Sofia and MSc in Computer Science and Communications Engineering from the University of Duisburg-Essen.Hristo is passionate about online business and Web technologies and spent the last 10 years as a serial Internet entrepreneur. Apart from the entrepreneurial path Hristo worked as an IT consultant in the health sector for KPMG Consulting Bulgaria.
Hristo Odiseev Chief Information Officer
Hristo joined CUTEC in 2011 and sets CUTEC’s technology strategy and directs the planning and implementation of IT systems in support of initiatives such as TVC 2011.
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Content Team
The Team
Carlo Tarantini Vice President
Arnoud Groen Team Advisor
Philipp von Bieberstein
Neil Rzechorzek
Shane Heffernan
Takehiro Kojima
Sebastian Mooser
Rashmi Tripathi
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Karsten Eiserbeck Vice President
Flora Li Team Advisor
Lars Oliver Herrmann
Sid Sridharan
Claire Thiveyrat
Axel Wittmann
Pablo Zulaica L贸pez
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Christian Salling Vice President
Orsolya Ihasz Team Advisor
Wiktor Miloszewski
Annika Eving
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The Team
Logistics Team
Marketing Team
The Team
Jonas G. Mikkelsen Vice President
Leena Priya Team Advisor
George Evangelinos
Massimo Gaetani
Edwin Hayward
Fatmir Hyseni
Haider Shukhaer
Lourdes Toledano
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Ignas Budvytis Vice President
Daniel Gutmann Team Advisor
Bernardas Morkunas
Jing Qiu
Eugenio Covarrubias
Elizabeth Williams
George Booth
Gregory Haslett
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The Team
Sponsorship Team
Sponsorship Team
Andrius Aucinas
The Team
Sales Team
Abhishek Kumar Head of Sales Team
Marta Lapsley
Madina Baratashvili
Juraj Sibik
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Advisors Professor Alan Barrell has spent almost 30 years in senior executive positions in technology-based industries and has become one of Cambridge’s most articulate promoters of entrepreneurship. He is Entrepreneur in Residence at the University’s Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Bedfordshire School of Graduate Business Studies, Xiamen University and the Shanghai College of Science and Technology. More recently, Professor Barrell currently chairs the East of England NHS Strategic Innovations Council, Health Enterprise East Limited and the Senior Advisory Board of the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE), which has recruited more than 40,000 members since its formation less than a year ago.
Advisors
Allan Barrel
Sherry Coutu is a former CEO and angel investor who now serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities. She chairs Artfinder and is a non-executive member of Cambridge University (Finance Board), Cambridge Assessment, Cambridge University Press and NESTA Investments. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Linkedin.com. She was voted by TechCrunch as the best CEO mentor / advisor in Europe in Nov 2010. in May 2011, she was voted by Wired magazine as one the top 25 ‘most influential people in the wired world’. Sherry was founder of two businesses in the financial services industry. The first (acquired by Euromoney plc) has operations in more than 70 countries. The second, which she was CEO and chairman for was responsible for the first e-commerce transaction in the financial services industry in Oct 1995 and floated in 2000 on London and Nasdaq and was valued at more than $1 billion before being acquired (by AMP plc).
Sherry Coutu
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Peter is CEO and Founder of iMotions-Eye Tracking A/S. In December 2006, he was elected by Red Herring Magazine as Top 25 under 35. He worked in Ernst & Young Denmark and Venture Cup Denmark, where he advised start-up companies on business plans, strategic and financial issues, and he is currently on the Jury of Young Enterprise Denmark. He has a Master’s Degree in Accounting, Economics, and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School, and attended the Schulich School of Business, Toronto; the London School of Economics; the Iacocca Institute at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania; and The Australian National University, Canberra. Peter’s passion in global entrepreneurship makes him a much sought-after keynote speaker (e.g. CUTEC TVC, MIT Global Start-up Workshop, etc.)
Peter Hartzbech
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Hermann is one of the UK’s leading serial entrepreneurs and a founder and director of Amadeus Capital Partners. He has been involved with over 20 technology companies as a director or investor. He is currently chairman of Virata, a nonexecutive director of Cambridge Silicon Radio, and several other companies. He also founded Acorn Computers from which ARM and many other successful Cambridge technology companies can trace their beginnings.
