List of hackathons in Brisbane City, Australia in 2017

   Got a financial or health cover solution that appeals to millennials?  Want to know what it's like to collaborate with startups and entrepreneurs in a 48 hour frenzy of fun and activity?  Keen to learn more about what a Hackathon is?  If your answer is yes, join us for a free information session on 3 August at River City Labs for a sneak peek of the activities planned for the 2017 CUA Hackathon which will be held between 18 and 20 August.   Representatives from CUA and River City Labs will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about the Hackathon . It's also a great opportunity to meet other like-minded individuals who may become part of your team over the Hackathon weekend.   Here's what you can expect during the information evening session:  5.30-6pm - Guest arrival and networking 6-6.30pm - Presentation from RCL and CUA  6.30-7pm - Question and answer session  7-7.30pm - Networking.  In the meantime, check out the video of last year's CUA Hackathon to see what took place.  Any questions?  Please email info@rivercitylabs.net

. Verge Young Entrepreneur Program challenges students to take on the role of a social entrepreneur to come up with an original, innovative solution to tackle some of the world’s most complex issues.  Over the course of a term, students explore marginalisation as a platform from which to look at disadvantage in their world. From this, students work with real life entrepreneurs, industry experts and external organisations to devise their own social enterprises which close the gap for a marginalised group in society. An innovative, project based learning unit; Verge involves over 300 Year 9 students across three Brisbane State High Schools. The MacGregor SHS Verge Young Entrepreneur Showcase Evening is the first of three showcases whereby students will share their enterprise ideas, and finalists will pitch 'Shark Tank' style to a panel of judges. The second Showcase and Shark Tank is to be held at Kedron State High School on Tuesday 1st August, 2017, and the final evening is at Brisbane State High School on Friday 11th August.  MacGregor State High School is thrilled to invite you to: Verge Young Entrepreneur Showcase Evening Friday 28th July, 2017 MacGregor State High School Hall Food Trucks and Coffee Van Available from 4:30pm- 6pm 5pm-6pm: Enterprise Displays Wander around our Gallery of Enterprises, and speak to the Verge Young Entrpreneurs themselves. Upon arrival, make sure you get your Voting Chips, so you can show support for your favourite ventures. The Social Enterprise with the greatest number of votes will receive the People's Choice Award. Throughout the Verge program, students work with local social entrepreneurs as mentors. We are lucky to have some of these remarkable individuals sharing their enterprises in our gallery- including Lauren Shuttleworth's Words with Heart, Freda Thong's Ecopads, Jordyn de Boer's Boomerang Bags and Jarred Turner's IMPACT Social Enterprise. Make sure you stop by their stands to chat to the entepreneurs themselves and hear about the incredible ways they are making a positive impact. 6pm- 8pm: The Lion's Den At 6pm, join us inside MacG's The Lion's Den as our finalists pitch their social enterprises 'Shark Tank' style to a panel of Judges. Cheer our social enterpreneurs on as they stand up under the big lights- and the hard questions, from our judges to nab the winner's crown. The winning social enterprise from MacG's The Lion's Den will then pitch against the winners of Brisbane SHS' The Griffin's Lair and Kedron SHS' The Tiger's Cave in Melbourne in September for funding, glory, honour and the chance to get their enterprise out of the classroom, and into reality. We are honoured to introduce our esteemed panel of judges for the MacG's The Lion's Den: 1. Jan Owen AM CEO The Foundation for Young Australians Jan is a highly regarded social entrepreneur, innovator, influencer and author who has spent the past 25 years growing Australia's youth, social enterprise and innovation sectors. In 2012 she was named Australia's inaugural Australian Financial Review and Westpac Woman of Influence; in 2014 she received the Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of Sydney; and was awarded membership to the Order of Australia in 2000. She is the author of Every Childhood Lasts a Lifetime (1996) and The Future Chasers (2014). Jan is the CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians and YLab, the global youth futures lab. Her lifelong mission is to unleash the potential of young people to lead positive change in the world. 