BOQ Hackathon 2017: The Future of Fintech
Teams organically form around the top ideas (by popular vote). Then, it’s a 52 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding/building, designing, and market validation.
Over the Saturday and Sunday there will be a number of top notch mentors including; legal experts, startup veterans/ entrepreneurs, marketing guru’s, IT specialists, Regulatory and Compliance advisors, and design professionals.
Masterclass education sessions will be run on both Saturday and Sunday that will showcase tips and tricks on Lean start up, business models, validation, and pitching.
The weekend wraps up with teams presenting their startup to a combination of some of BOQ’s influential leaders and local entrepreneurial experts, including Mark Sowerby (Qld Chief Entrepreneur, founder Blue Sky Funds).
The winners will be awarded some really awesome prizes from the likes of BOQ, their customers and local partners.
Food and drinks for the weekend will be provided as part of the weekend, including 7 meals (breakfasts, lunches, dinners) sourced from local businesses, as well as snacks, refreshments and COFFEE throughout the weekend.
About Bank of Queensland
We pride ourselves on building long-term customer relationships that are based on mutual respect and understanding. We have more than 200 branches across Australia, and in each and every one of them you’ll find us really getting to know our customers and recognising the things they need, rather than selling them things they don’t. It’s how we’ve been doing business since 1874.
We’ve created simple, easy-to-understand banking products to help support our customers’ financial needs. We offer a range of these products and services to individuals, as well as businesses.
Technology is something we love to embrace, especially when it’s used to help our customers and get to know them better.
We’re one of the top 100 companies ranked by market capitalisation on the Australian Securities Exchange and are regulated by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority as an Authorised Deposit-taking Institution.
But most importantly, every day, we work hard to prove that it’s possible to love a bank.
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Agenda
Friday
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Dinner & Networking
18:40 Main Even Starts, Guest Speakers
19:30 Team building exercise
20:10 Pitches + Voting + Team Formation
20:30 Teams move to workspace
23:30 Doors close
Saturday
08:00 Doors open
08:30 Breakfast
9:30 1st Workshop: Lean Startup 101
10:00 2nd Workshop: MVP and Rapid Prototyping
10:30 3rd Workshop: Event Tracks
12:30 Team check-ins
12:45 Lunch
13:45 Mentors arrive
13:50 Mentor briefing
14:00 Mentoring slots (10-15 slots per team)
16:00 Mentors leave
18:30 Teams check-ins
18:45 Dinner
19:30 Free working session
23:30 Doors close
Sunday
08:00 Doors open
08:30 Breakfast
9:45 Mentors arrive
10:00 Mentoring slots (10-15 minutes per slot)
12:00 Mentors leave
12:30 Lunch
13:30 4th Workshop: Pitching
14:30 Pitch Practice Start, Teams can test their tech in the presentation space
16:00 Tools down – Move to presentation space
16:30 Presentations start
16:45 Pitches start
18:00 Dinner
19:00 Winners announced, Group photo & After-party