Overview
Join Hazem Danny Nakib, a technology investor and operator focused on digital infrastructure, emerging technologies, and research-driven startups, and ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ Fellow Professor Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communications Systems, for an informal and open discussion. You will hear from them about their careers and their experiences of supporting and advising start-ups. During the conversation they plan to cover topics such as how to get started when thinking about trying to solve a problem you have noticed being faced by individuals or businesses, how to think about the first steps of setting up a company, and what is entailed when building a product to go to market.
Speakers
- Hazem Danny Nakib
Hazem Danny Nakib is a technology investor and operator focused on digital infrastructure, emerging technologies, and research-driven startups. Hazem co-founded the venture capital firm 7BC Venture Capital, which has invested in over 60 technology businesses around the world across AI, fintech, enterprise, consumer, cybersecurity, healthcare and deeptech, as well as ICUBE, a leading Canadian research startup incubator, and works closely with founders scaling technology companies. Hazem is also the co-founder of the Centre for ReDecentralisation at the University of Cambridge, where he serves as a visiting researcher.
Since 2020, Hazem has been a member of the Digital Strategic Advisory Group of the British Standards Institution and since 2026 has held a seat on the SPSC Board. He frequently writes and speaks on critical technologies and technology sovereignty and the changing nature of society and technological transformation. Hazem studied law at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford.
- Jon Crowcroft
Jon Crowcroft has been the Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory since October 2001. He has worked in the area of internet support for multimedia communications for over 30 years. Three main topics of interest have been scalable multicast routing, practical approaches to traffic management, and the design of deployable end-to-end protocols. Current active research areas are Opportunistic Communications, Social Networks, Privacy Preserving Analytics, and techniques and algorithms to scale infrastructure-free mobile systems. He leans towards a "build and learn" paradigm for research. From 2016-2018, he was Programme Chair at the Turing, the UK's national Data Science and AI Institute, and is now researcher-at-large there.
He graduated in Physics from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1979, gained an MSc in Computing in 1981 and PhD in 1993, both from UCL. He is a Fellow the Royal Society, a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the IET and the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE.
He likes teaching, and has published a few books based on learning materials.
Details
This is a hybrid event which is open to all members of the University of Cambridge and is free to attend. Please book your place using the form below.
Online attendees will be emailed a link to access the event.
Programme
18.00-19.00: talk & Q&A
19.00-19.30: drinks & snacks
Access
This event will take place in the Gatsby Room on the first floor of the Chancellor's Centre. It has step-free access with a lift and there is an accessible toilet located each floor of the building.
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact our events team - events@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
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