BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//SoPA UoE//Event Calendar//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Entrepreneurship Masterclasses X-WR-CALDESC:Entrepreneurship Masterclasses X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19810329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:19961027T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-85473@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260312T101622 CREATED:20250220T112409 LAST-MODIFIED:20250415T154956 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250428T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250428T110000 SUMMARY:What role does nuclear power play in a Net Zero Energy System? DESCRIPTION:What role does nuclear power play in a Net Zero Energy System? \n The ups and downs of a career in the nuclear sector\n\n\n\nDr Dame Sue Ion (GBE\, FREng\, FRS\, FIoM3\, FNucI) is Hon President of the National N uclear Skills Academy and is a member of the UK Nuclear Regulator’s Inde pendent Advisory Panel as well as holding a number of other advisory roles . Dame Sue spent over 3 decades in the nuclear sector before moving to a m ore advisory role on energy matters generally. She was the UK’s represen tative at the IAEA and was the only non US member of the US Dept of Energy Nuclear Advisory Committee. She chaired the Nuclear Innovation Advisory B oard for the UK Government and holds visiting professorships at Manchester and Imperial College. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society and chairs or serves on a number of standing commit tees including Diversity and Ethics Committees. Sue is passionate about at tracting more females into science and engineering\, regularly gives talks in schools and has in the past appeared in the media to discuss how impor tant this is.\n\nSue will describe her early career and the wide diversity of roles held since graduating and the amazing opportunities given to eng age with top scientists and engineers internationally. She will then go on to talk about the challenges in trying to achieve net zero and why nuclea r power is on the cusp of a renaissance.\n\nAfter Sue's talk\, we will hav e a fireside chat with Sue and Jake Jurewicz (CEO and co-founder of Blue E nergy)\, chaired by Professor Neil Turok (Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physi cs)\, that will explore the evolution and application of nuclear technolog y.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr Dame Sue Ion LOCATION:CSEC Seminar Room (level 3\, behind Magnet Cafe) URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/85473-what-role-does-nuclear-power -play-in-a-net-zero-energy-system END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-85476@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260312T101622 CREATED:20250220T112920 LAST-MODIFIED:20250520T103921 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250519T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250519T110000 SUMMARY:Reflections on a 20-year pseudo-random walk among ivory towers and startups DESCRIPTION:Confessions of a wanderer: reflections on a 20-year-long pseud o-random walk among ivory towers and startup trenches\n\nIn this talk I wi ll explore my journey between academic research and entrepreneurial ventur es. Drawing from personal experience\, I'll discuss how scientific discove ry can lead to unexpected commercial opportunities\, the challenges of tra nslating academic work into business value\, and my best take on strategie s for navigating both worlds effectively. I'll share key decision points\, lessons learnt\, and practical frameworks for researchers considering ent repreneurial paths. I will aim to provide insights for colleagues interest ed in commercialisation as well as entrepreneurs looking to leverage acade mic research to innovate.\n\nFilippo Menolascina holds the Chair of Engine ering Biology at the University of Edinburgh. An Electrical Engineer and C omputer Scientist by training (BSc ’06\, MSc ’08)\, Prof Menolascina o btained his PhD in 2011 by defending a thesis that provided the first demo nstration of in vivo real-time control of a complex synthetic gene network . His doctoral work pioneered the field now known as cybergenetics. As a p ostdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prof Menolascina exten ded these results to the control of complex traits emerging from biomolecu lar networks\, providing the first demonstration of real-time control of a erotaxis in B. subtilis. He now leads the University of Edinburgh’s cSyn BioSys group which combines in silico methods and in vivo experiments to p ursue two complementary goals: elucidating the design principles of living systems -i.e. understanding the instruction-set of life\, and using these primitives to re-program cells. The overarching goal of the cSynBioSys gr oup is to develop a Model-Based Biosystem Engineering framework for Engine ering Biology\, i.e. a model-based approach to automating the design of sy nthetic circuits that aims to make engineered cells as easy to build and p rogram as computers are today.