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MONDAY JUL 27
Career Pivot Masterclass with Jodie Auster
ONLINE / Liminal / 8.00AM AEST
Join Jodie for an inspiring keynote opener to the Liminal Conference, on her big career pivots into technology and what she learned along the way.
Program to Process: Moving from 'D&I' to Equitable Design with Aubrey Blanche
ONLINE / Liminal / 8.30AM AEST
Join The Mathpath Aubrey Blanche, Director of Equitable Design & Impact at Culture Amp, to learn how you can evolve your programs to create fair experiences for every employee and build better, safer products.
Founder Stories: Sarada Lee GAICD
ONLINE / Tank Stream Labs / 12.00-12.30PM AEST
This week, Tank Stream Labs will speak with Sarada Lee GAICD Data Scientist / Applied AI Researcher / Strategist / Co-Founder, Perth Machine Learning Group.
TUESDAY JUL 28
Enterprise Sales with Jindou Lee
ONLINE / Blackbird / 8.00AM AEST
In this presentation, Jindou Lee, co-founder and CEO of HappyCo will discuss what he's learnt in the last decade on enterprise sales, including when it's right for your startup, how to successfully land your first enterprise customer and more.
The Career Ladder Myth with Laura Chambers
ONLINE / Liminal / 8.00AM AEST
From the outside, successful career trajectories often resemble a ladder, but there are many twists, turns and even moments of pause along the way. In this session, Laura Chambers, CEO of Willow Pump, will share her career adventure and how she overcame ceilings and roadblocks along the way.
Breakfast Club: Career Ladder
ONLINE / Liminal / 8.30AM AEST
Through a series of high energy breakout sessions, workshop some of the takeaways from Laura's Career Ladder Myth talk.
Building Your Career in Venture with Sam Wong
ONLINE / Liminal / 12.00PM AEST
Hear from Sam on how to build a career in venture and leave inspired after hearing her unexpected path and rewarding journey from law to VC.
Boosting Women Founders
ONLINE / Women of Wearables / 12.30-1.30PM AEST
In this panel, discuss what the barriers are for women founders to get funding, especially in health tech, wearables, and sex tech, what women-focused communities provide and how they can support women founders?
Virtual Pitch Night: Mental Health
ONLINE / UNSW Founders Program / 5.00-7.00PM AEST
This will be a friendly competition where you can pitch your idea to an audience of your peers and a judging panel.
Re-Calibrating Your Mindset in Times of Ambiguity
ONLINE / Academy of Entrepreneurs / 6.00-7.00PM AEST
Understand how to shape your mindset in times of uncertainty with Michelle Boyde, Founder of Floetic.
Pitch Night: Corporate Culture to Startup Scene
ONLINE / Startup Victoria / 6.00-7.30PM AEST
On the night, four founders will pitch their startups to a virtual room of industry professionals, fellow founders and an expert panel of judges to win The Startup Vic Prize Package!
A Masterclass in Pivotabilit
ONLINE / Pivot on Purpose / Multi-Day Event
If 2020 has taught us anything, it is that the future is uncertain. Just in the last six months business-as-usual has been rocked by fires, pandemics and a global reckoning on racial justice. Who knows what 2021, or even the rest of 2020, will bring! That’s why it is crucial for every organisation to be getting ready for that future by developing the skills and mindset of pivotability.
WEDNESDAY JUL 29
A Conversation with Larry Marshall
ONLINE / Innovation Bay / 8.00AM AEST
Larry will talk about the role of science and technology in recovery and resilience, post COVID as well as longer term as we work towards transforming Australia’s economy, energy and environment.
Fireside with Jackie Vullinghs
ONLINE / Liminal / 8.00AM AEST
Join Jackie for a fireside discussion on how she made a career pivot work after running really fast in the wrong direction.
Breakfast Club: Holistic Careers
ONLINE / Liminal / 8.30AM AEST
Through a series of high energy breakout sessions, workshop some of the takeaways from Roli's Holistic Career session.
When Wine Meets Tech
ONLINE / FOMENT / 3.30-5.00PM ACST
Explore the future of wine across four areas with the enablers, inventors and adopters that will shape it.
How We Invented the Ocean Plastic Crisis
ONLINE / Macquarie University Incubator / 12.00-1.00PM AEST
Join Aly Khalifa as he discusses how we innovated our way into this problem as we neglected to understand the full context of our actions. To solve it we need an integrated approach.
