OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
The third Reuben College Entrepreneurship Forum will take place at Reuben College on Friday 5 September 2025.
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr Mina Bekheet (CEO, Panacea Innovation). Mina is a Millennial Serial Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist. He is the Founder and CEO of Panacea, an innovative enterprise committed to discovering, launching, financing, and scaling the next wave of life sciences and health tech companies.
Between 80 and 100 graduate students from across the whole University are expected to attend the Forum, including 6 invited teams for a pitching competition after the keynote lecture, with a first prize of £30k and a second prize of £10k. These teams will have been pre-selected from the Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Centre and EnSpire programme, Oxford Venture Builder, as well as from Oxford University Innovation and the Oxford Edge student entrepreneur programme, StEP Ignite.
The Forum will start with opening talks from Dr Cath Spence (Reuben Fellow and OUI), and Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes (Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Oxford Science Enterprise), who will explain how they help to support student entrepreneurship. We will then hear from CEOs who started their companies as Oxford students and we will go further afield during the afternoon session, before the keynote lecture and pitching competition which, this year, will be chaired by Nicola McConville from Mishcon de Reya.