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Michael Liebreich is the head of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the leading provider of information and research to senior investors, executives and policy-makers in clean energy and the carbon markets. Bloomberg New Energy Finance has over 140 staff working out of 11 offices around the world. Michael founded the company in 2004 and acted as Chairman and Chief Executive until its acquisition by Bloomberg at the end of 2009. Michael serves as a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Energy and is on the Selection Committee for the Zayed Future Energy Prize. Prior to founding New Energy Finance Michael was an entrepreneur, venture capitalist (with Groupe Arnault), and executive, helping to build around 25 successful companies.
Advisors
Michael Liebreich
Amy was a co-founder and marketing director of STNC Ltd., a mobile start-up acquired by Microsoft in 1999. Other roles have included head of product strategy and international development at Hutchison 3G, director of business development at QUALCOMM and vice president of sales and marketing at Light Blue Optics, a Cambridge University spin-out. She is involved in a number of early stage startups, is a Trustee of the Humanitarian Centre & Birthlight, and a Director of the Greater Cambridge Partnership. Amy set up the Cambridge University i-Teams programme which she has run since inception in 2006, is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Anglia Ruskin University and an advisor to both Cambridge University Entrepreneurs and CUTEC.
Amy Mokady
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José works closely with the Managing Director, Chairman and other members of the E-Center’s team to build, develop and sustain the E-Center ‘s research and educational programs, events, publications, alumni outreach, and networking activities. He promotes the MIT Entrepreneurship Center ‘s courses, programs and activities throughout MIT, manages relations with MIT faculty, students and alumni, as well as entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and private and corporate donors.
José Pacheco
Advisors
Christopher Padfield joined the University to run technical and executive education, founding the Cambridge Programme for Industry in 1988, and played a significant part, alongside many others, in building bridges between the University and the entrepreneurial communities that were developing in and around Cambridge. He moved in 2000 to found the Corporate Liaison Office which concentrated on similar activities, but this time between the University and major research-intensive global companies. He has now retired from the University but retains a strong interest in fostering and facilitating entrepreneurship in and around Cambridge. He has served as Senior Treasurer for CUTEC since its foundation in 2003.
Dr Christopher Padfield
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Dr Andy Richards is a serial Biotechnology entrepreneur and business angel. He is currently Chairman of Altacor, Novacta Abcodia and Ixico and is a director of Vectura plc, Summit Corp plc, PsychologyOnline, Cancer Research Technology (commercial arm of CR-UK) and Babraham Bioscience Technology. Andy spent his early career with ICI (now AstraZeneca) and with PA Technology. He was a founder of Chiroscience and an executive director through to the sale to Celltech in 1999. Since that time he has been founding and investing in new Cambridge based biotechnology companies including several of those listed above as well as Arakis, Geneservice, Cambridge Biotechnology Ltd, Amedis Pharmaceuticals, Sirus Pharmaceuticals, Daniolabs and Pharmakodex, all of which were recently sold.
Advisors
Andy Richards
Shai is Director for the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) part of University of Cambridge Judge Business School. Since 2001, Shai has been closely involved in building the curriculum for a practitioner-led approach to education for entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge. Together with a team of 8 and a pool of entrepreneurs in residence and a wider community of practitioners, the CfEL provides a portfolio of courses that encourage, inform and support students at the University and elsewhere to take a learning journey through entrepreneurship. Several of these courses have been copied, transplanted or redeveloped in context. One of the more influential of such courses is Enterprisers. More detail is available on www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk
Dr. Shai Vyakarnam
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Press Releases
Great ideas at Cambridge Apprentice help companies to solve problems What keeps entrepreneurs awake at night? How to identify customer needs, how to design products, how to innovate – all these aspects come into mind. Every entrepreneur is constantly faced with a large number of problems at a time.
Press Releases
To apply and enhance problem solving skills is what Cambridge Apprentice is all about. On 26th February, about 60 students from very diverse backgrounds came together to work in teams on challenges posed by Nokia Research, Cambridge Temperature Concept, FrontlineSMS, MagicSolver, SocialBrillience and Mills&Reeve. Inspired and supported by high-calibre mentors, the teams developed their ideas within a very short period of time. A representative from Nokia Research noted: “As far as our challenge goes, we were struck by how quickly and competently the students were able to grasp the brief presented to them and henceforth formulate a coherent plan for the pitch. Their organisation and ability to work so quickly must be a testament to the skills acquired through being involved with CUTEC”. The mentors were also impressed by the quality and enthusiasm of all participants. Cambridge Apprentice was once again an excellent opportunity to get first-hand experience of entrepreneurial team problem solving. Many of this year’s attendees will have a lot of great ideas on their mind when they are awake at night.