Coming to Terms with Australia's Cyberthreat
ONLINE / Stone & Chalk / 12.00-1.00PM AEST
Join this expert panel as they take a high-level view of cyber threats in Australia, analyse cyber attribution efforts and how to prepare your business to handle a threat.
Evening Yoga for Change Makers
ONLINE / Founder Institute / 8.30-9.30PM AEST
An ancient philosophy and way of living passed down through centuries, the benefits of regularly practicing Yoga go beyond relaxation and recalibration of the mind and body, it also helps us to tap in our unconscious mind which holds our deepest creativity and much more inner resources.
Outside of the Square - Strategic Ideation
ONLINE / AgriTech Incubator / Multiple Days
Charles Sturt University Innovation Hubs is proud to present the second Masterclass of four in this series: Smash the startup journey: An ONLINE masterclass series for COEs (Chiefs of Everything).
THURSDAY JUL 30
Designing Your Life with May Samali
ONLINE / Liminal / 8.00AM AEST
Startmate X Blackbird Present: Liminal.
Founder Connect
ONLINE / Startup Victoria / 8.00AM AEST
Startup Victoria's Founder Connect program is a series of bi-weekly online networking sessions designed to maximise your minutes by helping you forge valuable connections with your peers from the startup community - all before 9am!
Breakfast Club: Design Your Life
ONLINE / Liminal / 8.30AM AEST
Through a series of high energy breakout sessions, workshop some of the takeaways from May's Design Your Life workshop.
Venture & Capital - Virtual Investor Conference
ONLINE / Wholesale Investor / 12.00-4.00PM AEST
This event aims to shine a spotlight on the technologies, platforms and investment opportunities from across our ecosystem and connect them with an audience of over 1000 high-net-worth investors and professional investment groups (Venture Capital, Private Equity, Funds and Family Offices) industry, government bodies, founders, managing directors and CEOs.
What is a Good Idea Anyway?
ONLINE / Dream Talks / 12.30-1.30PM AEST
How to identify new opportunities and validate your innovative product ideas and deliver real customer value for the right market.
DIF2020 Festival Community Call
ONLINE / DIFvic / 2.00-3.00PM AEST
Together we are sure to develop creative ways to connect, share ideas and keep learning. Events will be in line with restrictions put in place to slow the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).
Venture Thursdays
ONLINE / Venture Cafe / 4.00-6.00PM AEST
This week's program includes a discussion of sustainability for our oceans, a 3D animation workshop and a fascinating discussion around how we have gone from caveman to cyborgs.
Transformative Technology
ONLINE / theSpace Cairns / 5.30-8.30PM AEST
Experience some of Australia's premier Entrepreneurs & Innovators technologies that are expanding Human Consciousness.
Breaking Down the Walls: Bringing Schools and Industry Together
ONLINE / BlueChilli / 7.30-9.00PM AEST
Three startup founders from the Future Minds Accelerator, and one industry expert will share their points of view.
FRIDAY JUL 31
Hungry Not Proven with Michelle McHargue
ONLINE / Liminal / 8.00AM AEST
Michelle McHargue is the Operating Partner, Costanoa Ventures. Michelle has experience across leading tech and venture capital firms. In this session, she'll share how to break into the startup world, focusing on updating your resume, interviewing remotely, setting goals and surrounding yourself with advocates to propel your career, and more.
Breakfast Club: Hungry Not Proven
ONLINE / Liminal / 8.30AM AEST
Through a series of high energy breakout sessions, workshop some of the takeaways from Michelle's Hungry Not Proven session.
AMA on the Startmate Fellowship
ONLINE / Liminal / 12.00PM AEST
Whatever your background - whether you’re a corporate refugee, engineer, work in an agency, come from a hospitality background, a mother returning to the workforce or are a recent graduate - this will help you find your dream job in a startup.
Tour of the Studio
Sydney Startup Hub / The Studio / 12.00-1.00PM AEST
What is The Studio? What amazing benefits do you get by being part of our community? What kind of startups are in our space? Is it a good fit for you? What is included in your membership?
Winding Down Your Startup
ONLINE / Startup Victoria / 1.00-2.00PM AEST
It can be incredibly difficult to know when it's time to kill your startup, and on top of that even harder to do so gracefully. For many early-stage founders, their startup is a labour of love - it can be as difficult emotionally as it can be logistically.
Fireside Chat with Founder of ClimateForChange.org
ONLINE / Taikera / 12.15-12.45PM AEST
In this Fireside chat, Ima will chat with Katherine about the importance of awareness when it comes to climate change. Katherine will share how and why she started climateforchange.org.au and what's on the horizon!
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