Spotting Future Needs - Jack Lang and Eben Upton
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Rasberry Pi Co-Founders Jack Lang and Eben Upton discuss the topic 'Spotting Future Needs' at CfEL's Enterprise Tuesday lecture series on the 19th November 2013. Chaired by Dr David Cleevely CBE.
Whereas some entrepreneurs spot opportunities pertaining to current needs and trends others go on to create opportunities regarding future needs and problems. When successful the latter may disrupt whole industries or even give rise to new ones. In this session we are going to consider topics around the (co-)creation of new opportunities and how entrepreneurs can engage in such action. |
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| Created: | 2013-12-09 12:17 |
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Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning
Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning - Opportunity Recognition |
| Publisher: | Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning |
| Copyright: | Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | CfEL; Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning; Rasberry Pi; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneur; |
| Abstract: | Chair – David Cleevely CBE FREng FIET CEng PhD, Founding Director, Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge
David Cleevely is an entrepreneur and business angel who has founded a series of companies and acted as government advisor. He is Chairman of CRFS, the spectrum monitoring company, which he co-founded in July 2007, and the founder and former Chairman of telecoms consultancy Analysys (acquired by Datatec International in 2004). David’s business and internet expertise were central to the formation of Abcam (ABC.L), which he co-founded in 1998. In late 2004 he co-founded the 3G femto base station company, 3WayNetworks, which was sold to Airvana in April 2007. He has invested in over 35 companies and is Chairman of four of them, including the award winning restaurant “Bocca di Lupo”. He has been a prime mover behind Cambridge Network, co-founder of Cambridge Wireless, co-founder and Chairman of Cambridge Angels and is a member of the IET Communications Policy Panel. For 8 years until March 2009 he was a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board and from 2001 to 2008 he was a member of the Ministry of Defence Board overseeing information systems and services (DES-ISS, formerly the Defence Communications Services Agency). He was appointed as the Founding Director of the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge in 2009. Speakers: Jack Lang, Entrepreneur in Residence, Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship Advisory Board Member Jack Lang is a serial entrepreneur and business angel, and Co-Founder of Artimi, which is making the next generation of ultra wide band wireless chips. Interested in "computer science and how the brain works", his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Sciences at Cambridge led to a Computer Science diploma and a spell as Demonstrator in the Computer Laboratory. He left the University to found (with Professor Shon FfowcsWilliams) the consulting company Topexpress, one of whose projects was designing some of the software for the BBC Microcomputer. "To get a promotion in those days, you had to wait for people to die. Making money was not the initial motivation, it was solving problems, and industry had better toys to play with. A gang of us used to meet in the tea room at the Computer Lab, and when we left the Lab we continued to meet in the pub or at dinners." Jack was Founder of Netchannel, which was acquired in 1998 by NTL, where he became Chief Technologist. Before that he founded Electronic Share Information, acquired by E*Trade in 1995. Jack Lang is Director of Studies in Management at Emmanuel College. He is author of The High Tech Entrepreneurs Handbook, and teaches and examines courses in business studies, entrepreneurship and e-commerce for the University of Cambridge Computer Science Laboratory. He is Entrepreneur in Residence at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning and a ByFellow at Emmanuel College. A keen baker and a passionate cook, he was one of the founders of Midsummer House restaurant in Cambridge. "I learnt most about setting up companies when I was Technical Director of Footlights: it was all about tight budgets, deadlines and people." Jack Lang is also Co-Founder and Chair of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, an ultra-low cost computer designed to help teach kids programming. Eben Upton, Co-Founder, Raspberry Pi Foundation Eben is a founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and serves as CEO of Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd, which is responsible for the Foundation's commercial and technical activities. In an earlier life, he founded two successful mobile games and middleware companies, Ideaworks 3d Ltd and Podfun Ltd, held the post of Director of Studies for Computer Science at St John's College, Cambridge, and was co-author of The Oxford Rhyming Dictionary along with his father. He holds a BA in Physics and Engineering, a PhD in Computer Science, and an Executive MBA, from the University of Cambridge. |
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