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr Filippo Menolascina (Scho ol of Engineering) LOCATION:CSEC Seminar Room (level 3\, behind Magnet Cafe) URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/85476-reflections-on-a-20-year-pse udo-random-walk-among-ivory-towers-and-startups END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-85475@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260312T101622 CREATED:20250220T112635 LAST-MODIFIED:20250520T103911 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250602T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250602T110000 SUMMARY:Growing fungi proteins in beer fermenters to replace chicken DESCRIPTION:Zac is Co-Founder & CEO of Pacifico Biolabs. He started his ca reer at McKinsey in London as a consultant working across a range of indus tries. In 2020 he joined the British Government’s Covid Task Force as As sistant Director in the Cabinet Office\, focusing on National Healthcare. In 2021 he moved to Berlin to join Razor Group\, a tech startup\, as Head of Special Projects.\n\nHe co-founded Pacifico Biolabs in 2022\, with the vision to create alternative protein products as a commercially viable alt ernative to fish and meat from mycelium fungi proteins. Building on many o f the learnings from earlier movers in both the plant-based and fermentati on space\, Pacifico have developed technology to create realistic whole-mu scle textures through mycelium fermentation\, utilising agri-food sidestre ams\, with a highly-scalable process. The company have already won a numbe r of awards including Givaudan’s Future of Taste Award\, and EIT (Europe an Institute of Technology) Food’s Net Zero Food System Award in 2023. A fter closing their $3.3M Pre-Seed Round in 2024\, Pacifico are now focused on bringing commercial production online and launching products in the Ge rman\, Austrian\, and Swiss markets.\n\nJoin us to hear from Zac about his entrepreneurial journey to date\, how mycelium is being used by innovator s\, Pacifico’s novel technology\, and the company's commercial strategy and rationale. He will also touch upon the importance of building the righ t team and fundraising from venture capitalists.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Zac Austin (Pacifico Biolabs) LOCATION:CSEC Seminar Room (level 3\, behind Magnet Cafe) URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/85475-growing-fungi-proteins-in-be er-fermenters-to-replace-chicken END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-85811@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260312T101622 CREATED:20250617T121009 LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T141739 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251013T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251013T110000 SUMMARY:Maths to mission: from Investment Banking via AI to climate tech DESCRIPTION:ZeroAvia is a clean aviation and defence leader focusing on de veloping of hydrogen-electric engines for commercial aircraft and electric propulsion component technologies for novel transport applications. Georg y Egorov\, the CFO of the company\, will talk about his career journey spa nning more than 25 years and how his degree in math led him first to a car eer in investment banking\, and subsequently in AI and climate tech. Joine d by ZeroAvia’s senior fuel cell engineer Daniela Agachi\, they will als o talk about technical challenges facing ZeroAvia and career opportunities in the company. \n\nStudents and staff from across the College of Scienc e and Engineering and wider University are welcome to attend. After Georgy 's talk\, there will be time for networking over some refreshments.\n\nAbo ut ZeroAvia\n\nZeroAvia is leading the transition to a clean future of fli ght by developing electric propulsion technologies for aviation to unlock lower costs and emissions\, cleaner air\, reduced noise\, energy independe nce and increased connectivity. The company is developing hydrogen-electri c (fuel cell-powered) engines for existing commercial aircraft segments an d also supplying hydrogen and electric propulsion component technologies f or novel electric air transport applications (including battery\, hybrid a nd fuel cell powered electric fixed-wing aircraft\, novel eVTOL designs\, rotorcraft and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). ZeroAvia has submitted its first full engine for up to 20-seat planes for certification and is working on a larger powertrain for 40–80-seat aircraft\, with significant flight te st and regulatory milestones achieved with the U.S. FAA and UK CAA.\n\nAbo ut Georgy\n\nGeorgy Egorov is Chief Financial Officer of ZeroAvia\, a comp any developing the first practical hydrogen-electric\, zero-emission aviat ion solution. He has got more than 25 years of finance\, strategy\, and ca pital markets experience as well as extensive knowledge of investor relati ons and corporate development. Before ZeroAvia\, Georgy was CFO of Barinth us\, a company that co-invented the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine an d which he helped take public on Nasdaq in 2021. Prior to that\, Georgy wa s the CFO of Exscientia\, one of the global leaders in AI / machine learni ng\, which also went public on Nasdaq. Prior to his CFO career\, he spent 17 years in investment banking\, including Goldman Sachs and UBS\, during which period he led more than 50 IPOs\, helped raise more than $100bn of e quity and debt capital for companies around the world and was involved in numerous M&A transactions. He started his professional career in PwC. Geor gy is a graduate of the University of Cambridge.