Disruptors Podcast
By Entrepreneurship Institute
Our role is to help all students, staff and alumni to develop an entrepreneurial mindset to help you become a more creative problem solver, develop skills that will make you more employable no matter what you want to do, come up with more disruptive and innovative ideas and start and scale successful startups.
We want people in the King’s community to develop the skills they need to imagine and design a better future, whether that’s within government, NGOs, corporate organisations and start-ups.
Entrepreneurship isn’t just about founding your own startup (but we can obviously help you with that too!) it’s about developing the mindset of a master problem solver.
You can decide to sit back and let the future happen to you, or go out and solve problems that create change and make the world a better place.
Ep.24 Disruptors: Disrupting Academia: Entrepreneurial Researchers - Professor Seb Ourselin
Professor Sebastien Ourselin FREng, is the Head of the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London. He is also Director of the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering and Deputy Director of the London Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value Based Healthcare.
Alongside Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Seb is leading the establishment of a new MedTech Hub located at St Thomas’ campus. The Hub will bring academia, industry and the NHS together to develop healthcare technologies (including medical devices), resulting in workforce and operational improvements of global significance.
In this episode, we discuss the role that entrepreneurship can play in academia and explore why researchers, at all stages of their career, should become more entrepreneurial.
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Find out more:
💡The Idea Factory
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…-idea/idea-factory
🌐 Our website
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship
Audio transcript:
https://www.kcl.ac.uk//entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/seb-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ep. 23 Disruptors: Doing something bigger and being on the King's20 Accelerator | Emma Amoscato
Emma is the founder of the Smile App which supports the mental health of families dealing with life threatening and long term health conditions.
Emma became passionate about this area through her own family's experiences with multiple health conditions and her work within the food allergy community. Her bestselling book 'Living With Allergies; Practical Tips For All the Family' was published in March 2019 and her children's book 'You, Me & Food Allergies' was published in 2020. Both are clinically reviewed and endorsed by Allergy UK.
She has appeared on This Morning, BBC News 24, LBC and BBC radio as well as regularly speaking at The Allergy & Free From Show and being a judge on The Free From Food Awards and Allergy UK Hero Awards. As a national features journalist, Emma has written for numerous publications including The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun and The Metro.
To hear more about disruption at King's and the London entrepreneurial ecosystem, sign up to the Entrepreneurship Institute's newsletter ✉️ kcl.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6…id=4577dc181c
Find out more:
🚀 King's20 Accelerator
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/s…ings20-accelerator
💡The Idea Factory
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…-idea/idea-factory
🙋🏾♀️ Women Entrepreneurs Network
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…repreneurs-network
🌐 Our website
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship
Audio transcript: www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/23.-emma-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ep. 22 Disruptors: Everything you need to know about investors | Dr. Yotam Levy
Dr. Yotam Levy is an Investor Relations Manager at King’s Entrepreneurship Institute, Life Sciences PhD and Newton Venture Fellow.
This episode is all about the investment landscape 💸💸💸
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Find out more:
🚀 King's20 Accelerator
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/s…ings20-accelerator
💡The Idea Factory
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…-idea/idea-factory
🙋🏾♀️ Women Entrepreneurs Network
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…repreneurs-network
🌐 Our website
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship
Audio transcript: www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/22.-yotam-levy-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ep. 21 Disruptors: You only get once chance to be the first Night Czar of London | Amy Lamé
Amy Lamé is an American-British writer, performer, TV and radio presenter known for her one-woman shows, her performance group Duckie, and LGBT-themed media works.
She was appointed by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, as the city's first "Night Czar" in November 2016, with the responsibility of promoting London's varied nightlife both in the UK and internationally, including safeguarding venues across the city.
🎤 In this episode:
· What being a Night Czar actually means
· The difference between night-time and daytime economy
· Top 3 night-time professions that will surprise you
· London entrepreneurship ecosystem and infinite opportunities
· Diversity and Inclusion
· Sustainability in London
· Night-time industries that have a long way to go
· London in 10 years
· Looking beyond apps
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Find out more:
🚀 King's20 Accelerator
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/s…ings20-accelerator
💡The Idea Factory
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…-idea/idea-factory
🙋🏾♀️ Women Entrepreneurs Network
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…repreneurs-network
🌐 Our website
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship
Audio transcript:
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/21.-amy-lamé-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ep. 20 Disruptors: How to embed sustainability | Josh Clarke
Josh Clarke is the co-founder of Jacked Foods which is one of the King's 20 ventures. Jacked Foods infuses fruit with natural juices and spices in the drying process to create deliciously unique 100% natural dried fruit snacks.
