Join other entrepreneurs and technologists for an evening of discussion about common problems and interests.

Venue: Pizza Express - 7a Jesus Lane. 8pm.

It would be useful to know if you are planning on coming, so that we can book a table. Mail dinner at chase org uk.

Sponsored by Mills & Reeve.

Open to everyone. No fee, but you do pay for your food and drink.

Michael Pritchard invented the LIFESAVER bottle after watching the unfolding events following the tsunami of December 2004 and hurricane Katrina in 2005. Despite the vast amount of water involved in both disasters, there was a desperate lack of fresh, clean water.

The LIFESAVER bottle is the world’s first all-in-one ultra filtration water bottle. It removes bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi and all other microbiological waterborne pathogens without using chemicals. The bottle produces filtered sterile drinking water quickly and easily from contaminated water, making the large-scale delivery of drinking water to emergency hit areas practical.

Michael will talk about the technology in the bottle and the problems that his company, Lifesaver Systems has had to overcome in bringing the bottle to market.

Venue: ARM Conference Centre, 110 Fulbourn Rd, Cambridge, CB1 9NJ. Doors open 7.30pm for 8pm start. Free and open to all. No need to pre-register.

At the Carlton Arms, Carlton Way, Cambridge. This is a bit further outside of town than we normally rove, but part of our season of experimentation.

First drinks for CHASE members are sponsored by Mills & Reeve.

8pm onwards. Free. Everybody welcome. No need to register.

Two of the Mills & Reeve team, Lino Di Lorenzo and Robert Renfree, will be talking about fallout when things don't go as planned. They'll be covering a range of questions... Whether litigation is to be avoided? What causes disputes? And who wins? They'll also be discussing practical issues such as insurance, arbitration & mediation.

The Sensebulb is an intelligent lightbulb designed to act as an alarm for elderly or disabled people. It fits into an ordinary light socket but uses LEDs to emit light. Four heat sensors, embedded in the bulb, can monitor a room for unusual activity: a cooker left on; temperature increase in the bathroom at an unusual time; or perhaps a waving hand. Based on this, the bulb can alert a carer.

Lyndsay has a history as an researcher and electronic engineer. At Microsoft, amongst other things, she was responsible for the SenseCam, a device to help Alzheimer's patients cope with memory loss. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Research Fellow at BT Labs, where she invented some of the technology now found in the Apple iPhone. In 2007 she left Microsoft to found Girton Labs, which dedicates itself to novel image sensors and non-visual object recognition, computers to reduce global warming, and smarthome systems for care of the elderly.

Venue: ARM Conference Centre, 110 Fulbourne Rd, Cambridge. Doors open 7.30pm, talk starts at 8pm. Everybody is welcome and entrance is free.

Please note that this talk takes place on a MONDAY.

The next stop on our journey of good Cambridge pubs will be the Cambridge Blue on Gwydir St. Monday 4th Feb.

Everyone is welcome. No fee. Mills & Reeve are kindly sponsoring first drinks for CHASE members.

Our first talk of 2008 will be on MONDAY 21st Jan.

True Knowledge are building a repository of knowledge - an active encyclopedia of facts which will respond intelligently to search queries. William Tunstall-Pedoe will be speaking about the technology and the challenges.

Venue: Mills & Reeve, 112 Hills Rd, Cmabridge. Doors open 7.30pm for an 8pm start.

We didn't have a Christmas pubmeet and our first meeting in 2008 is taking the place of the pubmeet. In an attempt to redress the balance, we'll be having a gentle get together on Monday 7th Jan.

Continuing our theme of visiting different venues now that all pubs are smoke free, we'll be meeting at the lovely Live and Let Live off Mill Road. This is a very relaxed pub with wood panelled walls and a wide selection of beers. Wifi too, I think.

The Live and Let Live can be found at 40 Mawson Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB1 2EA. Here's a map with an an arrow pointing to not quite the right place.