Learn the techniques of Pranayama (Rhythmic Control of Breath), Yoga and get physically, mentally and spiritually fit. The session will include several different breathing exercises and standard Yoga postures which are easy to practice by all age groups.

What to bring:
Bring a Yoga mat or a beach towel
Bottle of water
Come empty stomach

Prerequisites are 3P:
Patience to learn this. This is a starting point to success.
Perseverance to practice it. This is a key to success.
Playfulness to enjoy it. This is a fertilizer to success.

Benefits:
Helps overcome stress and tensions
Provides relief from ailments
Helps in building resistance and healthy lifestyle
Overall wellbeing of an individual

Some Simple rules:
To be practiced in the morning with empty stomach (a glass of water before 1/2 hour is okay to have). Alternatively, it can be done in the evenings with 3 to 4 hours gap after lunch during which eating or tea/coffee should be avoided.
Preferably empty your bowels/bladder before starting.
Do it with rhythm and enjoy doing it. DONOT OVERDO or STRESS.

Please make it a point to learn and do it correctly as doing it wrongly could be harmful. The instructor is not responsible for your wrong practicing.
If you are having High BP, Heart problems or pregnancy do it slowly and avoid certain exercises. Please take medical advice if you are suffering from any serious medical condition.

The Office of the Queensland Chief Entrepreneur has teamed up with GC Hub and the Bond University Commercialisation Centre to offer an exclusive opportunity for 10 lucky founders to attend the ‘Scale Up Round Table’ with CEO & Founder of Everledger and Queensland Chief Entrepreneur Leanne Kemp.

To be held at the Kynd HQ in Burleigh over a delicious morning tea Leanne will share the story of Everledger, focusing on challenges faced as a first mover in an emerging industry and share tips on how to overcome the “liability of newness”. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore questions of their own with Queensland’s Chief Entrepreneur.

A maximum of ONLY 10 places are available for this event. Apply now for the chance to be selected for this rare opportunity.

About Our Speaker:

Leanne Kemp is Founder and CEO of Everledger and Queensland Chief Entrepreneur. She is a prominent figure in the technology sector and recognised internationally as an innovator and leader. Her company Everledger uses Blockchain technology to track high-value assets such as diamonds, art and wine with the aim of increasing transparency and trust with technology.

In 2018, her entrepreneurial success saw her appointed as the Queensland Chief Entrepreneur in Australia, to develop the state’s startup ecosystem, attract investment and support job creation. She is the first woman entrepreneur to hold this position. In 2019 her tenure as Chief Entrepreneur was extended for another year, the first time the role has been extended since its creation.

Leanne works on a global scale to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation and is an advocate of sustainability in business.

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Super Bowl Party kicking off at 9am Monday 3rd Feb. We will have American drinks and snacks to enjoy.. So come on down and watch the San Francisco 49ers take on the Kansas City Chiefs on the big screen at the GC HUB!!

OPEN INVITATION: Come along every Thursday, mingle with likeminded ENTREPRENEURS and INNOVATORS @ THE GOLD COAST INNOVATION HUB.

HUB MEMBERS: enjoy NIBBLES and DRINKS ON US and great conversation with your fellow Hubbers.

COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Take this opportunity to network and connect with our driven GC business community and meet the Gold Coast Innovation Hub team to find out more about our exciting upcoming events and activities.

Meet you at the HUB….

Gold Coast Innovators and Entrepreneurs – the Annual Industry Christmas Party is happening again – Friday 6th December.

• Food
• Drinks
• Live Music
• AND ALL OF US !!

The Christmas party has always been a great time for all of us to get together and has been running every year since 2011 when the combination of the Silicon Beach networking group and others decided to bring all of the Gold Coast business and technology groups together to mingle and celebrate the season.

There have been a variety of venues over the years – you might remember the Christmas parties at:

• 150 Public House, Bundall – 2011
• QT Hotel, Surfers – 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017
• BINE, Burleigh – 2014
• Burleigh Brewing – 2016
• Gold Coast Innovation Hub – 2018

We have also had some great sponsors including ongoing major sponsor (and organiser) Opmantek together with Mitchell Lake, Carton Cloud, Prime Financial, OnTheNet, IT Forum Gold Coast, Literacy Planet, Anonyome Labs, ETZ Technologies to name a few.