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A groundbreaking “experiment” in which one of the world’s foremost biotechs laid itself bare to teams of students as part of an open innovation competition has been hailed as an unqualified success. The MedImmune Open Innovation Event took place earlier this month, with students collaborating with senior management from the biotech to try to find innovative answers to one of eight key challenges faced by the business. The final pitches took place on March 17, with a team of students working on ways to measure the transport of protein drugs into the brain taking the top prize of £500 in cash. Key to the success of the event, according to organiser, Lukasz Mlodyszewski, director of innovation at Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC), was MedImmune’s willingness to participate without the need for non-disclosure agreements and also to make company directors available to mentor the teams. MedImmune’s global VP of R&D, Bahija Jallal also took part in the event as a judge for the final pitches, along with Andy Williams, Jon Green and Jane Osbourn - all members of the leadership team for MedImmune’s Cambridge facility.“This is the first event of its kind as far as I am aware and for that reason it was a bit of an experiment,” said Mlodyszewski. “MedImmune themselves told me that an event like this would not have been possible five or ten years ago, but we are definitely the beneficiaries of that change in culture as a number of close relationships were formed and we’re hopeful that the exercise will create some tangible results for both students and company. Under and postgraduate students from Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University took part in the event. The majority came from a biochemistry background although students from economics, linguistics and management courses also attended.
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Press Releases
28 March 2011 14:47 MedImmune bootcamp breaks the mould
The Future Of Running Business
Press Releases
On the 30th of March, a panel discussion organised by CUTEC and sponsored by GJE took place at the University of Cambridge. The event brought students and business practitioners together to discuss and understand how the future of running business might look like. High-profile entrepreneurs formed a panel and discussed the most prominent challenges in running businesses and how to turn challenges into competitive advantages. The panel included: - Stephen Haley, Partner at GJE, IT & Engineering - Philip Harris, Partner at GJE, Trademarks - Jason Pinto, Investment Manager at Amadeus Capital, IT & Engineering - Nigel Pitchford, Partner at DFJ Esprit, Life Sciences - Bobby Rao, former Vodafone’s Director of Marketing and New Business for Internet Services The discussion focused on the changes brought by rapidly increasing connectivity, social media boom and the rise of open innovation. Experts in intellectual property, marketing and business strategy approached these topics from different angles which lead to a lively and well-balanced debate. A networking event at Brown’s restaurant rounded off the evening. All attendees were extremely pleased to meet successful entrepreneurs from various fields, to discuss business challenges in a relaxed atmosphere and to take advantage of the networking opportunities provided.
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12 May 2011 8th Technology Ventures Conference shows new ways of driving innovation
Ideas for advancing economies and growing businesses are no longer developed just within organisations. Given the rapidly changing environments in which companies operate, innovations are increasingly sourced through external networks. The forthcoming Technology Ventures Conference 2011 will demonstrate how this new “Ideas Economy” works and how it can be applied to solve a variety of problems. This year, the Technology Ventures Conference will be held on 9th June in Cambridge. Confirmed Speakers include George Whitesides (CEO, Virgin Galactic), Mike Addison (Section Head R&D, Procter & Gamble and Ted Shelton (CEO, Open First). The event will be moderated by Rory Cellan-Jones (BBC) and David Rowan (WIRED magazine). The highly interactive conference will bring together leading innovators, professionals and students to unleash the power of connecting ideas. Workshops on a variety of topics such as Healthcare, Open Innovation and Cleantech are supported by high-profile conference partners: GlaxoSmithKline, Mozilla and Shell Springboard. “Cambridge is at the forefront of innovation and technology, not least because of its strength in interdisciplinary collaboration”, says Vivian Chan, President of CUTEC, the organisers of the event. “The Technology Ventures Conference is a great opportunity to learn about the future of problem solving, how any organisation can innovate through collaboration and how connecting ideas can change the world.” In addition, this year’s event will include the Cambridge Diamond Exhibition which features well-established, Cambridge-based companies such as ARM, MedImmune, Redgate and Plastic Logic. Technology start-ups will compete in a separate session and present their ideas to a panel of investors. Finalists will win business development advice from industry experts such as BDO, Keltie and MartinBloom, among others.
