BE IN THE KNOW: get Weekly Sparks delivered to your inbox every Monday afternoon.
MONDAY APR 6
Entrepreneurship 101
ONLINE / I2N Hub / Multi Day Event AEDT
This 5-week online course offers a mix of materials for every style of learning, weekly mentorship from expert practitioners and the tools you need to develop an idea and create your startup all in one place.
TUESDAY APR 7
Virtual Coffee Catchup
ONLINE / Canberra Innovation Network / 10.00AM AEDT
Join Sharyn Smith, Chief Operating Officer, and Liz Kobold, SME Director, as they host a virtual coffee catch up for female founders.
Surviving Business Lockdown
ONLINE / Melbourne Silicon Beach / 12.30-1.30PM AEDT
This 5-week online course offers a mix of materials for every style of learning, weekly mentorship from expert practitioners and the tools you need to develop an idea and create your startup all in one place.
WEDNESDAY APR 8
Startup Guide to the COVID-19 Stimulus Package with Shane Crommelin
ONLINE / Morning Startup / 7.30-8.30AM AWST
Shane Crommelin from Elevate Accounting will run you through what the government stimulus means and how you can navigate the current economic climate.
What to Do When Business as Usual is no Longer an Option...
Online / Brian Dorricott / 8.00AM AEDT
Feeling safe from a recession? Or not so sure? With Scott Morrison predicting one million jobs (5% of the workforce) will be lost, your chance of losing your company is higher than dying from the CoronaVirus (1%). So, what can you do?
How to Make Rapid Ideation: A New Way of Working
ONLINE / Innovation 360 / 8.00AM AEDT
This webinar will provide you with invaluable insights on process, how to ideate, techniques to select the right ideas and make rapid ideation a way of working.
Virtual Government Panel
ONLINE / Innovation Bay / 8.00AM AEDT
Join a panel of industry insiders to demystify the latest news and announcements on the Government's stimulus package, and help us all gain some clarity on what support Australian startups can access and who is eligible.
Startup Stories - Matthew Barry (Actified)
ONLINE / I2N Hub / 8.00-9.00AM AEDT
Hear how this serial entrepreneur navigated a tumultuous financial services sector into an exit, then founded his next company, Actified, on the other side.
Prototyping, Adapting and Iterating
ONLINE / Skills of the Modern Age / 11.00AM-12.30PM AEDT
In this SkillGym workout, explore the importance of rapid prototyping as businesses respond to the COVID-19 situation. With distancing measures and shutdowns in place across the country, business are faced with the challenge of rapidly adapting their business models, from restaurants shifting to takeaway through to educators moving their learning online.
How to Make Rapid Ideation: A New Way of Working
ONLINE / Innovation 360 / 12.00PM AEDT
This webinar will provide you with invaluable insights on process, how to ideate, techniques to select the right ideas and make rapid ideation a way of working.
Geoscape Location Data
ONLINE / The Studio / 12.30-1.30PM AEDT
In this session, Shaun Bennett pulls back the curtains on Geoscape products and how you can build location intelligence into your apps to help create new revenue streams.
Discover Each Other: Business Bites
ONLINE / Spacecubed / 1.00-2.00PM AWST
The format is simple: have lunch and listen, with the opportunity to ask your host questions and broaden your B2B connections.
Starting a Side-Hustle in a Recession
ONLINE / ACU / 4.00-6.00PM AEDT
Workshop ways to reduce the impact of recession and concentrate on the benefits of a side-hustle for reducing risk.
What to Do When Business as Usual is no Longer an Option...
Online / Brian Dorricott / 7.00PM AEDT
Feeling safe from a recession? Or not so sure? With Scott Morrison predicting one million jobs (5% of the workforce) will be lost, your chance of losing your company is higher than dying from the CoronaVirus (1%). So, what can you do?
THURSDAY APR 9
CRIISP Virtual Business Summit
ONLINE / CRIISP / 9.00AM-4.00PM AEST
Across one day, you will get to hear from a range of speakers designed to help you not only survive in these turbulent times but also thrive.
Virtual Gathering Thursday
ONLINE / Venture Cafe / 3.00-8.00PM AEDT
Venture Cafe Sydney (VCS) is part of a local and global community that gathers hundreds of innovators every week through the ThursdayGathering. Join their community online, via Zoom, for the ThursdayGathering programming in a Virtual format.
What Post-COVID World do We Want to Create
ONLINE / Venture Cafe / 5.00-6.00PM AEDT
Bruce Tulloch will dive into the set of choices and actions he outlines to ensure that we not only recover from COVID - but that we seize the magnitude of the disruption to make fundamental societal changes to produce a better future.
Struggles & Bubbles: An Evening of Pivotal Moments
ONLINE / General Assembly / 6.00-7.30PM AEDT
Join General Assembly as they celebrate and share in pivotal moments from inspirational figures who have faced various trials and bumps in the road. We are all full of screw up stories, aha moments and times where you just want to draw the curtains and binge watch Netflix. So why not do it together?
View all news