Events & Dining

Stories from Emma Entrepreneurs: Nick Hazell (1983), Founder, Algenie

8:00pm – Online, via Zoom (Please note the later time*)

Nick is Founder of Algenie, an algae biotech company developing economically viable, scalable algae production for a range of industries. Nick's vision is to introduce algae, which captures twice its weight in carbon dioxide as it grows, as a mainstream component in products like fuel, plastics and building materials. Come along to discover why, and how, he intends to do so.

Nick will also talk about his intrapreneurial roles in food technology companies like Mars and Pepsico, and entrepreneurial journey beginning with v2Food, a plant-based meat production start-up.

About the series

Stories from Emma Entrepreneurs brings together members of the college with experience in founding, or working closely with, start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures. Each of these hour-long online sessions sees a member share the highs and lows of their entrepreneurial journeys, and the work of their current venture, followed by a lively Q&A.

Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just interested to learn more about the work of fellow Emma members, you'll enjoy this series.

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*Please note the later-than-usual start time of 8.00pm GMT for this webinar. This is to allow Nick to join us from Sydney, Australia, where he is based.

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Emma Connects: Monthly Puzzle

Get your thinking hats on with Bobby Seagull's mind-bending monthly puzzle (No. 94), which will feature in our next full edition of Emma Connects on 6th February.

Bobby's latest challenge (No. 93) takes inspiration from Luke Littler's recent triumph at the World Darts Championship, and there's still time to have a go! Can you hit the bullseye? The answer will be revealed on 6th February.

If you like Maths and want more puzzles, you can visit Bobby's YouTube channel, where he and Susan Okereke post every Tuesday and Thursday. More challenges can also be found at the end of each chapter of Bobby's book, The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers.

Solutions to all of Bobby's previous puzzles can be found in the PDF link below.

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Emmanuel Society Medics' Dinner

7:00pm – The View in The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 38-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE

You are warmly invited to a very special evening of dinner and conversation for those who read Medicine at Emmanuel.

The Master, Doug Chalmers, will welcome you to the dinner. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr Richard Barnes, Life Fellow and former University Senior Lecturer in Physiology and Director of Studies.

Previously held every three years, we're delighted to hold this event again after an unprecedented five-year break. This will be the first opportunity for many recent graduates to attend; we are delighted to offer a subsidised rate to members who qualified in recent years.

Members of the college currently studying Medicine will be invited to join this dinner.

Many wear black tie or equivalent to this dinner, though this is not essential.

Booking

The cost is £120 per person, which includes an arrival drink, three courses, wines, and coffee and petit fours. For those who qualified between 2019 and 2024 (inclusive), there is a limited number of places available at £60 per person. Subsidised places have now sold-out.

Numbers are limited, and places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Members are welcome to bring a guest, subject to availability.

Supporting students

As in previous years, the Emmanuel Society will invite undergraduates and postgraduates reading Medicine at Emmanuel to the dinner. Members are invited to support students and those recently qualified to attend this event at a subsidised rate.

The college, the Society and, of course, the students would very much appreciate the generosity of any member willing to sponsor a student to attend the dinner. If you feel you would like to do this, please add the cost of full or part-sponsorship (at £120 per person if full sponsorship or a lower figure if part-sponsorship) to your online payment or cheque.

Book now. Booking closes on Thursday 23 January.

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Stories from Emma Entrepreneurs: Miguel Camargo (2003), Senior Commercialisation Advisor, NobleReach Emerge

6:00pm – Online, via Zoom

Dr Luiz Miguel Camargo (2003) is a Senior Commercialisation Advisor at NobleReach Emerge, helping translate cutting-edge government-funded research into the commercial sector, with an emphasis on pharmaceutical and biotech projects.

With over 20 years of experience in drug discovery, Miguel has held positions at companies such as Merck, Novartis, and UCB, contributing to areas like translational medicine, target and biomarker discovery, and phenotypic screening.

He earned his PhD in bioinformatics from Emmanuel and has several publications in leading journals.

