We at the E Lab were thinking what should the last event of this calendar year be. Inviting a speaker? Pitching event? Lecture? Nah! The idea is for you to share for 5 minutes some of your learnings, things you wish you knew, things you figured out, things you messed up, things you wish someone would have told you sooner…

This could be anything from juggling business and personal life, finding investors, bootstrapping, having uncomfortable conversations with cofounders and colleagues, having to let go of people, hiring the right people, imposter syndrome, finding a market fit…you name it!

This is a super relaxed, safe and supportive environment and we cannot wait to learn from you all!

By invitation only

Please do join us for a special roundtable with Cathryn Riley, former Chief Operating Officer of Aviva PLC. Cathryn is a trailblazer in the world of business, taking on the roles of COO and CIO in the heavily male-dominated world of insurance and tech. 

In addition to being an effective director on boards, in 2021, she released the book, ‘Cooking Up Connections – Big Quiz Book’ in memory of her partner, Judith, who passed away from cervical cancer in 2020. Proceeds of the book all go to the Eve Appeal, the UK's Gynaecological Cancer Research Charity raising awareness and funding research into five gynae-cancers: womb, ovarian, cervical, vulval and vaginal. Through Cathryn’s work, she making a difference in many people’s lives.

WHEN: Friday 11 March 2022 from 6 pm till 8 pm

EVENT OUTLINE:

6.00 – 6.15pm champagne reception

6.15 – 7.15pm talk 

7.15 – 7.30pm mingle and wine

WHERE: King’s College Cambridge (Audit Room), dress code is casual.

Only 30 in person spots, tickets available to book HERE. Open to all (subscribe to our newsletter to be given priority access).

WHAT’S UP: 

– Another belated celebration of the International Women’s day through the recognition of our progress to date and by creating much-needed awareness on the topic of gynaecology. Developments, like online apps now exist, but is enough being done to help women understand their bodies? 

– Our Entrepreneur-in-Residence will lead an informal chat with Cathryn Riley on her contributions to the business world and beyond. Cathryn will welcome questions from the floor.

– A champagne reception will be offered.

About Cathryn:

Cathryn Riley is a Non Executive Director at FSCS, Liberty Managing Agency and AA Insurance Services Ltd. She is also a chair of Risk Committee at Liberty, advisor to Iprosurv Ltd and Pikl Ltd. Previous NEDs held at AA plc, Chubb, IPF Plc, Reassure and ELAS. Significant executive and external Board experience during a career at Aviva Plc where she was latterly the Group Chief Operations Officer with worldwide responsibilities for Digital, IT and shared service Operations.
Over 20 years experience in insurance and financial services together with a background in consultancy, health, airline and mining sectors both in UK and international roles.
Voted as No.13 in CIO's "Most Influential CIOs" and No.12 in Computer Weekly's "Most Influential Women in UK IT".
@RIleyCathryn

We will be welcoming Alan Miller, Co-Founder of SCM Direct (Alan also co-runs a fairness campaign True and Fair Campaign with Gina Miller), and Steven Fine, the CEO of Peel Hunt (recently floated on LSE).

• SCM Direct – online wealth management service facilitating the same level of service previously available only HNWI to anyone keen to invest their savings.

• Peel Hunt – specialist UK Investment Bank., focused on Investment Banking Advisory and Capital Markets Services, Research, Sales and Trading

You can expect to learn more about doing business in financial services, ETFs, investing, listing a company and current market trends, as well as importance of ethics and empowering individuals.

Outline of the event:

• 6pm to 6.30pm Interview with Alan Miller

• 6.30pm to 6.45pm Q&A from students

• 6.45pm to 7.05pm Interview with Steven Fine

• 7.05pm to 7.15pm Q&A from students

WHERE: Zoom

No ticketing, simply join us on Zoom via link HERE.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Open to all, more information coming soon (subscribe to our newsletter to be given priority access).

We will be welcoming current national Poet Laureate Simon Armitage to read poetry on the subject of work, money, and business and critically discuss relationship of society and arts in relation to those.

Outline of the event:

• 6:00 PM Drinks

• 6:15 PM Poetry reading and discussion

• 7:30 PM Dinner at the High Table

• 9:00 PM Drinks and wine & cheese at the SCR

WHERE: Provost’s Lodge, King’s College Cambridge.

By invitation only.

About Simon Armitage:

Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in the village of Marsden and lives in West Yorkshire. He is a graduate of Portsmouth University, where he studied Geography. As a post-graduate student at Manchester University, his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. Until 1994 he worked as a Probation Officer in Greater Manchester.

Simon Armitage is the current national Poet Laureate (2019-2029).

He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds and was elected to serve as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford for 2015-2019. In Spring 2019, he held the post of Holmes Visiting Professor at Princeton University, USA.

Previously, he taught at the University of Leeds, the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop and Manchester Metropolitan University before his 2011 appointment as Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield and Visiting Professor at the University of Falmouth.

Armitage has received numerous awards for his poetry including the Sunday Times Young Author of the Year, one of the first Forward Prizes, an Eric Gregory Award, a major Lannan Award, a Cholmondeley Award, the Spoken Word Award (Gold), the Ivor Novello Award for song-writing, BBC Radio Best Speech Programme, Television Society Award for Documentary and Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry. He won the 2017 PEN America Award for Poetry in Translation and was awarded the 2018 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry.

In 1999 Armitage was named the Millennium Poet. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Armitage was awarded the CBE for services to poetry in 2010 and presented with the Hay Medal for Poetry at the 25th Hay Festival in 2012.

As part of Britain’s 2012 Cultural Olympiad and while Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank, Armitage conceived and curated Poetry Parnassus, a gathering of world poets and poetry from every Olympic nation. This landmark event is generally recognised to be the biggest coming together of international poets in history.

Unique opportunity to make new friends amongst Lab members and entrepreneurially minded Judge Business School students from executive MBAs, Masters in Entrepreneurship and MBAs. You will also have the chance to sharpen your elevator pitch and enjoy some of the great King’s wine.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

By invitation only.