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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This week’s ‘Entrepreneurship Guest Lecture Series’ talk was given by UCL alumnus Jogesh Limbani, Head of Open Innovation at Orange Labs UK in Chiswick, West London. UCL students Mansour Abdulghaffar and Carolina Mostert summarise his lecture below.

Jogesh’s background
Limbani completed a BEng in Software Engineering at the University of Sheffield and an MSc in Telecommunications at UCL. He recently returned to UCL for an EngD in the field of communications.

After joining Orange in 2002, Limbani held seven positions within his first three years. Among those, he started off as software developer and then became project manager for a team of seventeen people. He then became the labs’ Head of Research and is now Head of Innovation, the first holder of this title within Orange.

Watch the full lecture below

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