From Ideas to Impact: empowering the next generation of innovators
From Ideas to Impact: empowering the next generation of innovators
How do we continue to foster and empower the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs?
Deeply embedded in the UK’s leading innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem, Cambridge Enterprise supports the translation of University research to create globally leading economic and social impact.
Join us at in the West Hub, the University's first shared working space within the West Cambridge Innovation District, to hear some of these impact stories and learn more about new initiatives and approaches to reduce the barriers to innovation and increase the acceleration of University impact.
Advancing Women Entrepreneurs
As a proud signatory of the Investing in Women Code, Cambridge Enterprise is actively committed to diversifying investment in University spin-outs. However, gender disparity persists in the teams pitching to our investment committee, which is echoed across the UK with only 27% of venture capital deals involving companies with at least one female founder, and a mere 9% feature all-female founder teams. (Investing in Women Code Annual Report 2023)
With a panel of leading voices of University members, alumni and from the wider Cambridge ecosystem, we’ll:
• Identify the obstacles preventing women from unlocking their full entrepreneurial potential.
• Gain valuable insights from Cambridge founders on overcoming investment barriers and other challenges to create real-world impact.
• Explore the actions the ecosystem and the University can take to propel and empower the next generation of women innovators and entrepreneurs.
And find out how you can get involved.
Speakers
Umaima Ahmad
CEO & Co-Founder of Cambridge spin-out, 52North
Umaima is CEO and co-founder of 52North, a multi-award winning med-tech company focused on reinventing the healthcare journey, starting by transforming cancer care with Neutrocheck®. In 2023, 52North became the first ever venture investment of Macmillan Cancer Support.
Dr Shima Barakat
Director of the Entrepreneurship for Sustainability Programme, Chair of Women's Staff Network and Co-Founder of Impact Women's Network, University of Cambridge
An entrepreneur, director and academic, Shima has spent the last 25 years helping companies (from startups to MNEs), founding ventures, leading boards and teaching entrepreneurship. Before her current position, Shima was the Head of Entrepreneurial Learning at the Judge Business School.
Pam Garside
Chair of Cambridge Angels and Cambridge Enterprise Investment Committee member
Pam Garside is a management consultant working in health care systems and digital health in the UK and internationally and an angel investor in early stage health tech companies. She is a Fellow of the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge and a member of the Investment Committee of Cambridge Enterprise.
Professor Rachel Oliver
Director of the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride and CSO & Co-Founder of, Cambridge spin-out, Porotech
Professor Rachel Oliver is a materials scientist, inventor and spinout founder, and Director of the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride. Her passion for understanding and engineering the small-scale structure of semiconductor materials to enable new technologies has been recognised in 2021 by the award of a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering and her selection as an IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer. Rachel was further recognised by Royal Academy of Engineering in 2023 and awarded Chair in Emerging Technologies in support of her work on porous GaN.
Booking information
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