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Georgy Ego rov (ZeroAvia) LOCATION:CSEC Seminar Room (level 3\, behind Magnet Cafe) URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/85811-maths-to-mission-from-invest ment-banking-via-ai-to-climate-tech END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-85813@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260312T101622 CREATED:20250617T121117 LAST-MODIFIED:20250617T121117 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251103T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251103T110000 SUMMARY:Entrepreneurial masterclass with Oceanium DESCRIPTION:TBC\n\nSpeaker:\n* Dr Charlie Bavington (Oceanium) LOCATION:CSEC Seminar Room (level 3\, behind Magnet Cafe) URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/85813-entrepreneurial-masterclass- with-oceanium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-86654@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260312T101622 CREATED:20251124T150642 LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T150642 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251201T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251201T103000 SUMMARY:Navigating a Career in Industrial Research & Development DESCRIPTION:Prof. David Moore will be giving an R&D Career Masterclass aim ed at students and post-docs considering a career in industrial science\n\ nDavid joined SoPA as Chair of Formulation Science in 2024 following a 30- year career in various research and development (R&D) and innovation roles in the specialty chemical\, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG)\, over the counter (OTC) consumer healthcare\, and pharmaceutical sectors. A native o f Edinburgh\, David completed his PhD in biophysical chemistry in the US a fter which he worked in the US and UK leading global R&D teams with labora tories in the US\, UK\, and China. These teams consisted of scientists wit h backgrounds in Physics\, Chemistry\, Biology\, Pharmacy\, Medicine and E ngineering.\n\nPrimarily geared at students\, post-doctoral fellows and t hose considering industrial scientific careers\, David’s presentation wi ll share his career path and discuss his experiences in various industries and technical roles\, as well as the challenges and opportunities working for large multinational companies and small privately held companies. Th e intention is to set the stage for questions and discussion with students and post-docs who are considering industrial R&D roles when they leave un iversity.\n\nSpeaker:\n* Professor David Moore (School of Physics & Astron omy\, University of Edinburgh) LOCATION:CSEC Seminar Room (level 3\, behind Magnet Cafe) URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/86654-navigating-a-career-in-indus trial-research-development END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-86657@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260312T101622 CREATED:20251124T151007 LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T171525 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260119T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260119T103000 SUMMARY:Masterclass with Ben Panter (Founder of Blackford) DESCRIPTION:...coming soon...\n\nSpeaker:\n* Ben Panter (Founder of Blackf ord) LOCATION:CSEC Seminar Room (level 3\, behind Magnet Cafe) URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86657-masterclass-with-ben-panter- founder-of-blackford END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-86656@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260312T101622 CREATED:20251124T150921 LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T150921 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260209T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260209T103000 SUMMARY:Masterclass with Prantar Tamuli (Founding Director of Tattva) DESCRIPTION:....coming soon....\n\nSpeaker:\n* Prantar Tamuli (Tattva) LOCATION:CSEC Seminar Room (level 3\, behind Magnet Cafe) URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86656-masterclass-with-prantar-tam uli-founding-director-of-tattva END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:EVENT-86659@www.ph.ed.ac.uk DTSTAMP:20260312T101622 CREATED:20251124T151527 LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T151527 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260608T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260608T103000 SUMMARY:Masterclass with Sonia Trigueros (Founder/ Director of NIVD World) DESCRIPTION:...coming soon...\n\nSpeaker:\n* Sonia Trigueros (NIVD) LOCATION:CSEC Seminar Room (level 3\, behind Magnet Cafe) URL:https://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/86659-masterclass-with-sonia-trigu eros-founder-director-of-nivd-world END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR