Enterprise Tuesday: Every startup is an AI startup
19 Nov 2024
18:30 -21:00
Times are shown in local time.
Open to: All
Cambridge Judge Business School
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
Join us for Enterprise Tuesday
Embracing cutting-edge technologies is essential for most startups but Artificial intelligence (AI) is among the most innovative. AI offers startups unmatched opportunities for growth, efficiency, and market leadership. Even if AI is not your main focus, as founders, integrating AI into your business model can be beneficial.
Join our expert panel as they discuss how to leverage AI technology, such as transforming data into valuable insights for predicting market trends and understanding customer behaviour. Learn how AI can streamline repetitive tasks, allowing your team to focus on strategic initiatives, and facilitate the creation of unique products or services. Discover how AI can optimise your resources and supply chains, and even assist with marketing activities by generating content for your website and social media platforms.
Prepare for an evening of enriching discussion, networking, and the chance to further engage on this vital topic over drinks.
Chaired by
Olu Orugboh
CEO and Founder, Synergy Solutions
Chair of the Board at Cambridge Wireless Ltd
Olu is the CEO and Founder of Synergy Solutions, a specialist management consultancy practice, focussed on helping companies stay at the forefront of evolving technology and the ever-changing world of customer expectations, whilst remaining resilient and futureproofing their business.
As a senior leader and seasoned professional with over 20 years’ experience, leading businesses through change, transformation and migration into digital environments, Olu has assisted a range of companies from start-ups, through to high growth scale ups to FTSE listed companies both in the UK and Internationally to embrace digital technology, safely, whilst remaining resilient and responsive to the rapidly changing environment. Olu has deep international experience, assisting enterprises to turnaround their failing operations through to putting in place infrastructures to support growth initiatives and introduce digital innovation. She has extensive business experience having had the opportunity, through both her own business and other executive level positions to shape the strategy for a wide array of businesses and introduce digital technology, providing a range of companies with the opportunity to speed up response and enhance the quality of that response, which she believes to be vital in the delivery of an agile business.
Olu is highly committed to assisting organisations to become resilient and future proofed. In addition to running a business, Olu is a mother to 2 wonderful children and is passionate about growing the impact of digital technology in underserved communities.
Speakers
Victoria Kimonides
Director, Insaitu
Victoria holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge and a BSc in Biochemistry and Microbiology from King’s College London. She started her career as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Rockefeller University and had affiliations with academia as a Research Fellow before making a career shift to business.
Her professional experience over the past 20+ years is in the Technology Industry, most of them with Microsoft in leadership roles across Commercial and Technology Strategy as well as Sales. She is currently an Entrepreneur engaged in a number of innovative projects.
Yossi Dahan
Account Director for Start-ups and Digital Natives, Microsoft
Over a 26-year career in tech across Israel and the UK, Yossi has worked as a technologist, seller, strategist, and manager in a diverse set of companies – from start-ups to enterprises.
In his current role he helps start-ups and digital-native companies navigate the Microsoft ecosystem and building deep partnerships centred on business growth. Alongside, he also co-founded his own start-up and is a serving magistrate in the UK court system.
Carlos Fernandes
Founder, Next Opus
Carlos Fernandes is an experienced executive and entrepreneur with 25 years of experience. As a former Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum, he has a global network across various sectors. In the AI/Digital realm, he advises organizations on digital transformation to improve efficiency and revenue and combat competition.
Fernandes leads Next Opus Ventures, focusing on developing edtech solutions like Puzzicle. org and Rookieverse. org. He is recognized for his thought leadership in various publications and has received accolades such as “Young Professional of the Year” and “Young Global Leader”.
Simon Steward
Head of Digital, BGF
Simon works with investors and with portfolio companies with digital strategy and helping to build capabilities that will create value through technology.