This year’s event will be hosted at the Gold Coast Innovation Hub event centre and generously sponsored by Opmantek again together with investment group 42 Ventures. We don’t intend for this event to be at The Hub each year but for this year we appreciate their sposnorship/support and the donation of the event centre. We are looking for additional sponsors, so if you are a local business that wants to contribute to making the night one to remember please select a sponsorship ticket.

We would love to have representation from as many different groups and organisations on the Gold Coast as possible and sponsors will have a small amount of time on the mic on the night to talk about what they do and share a Christmas greeting with everyone.

Obviously the $10 ticket is a nominal fee – all drinks and food and entertainement are included and primarily funded by sponsors.

Merry Christmas!

*FREE GC Hub Member Event

Learn while you Lunch, all members welcome. A place to get together, share a delicious complimentary meal and drinks, while partaking in informative presentations from our invited guest speakers.

THIS MONTH’S GUEST SPEAKERS:

Speaker #1

We are excited to welcome Mark Deacon from Superdraft who will share his story and key learnings from along the way.

Superdraft helps match consumers in the process of renovating or building a new home with the best design team and manages the project from design to build via our Project App.

Superdraft has grown to become Australia’s leading home design platform having completed over 5,500 projects with an associated construction value of over $1billion.

Achievements: 3 x Gold Coast Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Property & Construction), BRW Fast 100, SmartCompany Smart 50, Seek Business Top 10, Westpac Top 200 Businesses of Tomorrow.

Website: www.superdraft.com.au

Social media tags:

LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/superdraftau

Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/superdraftau/

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/superdraft/

Speaker #2

We are proud to present Alex Knight, Fund Manager / Investment Committee @ 42 Ventures

Alex will be sharing Tips and opening discussion on “BECOMING MORE INVESTABLE”

Alex has over 10 years experience as a strategic CFO, corporate advisor and fund manager predominantly in property, credit, venture capital and private equity. He has been involved in international capital raisings, global mergers & acquisitions and various corporate finance transactions in private, public companies for both buy and sell side. A keen investor himself, he is a strategic advisor to early stage and growth companies globally.

Presented By Dr Amanda McCullough. Join us for this special event on What is self-awareness? and Why is it an important element of success?

By the end of the session, you will have a practical, step-by-step process for how to think about behaviour in a way that makes sense to you. You don’t need to be a psychologist. This session is for anyone interested in
changing behaviour (their own or others), influencing change or learning just a little bit more about why we do what we do. You don’t need to be extroverted, or a high level academic to use these processes to bring about
change.

In this session, we will cover three key elements:

1. Knowing yourself first;
2. Getting from vision to action;
3. Using practical behaviour change strategies.

Dr Amanda McCullough was the 2017 Bupa Health Foundation Emerging Researcher of the Year. She has an unwavering curiosity about why we do what we do and how to change it. She works with clients in the healthcare and higher education sectors to support them to solve complex cultural issues. She brings together 10 years of experience in behaviour change research across Australia and the UK, with her qualifications in coaching and Higher Education teaching to support others to reach their potential.

Agenda:

• 12:00 – 12:15pm – Registration & Refreshments
• 12:15 – 1:15pm – Main Presentation

Open to all students | Free event | Afternoon tea will be provided

Registration is essential | Limited Places

For more information, please contact Transformer Program Manager, Lisa Shaw on 5595 5604 or lshaw@bond.edu.au

To register click here GCIH Members: Can type “GHIC” when it asks for a SID (or Student Identification Number)

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Join all the founders attending the Somerset Celebration of Entrepreneurship for a great event of networking, bouncing ideas and innovating!

Somerset College is excited to announce that Dr Kelvin Ross, will host the Gold Coast Innovation Hub Networking Event as part of the 2019 Somerset Celebration of Entrepreneurship. Kelvin is director of IntelliHQ, a not profit company developing the ecosystem for AI innovation in healthcare. Kelvin is founder and non-exec Chairman of KJR, an specialist IT advisory firm with over 100 consultants in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Institute for Intelligent and Integrated Systems, Griffith University. Also on the Panel for this event will be Michael Metcalfe. Michael is the Founder of Kynd, a Gold Coast startup that is reimagining the disability support industry. Kynd empowers NDIS participants of all-ages and all-abilities to use a mobile app to match with and manage local support workers, based on unique needs. We are delighted to have Kelvin and Michael at the 2019 Festival to share their wisdom with the Gold Coast community. This networking event is open to the wider community. Tickets are free, however reservations are essential due to venue capacity.

