Why you should become a speaker
Connect
Meet innovators, experts, investors, and potential collaborators in an open, welcoming environment.
Learn
Test your ideas, products, or services and get genuine feedback from engaged early adopters.
Share
Pass on your knowledge, insights, and experience to people eager to learn and build.
Recognition
Build your personal and professional profile by positioning yourself as a thought leader.
Play
Explore new ideas and get inspired. It’s a place to unwind and enjoy meaningful conversations.
We want ideas that help people understand innovation on a broader and more applicable level.
Venture Café Connect reflects the diverse, talented, and entrepreneurial innovation landscape of Cambridge and the cities connected to it. Our monthly Tuesday gatherings offer access to high-quality sessions and programming designed to create intentional spaces for connection and exchange.
Each month, startups, scale-ups, corporates, investors, researchers, public sector organisations, and talented individuals come together at Venture Café Connect to meet, learn, and build relationships that move ideas forward.
We aim to deliver sessions that spark curiosity and fuel meaningful conversations, and programming that broadens perspectives, introduces fresh thinking, and helps people understand innovation in practical, relevant ways. We design events that inject new ideas into the dialogue and enrich how we see the world and what’s possible.