Cambridge University Entrepreneurs Presents the Grand Finale on 14 June 2012

Event details:

Cambridge University Entrepreneurs Presents the Grand Finale on 14 June 2012

Eben Upton
Keynote Speaker:?
Dr. Eben Upton - Founder and Trustee of Raspberry Pi
Eben is a founder and trustee of the Foundation, and serves as its Executive Director; he is responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi, and for the Foundation's relationships with its key suppliers and customers.?

The Grand Finale is a showcase of the business ideas from this year's CUE entrepreneurs' challenge. The competition finalists will be pitching to a panel of angel investors, hoping to win the grand CUE prizes of ?2.5K, ?5K and ?7.5K and maybe even the special Angel Prize!? We are also giving away free Raspberry Pi to lucky attendees!
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The amazing prizes include:

  • Up to five ?5K winning teams across the four streams.
  • One ?7.5K prize for the best life science team
  • Two ?2.5K prize for the best entrepreneurs
  • One Angel prize
  • One free place on Ignite program.

Highlight of the evening:

  • "Dragon's Den"-type pitching with Angel Investors
  • Finalists' Poster Session?
  • Drinks reception, Food and Entrepreneurs' Networking
  • Free Raspberry Pi to give away!

?Agenda of the evening:

6:30pm - 6:40pm Welcome speech from the President
6:40pm - 7:00pm Keynote speech
7:00pm - 8:15pm Competition finalists pitching and Q&A session with the Angel Panel.
8:15pm - 8:30pm Winner announcement and award ceremony
8:30pm - 9:30pm Poster session and networking with wine and nibbles

Keynote Speaker:?
Dr. Eben Upton - Founder and Trustee of Raspberry Pi
Eben is a founder and trustee of the Foundation, and serves as its Executive Director; he is responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi, and for the Foundation's relationships with its key suppliers and customers. In an earlier life, he founded two successful mobile games and middleware companies, Ideaworks 3d Ltd and Podfun Ltd, and held the post of Director of Studies for Computer Science at St John's College, Cambridge. He holds a BA in Physics and Engineering, a PhD in Computer Science, and an Executive MBA, all from the University of Cambridge. In his day job, he works for Broadcom as an ASIC architect and general troublemaker.??

?Angel Panel:

Neil Davidson is co-founder and joint CEO of Red Gate Software. Red Gate employs some 250 people, has no VC funding and has been in the Sunday Times top 100 companies to work at for 6 years running. Neil is also chairman of the Cambridge Network and founded the annual Business of Software conference. He also does some angel investing, but not terribly successfully so far.?

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, Care.com and Tyze.com. She has made angel investments in more than 40 companies and holds investments in 2 venture capital firms.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', and one of the top ten most influential investors and women. Philanthropically, she helped found the Prince's Trust Technology Leadership Group, is a member of the venture board of Cancer Research UK and serves on the Harvard Business School European Advisory Council.?

Tony Purnell founded Pi Research in 1987 and Pi Technology ?in 1992. Pi Research dominating racing in this area to the extent that they became known as the 'Microsoft of racing', ?Pi Technology software and hardware designs achieved a market presence of about 25% of all heavy duty trucks running on the North American continent by the turn of the century. They were accquired by Ford in 1999. He went on to work for Ford for five years, getting promoted to CEO of a Group of three Companies, Pi Research, Cosworth (race Engines), and Jaguar Formula One. Tony is a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at Cambridge University Engineering Department, ?an advisor for UK Sport charged with advising on technical developments and coaching development. ?He also consults as an independent for concerns interested in involvement in Formula One.

?Paul Anson came to Cambridge in 1992 as an engineer at Cambridge Consultants, where he formed a profitable specialist machinery group. In 2000 he co-founded and was COO of VC-backed Inca Digital Printers. Inca grew a high value manufacturing business and global support infrastructure employing over 150 people, earning Queen?s awards for innovation and international trade. Paul is one of the youngest members of Cambridge Angels, an active mentor and investor and helps young start-ups via Qi3 Accelerator and ideaSpace. Paul is directly involved with a number of early stage businesses and is CEO of LumeJet, a photonics technology company developing products in printing and organic electronics manufacturing.?

Dr. Andy Richards is a serial biotechnology entrepreneur and business angel. He is currently a director of Vectura, Summit, Biowisdom, Cancer Research Technology (commercial arm of CR-UK), Babraham Bioscience Technology, and is Chairman of Altacor, IXICO and Novacta?

To book tickets, please register here: http://cuegrandfinale2012.eventbrite.com/

For further enquiries, please contact:

Jun Chen
jun.chen@cue.org.uk
Co-President
Cambridge University Entrepreneurs

The Entrepreneurship Centre,? 3 Charles Babbage Road,? Cambridge, CB3 0GT
www.cue.org.uk

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