2. Nicole Gibson CEO Rogue & Rouge Foundation & Start Up Apprentice, National Mental Health Commissioner At 18 years old, Nicole established her Not-for-Profit, The Rogue and Rouge Foundation, and grew it to sustainability whilst also completing two National speaking tours. Nicole was a finalist for the Young Australian of the Year at 20 years old, and was listed as one of Australia’s Top 100 Most Influential Women at 21, shortly after taking out the Pride of Australia Medal. Thus far, Nicole has facilitated workshops and presentations with over a quarter of a million Australians. 3. Kaitlin Tait Co-Founder Spark* International, General Manager of Impact YGAP Kaitlin is the co-founder of Spark* International, and following a 2015 merger, is now the Global General Manager of Impact for YGAP. Her nine years of international development experience began with her leading a school for street-children in a Tanzania slum and managing an HIV orphanage in a Kenyan village, before launching Spark* and growing the model across Africa and the Asia Pacific. Kaitlin was the 2015 Foundation for Young Australians Trailblazer of the Year and speaks and works with entrepreneurs globally. Originally from San Francisco, she now works from our global headquarters in Melbourne. 4. Steve Williams Queensland Social Innovation Manager at Marist180 Over the course of the last ten years Steve has spoken at numerous conferences on social enterprise,appeared on national television, ABC Radio National, 612 ABC Brisbane Radio, and 4BC Radio, been featured in many newspaper articles on social enterprise and been responsible for three start-up's. He is the founder of Australia's first Homlessness Hackathon and Co-founder of Techfugees Brisbane. In 2016, his team was awarded the One to Watch Award at the Australian Social Enterprise awards for the scalability of M180 Painting Services, a social enterprise developed to create employment for young unemployed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. In his previous role as Social Enterprise Director at Sandbag Inc, Steve led SEED PPM to be awarded small Australian Social Enterprise of the Year 2014 and he also co-founded the Queensland Social Enterprise Council. 5. Elizabeth Foster Learner, Educator, School Leader Ms Foster began her career as a Health and Physical Education teacher, and for the past 15 years has served in school leadership positions at Wellington Point State High School, Kelvin Grove State College, Stretton State College, Ferny Grove Stage High School. Ms Foster is currently Principal at MacGregor SHS. Join us as we celebrate the success of our Year 9 Business students, and witness the next generation of social enterpreneurs in action.

Hacking Health 2017, Brisbane, Australia Would you like to help identify and solve problems and work on projects to improve healthcare, and potentially win prizes?  If so, Hacking Health is for you. Australia's Hacking Health 2017 calls upon people interested in improving healthcare to come together to innovate to deliver value and connect care.   Who's invited? Innovators, entrepreneurs, developers, designers, analysts, health practitioners, community groups, patient and consumer advocates, academics, students (from across different disciplines), and others interested in coming together to improve healthcare. What Solutions Does Hacking Health Seek? Hacking Health is an opportunity to explore what's possible in a connected health system.   Examples of innovations to deliver greater value in healthcare could, for example, include solutions for: better patient and consumer outcomes;  improved experience for health practitioners and patients;  greater system and payment efficiencies; and higher quality of care. What solution could you come up, working in a team with the help of mentors, experts, and access to data?  Participate in Hacking Health and find out! Hacking Health Timeline & Events Australia's Hacking Health hackathon 2017 will be held in Brisbane from 7-9 August 2017.  Before then, you'll have an opportunity to think of problems, projects, and find, join or form teams, at the 26 July pitch Night at QUT.   There's also an online community for Hacking Health Australia 2017 for connecting with people and projects, which you can sign up to now.   Hacking Health Pitch Night - 26 July at QUT If you're serious about Hacking Health, or want to know more, register now to come to the Hacking Health Pitch Night at QUT on 26 July.  