Annual Lecture
The KCLEA Spring event is a Prestige Lecture for KCLEA members and a wider community
– showing the Role of Kings Engineering and its Alumni in making a better world.
"Entrepreneurship in MedTech"
The format of the 2025 lecture is planned as Keynote Address on the needs and success
of MedTech entrepreneurs
And then a panel talking about their own journeys and looking to what made their venture a success.
Please Register in good time in person – URL
or online URL
Thursday 3rd April 2025 Draft agenda
Welcome from 6 to 6:30pm
Tours of LIHE meeting some of the companies 6:30 to 7pm
Keynote and discussion 7pm
Networking and Refreshments on the 3rd Floor terrace overlooking Parliament 8:10pm
Event end 9pm
We meet at the London Institute of Healthcare Engineering - a building dedicated to bringing MedTech innovations
to patients and the market, and to provide support and confidence to Entrepreneurs in MedTech so they can get their
innovation from the computer / bench into daily use for by clinicians or at the patients' bedside.
If you want to find out more on how LIHE can help SMES and others in MedTech www.lihe.org.uk
Or how The Entrepreneurship Institute at King's College London is advancing and scaling innovations
from King's students, staff, and alumni or the MSc MedTech Innovation Entrepreneurship
Before the Lecture we will learn about the work of LIHE and tour some of the amazing spaces
as we network over an introductory drink.
After the lecture we have a opportunity to network and engage with the speakers over ample refreshments
– and views across the Thames to Parliament..
Please Register in good time in person – URL
or online URL
LIHE is on Lambeth Palace Road halfway between Westminster Bridge and Lambeth Bridge on the South bank of the Thames.
(its where the building site is on the map or https://w3w.co/urgent.scan.mouse )
From Waterloo station (National Rail, Northern, Bakerloo and Jubilee lines) it is a short bus ride ( 77 or C10 )
to St Thomas in Lambeth Place Roadand a 4 minute walk south or a 76 or 11 to Westminster Bridge County Hall and a 9 min walk
or just walk 16 minutes via York Road and Lambeth Palace Road
From Victoria Station (National Rail, Victoria, District and Circle lines)it is a 15 min bus ride (C10) to St Thomas/Evelina
with two minute walk each end or a 11 min Bus ride (11 or 148 ) to Westminster Bridge and a 9 minute walk. Or a half hour walk.
From Westminster Station (Jubilee, District and Circle line) line it is a 13-minute walk.
KCLEA inaugurated the concept of an Annual Lecture on Engineering topics after the faculty of Engineering was closed in 2013.
Various branches of Engineering were reinstated later, including Biomedical.
Details of previous KCLEA Annual Lectures can be found here.