If you see yourself as an ‘online investigator’, ‘cyber hacker’ or a ‘cyber sleuth’, then this is the event for YOU! Join GC Hub partner TAFE Queensland for the first ‘large scale’ crowdsourced open-source intelligence gathering of its kind in Australia for missing persons.

How does it work?

The CTF will run for a duration of 6 hours and physical attendance is required at the participating locations across Australia. The main event will be in the ACT with the event live streamed across several platforms for simultaneous participation at nominated locations and for public viewing.

Twelve missing persons will be selected from existing National Missing Person Coordination Centre cases for participants to collect OSINT on, and to generate new leads. At the start of the event, contestants will be able to view the missing persons case details by logging into the CTF platform at ctf.tracelabs.org with their own credentials (Registration e-mail to be sent one day prior to the CTF for those who have pre-registered).

For each OSINT Flag submitted on one of the missing persons that falls into any of the categories listed here, the flag will be validated by one of our Judges prior to awarding points.

The top 3 individual/teams awarded the most points will receive a National Hackathon prize. There may be State/Territory awards as well.

For first time contestants, please review Trace Labs CTF rules here.

All leads generated on the missing person cases will be handed to the National Missing Persons Coordination Centre.

Take learning to a new level at LUNCH AND LEARN, all members welcome. A place to get together, share a delicious complimentary lunch and drinks, while enjoying informative presentations from our invited guest speakers.

THIS MONTH’S GUEST SPEAKERS:

speaker # 1 Nathan Pickering From RADBE Consulting R&D Tax Incentive, Export Market Development Grant and Government Grants Consultancy.

Presentation Topic: R&D Tax Incentive – Eligibility, Structure and claiming process EMDG – Eligibility, Structure and claiming process nathan@radbe.com.au

Speaker #2 Terry Aronson – CEO for 9 successful U.S. start-up companies. Took a data forensics/data recovery company ranked below 400 in the United States to #2 in the U.S; then sold it to a Fortune-50 company. Currently holds numerous “Patent Claims” for Blockchain IP.

Presentation topic: “Entrepreneurship, 2020 and beyond” The secret to success in business comes from taking risks and learning from past mistakes. However, to build a successful Technology company, implement technology IP that is vested in “the future”, do NOT create IP that solves “Past Problems”.

We’re super excited to be partnering with the AWS Startup team who will be delivering a pop-up AWS Innovation Day on the October 9th. AWS was built on startups that have become household names today and we’re actively supporting the next generation of startup businesses on cloud, hopefully many of your ventures. The AWS Activate Program for startups will be sharing insights that you can take back into your businesses to further your ambitions.

AWS Startup Team Speakers:

Stefan Knight – AWS Startup Account Manager

Stefan has more than 20 years experience working in startups in the US, UK and AU. He has had a variety of roles in product, business development, marketing, sales, etc. Startups he has been apart of have raised +$500M USD in capital, IPO’d, been acquired and of course, failed miserably as well.

Francis Vierboom, AWS Startup Business Development.

Francis was the Co-founder of Flirty and Propeller Aero. He has a wealth of recent experience building tech startups, raising capital and scaling early stage businesses.

Paul Woodward, AWS Territory Sales Manager.

Paul has been with AWS since the ANZ team was launched. He is an accredited presenter of Culture if Innovation and Working Backwards.

Harvey Liu, AWS Startup Account Manager.

Harvey is a veteran of several of his own startups and working in others. He has core expertise in growth marketing.

Nigel Gardiner, AWS Startup Solution Architect.

Nigel has been a CTO of multiple startups in APAC including Honcho here in AU. He has built teams in Vietnam and Phillipines. He coaches our Activate startups with very practical tech advice from MVP through to scale.

See Agenda & Register here