🤖 Be Part of the AI In Education HACKATHON!

📅 October 16–17, 2025 | 📍 Gold Coast Innovation Hub & Southern Cross University

🎯 What’s it all about?

Join us for a 2-day innovation sprint where students, educators, startups, and industry leaders come together to reimagine the future of learning with AI. This is your chance to solve real-world education challenges while building solutions that could have immediate impact.

🏫 For Institutions & Companies

We’re looking for schools, universities, training providers and private companies to put forward challenges you’d like solved with AI. As a Challenge Sponsor, you’ll:

• Help shape the problem

• Mentor participants during the event

• Be part of the judging panel

• Unlock pilot and partnership opportunities

👩‍💻 For Students & Innovators

Calling all students, startups, and community innovators:

• Form a team (or go solo!)

• Get access to mentors & hands-on workshops

• Build prototypes and pitch your ideas

• Compete for prizes 🏆 and real implementation pathways

✨ Why get involved?

• Work on real education problems

• Gain skills in AI tools, business modelling & pitching

• Connect with industry leaders and potential employers

• Make an impact that matters

👉 Registrations for Participants are now open! Whether you’re submitting a challenge, mentoring a team, or joining as a participant,  don’t miss the chance to help shape the future of education with AI. This event is FREE to attend. Register to secure your space below.

Turn Your Idea into Impact

Got a business or social enterprise idea? The Ideation & Impact Micro-Credential from the Gold Coast Innovation Hub is a hands-on short course designed to help you validate it.

Learn how to apply Lean Startup principles, assess opportunities, develop scalable concepts, and build an ethical foundation for your venture.

Included:

– Access to an interactive online training portal
– Facilitated live workshops from experienced entrepreneurs and mentors
– A Certificate of Participation from the Gold Coast Innovation Hub

Help Shape the Program:
Register your interest and tell us what format suits you — online or face-to-face, intensive or extended. Get early access when enrolments open.

With this program, the GC Hub will build you a professional Advisory Board to help growing companies meet strategic goals. The structured panel of experts help scale-ups and established businesses overcome challenges, launch new initiatives, and reach new levels of growth.

• 6 or 12 months of business support
• Gold tier member benefits
• A certified advisory board chair
• 2 independent advisors
• Monthly Meetings
• Formal Meeting Agenda
• Minute taking provided

Access ongoing expert legal, financial, commercialisation, marketing and/or HR advice, plug ‘knowledge gaps’ in your business, develop understanding of business and market trends, enhance the governance framework for your business, and provide directors and executives with insights and ideas.

Minimum 6 month commitment. Only qualifying companies may participate in this program, and a strict application process is required. Contact the team if you have any questions.

How will your business grow in 2023? Update your action plan and discover new opportunities with a Business Health Check session.

Our expert team will guide you through goal setting, a 3 month action plan, and detailed feedback so that you can ensure your business will be prepared for the year ahead. With our customized roadmap, we’ll help you identify achievable objectives based on growth and sustainability.

Includes:

• Business health check audit
• 12 month goal setting
• 3 month detailed action plan

Book using the link below or contact our team for more info.

COMMENCING 2 SEPTEMBER 2025

IN-PERSON TRAINING TUESDAY MORNINGS @ THE HUB

Join instructor Kate Osborne and an enthusiastic cohort of fellow business owners, on this transformative, 10-week business and leadership mastery course. Learn AND implement the 8 Core Principles to collaborative leadership which to take your organisation to the next level of success, with less conflict and more collaboration!

Video Overview

KOKO Matrix Roadmaps

Discover your strengths, areas for attention, and direct focus towards your passions. Work with tick sheets for the 8 operational sectors of a business – administration, finance, culture, marketing, sales, production, distribution and product coaching.

The roadmaps cover a thorough list of processes, agreements, contracts, insurances, analysis, policies, KPIs, audits, statements, guides and strategies you need for your business to be functioning at optimal capacity.

KOKO Matrix Strategic Plan

Each week Kate will unpack with you all you need to prepare a Strategic Plan that you will present at the end of the course. The Strategic Plan covers aspects such as mission statement, SWOT analysis, goals, strategies, actions and revenue projections.

The Strategic Plan helps you get clear on your business next steps and is a solid document to share with your team, investors and use as a resource to track your growth.

Soft Skill (Power Skill) Development

You will receive 10 soft skill workbooks throughout the course, which will teach you how to enhance your leadership, eliminate tension in your team, build culture, create alignment, enhance your effectiveness and unlock potential as a compassionate leader.

It has long been known that people don’t remember what you say, they remember how you made them feel. Each hand chosen soft skills workshop is designed to tap into the connection required to allow people to flourish under your unique leadership style.

We look forward to guiding you towards your next phase of growth.

Companies that are seeking to raise capital are able to apply for our tailored Investment Readiness Program.

Delivered in conjunction with Scale Innovations and 42 Ventures Investments, this comprehensive program provides startups with templates, advice, and support in the areas of business structure, shareholder and customer agreements, financials, forecasts, market sizing, growth and staffing strategies, reporting metrics, and more.

Includes:

• 6 months of business support
• Investment readiness review session
• Gold tier member benefits (up to $50k value)
• Weekly mentoring sessions
• Certificate of completion
• Introduction to Angel Loop
• This is an ESIC Qualified program

Only qualifying companies may participate in this program, and a strict application process is required. Contact the team if you have any questions.

The Rapid Regtech Accelerator is a new startup commercialisation program developed and delivered by the Gold Coast Innovation Hub (GC Hub), in collaboration with Refactor Software Development, Scale Innovations Growth Marketing Agency and 42 Ventures Investments and with the support of the GC Hub corporate network in response to rapidly emerging opportunities in the RegTech sector.

The program is designed to engage participants directly with the industries that they are developing solutions for and equip them with funding, services, skills and practical application of their technologies through funded proof of concept trials in order to achieve commercialisation outcomes and further investment.