Entrepreneurship Events with USA Investor Steve Barsh | Brisbane Nov 26

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    Entrepreneurship Day for Entrepreneurs, Startups & Companies   For current and future entrepreneurs, startups, & companies engaged in innovation and venturing, November 26 is day of opportunity, with industry & international guests,  startup success stories, investor presentations, pitches to an investor*, designs showcase, ecosystem opportunities, and networking!   Overview   Come for the whole day or select any individual session of interest:   Location 1: The Precinct, Fortitude Valley:   Morning Sessions: 09:00am-09:20am | Indonesian Market & Healthcare (Opportunities for Startups) 09:20am-09:40am | Telehealth Startup AloDoktor (Growth from Seed to Series B) 09:40am-09:50am | Q&A with Austrade & Startup AloDoktor 09:50am-11:00am | (Break) 11:00am-12:30pm | De-risking your startup idea or business project   Lunch: 12:30pm-01:30pm | Designs on Display / Lunch    Afternoon Sessions: 01:30pm-02:10pm | Pitching Session 1: Health Tech Startups 02:10pm-02:30pm | Networking break 02:30pm-03:00pm | Pitching Session 2: Tech Startups (e.g. Urban, Cyber, Social) 03:15pm-04:00pm | Biomedical, Health & Robotics Research Translated: Pitches & MedTech Commercialisation Opportunities 04:00pm-04:15pm | Networking   Location 2: TRI, Woolloongabba: 05:15pm-07:00pm | Meeting with customers early: Tricks and key questions to ask Registration You can register (free) to come along for: the whole day (via this invite); or any of the individual events (via their respective links).    Startups Interested in Pitching *For startup businesses, there are a limited number of spots (& few remaining) to be selected to pitch to Dreamit Ventures’ Steve Barsh for feedback. Startups in these areas are sought:   HealthTech - digital health, medtech, medical devices UrbanTech - prop tech, real estate tech, construction tech, smart buildings, smart cities, etc. SecureTech - logical security including cybersecurity, physical security (security of people, places, and things), and  Social Security - social security (focusing on countermeasures to fraud, information warfare, disinformation, fake news, etc.)     Sign up here if you want to be considered.   About Steve Barsh Steve is a Managing Partner at Dreamit Ventures, a US-based early-stage venture fund. He has over 30 years of experience starting, leading, launching and building multinational companies in the fields of healthcare, real estate/built environment, and security as well as early-stage venture work. Steve has helped launch over 100 companies that have generated over US$1 billion in enterprise value. He is also a special advisor to NASA for its annual NASA Cross Industry Innovation Summit. He has taught in the Wharton MBA program at the University of Pennsylvania and has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two children. About the Organisers Steve Barsh has been brought to Australia by MTPConnect. Events at the Precinct are co-hosted by QUT foundry, Hacking Health Queensland and QUT Institute for Health & Biomedical Innovation; and the event at the Translational Research Institute (TRI) is supported by TRI, the Queensland Government and Medical Research Commercialisation Fund.      Hacking Health Queensland is part of a global network, acting locally to share knowledge and enable innovation and entrepreneurship to advance and improve health and healthcare, including through the design and faciliation of hackathons, design jams, innovation and educational events. We connect and collaborate with the health sector, government, academia, research, startups and industry.  QUT foundry is part of Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) entrepreneurship ecosystem, being a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship, serving to inspire, enable, and connect current and future innovators, change agents, social entrepreneurs, and founders. It offers co-working space, events, mentoring, an incubator program, and more to benefit the QUT community and wider ecosystem.   MTPConnect is a not-for-profit organisation aiming to accelerate the rate of growth of the medical technologies, biotechnologies and pharmaceuticals sector to increase commercialisation, collaboration, and establish Australia as an Asia-Pacific hub for MTP companies. Formed in December 2015 as part of the Federal Government's Industry Growth Centres Initiative, MTPConnect is an independent and trusted voice, call for change to support the sector.

    Location

    The Precinct* (*until 4:15pm then TRI from 5:15pm)
    Brisbane, Australia

    Date

    From 26th November 2018 - 09:00 AM
    to 26th November 2018 - 07:00 PM