🎤 In this episode:
• The unexpected origins of Jacked Foods
• Food waste, economic sustainability and supply chain transparency
• Positive impact businesses
• Sustainability as a guiding philosophy
• Barriers to recyclable packaging as a start-up
• The importance of formalising processes and engraining them into the company culture
• Future-proofing your sustainability efforts
• Win-win solutions
• Sustainability role models
• Scaling and the impact on the environment
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Find out more:
🚀 King's20 Accelerator www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/s…ings20-accelerator
💡The Idea Factory www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…-idea/idea-factory
🙋🏾♀️ Women Entrepreneurs Network www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…repreneurs-network
🌐 Our website www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship
Audio transcript: www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/20.-josh-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ep. 19 Disruptors: What the Idea Factory judging panel is looking for | Entrepreneur-in-Residence
David Walsh is the Entrepreneur in Residence at our Entrepreneurship Institute. He is a King’s alumnus (Human Environmental Science/Natural Sciences), leading entrepreneur, investor, technologist and founder and former CEO of KPMG Crimsonwing. After working at IBM, David founded Crimsonwing in 1996. The tech business made progress without capital or loans and built a solution centre in Malta in 1998 – virtually founding the IT industry there. In 2007 the group business, now operating in three countries, was floated and proceeds were used to expand the business through acquisitions and into new countries.
🎤In this episode:
• background to David’s entrepreneurship experience
• the role of the Entrepreneur in Residence at EI
• mentoring King’s20 ventures and judging Idea Factory
• great idea vs market comprehension
• what to expect in the Idea Factory final pitch off and Q&A
• the importance of being able to take on feedback
• honesty over waffle
• what the judging panel is looking for in the final pitch off
• what makes a good pitch and a great idea stand out
• common early-stage business pitfalls
• advice to teams that don’t win the competition
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Find out more:
🚀 King's20 Accelerator www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/s…ings20-accelerator
💡The Idea Factory www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…-idea/idea-factory
🙋🏾♀️ Women Entrepreneurs Network www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…repreneurs-network
🌐 Our website www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship
Audio transcript: www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/19.-david-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ep. 18 Disruptors: Idea validation tools and navigating through the pandemic | Kaytea
KAYTEA is one of the King's 20 ventures founded by Kevin Tang. This low calorie, flavourful, organic ice tea, packaged in recyclable glass bottles was created for adventurous and health-conscious consumers, who want indulgent beverages using only natural ingredients. 🎤In this episode: • Intro to "the next ice-tea brand for the nation" • The early days, turns and pivots of Kaytea • Navigating through the pandemic • Going from retail to e-commerce • Building & nurturing an idea • Idea validation tools, initial product testing & iteration process • The value of Idea Factory • Finding the right people to work with & being a leader • Future plans for Kaytea • Advice on applying for Idea Factory • Learning how to pitch at EI Follow Kaytea 🌐https://kaytea.co.uk/ Instagram: @kayteadrinks To hear more about disruption at King's and the London entrepreneurial ecosystem, sign up to the Entrepreneurship Institute's newsletter ✉️ kcl.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6…id=4577dc181c Find out more: 🚀 King's20 Accelerator www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/s…ings20-accelerator 💡The Idea Factory www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…-idea/idea-factory 🙋🏾♀️ Women Entrepreneurs Network www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…repreneurs-network 🌐 Our website www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship
Audio transcript: www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/18.-kevin-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ep. 17 Disruptors: The importance of Idea Validation | UniMate
Charlotte Gray and Becca Hallam are the founders of UniMate which is an app for University students that allows them to track, calculate and predict what grades they need to get. In this episode: • Intro to UniMate, what is it all about • Coming up with the idea • The process of Idea Validation • User testing and design prototypes • Idea Factory and how it helped to prioritise, obtain feedback and continue to validate • Embedding sustainability as a tech-based company • Different ways to be sustainable as a business • Managing time whilst working full-time and running a business • Winning Idea Factory and the value of the prize: Mentorship • Monetisation strategy • The premium version of UniMate • Future aspirations • Personal top tips for Idea Factory applicants Follow UniMate Instagram: @unimate_app WWW: https://www.unimateapp.co.uk/ To hear more about disruption at King's and the London entrepreneurial ecosystem, sign up to the Entrepreneurship Institute's newsletter ✉️ kcl.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6…id=4577dc181c Find out more: 🚀 King's20 Accelerator www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/s…ings20-accelerator 💡The Idea Factory www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…-idea/idea-factory 🙋🏾♀️ Women Entrepreneurs Network www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…repreneurs-network 🌐 Our website www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship
Audio transcript: www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/17.-charlotte-becky-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ep. 16 Disruptors: Ethical and sustainable disruption in MedTech | CoolZEN
