June events are busting out all over!
June is a busy month for Cambridge Network members, with a range of events on offer to help you protect your business and promote both your company and yourself.
Early start events offer help for start-ups
Join Cambridge Network this month for Breakfast networking events aimed at giving a helping hand to start-ups. The first event, next week, is a workshop focused on brand building, while the following week our attention turns to crowdfunding and alternative finance.
Congratulations to Hermann Hauser, Cambridge Network Director
Dr Hermann Hauser, CBE, FRS, FREng, one of the original founders of Cambridge Network and an engaged director with the Network since its inception, has been made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) for services to engineering and industry.
How to handle a crisis
Cambridge Network's next Breakfast Networking session on Thursday April 30th will focus on crisis management - what to do and what not to do.
Driverless cars: what's the story?
Trials led by the UK Autodrive consortium will be taking place over the next few years to test both the technology and public reaction to autonomous vehicles, which may be in our cities soon. The next Cambridge Network Business Lecture on Tuesday 21st April will focus on both the technology within these ‘cars’ and public reaction to them.
Business rates growth deal for Cambridge is welcomed
Local authorities have provisional agreement to keep the full yield of additional business rates growth, Chancellor George Osborne announced in today’s Budget.
Cambridge business welcomes politicians to launch Awards Week
As Cambridge prepared to recognise its most successful companies and individuals during Business Awards Week this week, local business people yesterday (Monday) had the chance to hear the latest news for business from the Rt Hon Danny Alexander MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
Breakfast Networking session explores marketing and selling online
Next week's Cambridge Network Breakfast Networking session focuses on marketing and selling online - at home and overseas.
Employers urged to discover the benefits of taking on an apprentice
Is your business planning to take on an apprentice this year? Employers attending Cambridge Network's special event last night - and all Cambridge Network members - are encouraged to sign up to the National Apprenticeship Week Pledgeometer.
Employers - have you thought about taking on an apprentice?
Find out how apprentices could fill much-needed skills gaps in your business! There are still a few places left for employers at the special Cambridge Network event this evening (Tuesday March 10th).
Cambridge Business Week kicks off with hustings from Cambridge Parliamentary candidates
A special event to launch the annual Cambridge Business Awards Week will feature five of the Cambridge Parliamentary candidates, talking about how they would help business in the region should they be elected.
Do you know someone who can sell Cambridge to the world?
How can Cambridge continue to succeed and build on the successes of the past years for our next generations? There is a commonly-held view that we need to help define Cambridge’s destiny rather than leaving it to straight market forces.
Beware the Corporate Psychopath!
Are you working for a Corporate Psychopath? Would you know if you were? Cambridge Network’s business lecture this Thursday (February 12th) features Prof Clive Boddy, author of Corporate Psychopaths; Organisational Destroyers who will help members to understand the far-reaching effects of corporate psychopathy.
Imagine Cambridge in 2065: latest from the Network's CEO
Do you have a vision for the future of Cambridge? Cambridge Network's CEO Claire Ruskin has been considering what the city might be like in 2065...
Industry meets emerging science at the Hauser Forum
Cambridge is home to some amazing scientific and technological breakthroughs, but we don't often hear about them until they are commercialised. That's why a Cambridge Network event this month promises exciting insight: members have the opportunity to hear about emerging work from a group of Cambridge University PhDs and post docs, who will highlight their research in a series of two-minute…
Karl's story wins him a bubbly prize
A moving personal story, linked to a topical issue affecting everyone, has won Karl Dembicki of Woodfines Solicitors top prize in Cambridge Network's recent competition to find the best member's news item posted on this website.
Cambridge to help UK’s quantum leap in secure communications
Leading researchers from UK universities and industry have come together to exploit fundamental laws of quantum physics for the development of secure communication technologies and services for consumer, commercial and government markets. Cambridge is in a consortium that has won funding to help this important technical development as we all strive to keep the UK at the leading edge in…
'Surely someone else does that?' Latest from the Network's CEO
The Local Enterprise Partnership and the local authorities have increasing responsibilities to create the right infrastructure to support the business growth that we are seeing around Cambridge. Claire Ruskin, Cambridge Network's chief executive, comments...
How well can you tell your story?
Cambridge Network is offering members the opportunity to shine with a fun competition. Write an informative, newsworthy story and you'll not only raise your business profile, you'll be in with a chance to win a bottle of bubbly!
Your opportunity to learn about frugal and other innovation
Next month's Cambridge Network business event looks at innovation from two different perspectives: the Judge Business School's Professor Jaideep Prabhu talks about 'frugal innovation' or the ability to do more with less, while the Innovation Forum discusses collaborations between industry, academia and the public sector.
Breakfast networking session explores wellbeing at work
Do you have an ‘always on’ culture? Is your work space under pressure? Find out the latest about what employers in Cambridge are doing around workplace wellbeing at Cambridge Network's Breakfast Networking event this Thursday (October 23rd).
Gain insight into UK economy at this month's Cambridge Network Business Lecture
Don't miss the opportunity to hear Barry Naisbitt, Chief Economist at Santander UK, who will speak about 'The Economic Environment' at Cambridge Network's next Business Lecture on Tuesday October 21st.
Cambridge Network welcomes Andy Harter as new Chair
Dr Andy Harter FREng FIET FRSA, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of RealVNC, has been appointed the new Chair of the Cambridge Network.
Learn how to tell your story and boost your profile
Most SMEs realise the benefit of publicity – to win and impress customers, investors, collaborators and employees. But how well do you tell your story? Come and learn from the experts at Cambridge Network's Breakfast Networking event on Public Relations this Thursday (September 25th) at the Future Business Centre, King's Hedges Road CB4 2QT.
Business lectures resume with Joep van Beurden, CEO of CSR
Cambridge Network's business lecture series resumes at The Hauser Forum next week (Tuesday September 23rd), when members have the chance to hear the latest from Joep van Beurden, CEO of CSR, the Cambridge-based global leader in wireless technology which has been making headlines recently.