From Little Acorns: How to Build a Global Informatics Business

This joint Informatics Ventures and Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club event will present the inspirational story of one of the UK's most successful technology entrepreneurs, Alex van Someren.

Join us for drinks, networking a keynote and Q&A with Alex van Someren.

Students, faculty and staff from all universities; entrepreneurs, investors and any other interested members of the entrepreneurial ecosystem are all welcome to attend.

Andrew Mitchell from Informatics Ventures said "In the 14 years of being involved with university entrepreneurship I have not heard many UK technology entrepreneurs with such an inspiring global achievement to tell and the ability to story tell it in such an engaging way as Alex. This E-Club talk is one not to be missed!"

About our speaker:

Alex van Someren, former CEO of nCipher Plc, grew up near Cambridge, got involved with Acorn Computers as a young teenager and left school at 17 to join the company. With his Brother, Nicko, he established a business selling hardware add-ons for Acorn within their father's company, Aleph One, in 1986.

They went on to set up their first independent business, ANT, in 1990 producing networking products and software for Acornmachines. In 1996 he and Nicko founded nCipher, with venture capital backing, to develop internet security products. nCipher Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2000 and has customers around the world. ANT Plc was listed on the London AIM market in 2005 and is positioned in the embedded software market for IPTV.

Alex has authored several books on computer applications and microprocessors, including the first published book on the ARM RISC chip family.