The Biomedical Engineering students Nitya Dintakurti and Shreya Kalyanasundaram developed a novel wearable medical device, CoolZEN. CoolZEN is a non-invasive, wearable medical device for menopausal women suffering from hot flashes, which automatically detects the onset of a hot flash and leverages a natural physiological response to bring relief. It provides a solution to a problem where there are very few non-pharmaceutical solutions. In this episode, you will learn about: • Sustainable and ethical disruption • CoolZEN and their journey • Finding practical solutions to everyday problems • Addressing suffering in silence attitude • User centric approach • Medtech entrepreneurship • Navigating through conflicting pieces of advice as young entrepreneurs • Polishing and delivering a pitch • Working together as co-founders • The future of CoolZen • Advice on applying to Idea Factory as well as the value of the programme Follow CoolZEN on Instagram: @wearecoolzen WWW: https://www.coolzen.co.uk/ To hear more about disruption at King's and the London entrepreneurial ecosystem, sign up to the Entrepreneurship Institute's newsletter ✉️ kcl.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6…id=4577dc181c Find out more: 🚀 King's20 Accelerator www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/s…ings20-accelerator 💡The Idea Factory www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…-idea/idea-factory 🙋🏾♀️ Women Entrepreneurs Network www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/d…repreneurs-network 🌐 Our website www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship
Audio transcript: www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/16.-nitya-shreya-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ep. 15 Disruptors - Erika Brodnock: Turning NOs into YESes and navigating through the unthinkable
Erika Brodnock is the founder and CEO of Kami, PhD researcher at LSE, MBA and Sky News’ children’s wellbeing expert. She told us “I didn’t know what an entrepreneur was, I’ve just always been a problem solver”. In this episode Erika talks about: - Navigating through crisis and the unthinkable - Kami Coach and the virtual village around parents - Meeting the customers exactly where they are - Beginnings of her entrepreneurial journey and the learning path - Problem solving and growing up as a leader of people - Growing a thicker skin through a data driven perspective - Turning NOs into YESes - The power of coaching and wellbeing techniques - Being stranger to yourself from 10 years ago - Experience as a black, female founder - Black History Month, proud to be and the uniqueness of me - Not being afraid to be the only person like you in the room - Programmes for Black founders, unconscious bias and opening doors - Evidence based actions to change the system, nothing for us without us Follow Erika on Twitter: @ErikaBrodnock Also @BetterVenture, @Kami_Coach_, @karismakidz, @extendventures, @BetterVenture WWW: https://www.usekami.com/ To hear more about disruption at King's and the London entrepreneurial ecosystem, sign up to the Entrepreneurship Institute's newsletter ✉️ https://kcl.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6d3cc44d5852f187f28de2d6a&id=4577dc181c Find out more: 🚀 King's20 Accelerator https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/scale-your-venture/kings20-accelerator 💡The Idea Factory https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/develop-your-idea/idea-factory 🙋🏾♀️ Women Entrepreneurs Network https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/develop-your-idea/women-entrepreneurs-network 🌐 Our website https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship
Audio transcript:
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/15.-erika-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ep. 14 Disruptors - Hannah Ouazzane: Taking an entrepreneurial approach within science
Hannah Ouazzane, is a Neuroscience student who loves programming. She is passionate about increasing transparency around mental health within our society. Hannah is on the board of the Neuroscience Society at King’s College London. In this episode Hannah talks about: - taking an entrepreneurial approach within neuroscience & programming - her journey to entrepreneurship through internship - how she upskilled focusing on 3 entrepreneurial skills - her stoic approach to when things go wrong – the pressure around knowing what to do in the world of never-ending options – finding yourself rather than following paths Follow Hannah on: Instagram: @_.incrementum and @hannahouazzane To hear more about disruption at King's and the London entrepreneurial ecosystem, sign up to the Entrepreneurship Institute's newsletter ✉️ https://kcl.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6d3cc44d5852f187f28de2d6a&id=4577dc181c Find out more: 🚀 King's20 Accelerator https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/scale-your-venture/kings20-accelerator 💡The Idea Factory https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/develop-your-idea/idea-factory 🙋🏾♀️ Women Entrepreneurs Network https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/develop-your-idea/women-entrepreneurs-network 🌐 Our website https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship
Audio transcript: www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/14.-hannah-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ep. 13 Disruptors - Ria Walia: Why entrepreneurial skills will make you stand out anywhere
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/13.-ria-walia-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ria Walia holds a BSc (Hons) Mathematics with Management and Finance from King’s College London, University of London. She has completed over 15 internships including Summer Trading Analyst (FX Options Structuring) at HSBC, Assurance at EY and Finance Analyst at Procter & Gamble. Ms Walia founded her first start-up at 17, raising and managing $100,000 of investment and organising 222 exhibition days at venues such as the Tate Modern and The British Museum. She was invited to the House of Lords for her start-up idea and named ‘Top 10 Student Start-up of the Year’ by Enterprise Nation. She has been awarded ‘Young Entrepreneur’ at the Youth Awards and named the 14th most influential student in the UK. In her spare time, Ria runs a Blog, Instagram Page and YouTube Channel, sharing her experiences in the hope to help and support other students with early careers and entrepreneurship. In this episode Ria shares: - her wealth of experience - her perspective on learning entrepreneurial skills but not going into that landscape - what drew her to do so many different things at the Entrepreneurship Institute - what value she gained through internships, Enterprise Award, Idea Factory and being immersed in the start-up ecosystem - why entrepreneurial skills will make your CV stand out - her advice to incoming student.
