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Intellectual Forum "Unleash Your Inner Entrepreneur Innovation Immersion Programme", 2023

The Intellectual Forum is delighted to be offering a programme for undergraduate innovation and entrepreneurship students. This is a tailored discipline-specific course. 

Students will receive teaching from world leading experts as well as industry professionals, all linked to Jesus College, Cambridge. Drawing from across the multidisciplinary strengths of the College, attendees will receive lectures and workshops from a range of subject-specialists. 

Sunday

  • 15:00 Arrive with check-in
  • 17.40-18.40 Dinner in Hall

Monday

Tuesday

  • 7.30-9.00 Breakfast 
  • 9.00-9.45 Introduction to the assessment, and lecture on entrepreneurship in practice and the Cambridge Ecosystem - Brian Corbett
  • 10.00-13.00 Pitching Workshop - Adelina Chalmers
  • 11.00-12.00 Refreshment break
  • 13.00-13.45 Lunch
  • 14.00-15.00 Market & Customer Discovery - Alex Smeets
  • 15.00-15.30 Refreshment break 
  • 15.30-16.30 Tools & Frameworks for Commercialisation - Brian Corbett
  • 16.30-17.40 Group pitching prep time and free time 
  • 17.40-18.40 Dinner in Upper Hall

Wednesday

  • 7.30-9.00 Breakfast
  • 9.00-10.00 Group pitching prep time and free time 
  • 10.45-11.00 Gather & depart on bus
  • 11.15-12.00 Judge Business School
  • 12.00-13.00 Cambridge Science Park/Bradfield Centre
  • 13.05-14.05 TUSPark
  • 14.05-14.35 Lunch
  • 14.35-15.35 Milner
  • 16.00-19.00 Garden Party with Mayor/MP at Hauxton House, o2H co-work labs
  • 19.30-21.30 Gala Dinner

Thursday

  • 7.30-9.00 Breakfast
  • 9.00-12.00 Transport to visit and lecture at the Maxwell Centre - Dr Agnieszka (Aga) Iwasiewicz-Wabnig FRSA
  • 12.15-14.00 Lunch
  • 14.00-16.00 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy with visit to St Johns Innovation Centre and talk from Novalia - Chris Jones and Stephen Goddard
  • 16.00-17.00 Return to College 
  • 17.40-18.40 Dinner in Upper Hall

Friday

  • 7.30-9.00 Breakfast
  • 9.30-10.30 Punting tour
  • 11.00-12.00 Perspectives from an Accelerator: StartCodon - Jason Mellad
  • 12.00-13.00 Lunch
  • 13.00-14.30 Pitch presentations - Brian Corbett, Alex Smeets, and Jason Mellad
  • 14.30-15.15 Certificate ceremony and photograph 
  • 15.15-16.00 Refreshments
  • 16.00-16.30 Closing Speeches - Dr Sarah Steele

If your institution would like to discuss a bespoke academic programme, summer or winter school, or online lecture series, please contact our Deputy Director, Dr Sarah Steele.