Click here for Events' Policy
Events

Based around events, ES will provide practice sessions for presenters, networking opportunities for current and potential team members, market research, seed and other funding research and matchmaking.
ES will not directly co-author or focus on business plans themselves, but intends to build a reputation as a student-to-student service for assisted hacking on details and introducing potential advisors, mentors and founders.

Our series of practical workshops and presentations will have varied topics (for example but not limited to: start-up management, start-up finance, intellectual property and venture capitalism). These information sessions are aimed at providing our members with professional and impartial advice on a range of subjects that are relevant to their business.

Events also provide members with a forum for discussion and the opportunity to network in an informal environment forming what we hope will be lasting and mutually beneficial business partnerships.

ES will encourage its members to be actively involved the society’s activities and will be encouraged to put forward their interests in new events by suggesting their own ideas.

All the ES events are aimed at members of the UCL community who are either curious or interested in entrepreneurship at any level. The underlying theme of each event is introducing connections and starting points for entrepreneurship by offering the opportunity for insight from successful entrepreneurs and key persons who are directly involved in the enterprise business at and around UCL.
 
Workshops

The workshops will involve case studies and interactive brainstorming sessions based on real scenarios put forward by society members and industry representatives. For example members thinking about launching a new venture may wish to select a use the society workshops as a forum for idea generation and problem solving. As such they will be on an ad-hoc basis.
Information disclosure will be left to the discretion of the persons or company running the workshop so as to protect IP.

 
Speaker series

A series of speaker events will be held where members of industry will be invited to UCL to give talks. All industries will be targeted and therefore the series should attract students and alumni from all disciplinary areas. The events will also serve as a networking platform with the opportunity for attendees to interact with the speaker, whom may in turn serve as a potential employer or investor.

A speaker event will be held once a term beginning in the first term of 2007.

 
Student Presentations / Discussion Forum

These will be held once a fortnight and will be informal events where students will present any ideas they may have.
In order to protect IP we will ensure that any content and derivative discussions during the presentations do not fall under the contractual umbrella of the students’ research.
We hope to also provide snacks and drinks with the initial target audience being around twenty attendees.

 
UCL Spin-Out Presentations

Similar to the student presentations these will be a series of seminars held by alumni members whom have gone on to start up there own companies.

 
Social Networking Events

These will be very informal events held throughout the year to allow current students and alumni to catch up. They will basically be networking events to enrich the social, academic, and professional lives of the ES members, providing an arena for productive informal communication

 
Film Projections

In order to keep our range of activities as diverse and as engaging as possible, film nights will be held where members will be invited to view a film of particular interest to the society. For example business/new venture oriented films.

 
Joint Events with Similar Societies in Other Universities

The ES is in close contact with its counterpart in London Business School whom have shown great interest in sharing events such as workshops and speaker events. We feel that as a multidisciplinary institution UCL can offer LBS a more technology focused forum for learning and networking while they will offer UCL members a more general business one.

 
Other Initiatives

- Seminar Series
- Skill development sessions
- Competition
- Ideas bank
- Short term (1 week) work experience / internship


The ES is open to and willing to encourage and support any initiative coming from its members.
Please do not hesitate to bring forward your ideas and get in contact with us!