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Start your day off right with some morning meditation this Wednesday😌👌🏼
Reset your mind and meditate with Yohann and Palimino from Manava Flow.
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The Gold Coast Innovation Hub partner the City of Gold Coast is proud to present Gold Coast Business Week 2019 (GCBW19). Don’t miss a week-long calendar of business events designed to put your business way ahead. Gold Coast Business Week offers a week-long calendar of free and ticketed events, providing you with the opportunity to learn about new trends and opportunities for growth.
Boost your idea’s power to attract investment. Learn how to communicate the potential value of your innovative ideas to grant assessors, venture capital firms, industry backers, and other potential project partners. Both the Queensland and federal governments are offering unprecedented funding, tax incentives and other investment initiatives so that business can benefit from commercialising ideas and intellectual assets – but many innovators lack the confidence or know-how to successfully stimulate interest from financial supporters. Having a game-changing idea isn’t enough. You need a clear value proposition, sound business case, and a solid understanding of what public and private investors expect from your pitch or proposal.
The Money Magnet Masterclass explains how to:
• convince selection panels/investors of your idea’s value
• pitch its market potential and your opportunity
• structure an effective project plan
• demonstrate capacity to deliver a return on investment
• communicate your team’s capability
• manage risks and remove ‘red flags’
Innovate Queensland aims to help you:
✓ reduce commercialisation costs
✓ access commercialisation expertise
✓ reduce time lags from idea to income
✓ better target market needs and increase market uptake
✓ choose the right business models
✓ integrate innovation into your existing operations
More than 5000 people have attended Innovate Queensland’s Skills Development workshops and programs, giving them an overall satisfaction rating of 92%. In surveys, more than 60% of respondents have reported already progressing the market readiness of their ideas. That means they’re on their way to becoming more competitive and successful. Are you ready for your innovative ideas to attract investment?
Design sprints are a fast-paced process for co-designing, prototyping and validating new product, service, and business model ideas. Originating at Google Ventures, the design sprint enables teams to align on solutions and to test them with customers in under a week.
This interactive workshop offers a practical introduction to design sprints, geared for startups. Tim Rayner and Diego Trigo from Hello Again, a solution design agency in Byron Bay, will walk you through the 4-day design sprint model, explaining the thinking behind each step of the process and how to get the most out of your design sprint team.
Topics to be discussed include:
The facilitators
Dr Tim Rayner runs design sprints with Hello Again and teaches ‘Leadership, Teams & Scalability’ in the MBAe at UTS Business School. He is the author of ‘Hacker Culture and the New Rules of Innovation’ (2018) and the award-winning short film ‘Coalition of the Willing’ (2010).
Diego Trigo is the founder and CEO of Hello Again. He has 10 years experience working as Managing Partner, CTO, start-up founder, technical director and developer/builder in Melbourne and Sydney. Expert in the convergence of marketing, media, data, commerce, CMS and CRM related technology, Diego brings a wealth of knowledge in building and prototyping digital solutions. Diego’s current focus is on creating new businesses in uncharted territories, advising on technology strategy, ideation and roadmaps for start-ups.
This immediately useful, hands-on workshop is designed to “kickstart” a business idea or “jumpstart” current businesses through investigating a new product and or service.
Come to this interactive workshop to:
You’ll work on the CO.STARTERS Canvas to help get ideas out of your head into a format that can be easily understood and refined over time. You’ll deep dive into understanding your customers and investigate whether your business idea will make money. You’ll know if your idea is worth pursuing or change it up to something even better!
Once your ideas are mapped out on your Canvas, you’ll learn how to use customer feedback to refine them. You’ll discover how to start small in order to get in front of customers sooner and begin testing your ideas.
As the workshop concludes, you will come up with actionable steps that can be taken in the next hour, day, week, and month to move your ideas forward.
All materials included plus outstanding business facilitators who will work closely with you to help you succeed in business!
Your facilitators:
Dr Dion Klein
Director Wise Academy
Dion has over 25 years experience in starting and running successful small businesses, with extensive capabilities in facilitating and teaching people from all walks in life to be successful in business. Dion is a certified CO.STARTERS facilitator. As a local business identity, Dion will bring your Gold Coast dream to reality!
Margaret Aspin
Manager Aspin Group CO.STARTERS
Margaret is a serial entrepreneur with many years of experience in for profit and social impact businesses. Currently, Margaret spends most of her time mentoring business people, and consulting to education, training and government. She facilitates government business networks, lectures in and writes entrepreneurship programs at universities and is a small business mentor providing assistance for government small business clients.
This event is brought to you by Aspin Group CO.STARTERS, WISE ACADEMY and GOLD COAST INNOVATION HUB
The evening consists of an AI presentation followed by a round table discussion.
