Calendar of Events

The Entrepreneurs Circle will be hosting a casual Entrepreneurs Happy Hour in Oxford! Whether you live in Oxford or will be in town for the Forum, we hope that you will join fellow founders and entrepreneurs for informal drinks and conversation.

At the 2025 Rhodes Forum on Technology & Society, we invite you to critically engage with the concept of abundance, challenge prevailing assumptions, and shape your own vision of the future!

Join us for a series of interactive workshops designed to build the skills essential for stepping into, and thriving in, professional life. Sessions will cover areas such as navigating the future of work, career mapping, network building, interview techniques, impactful communication, and more. Each workshop will provide practical tools and insights to help you navigate your career journey with confidence, and feature a guest speaker.

The Uncertainty Advantage: Launching Your Career in an Era of Rapid Change Workshop with Scott Stirrett, Founder and CEO of Venture for Canada Join Scott Stirrett, Founder and CEO of Venture for Canada, for an interactive workshop inspired by his book The Uncertainty Advantage. Over the past decade, Scott has built a national movement that has empowered more than 10,000 young professionals to launch their careers and thrive in an uncertain economy. Drawing on insights from his experience scaling Venture for Canada and writing The Uncertainty Advantage, endorsed by leaders including Andrew Yang, Stephen Poloz, Amanda Lang, Eric Ries, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, and Michele Romanow, Scott will share practical tools to help early-career professionals embrace change, think creatively and strategically, and approach their future careers with adaptability and confidence. The event will take place at Rhodes House, where refreshments will also be provided.

Join us for a series of interactive workshops designed to build the skills essential for stepping into, and thriving in, professional life. Sessions will cover areas such as navigating the future of work, career mapping, network building, interview techniques, impactful communication, and more. Each workshop will provide practical tools and insights to help you navigate your career journey with confidence, and feature a guest speaker.

Join Robert McGill as he discusses the twelve stories in his book 'Simple Creatures', and considers what it means to live with less in the twenty-first century.

Join us as Dr Joy Buolamini uncovers what she calls "the coded gaze"- the evidence of encoded discrimination and exclusion in tech products - and how she galvanized the movement to prevent AI harms by founding the Algorithmic Justice League.

In our January event, Dr Maya Shankar (Connecticut & New College 2007) will discuss her book The Other Side of Change - Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans.

Join Dr Randal Pinkett as he discusses his book - 'The Campus CEO' - that walks any would-be entrepreneur through all the necessary steps to launching a profitable, campus-based business, while simultaneously achieving academic success