Note: spaces are limited. Benefits of Hacking Health Pitch Night The Pitch Night at QUT is open to all and is designed to help you:  pitch a healthcare problem to be solved at, or project for, the Hacking Health hackathon find, create, and join teams for the Hacking Health hackathon practise your pitch before the Hacking Health hackathon learning more about the Hacking Health hackathon prepare you to register your project/team for the hackathon by the deadline (1 week) before the 7-9 August hackathon network and connect with others, including experts, interested in improving healthcare, whilst enjoying complimentary food and drinks meet some of the people involved with Hacking Health, including organisers from HISA and sponsors including ADHA, ehealth QLD, Oracle, QUT, & DXC Technologies meet some of the experts, researchers, and mentors from QUT who will assist at the Hacking Health hackathon, including people experienced in innovation, entrepreneurship, tech, health research, and commercialisation  *Note: pitching times are limited to one (1) minute and friendly feedback from peers may be provided. Hacking Health Hackathon 7-9 August Hacking Health culminates in a hackathon on 7-9 August at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, during HIC 2017 - Australia's premier digital health, health informatics and e-health conference - bringing together health's most forward thinking innovators.   I'm Interested - What Do I Do Next? Register now to come along to the 26 July Pitch Night at QUT foundry via this Eventbrite invitation. Please also sign up here. Join the online community, including your details in the "people" section.  If you have a problem/project idea, you can add that too in the "projects" section.  You can also indicate the help you can provide or seek. Register here  to attend the 7-9 August Hacking Health Hackathon. $10 for students; $50 others; complimentary for HIC 2017 attendees)    Organiser & Supporters of Hacking Health   Organiser  HISA is the Health Informatics Organisation of Australia. HISA is organising Hacking Health and HIC 2017. www.hisa.org.au.   Supporters   Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) was established by the Australian Government in July 2016 to drive digital health for the Australian community. We are working with the Australian community, clinicians, researchers and industry to connect people and their clinicians, and ultimately, to improve health and care in our community.     eHealth Queensland was established in response to the growing importance of technology in the delivery of quality, safe and efficient healthcare. eHealth Queensland is a fundamental support agency for the delivery of health services to the community, supporting the ICT needs of the state's 16 Hospital and Health Services (HHSs) and the Department of Health. eHealth is about enabling greater access to information, anywhere, anytime - working towards a fully integrated healthcare system, where staff can easily access patient information, where and when they need it.       QUT is proud to support Hacking Health, including by providing mentors and experts to assist teams, sharing research findings and insights, and hosting the Pitch Night event. QUT Foundry exists to inspire and enable students, staff, researchers, graduates and alumni to solve problems, shape and seize opportunities, become founders and social change agents, and build, grow, and scale startups and social enterprises.  For more information visit the QUT Foundry website. QUT bluebox is the innovation, knowledge transfer, and commercialisation company of QUT. www.qutbluebox.com.au. Real Health Matters was launched by QUT Faculty of Health in 2016 to enable the achievement of its five year vision to change the narrative around health issues in Australia. It has a focus on improving the wellbeing of the more vulnerable in society thorugh engagement with industry, government and NGOs and embedding this learning into the curriculum, research and service. In 2017, a Real Health Matters Virtual Network was established through which to take forward ideas and opportunities to improve the lives of the more vulnerable in society. www.realheathmatters.org.au. QUT IHIBI The Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation is an Australian collaborative medical research institute based at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Queensland.   Oracle offers a comprehensive and fully integrated stack of cloud applications and platform services. www.oracle.com.   DXC Technology is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology serves nearly 6,000 private and public sector clients across 70 countries. Healthcare organisations across the world are looking to improve the quality of care, while managing its cost. With extensive domain knowledge, best-in-class technology, consulting services and years of experience working with some of the largest and most complex healthcare organisations, DXC Technology is ready to help your organisation transform for the future. www.dxc.technology.