About the series

Stories from Emma Entrepreneurs brings together members of the college with experience in founding, or working closely with, start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures. Each of these hour-long online sessions sees a member share the highs and lows of their entrepreneurial journeys, and the work of their current venture, followed by a lively Q&A.

Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just interested to learn more about the work of fellow Emma members, you'll enjoy this series.

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Travel Writers Walking Tour with Lucinda Hawksley

3:00pm – Bloomsbury, London

Join Lucinda Hawksley, author and art historian, for a walking tour of London that will immerse you into the world of travel writing. Did you know that both Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie wrote travelogues as well as fiction? Discover their stories, along with several other surprises, as we follow in the footsteps of some of the globe's best-loved journeying authors, from Laurie Lee and Frances Trollope to Bruce Chatwin and Jan Morris. 

This walk will take place around a square mile of Bloomsbury, London. The walking will on level paths, though curbs and a few steps will be unavoidable. You’ll need to be comfortable on your feet for the duration of the tour (approximately two hours). 

About the guide 

Lucinda Hawksley is an author, art historian, public speaker and broadcaster, specialising in literature, art, history and social history from the 19th and early 20th centuries. She is a great-great-great granddaughter of Charles and Catherine Dickens, and has written extensively on Charles’ life and works.  

Booking 

Places on this tour at £20 a head and are strictly limited. Guests are welcome.

Book your place. Booking closes on Wednesday 26 February.

Following this event, members are invited to join us for our twice-a-year London drinks event in Holborn, starting at 6.00pm.

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Emmanuel Society London Drinks

6:00pm – Bunghole Cellars, 57 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6DT

You are warmly invited to our next London Drinks event. This is a great opportunity for networking and a chance to catch up with fellow Emma Members from across subjects and years. As is tradition, there'll be the chance to win a bottle of Emmanuel College port for all attendees.

You don't need to book a place for this event but, to give us an idea of expected numbers, please do register.

RSVP here

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Burnaby Recital: Newe Vialles

6:15pm – Emmanuel College

With a repertoire stretching from the early 16th to the mid-18th century, Newe Vialles operates both as a consort and as a viol duo with continuo. The ensemble is equally at home with polyphonic music from across the European continent as it is with the music of the English ‘Golden Age’.

Distinguished by its unique core sound, the group aims to engage with aspects of performance practice such as rhythmic flexibility and improvised ornamentation, resulting in a performance style that is both vibrant and engaging to the modern listener, and faithful to the vivid rhetoric of the music itself. Their interest in the rejuvenation of the viol consort tradition has resulted in two world premieres of music for viols by Jocelyn Campbell (2016) and Giles Swayne (2017).

In this recital, the group will perform works featured on their latest recording, which was released in November 2024.

Entry is free on the door. Members and guests are warmly invited to attend and to book for dinner at High Table afterwards.

Dinner booking closes on Friday 21 February.

The 18th Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture: Robert P Merges, UC Berkeley

6:00pm – Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College

The eighteenth Annual International Intellectual Property Lecture will be delivered by Robert P Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law and Technology at UC Berkeley School of Law, on the 18th March 2025. The title of Professor Merges' lecture is to be confirmed.

If you would like to attend this event, please email the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law to register your interest.

Following the lecture, Emma members are welcome to book to dine at High Table as guests of the college.

Dinner booking closes on Tuesday 4 March.

Stories from Emma Entrepreneurs: Marek Sirendi (2012), Head of AI, Clarium

6:00pm – Online, via Zoom

Marek leads AI/ML model development and the 0-to-1 scaling of Clarium’s AI products. He is an entrepreneur, MIT Innovators Under 35 honoree, and a researcher looking to improve healthcare with technology.

As a former CERN physicist, Marek contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson and carried out the world's most precise test of lepton universality at the time.

Following the completion of his first degree from Edinburgh University, Marek moved to Cambridge to pursue postgraduate studies at Emma, gaining a PhD in Physics and leading him to the world-leading Swiss centre to progress his research more widely.

About the series

Stories from Emma Entrepreneurs brings together members of the college with experience in founding, or working closely with, start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures. Each of these hour-long online sessions sees a member share the highs and lows of their entrepreneurial journeys, and the work of their current venture, followed by a lively Q&A.

Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just interested to learn more about the work of fellow Emma members, you'll enjoy this series.

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Gathering of Members (1976, 1977 & 1978): Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 March 2025

Emmanuel College (from 3:30pm on the Saturday)

Our next Gathering of Members will see us welcome back those who matriculated in 1976, 1977 and 1978.

As well as a delicious dinner and the chance to catch up and share memories, there will also be the opportunity to visit the new developments, along with the Boathouse, Library and College Museum.

Invitations will be sent to all eligible members in January 2025.

Stories from Emma Entrepreneurs: Hannah Bryson-Jones (2014), Founder and Director, Delta H

6:00pm – Online, via Zoom

Hannah is the founder and director of Delta H, a London-based consultancy specialising in hydrogen, energy storage, and green chemicals. Since 2020, she has worked as the secretariat and spokesperson to the H2Accelerate collaboration on hydrogen trucking in Europe, supporting members bp, Daimler Truck, Iveco Group, Linde, Shell, TEAL Mobility, TotalEnergies, and Volvo Group to acquire over €70m of funding for the deployment of hydrogen trucks and refuelling stations.

Her work on hydrogen mobility has led her to serve as an expert on DG Move’s Sustainable Transport Forum Sub-Group on hydrogen refuelling infrastructure, leading the development of recommendations on the financing of hydrogen refuelling stations for Member States.

She previously worked as a Principal Consultant on the hydrogen team at Element Energy, where she led in the development of large-scale European hydrogen deployment projects. Hannah holds a master’s in Chemical Engineering from Emmanuel College.

About the series

Stories from Emma Entrepreneurs brings together members of the college with experience in founding, or working closely with, start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures. Each of these hour-long online sessions sees a member share the highs and lows of their entrepreneurial journeys, and the work of their current venture, followed by a lively Q&A.

Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just interested to learn more about the work of fellow Emma members, you'll enjoy this series.

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Stories from Emma Entrepreneurs: David Ruiz (2001), Co-founder, Owlstone Medical

6:00pm – Online, via Zoom

David is co-founder of Owlstone Medical, which is at the forefront of breath biomarker research and development, leading to non-invasive diagnostic tests that can improve early disease detection and precision medicine across different fields including cancer, respiratory, gastrointestinal, the microbiome and liver disease. He also offers Breath Biopsy Research Products and Services to academic, clinical and pharma research partners who want to develop breath based diagnostics for their own applications. He works with leading academic institutions and industry leaders such as Cleveland Clinic, Astra Zeneca, J&J and GSK with over 100 published papers and posters using Owlstone’s technology. The company has secured over $150M of investment to date.

David grew up in Murcia, Spain, and earned his Bachelors and Masters degree in engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where he took a double major in electronics and communications. He then spent a year as a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley, where he completed his Msc thesis before starting a PhD in Cambridge University. He ultimately put his PhD in superconductor modelling on hold to co-found Owlstone. David was a winner of the 2018 MacRobert Award, the premier award for UK engineering innovation.

About the series

Stories from Emma Entrepreneurs brings together members of the college with experience in founding, or working closely with, start-ups and entrepreneurial ventures. Each of these hour-long online sessions sees a member share the highs and lows of their entrepreneurial journeys, and the work of their current venture, followed by a lively Q&A.

Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just interested to learn more about the work of fellow Emma members, you'll enjoy this series.

Book to attend (free)

Supporters' Garden Party

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

As a way of thanking donors to the college, members are invited to save the date for a special family garden party, taking place in college on Saturday 12 July.

Invitations will be sent to all eligible members in due course.

Gathering of Members (1967, 1968 & 1969): Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 September 2025

Emmanuel College (from 3:30pm on the Saturday)

This Gathering of Members sees us welcome back those who matriculated in 1967, 1968 and 1969.

Invitations will be sent to all eligible members in July 2025.

Gathering of Members (1970, 1971 & 1972): Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 September 2025

Emmanuel College (from 3:30pm on the Saturday)

This Gathering of Members sees us welcome back those who matriculated in 1970, 1971 and 1972.

Invitations will be sent to all eligible members in July 2025.