CambridgeJBS: Recent Episodes
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This week on CUTalks, we are speaking to Christopher Kong who is the co-founder and Head of Business development at Better Nature, a tempeh-focussed food-tech company. Chris holds a masters degree in biochemistry from the University of Oxford. We spoke about the story behind Better Nature and challenges he and his co-founder had to face to build the company. Chris also shared how Better Nature has prioritised sustainability in business decisions and his thoughts on the long-term outlook for the alternative meat industry.
This podcast was produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV.
Jump to the following topics:
Background - 1:22
Maximising your time at university - 5:35
Advantages of a technical background - 8:07
Building a team - 10:08
What is tempeh? - 14:13
Putting sustainability first - 17:20
Educating consumers - 22:43
Hype in the alternative meat industry - 25:34
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CUTalks by CUTEC is a leading podcast series for aspiring tech innovators, aiming to shed light on typical and not so typical journeys in entrepreneurship.You can find the episodes here: www.cutec.io/cutalks. Follow on your favourite podcast channel for the latest episodes.
The hosts of the podcast are Shreya Singhal (Medical student with a background in Engineering, interested in biotech) and Thomas Bohné (Founder & Head of the Cyber-Human Lab at the University of Cambridge), and our producer is Carl Homer from Cambridge TV.
CUTalks by CUTEC has just launched a new mini-series: Female Founders in the Spotlight. This series has the aim of increasing visibility of female founders of early-stage startups. To launch the series, Shreya Singhal and Thomas Bohné have been talking to Nicola Filzmoser, co-founder of Happyr Health, a mobile game based on cognitive behavioral therapy, to help children cope with recurring migraines. We met Nicola at the EnterpriseWOMEN program at the Judge Business School. Nicola is pursuing a Master of Entrepreneurship at Cambridge while working on Happyr full-time. She shares about her personal experience dealing with migraines when she was young and the lack of proper solutions made available to her.
Happyr Health have launched a crowdfunding round, initial target of £10k which has been increased to £14k after rapidly reaching their initial target. Click here to donate or find out more info: https://natwestbackherbusiness.co.uk/happyrhealth/
This episode was sponsored by DesignSpark: design tools and resources for engineers to help make their ideas happen. The podcast was produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV.
Jump to the following topics:
Overview of Nicola’s background - 1:13
Translating Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to Mobile Game - 1:40
Market Response and Early Findings - 4:00
Nicola’s Personal Experience with Migraine as a Child - 6:00
Future of Digital Healthcare - 9:40
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CUTalks by CUTEC is a leading podcast series for aspiring tech innovators, aiming to shed light on typical and not so typical journeys in entrepreneurship.You can find the episodes here: www.cutec.io/cutalks. Follow on your favourite podcast channel for the latest episodes.
The hosts of the podcast are Shreya Singhal (Medical student with a background in Engineering, interested in biotech) and Thomas Bohné (Founder & Head of the Cyber-Human Lab at the University of Cambridge), and our producer is Carl Homer from Cambridge TV.
In this episode of CUTalks, Shreya Singhal and Thomas Bohné talk to Tim Minshall, the Dr John C. Taylor Professor of Innovation at the University of Cambridge, and also Head of the Institute for Manufacturing. They discuss the development of the Cambridge innovation ecosystem into the buzzing community that it is today, as well as advice for aspiring innovators on how to get started.
This episode was sponsored by DesignSpark: design tools and resources for engineers to help make their ideas happen. The podcast was produced by Carl Homer, Cambridge TV.
Jump to the following topics (links open in SoundCloud):
Development of the Cambridge innovation ecosystem - 1:50
Dr John C Taylor endowed chair of Professor of Innovation - 10:00
Advice for aspiring innovators - 15:35, 34:15
How the University of Cambridge interacts with innovation - 17:45
The future of manufacturing - 24:10
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CUTalks by CUTEC is a leading podcast series for aspiring tech innovators, aiming to shed light on typical and not so typical journeys in entrepreneurship.You can find the episodes here: https://www.cutec.io/cutalks. Follow on your favourite podcast channel for the latest episodes.
The hosts of the podcast are Shreya Singhal (Medical student with a background in Engineering, interested in biotech) and Thomas Bohné (Founder & Head of the Cyber-Human Lab at the University of Cambridge), and our producer is Carl Homer from Cambridge TV.
This podcast focuses on technology at work at a time when many people are working at home during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. The podcast, which was recorded remotely, looks at the roles of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and other automation, and their short- and long-term effects on the workplace and skills development.
Moving beyond the current crisis there is much discussion on how technology may change the way we work. But it’s useful to talk about what technological changes we’re talking about, because there’s automation, there’s artificial intelligence, and other technologies.
In this episode, joining podcast host Michael Kitson, University Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics at Cambridge Judge Business School, are John Gourd, CEO of the Cambridge Network; Dr Mia Gray, University Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography and Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge; and Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Marketing at Cambridge Judge Business School.
This is the 18th in a series of "Cambridge Judge Business Debate" podcasts featuring faculty and others associated with Cambridge Judge Business School and the broader Cambridge community.
This latest podcast focuses on the issues facing Britain following its exit from the European Union. The podcast was recorded prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, which has dramatically changed the outlook for the UK and global economy, but many of the broader issues discussed including the effect of lower immigration and regional disparities within the UK will remain relevant for years or decades.
Conrad Chua, Executive Director of the Cambridge MBA talks about how we can prepare for the future, how we can present and manage ourselves in the current climate of uncertainty, and how MBAs can still work on their career change and ambition.
In the second podcast from the Circular Economy Centre (CEC) at Cambridge Judge Business School, Panikkos Poutziouris, Fellow at the Circular Economy Centre and Rector at the University of Central Lancashire Cyprus, talks about the circular economy in a business and policy context.
Hosted by Ellie Wolmark, Project Coordinator, Circular Economy Centre.
In this episode, joining podcast host Michael Kitson, University Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics at Cambridge Judge Business School, are Cambridge Judge colleagues Chris Coleridge, Senior Faculty in Management Practice; Belinda Bell, Director of Cambridge Social Ventures at the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation; and Thomas Roulet, University Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory & Information Systems.
This is the 17th in a series of “Cambridge Judge Business Debate” podcasts featuring faculty and others associated with Cambridge Judge Business School and the broader Cambridge community.
This latest podcast focuses on the gig economy – its benefits and drawbacks, and the role of government in ensuring that benefits from gig economy technology are shared throughout the ecosystem.
CIBAM/WPP Distinguished Lecture & Panel
Cambridge Judge Business School's Centre for International Business & Management (CIBAM) and WPP held a Distinguished Lecture and Panel on 'China and the Rise of the BRICs', bringing together leading academics, businesspeople and analysts to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the four emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and to consider how the West can best compete or engage with them. They also launched WPP's 'Brandz Top 50 Most Valuable Chinese Brands' whose collective worth is 280 billion dollars!
Mr Will Galgey, Global CEO, The Futures Company
Doreen Wang, Groups Account Director, Millward Brown China
Mr Jonathan Garner, Chief Emerging Markety Equity Strategist, Morgan Stanley, Hong Kong
Chinese consumers share much in common with their Western counterparts, and the brands they buy most are now listed in the 'Brandz Top 50 Most Valuable Chinese Brands'. Will Galgey, Doreen Wang and Jonathan Garner give their reaction.
Mark Gough, Deputy Head of Compliance Investigations, Siemens AG
A lot of time, a lot of hard work, but now Siemens AG has created a first class compliance programme and their competitors are even learning lessons from them. Mark Gough, Deputy Head of Compliance Investigations, says how they did it.