   Learn Innovation Logic Six easy steps to innovate any product or process -&- access the 'global brain' Join us at QUT in a practical workshop teaching you innovation logic, based on an award-winning method and software, used by innovative companies and universities, led by an international visitor to QUT, Simon Dewulf, CEO of AULIVE.  What You Will Learn   This workshop is packed with practical learning opportunities aimed to improve innovation outcomes: Discover how you can use big data inherent in the ‘global brain’ to think like the best innovators. Learn how to abstract and re-apply innovations past to prompt innovations of the future. Understand who has solved similar problems before, and how you can use that knowledge to create innovative solutions today. Learn a 6-step approach to systematic creativity. Learn how to access inspirational ideas from across many domains through www.moreinspiration.com. Learn data mining techniques to help you search a database of 90 million patents to trigger divergent possibilities across the widest range of fields. www.patentinspiration.com AULIVE Innovation Logic AULIVE's Innovation Logic is a collection of hands-on tools and a systematic method designed to demystify and systematize the space of creativity, innovation and value creation. Based on 20 years R&D development in the innovation domain, the AULIVE method has been distilled into 6 easy steps to innovate products or processes, with the inspiration tools. AULIVE runs programs for leading companies and universities globally, including CSIRO, GE, GSK, Holmen, Kimberly-Clark, Kodak, L'Oréal, PMI, Philips, P&G, SABMiller,  Siemens, SKF , TATA, Toyota, Unilever, and many more.   Who Should Attend? This workshop will provide practical benefits, aimed to improve innovation, for:  Innovation Professionals Startup teams Entrepreneurs & Social Enterprises New Product Development Teams R&D Managers Patent Attorneys Commercialisation Managers IP Lawyers Researchers/Scholars/Educators interested in Technology, Innovation, IP, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence CTOs CEOs & Senior managers  Product Designers Marketers Data scientists  Artificial Intelligence experts (& others with an interest) Small Business Owners Business Consultants Places are limited, so register now. Our International Guest Presenter     Simon Dewulf will take you through his easy 6-step approach to systematic creativity. He is the director and creator of AULIVE, an award-winning online resource for creativity and innovation, including an online database of over 90 million patent documents. Today, over 1500 people are trained in the AULIVE method, which has been used in hundreds of innovation projects over the past 15 years. AULIVE’s method and research tools run in technology driven companies such as L’Oreal, DSM, Shell, SKF, Toyota, GSK, P&G, SIEMENS and universities such as Nottingham, Liberec, Brno and Talca. The AULIVE method and software was awarded the INSEAD Innovator Prize in 2010, and Gartner Cool Vendor 2016.   For more information, visit: www.aulive.com; www.patentinspiration.com - a free online patent search and analysis tool that helps support your innovation process, made by www.aulive.com; and www.innovationlogic.com.au.   Sponsors & Supporters   This event is brought to by QUT foundry,  QUT Business School's "Dynamic Capabilities of Innovation and Change" Research Group and QUT Starters.     QUT foundry exists to inspire and enable students, staff, researchers, graduates and alumni to be founders and social change agents and to help build, grow, and scale startups and social enterprises.  For more information visit the QUT Foundry website.   QUT Business School's "Dynamic Capabilities of Innovation and Change" Research Group helps organisations, industry, managers, teams, and stakeholder networks to be more innovative and build and leverage their capabilities to strategically adapt to change, grow, and prosper. We conduct and apply findings from world-class research to advance and apply knowledge for economic and other positive impacts. QUT Starters is a student run society supporting students from all disciplines who have interest in discovering their inner entrepreneur. We do this through connecting with the local start-up community, industry, running workshops and hosting events. Our doors are welcome to anyone who is interested in entrepreneurship or innovation, regardless where you come from. Visit the QUT Starters website.  Want to participate in a program to learn how to be an entrepreneur? Apply to QUT Starters' Startup Hatch program.     QUT Code Network aims to help produce the best developers on the planet. Collaborate, practice and develop skills in creating quality software, and meet and network with professionals and academics. We host hackathons, industry sponsored events, weekly meetups and workshops! We are also heavy participants in the Brisbane startup scene. Build whatever, as long as it is awesome. Visit the QUT Code Network: Website; Facebook page; Github; and Twitter.  QUT Code Network's flagship event is the famous Code Network Winter Hackathon, held this year August 10-11, at QUT Gardens Point campus. 

