Join us for October's Venture Cafe Cambridge Connect where we'll be celebrating and delving into what makes Cambridge a distinctive place to start, build and grow globally significant companies whilst looking ahead at what the ecosystem needs to sustain that success.
Join us for the next Venture Cafe just after Cambridge Tech Week where we'll be exploring the use of AI within the Health Industries. More details to come soon!
Happy summer! ☀️
We’re taking a short break in August to recharge, so there will be no Venture Café Cambridge Connect this month.
We’ll be back on 8 September, ready to reconnect, share ideas and bring the innovation community together again.
See you in September!
Climate innovation is rapidly becoming a defining opportunity - reshaping markets, investment priorities, and the way organisations and society operate.
Following London Climate Action Week, our July Venture Café will be an exciting collaboration with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). We'll dive into how sustainability-led innovation is crucial for both startups and established businesses to thrive in a rapidly changing world, and we will showcase examples of the emerging and scaling startups putting Cambridge on the map as a global leader in climate innovation.
Join us for our next session as we explore quantum technologies, what they mean in practice, and how this science is moving from research into real-world applications.
The discussion will look at the quantum sector, Cambridge’s strengths within it, where the ecosystem is thriving, and emerging opportunities.
Join us in partnership with Convergent Research, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency & Meridial for the next dynamic Venture Cafe Cambridge Connect, where we'll explore the launch of the UK's first ever Focused Research Organisations.
Focused Research Organisations are a new institutional model designed to tackle ambitious, societally consequential scientific challenges that fall outside the scope of traditional labs or startups, launched in the UK by ARIA & Convergent Research. Through a moderated conversation and lightning talks from those launching FROs, join us to learn what this model means and how they operate, how ARIA’s scientific organizing principle supports this model, and how Meridial aim to use the approach to tackle large-scale brain mapping.
This event is designed to be substantive: you’ll leave understanding not only what FROs can build, but why this structure exists and what it unlocks for UK science. Join us and explore how Cambridge’s ambitious scientists and founders could access new models for funding, building and scaling.
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The future of gaming and design is being written right now and we want you in the room.
Venture Cafe Cambridge Connect is back, and this time we're exploring how artificial intelligence and immersive technologies are transforming two of the world's most creative industries.
Expect big ideas, real conversations, and the kind of connections that don't happen by accident.
More details coming soon.
Join us for an evening exploring how advanced materials, spanning biotech, engineered systems and next-generation manufacturing, are enabling new industrial capabilities and bespoke solutions across sectors.
This Venture Café Connect Cambridge session moves beyond the well-trodden climate narrative to examine how materials science underpins industrial transformation, scale-up and global competitiveness across textiles, packaging, healthcare, construction and advanced production.
Join us for the second installment of the Venture Café Cambridge Connect series as we explore the world of SportsTech. The evening will feature a SportsTech playground, innovator showcases, founder stories and a panel discussion examining the current SportsTech landscape.
Drawing on perspectives from ecosystem players, the panel will explore existing support structures, highlight what’s working and what’s missing, and look ahead to how a more connected, cohesive SportsTech ecosystem can create clearer pathways for innovation and growth.
