Engineering Lunch: Entrepreneur First at UCL - Europe’s leading pre-seed investor
Date and time
Location
University College London, Central Marquee
Gower Street London WC1E 6BT United KingdomDescription
Entrepreneur First (EF) helps Europe's best technical individuals build world-class, high growth start-ups. We are delighted to be joined by Co-Founder of EF, Matt Clifford, and EF Graduate and Founder of InnerSight, Lorenz Berger.
The event will include a talk from Matt who will discuss what Entrepreneur First is and how careers are changing, whilst Lorenz will tell the story of his journey from Post-Doc Graduate to the launch of his own company, and some of the trials and pitfalls on the way.
Any aspiring entrepreneurs in the audience will have the chance to field their burning questions to the speakers during the talk and a networking with refreshments will be held after the talk.
Agenda:
12.45 - 13.00: Arrival and Registration
13.00 - 14:00: Talk from EF
14.00 - 15.00: Refreshments and Networking
Matt Clifford - Matt co-founded Entrepreneur First with Alice Bentinck. A former consultant at McKinsey & Co, he started Entrepreneur First because he believes the world’s most talented and ambitious people should be founders. He sits on the boards of Tech For Trade and Silicon Valley Comes to the UK, and is Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum. After graduating from Cambridge, Matt studied as a Kennedy Scholar at MIT. He's particularly interested in startups working on problems in machine learning, virtual reality and blockchain-based applications.
Lorenz Berger – Lorenz graduated from Oxford in 2015, where his research and PhD focused on novel biomedical image algorithms. He joined the EF programme in March, as part of the fourth cohort and is now the founder of InnerSight, a company which has developed a machine aided technique for surgeons to visualise cancer and improve surgery outcomes.
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The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training offers a 4 year programme in Medical Imaging.
Our vision is to train the translational imaging research leaders of the future, filling a critical gap identified in academia, pharmaceutical and medical devices industries, while delivering internationally competitive research. Our innovative training has a strong focus on new image acquisition technologies, novel data analysis methods and integration with computational modelling.