  Learn to Code & Create Web Applications Beginner & advanced programmers: you're invited to attend the Ruby on Rails InstallFest, a training workshop by reinteractive teaching the popular progamming language Ruby on Rails (aka 'Rails'), in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere at the QUT foundry entrepreneurship hub.   What You'll Gain From Attending By attending this event, you can: learn how to code, with help from industry experts, in Ruby on Rails - a programming language that's both beginner friendly, powerful, and in-demand  get help setting up your laptop so it's ready to develop Ruby on Rails applications meet industry mentors/developers who use Ruby on Rails in business, working with startups to scaled businesses develop a web application using a helpful framework (we can get you building a blog at the event so that by the end of the night it's online and published - then we'll get your published blog personalised, with Javascript, CSS and headers and footers) become familiar with a tool useful for founders/startups doing prototyping, startups & scaleups meet others in the vibrant Ruby on Rails community Freebies including delicious pizza (the good stuff) and drinks & vouchers to various training tools and sites   Workshop Program 4:00PM - 4:10PM: Welcome 4:10PM - 7:10PM: Ruby on Rails Workshop led by experienced trainers 7:10PM - 8:00PM: Network over free (gourmet) pizza and drinks   Who Should Attend Whether you're an absolute beginner new to programming, or you have coding skills and want to learn a useful and popular new language, this workshop will suit you. People who may benefit include: Entrepreneurs Programmers Website / web application designers/developers Marketers Bloggers Anyone wanting a practical introduction to coding   Limited Workshop Spaces - Registration Essential Places are strictly limited, and past events have quickly reached capacity, so we recommend you register now.  Important Note: If you do register, and later cannot make it, please free up your registration at the earliest opportunity so that someone else may attend. Things to Bring & Do (Pre-Event)  Please bring your own laptop (Mac or PC). For Mac Users If you're planning to work from your Mac, please visit the itunes store to download and install Xcode installed before the event. If you have any questions about this, please contact Contact Community Manager Rachelle LeQuesne: community@reinteractive.net.   Sponsors     Reinteractive are Ruby on Rails Developers, Ops, UX & Design experts based in Australia creating custom web, mobile & social apps that return real value for our clients. It's a focus that drives our entire company and we are proud to be Australia’s largest Ruby on Rails focused development shop. einteractive has become a thought leader in the Industry creating free community training initiatives and have introduced hundreds of new developers to the language at the InstallFest. Visit the reinteractive website to learn more.     QUT Foundry exists to inspire and enable students, staff, researchers, graduates and alumni to be founders and social change agents and to help build, grow, and scale startups and social enterprises.  For more information visit the QUT Foundry website.   Other Groups/Events You Might Like If you're interested in coding and/or entrepreneurship, here are some great local groups running excellent events: Rail Girls Brisbane aims to breakdown barriers to technology and make it more accessible for women. Rail Girls is an international community dedicated to introducing women to software development in a safe and inclusive environment.  Our aim is to empower women to take the initial steps to conquer the online world. View details of the upcoming Rails Girls Brisbane event on 21 and 22 July 2017. QUT Starters is a student run society supporting students from all disciplines who have interest in discovering their inner entrepreneur. We do this through connecting with the local start-up community, industry, running workshops and hosting events. Our doors are welcome to anyone who is interested in entrepreneurship or innovation, regardless where you come from. Visit the QUT Starters website.  Want to participate in a program to learn how to be an entrepreneur? Then apply to QUT Starters' Startup Hatch program which launches July 19.    QUT Code Network QUT Code Network aims to help produce the best developers on the planet. Collaborate, practice and develop skills in creating quality software, and meet and network with professionals and academics. We host hackathons, industry sponsored events, weekly meetups and workshops! We are also heavy participants in the Brisbane startup scene. Build whatever, as long as it is awesome. Visit the QUT Code Network: Website; Facebook page; Github; and Twitter.  QUT Code Network's flagship event is the famous Code Network Winter Hackathon, held this year August 10-11, at QUT Gardens Point campus. 

