What's On - Events
Looking for events? Here’s a continually updated list of startup, business and entrepreneurship events being held across Oxfordshire.
As the advice and situation around COVID-19 develops, please check with event organisers (not Enterprising Oxford) for any specific details for events. We will update our events calendar with any information as we find or receive it, but we may not always have 100% updated information for any given event.
If you are looking for guidance, please have a look at the official University of Oxford guidance on the Coronavirus (Covid-19): advice and updates page, which is regularly reviewed and updated.
There are also plenty of great online courses and activities we have collated for anyone interested in entrepreneurship.
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November 2020
Thrive Festival: inspiring entrepreneurship
Thrive 2020 is back and bigger than ever! Make your ideas happen, with Brookes Enterprise Support
Find out more »Thrive – Discover Oxford with Independent Oxford
Discover the best indie stores in Oxford, on our self-guided walking tour!
Find out more »Cleantech Venture Week
Join us for a week of innovative pitches, speeches and networking for innovators and investors looking for climate-positive solutions
Find out more »Are Peer Networks the key to your business success?
Peer Networks is a national peer-to-peer networking programme for SME leaders that want to grow and develop their organisation.
Find out more »Thrive – Pitch to Success: Fuel
Watch students and recent graduates pitch their next big idea - or shine the light on your business venture by pitching yourself. Discover how you can upgrade your ideas to the next level and pitch for £2000 funding.
Find out more »The B4 NEXUS Webinar hosted by Grant Hayward
Grant Hayward hosts this webinar for third sector organisations to help them develop and flourish
Find out more »Thrive – The Spinout Journey: Barriers and Enablers to Gender Inclusive Innovation
This event presents the key findings from recent research into the diverse experiences of women and men researchers who have founded a university spinout company.
Find out more »Thrive – Start-Up Hacks for Diverse Founders powered by Rise
Learn how to demonstrate the adaptability and innovation necessary to prosper through success and hardships of businesses. Join us in making the entrepreneur ecosystem stronger together!
Find out more »Are Peer Networks the key to your business success?
Peer Networks is a national peer-to-peer networking programme for SME leaders that want to grow and develop their organisation.
Find out more »December 2020
Strachey Lecture – How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st century for good and ill. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen, hard to summon into existence to order, yet inevitable and inexorable when it does happen.
Find out more »Latest news
RisingWISE: ‘My career has taken exciting turns since the programme’
The RisingWISE programme helps women researchers thrive, as its alumnae have experienced firsthand. Learn more
Oxford MBA candidate Diana Wangari recognised in Management Today’s 35 under 35
The annual awards were setup in 2000 with the purpose of highlighting the contributions of Britain’s young businesswomen. Learn more
Aspect launch new Accelerator!
Aspect’s new flagship four-month social sciences student and alumni accelerator hosted by LSE to support and scale socially-responsible student and alumni ventures is now open for applications. Learn more
Oxford Foundry COVID-19 Action Plan
The Oxford Foundry has launched an OXFO COVID-19 Action Plan to rapidly scale ventures who are fighting COVID-19, and build and implement entrepreneurial solutions to future challenges. Learn more
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