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Press Releases
High profile Cambridge conference features Virgin Galactic, Procter & Gamble, Seymour Powell and ARM
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PARTNERS WITH YASMO LIVE TO BOOST SOCIAL NETWORKING AT TECHNOLOGY VENTURES CONFERENCE London, May 23, 2011 - Yasmo Live announced today that it has entered a partnership with Cambridge University’s Technology and Enterprise Club to provide the annual Technology Ventures Conference (TVC) with a tailored mobile networking service designed to enhance interaction amongst its delegates.
Press Releases
Yasmo Live has become a silver sponsor of TVC, and will provide its innovative conference networking application for mobile phones to the conference’s more than 400 attendees - one of the largest of its kind globally - composed of students and high profile venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and angel investors from around the world. TVC will benefit from the latest features update of Yasmo Live’s app, which improves the way delegates can find and initiate contact in real time with people of interest within the same conference, directly from their mobile phones. Vivian Chan, President of Cambridge University’s Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC) which organises TVC, said: “Networking is at the core of the Technology Ventures Conference which aims to help entrepreneurial students form relationships with high level investors and take their business ideas to the next level. Yasmo Live, being a successful technology start-up itself, is a natural partner and we are proud to be pioneering its business networking app amongst our student community at TVC 2011.” Areti Kampyli, CEO of Yasmo Live, commented: “We are delighted to have entered a partnership with CUTEC. We are confident that the app’s improved functionalities, including greater integration with major social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn, and intuitive conferencing tools such as live voting and questions to speakers, will be a hit with delegates at TVC.”
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Red Gate Software produces ingeniously simple tools for over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals worldwide and we’re really proud to be sponsoring CUTEC, encouraging innovation and creativity. We specialize in SQL Server, .NET and email archiving tools. We’ve been based in Cambridge since we were a small startup eleven years ago. We’re renowned as a great place to work (proudly appearing in the Sunday Times Top 100 small companies list five years in a row). We’re always looking for talented people to join us. Check out our current opportunities, and follow RedGatecareers on Twitter. GOLD SPONSORS
In the world of biologics, MedImmune has established itself as a true visionary, with one of the most robust pipelines in the biopharmaceutical industry from groundbreaking research and development, to state-of-the-art manufacturing, to product commercialization, every day MedImmune is touching lives. MedImmune is proudly united by the spirit of innovation, the heart of inspiration and the strength of integration, as it advances science for better health. SNR Denton is an international law firm with offices in 60 locations in 43 countries. With a focus on eight industry sectors: Technology, Media and Telecommunications; Manufacturing; Energy, Transport and Infrastructure; Financial Institutions and Funds; Government; Insurance; Real Estate, Retail and Hotels; and Health and Life Sciences, we advise a wide range of clients on a broad spectrum of commercial matters. Our global Technology, Media and Telecommunications team is highly regarded for its wealth of experience and cutting-edge legal advice. For further information please visit www.snrdenton.com
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DFJ Esprit is a leading cross-stage venture capital firm that invests in European technology companies. The team have been active in technology investing for three decades. They have experience of investing in over 200 companies, generating strong returns for investors through building valuable global companies alongside founders and management teams. DFJ Esprit is the exclusive European partner for Silicon Valley based Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Global Network of venture funds. DFJ Esprit invests across Europe and has partners located in London, Cambridge, Dublin, Helsinki and Paris.
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The ESPRC are the main UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical sciences, investing around £740 million a year in a broad range of subjects – from mathematics to materials science, and from information technology to structural engineering. In 2007/08 the University of Cambridge received dedicated funds from the EPSRC to support entrepreneurial training activities for postgraduates and research staff. SILVER SPONSORS At conferences and exhibitions, you never really know who is around you or who is there. Yasmo Live is the first real-time on-site networking app, that allows you to search through picture-based profiles of fellow attendees directly on your phone and arrange on-the-spot meetings with them. Enjoy the perfect ice-breaker at the TVC. Website: www.yasmolive. com Bambuser is an interactive video streaming platform, enabling users to quickly and easily stream, share and interact in real-time over video with friends and others on their blog, site or favourite social networks including Facebook, Twitter and many more, through seamless integration. Bambuser is the easiest and most dynamic video streaming solution for 3G, Wifi mobile devices, webcams and DV-cameras. Founded in Sweden in 2007, Bambuser supports over 260 different mobile devices worldwide, enabling users to harness the power of live social video. For more information, please visit www.bambuser.com
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BIQ Partners is a Cambridge based organisation specialised in fine-tuning business performance for SMEs. Through effective and proven strategies, our team provides solutions for Sales performance, Marketing strategy and Business Management. BIQ Partners helps good businesses become great businesses by filling small but important gaps and raising the bar. A well known international fashion brand VIVIENNE TAM, she launched her signature collection of Eastern inspired clothing with a modern edge on the New York runways in 1994. Pieces of the collections were ultimately incorporated into the permanent archives of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, The Museum of FIT and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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Gill Jennings & Every LLP (GJE) is a top-ranked European patent and trade mark attorney firm that helps clients protect the value of innovation and brands. Our clients range from early-stage ventures and academic institutions to investors and multinational corporations. GJE has had offices in Cambridge for over 30 years, having built many long-term relationships with entrepreneurs and investors in the region.
The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors, mostly in the Cambridge UK area, although they are interested in investment opportunities elsewhere in the South of England. The Angels have been responsible for a large number of the Cambridge Phenomenon success stories over recent years. In addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully. For more information, please visit www.cambridgeangels.net.
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Supporting Organisations
Sporting Organisations
The Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL), part of Judge Business School, aims to spread the spirit of enterprise to both the University of Cambridge community and to wider national and international audiences through the creation and delivery of a range of educational activities that inspire and build skills in the practise of entrepreneurship. The Centre collaborates with over 200 experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and other practitioners to provide relevant, credible and practical training. Around 40 courses, events and programmes in entrepreneurship are run per year and attended by 2000 + students and delegates. Cambridge Enterprise Limited was formed on 1st December 2006 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Cambridge. It is responsible for commercialisation arrangements for University discoveries. Cambridge Enterprise exists to help University of Cambridge inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs make their ideas and concepts more commercially successful for the benefit of society, the UK economy, the inventors and the University. The MIT Entrepreneurship Center is committed to fostering and developing MIT’s entrepreneurial activities and interests. It inspires and nurtures the men and women who make high tech start-up companies successful. Ιt offers educational programs to inspire, educate, and coach new generations of entrepreneurs from all parts of MIT. To support this mission, MIT’s entrepreneurship professors and staff conduct basic research to enhance their fundamental understanding of the dynamic process of high tech venture development. The MIT Venture Capital & Private Equity (VCPE) Club is one of MIT’s largest and most visible cross-campus organizations, which aims at providing members with opportunities to learn about the venture capital and private equity industries, to interact with leading professional investors and business executives, and to develop relationships with members of the MIT community who share similar interests. The VCPE Club hosts a broad portfolio of activities which span venture capital, private equity, entrepreneurship, and the commercialization of MIT technologies.
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ideaSpace actively fosters an inspiring culture and enabling environment to accelerate new innovations with global impact. Based at the University of Cambridge’s Hauser Forum ideaSpace is home to a membership of over 100 innovators and entrepreneurs.
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Acknowledgements Additional 2009-2010 Members Orsi Ihasz, Daniel Gutmann, Nuno Rocha, Arnoud Groen, Robert Hoff, Filipa Soares CUTEC TVC Advisor: Shreyas Mukund CUTEC Alumni All teams through 2011 Cambridge University Support: Department of Engineering Judge Business School Founding Advisers: Machael S. Cann Jr., Jason Fuller Professional Team Advisers: Luca Senatore (Sales) Chris Measures (PR) Massimo Gaetani (Marketing) James Cotton (Marketing) Jeremy Parsons (Innovation) Rupert Pearce Gould (Innovation) CUTEC and TVC Websites: Andrea Cristofaro, Lukasz Mlodyszewski Booklet Design: Lourdes Toledano Press release articles: The future of running business - Pablo Zulaica L贸pez Cambridge Apprentice - Karsten Eiserbeck TVC 2011 press release - Karsten Eiserbeck MedImmune article - Ben Fountain, Cabume
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