Hi Everyone, We're back on track and we're hosting the next meetup down an old'y but good'y location - the Defiant Duck down at the Gasworks (at the ground floor of the BOQ building). The whole team will be there and there's lots to talk about. Here's some of the new things since last time. • Oracle Cloud now has $300 free credit trial available to sign-up • #OracleCode - a global developer conference is coming to Sydney on July 18 • Oracle is supporting an upcoming hackathon called TADHack on 22-24 September We will also have present David Peake from our PM team visiting Brisbane because of #OracleCode. For our existing Oracle DB customers, it'd be a good chance to meet and chat with David is a great setting. Even if you are not an Oracle DB customer or not even interested in Oracle DB, come along and be part of the growing community - there are plenty of other customers, partners and Oracle people attending. If you want to join the meetup on a more regular basis and get the updates and other events - go to https://www.meetup.com/SeeYouThere-with-Oracle-Brisbane. Thanks, Jason. See You There.

VR techies and enthusiasts in and around Brisbane! You're invited to participate in the VR Hackathon Brisbane! You'll get to collaborate with the best-of-the-best virtual reality minds in Queensland and beyond! You'll collaborate with your peers to design and prototype innovative new immersive technology solutions.

Interested in solutions to address homelessness? Come participate in the Homelessness Hackathon 2017. You'll be immersed in the problems facing the homeless in Brisbane and throughout Queensland. You'll be challenged to come up with creative solutions to those problems. If you're up to hack for a great cause register for the Homelessness Hackathon! Come and make a difference, have fun, learn and help create solutions for the Queensland homeless!

Clinicians, developers, business professionals, and designers in and around Brisbane! You're invited to participate in Metro North Hospital and Health Service's Metro North IT Frail & Elderly Hackathon 2017. Take up Metro North's challenge -- in one day to build six applications that improve the outcome and experience for frail and elderly people visiting the hospital. You'll participate in a team lead by a Metro North IT team leader on one of the following application ideas: »TOPIC A - One Screen App »TOPIC B - Rx Connect App »TOPIC C - Right Gear App »TOPIC D - My Health Portal App »TOPIC E - Where Do I Go App »TOPIC F - Trigger Happy App.

Join Cas McCullough, founder of Writally, and the Legendary Josh Wulf from Magikcraft for our second one-day content hackathon where you can write up to a year's content for your startup, small business, or personal brand. "Before I went to the Content Hackathon, I didn't write content and it was a frickin' pain in the neck. It dragged me down cos I knew I had to do it. It sucked! At the Content Hackathon I realised that I could follow this simple pattern and use Writally to generate my content. I scheduled it and turned it into a habit. I literally got my entire year's content sorted on that day. Now I think about other stuff, and the content is no longer a problem. It's happening - predictably! #HowIGeneratedAYearsContentInADayWithCasWritally" Josh Wulf from Magikcraft.io. Featured Session 1: How to turn your blog into a bestselling book Have you ever wanted to write a book? Did you know that you can blog your way to becoming a published author? That's exactly what Cas did and when she launched her book Your Brilliant Un-Career, it was no. 1 in its category on Amazon in launch week and has helped Cas win $$$$$ in new business. In our second content hackathon, not only will you have the opportunity to get up to a year's worth of content sorted, but Cas is going to show you how to turn your blog into a book, and give you a list of blog post types to help you get started. It's easier than you think, especially when you use Writally's revolutionary blog post recipes to give you the structure you need to make your bestseller a reality. "Thank you for the fantastic Writally workshop!  