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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October 2021
Scientific Entrepreneurship
This weekly, term-long course provides potential MPLS and MSD entrepreneurs with the detailed knowledge to help succeed in an entrepreneurial opportunity.
Find out more »How do you get from an idea to a marketed drug?
The TRO invites you to a weekly series of webinars to explore the key steps in the discovery and development of new medicines, helping you to transform great ideas into successful innovations.
Find out more »Climate Change, Business Transformation and Risk Management
In the run up of COP26 in Glasgow, eight business schools, Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), INSEAD, London Business School, and Saïd Business School (University of Oxford) have joined together to equip present and future leaders to address climate change.
Find out more »Likely Effects of Climate Accounting on Business Value
In the run up of COP26 in Glasgow, eight business schools, Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), INSEAD, London Business School, and Saïd Business School (University of Oxford) have joined together to equip present and future leaders to address climate change.
Find out more »Women Entrepreneurs Network Symposium
Through our programme of skills, workshops and community we have worked to provide access and a network of support to women entrepreneurs throughout the King's community and wanted to share our findings and best practice.
Find out more »Black Tech Experience – Navigating the Tech Diversity Gap
About this Event Black Tech Experience - Navigating the Tech Diversity Gap Wednesday 27th October | 6pm – 9.30pm In an environment where you are “the only one”, it is easy to feel alone. The Black Tech Experience – Navigating the Tech Diversity Gap will bring together Black tech professionals from various organisations and provide a forum where Black professionals will be able to explore tried and tested ways to advance their careers, stay on top of their game and…
Find out more »OBCN Online Networking event
These online networking events are an opportunity for you to network and connect with other businesses in Oxfordshire.
Find out more »OXIFIED Fireside Chat with Tara Sabre Collier and Marcelo de Andrade
Join us for a fireside chat about catalysing equity, diversity and inclusion in the social entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Find out more »** Deadline** Zinc Venture Builder Programme
Zinc is looking for exceptional technologists and engineers to join its next Venture Builder Programme, starting on 1st November.
Find out more »November 2021
RisingWISE: An enterprise course by and for women
RisingWISE is an established Oxbridge network inspired by EnterpriseWISE: designed by women, for women and delivered entirely by women. The programme Directors are Dr Shima Barakat, University of Cambridge and Dr Anne Miller, University of Oxford (for bios please see the 'programme aims and eligibility' section). Note: RisingWISE will run in a blended format in the future. We are looking forward to welcoming our fourth cohort of women to this award-winning programme. Watch this space for further information in the…
Find out more »Latest news
IDEA Panel: How Talking About Diversity is Making Entrepreneurship More Inclusive (22nd June 2021)
On 22nd June 2021, IDEA hosted a panel dedicated to ‘How Talking About Diversity is Making Entrepreneurship More Inclusive’ with speakers from the Oxfordshire entrepreneurial community: Dr Mira Kassouf, Nathania (Tanya) Aritao, and Nicole Beach. This panel drew upon their own professional experiences to highlight different career paths for women leaders and discuss key principles for thinking about how women entrepreneurs can champion diversity and inclusion while using their talents for successful entrepreneurship. Learn more
IDEA Bespoke Project: SeedWISE Enterprise Programme
As part of IDEA’s first round of bespoke projects, the programme has provided HEIF funding to MPLS Enterprise to support a pilot programme for DPhil researchers in STEM subjects called SeedWISE. Learn more
Academic Champion for Women in Entrepreneurship
I am delighted to announce that Professor Kylie Vincent from the Department of Chemistry has been appointed as the first Academic ... Learn more
Working Flexibly: Ask Me Anything with Sarah Haywood
Flexible working, and steering away from the traditional 9-5 structure, has a central role to play in increasing productivity and enhancing workplace equality. COVID-19 has posed intense challenges for the UK’s working parents and carers and, according to a recent Working Families survey, an ‘overwhelming majority’ of care givers ‘do not want their employer to revert to business as usual after lockdown is lifted’. Learn more
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