Events

The sixth lecture of this series took place on 17 November. UCL Classics Student Carolina Mostert summarises the talk below.

This week’s guest lecture was held by Romain Eude, CTO of my-wardrobe.com. Romain lived for many years in Lille, France, where he completed a Master’s degree with thesis in IA from ICAM. Later on, his studies led him to move abroad to Pennsylvania for a Marketing course at Temple University.

Right at the start, we learnt two important things about Romain: firstly, that he “is obsessed with software”, and secondly that “creating something from nothing” is his greatest love. The lecture began with a very short video, an excerpt from Shrek, the children’s movie about the giant green ogre.

Referring to this brief video, Romain worded the most important quote of his lecture: just like Shrek the ogre, “entrepreneurs are like onions”. In fact, Romain believes there are common themes to all entrepreneurs that keep coming up throughout their work whatever they do. He calls these common themes the “layers” of entrepreneurs.

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UCL Classics Student Carolina Mostert summarises the talk below.

Scott Allison is a busy man. He has just launched Teamly.com, his latest business, he sits on the board of The Entrepreneurial Exchange and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. This guest lecture series started fifteen minutes earlier than usual because straight after UCL Scott Allison was expected at Buckingham Palace for a meeting with the Queen.

About Scott Allison
Scott studied Electrical Engineering at university and went on to an elective course in Marketing Management. This, he recalled, was his “first switch to business”. As he was studying he set up Freedom Phones, his first business, which consisted in an online market for mobile phones. A few years later, Freedom Phones developed into the extremely successful Abica, a telecommunications provider which had as core principles quality and service. Abica won the Glasgow Business Award for excellence in customer service.

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Twelve students from UCL Mechanical Engineering recently entered  the Formula Student Contest, which challenges university students from around the world to design and build a single-seat racing car. The finished car is then put to the test at the famous Silverstone Circuit. Here, Kate Oliver reports on the event.

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Increasing availability of digital manufacturing is causing architects to ask serious questions of their profession. Where lies the craft in a project? Is it better to specialise or to co-ordinate others? And for new graduates, emerging into an uncertain market, is there opportunity to be both digital dreamers and hands-on makers?

These questions – and many more – were debated at Fabricate on 15–16 April reports David Shanks, a final-year student of the Graduate Diploma in Architecture at the UCL Bartlett in Unit 23, who was one of ten students who helped with the conference.

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