This meetup features Josh from Amazon Web Services introducing the platform’s AI tools. He plans to describe the tools before walking through implementing one of the tools. The night will be a great introduction to AI on AWS and will be packed with get information.
Join us for a short, informative briefing on this year’s awards,
followed by two expert presentations designed especially for Queensland exporters.
Session 1: Richelle Ward, Export Council of Australia – Awards Briefing
Hear all about the Premier of Queensland’s Export Awards 2019, including facts, tips, and the business benefits to past winners.
Session 2: Jason Luchi, HSBC – Trade trends
Learn about current trade trends for Queensland, and key topics including blockchain, supply chains, and China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Session 3: Brian Ruddle, Impact Innovation – Using R&D and ‘proof of concept’ to ensure strong export ROI
The international trade landscape is constantly shifting, making it difficult to develop competitive products and services that meet the needs of overseas markets. This session will explain how to use research and proof of concept (POC) projects to boost your bottom line.
You’ll find out how to:
Brian’s practical approach will give you key ‘next steps’ to drive your returns on research investment.
About the presenters:
Richelle Ward, Queensland State Manager, Export Council of Australia
Richelle Ward is a PR and business professional who has managed the Premier of Queensland’s Export Awards for the past 5 years.
Jason Luchi, Senior Business Development Manager, HSBC
Jason is an experienced trade finance banker with more than 25 years’ experience in the Brisbane and Sydney markets.
Brian Ruddle, Managing Director, Impact Innovation
Brian advises corporate research managers in Australia and internationally on product and service development. He also has extensive experience forming and managing start-up companies and working with university researchers to turn great ideas into great outcomes.
Thursday 6 June from 9.00am till 11.00am
Cost $25 plus gst pp (includes morning tea)
The energy grid is a colossal system spanning thousands of kilometres. But despite its behemoth nature, the grid has a delicate side. As it stands, unlike grain, or even diamonds, the supply and demand of energy in the grid must perfectly balance at any given moment. This is slowing clean energy penetration, as most power sources fluctuate in their generation. The grid however, has a trick up its sleeve, for as it evolves to be smarter it has the potential to integrate storage resources and even control demand at a granular level. In this event, brought to you by EnergyLab, we’ll explore how an intelligent grid can open the floodgates to clean energy uptake.
Presented by Helene Norman, Hugh Maxey and Declan Roe, this session will provide you with an overview of the Transformer Program, plus some tips and tricks on how to get started on your idea. For more information visit https://bond.edu.au/transformer
Agenda
12:00 – 12:15pm – Registration & Lunch
12:15 – 1:15pm – Main Presentation
1:15pm – 1:30pm – Meet the Coaches, Q&A, Networking
Open to all students | Free event | Registration is essential.
For more information, please contact Transformer Program Manager, Lisa Shaw on 5595 5604 or lshaw@bond.edu.au
The intention at these Meetups is to bring together Australian based Transformative Technology Entrepreneurs, profile them through recorded presentations and showcase them through our Global TT Ecosystem.
What is a Transformative Technology Company?
It is the companies at this Meetup who will help to shape the mental health, wellbeing and how humankind thrives moving forward. We invite you to join with us at our Transformative Tech Queensland Chapter
All are welcome. Attendees will have the chance to ask questions, trial technologies, get involved where appropriate and meet Transformative Technology Entrepreneurs and Innovators working with a number of different technologies, at various stages of the entrepreneurial journey.
This Month
Realizing Group Flow
I know as an employer, when I hear statistics that up to 85% of employees are disengaged in the workplace, it’s unsurprising because often as an owner of the business it can be hard to stay focused and in a productive state ongoing throughout a full workday.
As employers and business owners we relish those moments when we’re in flow and hope/expect that our employees are bringing that to their day, by virtue that we’re paying them. However the reality is that most often people in general struggle with the ability to manage their attention and as employers we lack the awareness to create an environment that fosters productivity and flow in the workplace.
So we remain stuck for the most part with a general sense of disengagement in the workplace. Fragmented attention, stress, anxiety, diminished output and a general contentment that this is just how it is and if we were being super honest with ourselves, employees are often the bane of our business.
But the reality is as we move forward into this era of hyper change organisations can’t continue to function on 15%, there has to be effective ways to realise at least a significant part of the 85% of disengagement that extends beyond bean bags and ping pong tables.
Which is why we are so super excited at what Henry Boulton – CIO and Co-Founder of Focus Band is bringing to the table.
Image a low cost neuro feedback device that enabled you to know when you and/or your staff are disengaged and at the point of becoming disengaged are able to passively provide an intervention tool/technique to support staff to manage their states effectively throughout the day. Intervention techniques which naturally increase – their ability to focus, the quality of output, general sense of well being, achievement, fulfillment and flow.