It has really kickstarted a blogging frenzy!! :)." Emily De la Pena, (from Coding Kids) Featured Session 2: SEO tips for your blog with Angela Henderson Angela Henderson's blog at Finlee and Me literally attracts millions of page views and her online retail store is a mega-success story. Angela will talk about how getting her SEO right helped her attract more eye-balls to her blog and business and she'll share about her amazing social media success. She recently had a post go viral to over 1 million people! Angela knows her stuff! If you're serious about monetizing your blog, don't miss this! We will be providing lunch on the day so that you can focus on creating content. We have excellent coffee next door at The Urban Hotel and there's chilled water on tap. CCIQ are generously providing drinks on the day! Please let us know about any dietary restrictions or allergies that you have by Friday May 19. Any inquiries, please contact Cas - cas@writally.com 0438898706 or Josh - josh@magikcraft.io 0431929675. MORE TESTIMONIALS "Thank you for a wonderful value-packed day! Glad you had a days event gave me time to get over some blocks! Thank you again, Caroline." Myrna Widlend "Attending the bloghackathon was exactly what I needed to get over my block in thinking I couldn't write blogs. Words have never been my strong point, Physical Education and Maths are!! This session enables me to work to a recipe to write a blog in my style. It is quick and easy to learn AND do. Thanks Caroline McCullough" Alina Graham (from All About Aquatics) "At the Bloghackahon in February, within 1 hour, I wrote and posted to my website 2 blogs using Writally recipes. All I started with was the title and 3 or 4 bullet points. The recipes make it so easy for the words to flow and I know my readers will enjoy the post, whether I'm telling a story or sharing tips and tricks." Richard Comer (from The Vehicle Broker) "I tend to procrastinate writing new posts. I love the blog hackathons because they enable me to get a post done in one sitting with only am hour set aside." James Rose (from Aktura Tech and startup ContentSnare) HOW IT WORKS Before the Event: 1. You'll be able to generate a light-weight one-page content strategy with the help of Cas's breakthrough One Page Blog Strategy Canvas. You'll get the webinar in advance so you are ready to create on the day.  2. After you register for the event, register for a free Writally blog post recipe* via our app. We will add 2 free recipes to your account prior to the event to get you started. Register at https://app.writally.com/account/register. Tip: if you need help brainstorming topics, join the Writally group on Facebook and ask for input from our 411+ members [http://www.facebook.com/groups/writally]. At the Event: Bring your laptop, and get ready to write! Using your blog post recipes (which you can download at the event), you'll have uninterrupted time to write as well as help on hand by professional writers! At the end of the event, you’ll walk away with a ton of helpful feedback to help you improve your blog writing and kick-ass blog posts you can publish immediately! *Please note, you must get your requests to us by 5pm on the Friday before the event to access your first two custom blog post recipes on the day! You can subscribe for more during the event. Common Questions Answered What's a blog post recipe? Writally recipes are step-by-step frameworks for your blog posts that are customised to the type of post you want to create. For instance: If you wanted to write a How To Blog post that was a beginner's guide, you'd plug in your preferences on the Writally Recipe Wizard and we'd put a recipe in your dashboard that suits your needs. What are my transport/parking options getting to the event? Parking: Metered street parking is available along Albert Street and Wickham TCE and there is public parking at the nearby hospital. Public Transport: Collaborate is within easy walking distance of Roma Street and Central Stations (about 5 mins) but it is uphill/stairs so be prepared for a little exercise. What can/can't I bring to the event? If you have special dietary needs, please BYO to the event. There's a fridge in the kitchen behind the bloghackathon room. Where can I contact the organizer with any questions? Email me at support [at] writally.com Is my registration/ticket transferrable? No. However, if you need to cancel due to illness or emergency, we will refund your ticket fee up to 24 hours prior to the event. Are food and drinks included? Lunch, snacks and drinks included. (Please let us know of any food allergies by May 19). There is a fridge in the kitchen if you need to BYO.  This event is proudly supported by