Follow Ria on:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmkAMz_6qnsXAeSmY9neDMg
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/riawalia/?hl=en
Twitter: https://twitter.com/riaawaliaa?lang=en To hear more about disruption at King's and the London entrepreneurial ecosystem, sign up to the Entrepreneurship Institute's newsletter ✉️ https://kcl.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6d3cc44d5852f187f28de2d6a&id=4577dc181c
Find out more:
🚀 King's20 Accelerator https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/scale-your-venture/kings20-accelerator
💡The Idea Factory https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/develop-your-idea/idea-factory
🙋🏾♀️ Women Entrepreneurs Network https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/develop-your-idea/women-entrepreneurs-network
🌐 Our website https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship
Audio transcript:
www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/13.-ria-walia-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ep. 12 Disruptors - Emily Clements: Why ‘Resilience’ doesn’t capture the entrepreneurial spirit
Ep. 11 Disruptors - Isaac McNamara: Geography student to CEO
Isaac McNamara is an Executive Director at HydroGrow, President of Enactus KCL and Geography BSc and GCSA at KCL. In this episode, Isaac shares with us + his entrepreneurial journey from being a geography student to becoming an Executive Director and CEO of HydroGrow C.I.C + Enactus + sustainability and innovation + what he learned from Idea Factory and then put into practice to be successful in King's20 Accelerator + his biggest lessons and advice on being an entrepreneur HydroGrow is an urban sustainable hydroponics initiative which helps to tackle issues around water and food insecurity from over usage and wastage of both sources whilst keeping a responsibility to dealing with the crisis of plastic production which has been an ongoing issue for decades. HydrowGrow https://www.hydrogrowcic.com/ https://linktr.ee/HydroGrowCIC IG: @hydrogrow.uk Enactus https://linktr.ee/kclenactus IG: @enactuskcl To hear more about disruption at King's and the London entrepreneurial ecosystem, sign up to the Entrepreneurship Institute's newsletter ✉️ https://kcl.us7.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=6d3cc44d5852f187f28de2d6a&id=4577dc181c Find out more: 🚀 King's20 Accelerator https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/scale-your-venture/kings20-accelerator 💡The Idea Factory https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/develop-your-idea/idea-factory 🙋🏾♀️ Women Entrepreneurs Network https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/develop-your-idea/women-entrepreneurs-network 🌐 Our website https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship
Audio transcript: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/assets/podcast-transcripts/11.-isaac-podcast-transcript.pdf
Ep. 10 Disruptors - Ismail Jeilani: Creating the Kim Kardashians of education
Ep.9 Disruptors - Rory McMeekin: The business graduate turned CTO
Ep. 8 Disruptors - Emily Redding: What's it really like to be part of the King's20?
Ep.7 Disruptors - Holly Knower: The King's20 accelerator, top tips for a great application
Ep.6 Disruptors - Pahini Pandya: The journey from innovator to leader
Ep. 5 Disruptors - Aysha Ingar: The prize beyond the comfort zone
Ep.4 Disruptors - Loma: It takes a community to build a platform
Ep3. Disruptors - Savs Tan: What investors want
Ep.2 Disruptors - Theo Ohene: Walk before you run