Resulting in increased productivity, higher outputs, higher quality of work, fewer sick days, diminished stress and anxiety in the workplace and an overall validated metric around employee engagement which is having a dramatic impact on the bottom line of those organisations who are applying this technology.
Join us to be part of a live demonstration connecting people all over the world as Henry showcases the proprietary technology encompassed in FocusBand to measure individual disengagement and use collective intervention techniques to achieve group flow. So very exciting.
Profile TT Entrepreneur
Dr. Jonathan King is the Founder and CEO of LYSN, a wellbeing company that is aiming to change the way Australia provides mental health education, escalation and support to all those affected by mental health concerns. After graduating from Bond University, Jonathan worked across QLD, NSW, ACT and VIC as a surgical registrar in both the metropolitan and regional/rural communities. It was during his work in Far North Queensland that he noticed the health inequalities relating to mental health services. From this, LYSN was born.
Lysn currently has over 300 psychologists across Australia serving the community with mental health support and education. In addition to his work with LYSN, Jonathan donates his time working for causes that aim to improve the health and wellbeing of all Australians. Jonathan works part-time as a surgical assistant and also assists as an Innovation Advisor for Mackay Hospital and Mackay Institute of Research & Innovation (MIRI), along with being a Clinical Medical Consultant for AI Health in Sydney.
Facilitated Group Discussion with all TT Founders
Hosted by Troy Haines, an interactive style discussion featuring introductions from all TT founders present, updates from previous attendees, ASK’s, Offers, Sharing and general discussions amongst the local TT ecosystem.
Agenda
5:30pm Registration and networking
6:00pm Intro about Transformative Technology . Update from TT Global and from our local TT Ecosystem.
6:15pm Henry Boulton – FocusBand Global Group Flow Demonstration
7:15pm Presentation Dr. Johnathan King
7:35pm Q & A lead by Troy
7:40pm Group Discussion with all TT Founders
8:00pm Wrap up, advise details on next event, networking, demonstrations
8:15pm Close
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Presented by Hank Kingman the former COO and Co-founder of Nudie Juice. Hank has a wealth of experience in high value,
fast-moving and/or challenging environments. Hank is regarded as an authentic multi-discipline team leader with a history of innovation, problem-solving and revenue generation in multiple international markets.
Hank will discuss the following topics:
Date Wednesday, 15 May, 2019
Time 1 – 2pm
Tickets Free event | Afternoon tea provided
Registration is essential. Click here.
International Investment Services is proud to deliver a series of internationalisation workshops for Australian entrepreneurs, executives and investors looking to expand their business into global markets in partnership with leading experts from Grant Thornton, Gateley Plc, McCullough Robertson, Wholesale Investor, the Australian British Chamber of Commerce, Australia-UK Chamber and the UK Department for International Trade.
With over 200 Australian businesses registered to explore the UK market in 2019, these half-day workshops deliver a comprehensive overview to navigate the opportunities and challenges in expanding overseas.
Within the workshop, participants will be provided with:
Discount codes available.
Event Partners
Who should attend?
The workshops support businesses across all sectors and every stage of the business lifecycle whether a start-up, a scale-up and even established Australian corporates who are considering expanding their business into international markets over 2019 and 2020.
The workshops are designed for decision makers to manage their international growth, with a direct focus for founders, investors, CEOs, CFOs and their direct teams.
In particular, with over 200 Australian businesses travelling to the UK in 2019 these workshops support entrepreneurs, executives and investors considering attending UK events including:
What you can expect:
Over the workshop, you will learn which questions to ask to navigate the pathway to international expansion and understand, with confidence, what is required to access over 98% of the global markets that exist outside of Australia. By discussion with leading subject matter experts, you will be able to explore strategically whether this is the right time to grow your business internationally and, if so, where to expand globally and how to do it. Individuals will be directly connected with government agency teams to access free government services in Australia and the UK to optimise government grants to part-fund your international expansion, including capturing all grants available in FY 2019.
Please email ksenia@gchub.com.au to request a discount code.
The Bond University Student Association (BUSA) and Transformer are pleased to invite you to a presentation by Thione Niang.
Thione Niang is an exceptional entrepreneur who immigrated to the United States in 2000 from Senegal, with no English and only $20 to his name. Since then, he has co-founded several companies that focus on the empowerment of communities in Africa, the most notable beingAkon Lighting Africa. The Akon Lighting Africa initiative was created to bring clean, renewable and affordable energy solutions primarily to rural and off-grid areas in Africa. In October 2015 he was appointed by President Obama and The Energy Secretary as ambassador at the US Ministry of Energy representing minorities in energy.
The topics range from Global Leadership and Engagement to Social Entrepreneurship and Geopolitics.
Date: Monday, 6 May 2019
Time: 12pm
Location: Bond University, Bond Business School, Transformer, Level 3
Register: Please click here to register | Free Event