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Free lunch with deep tech expert, mentor and founder? Come along to this Billion Dollar Panel

By Canberra Innovation Network posted 12 days ago
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The Billion Dollar Panel series provides an opportunity for members of the innovation community to share in the wealth of knowledge experienced mentors, investors and founders bring to the table. Come along to hear from experienced founder, director and mentor, Dr Lyndal Thorburn FAICD MIPA. REGISTER HERE Lyndal has a 30 year management and consulting career in and for technology-based organisations and government (including CSIRO). As Managing Director of Advance Consulting and then Innovation Dynamics Pty Ltd, she worked on over 40 new business ventures over 12 years, mainly in biotechnology, completing business plans and market research and supporting ...
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Ian Mackay, CEO of the Canberra Southern Cross Club, shares his thoughts on life in Canberra, Covid-19 lockdowns and the future of the Southern Cross Club

By Canberra Business Chamber posted 18 days ago
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Ian Mackay and his family arrived in Canberra in the middle of winter 2014 to take up the role as CEO of the Canberra Southern Cross Club. As a born and bred Melburnian who then spent almost 20 years living near Bondi Beach in Sydney, the change in climate came as quite a shock. “I remember we were taking lots of photos of the kids rugged up for school, crisp frosts on the grass and snow on the Brindabella’s to send back to family and friends in Sydney” he said. Since then, Ian and his family have become well trained in the important ‘rules’ of living in Canberra such as not to turn the heaters on before Anzac Day and not to plant the tomatoes before Cup Day! ...
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Calling all space and climate change enthusiasts! How does $10,000 in prize money sound?

By Canberra Innovation Network posted 19 days ago
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SPACEHACK is a competition for diverse teams of innovators excited by space, space technologies, innovation and entrepreneurship. Exceptional collaborative atmosphere with access to leading mentors and space companies with short workshops that help participants generate, evolve and pitch ideas to win the vote of the judges. Throughout the hackathon you will be addressed by inspiring industry and academic experts from our sponsoring organisations, and experience rapid workshops focusing on ideation, validation, business models and building your skills to pitch your idea with impact. We have an experienced mentor pool ...
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Interested in accelerating your business? Check out the GRIFFIN Accelerator!

By Canberra Innovation Network posted 19 days ago
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Interested in accelerating your high potential startup? Come along to a lunch & learn to hear about the Griffin Accelerator Program . We’ll ensure plenty of time for Q&A. Find out about the GRIFFIN Accelerator BYO Lunch. The GRIFFIN Accelerator is a three-month intensive program run by a group of seasoned Canberra entrepreneurs who invest in, host, coach and mentor selected startups to create successful high growth businesses. The heart of this program are the mentors, who bring substantial experience in startups, investing, raising capital, sales, business development, and significant industry and investor networks. You’ll meet ...
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Lunch & Learn: Managing Your IP Portfolio with King & Wood Mallesons

By Canberra Innovation Network posted 24 days ago
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Learn how to manage your IP portfolio with experts from King & Wood Mallesons. REGISTER TODAY More bang for your buck: Managing your IP portfolio to maximise your returns – this presentation will cover the journey from growing your idea from a thought bubble into a sustainable model where your Intellectual Property can do its best work. It will canvas the key features of commercialising IP, the steps in the IP commercialisation journey, what financiers look at when assessing IP, mitigating the risk of legal challenges relating to IP and options for commercialisation. King & Wood Mallesons have been named Most Innovative Law Firm ...
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First Wednesday Connect - 1 June

By Canberra Innovation Network posted 27-05-2022
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First Wednesday Connect is back again! Why not make it the boost you need for those mid-week blues?! Are you interested to hear what's going on in Canberra innovation? Looking to meet other startups, entrepreneurs, mentors, researchers, students and potential collaborators? Come along to First Wednesday Connect, a monthly networking event, where you'll hear from budding entrepreneurs in a high-intensity 60-second pitch format as you enjoy nibbles and drinks from local businesses Altina and Heaps Normal. Wednesday 1 June | 5:00PM - 6:30PM 1 Moore Street, Canberra Registration is free but essential: https://cbrin.com.au/events/fwc-june-2022/
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First Wednesday Connect May 2022

By Canberra Innovation Network posted 08-04-2022
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Register Now! Event information Hosted in partnership with the Academy of Interactive Entertainment, this First Wednesday Connect is set to be one to remember! Get involved in our regular monthly get-together aiming to energise, share stories and encourage collaboration between entrepreneurs, researchers, investors and innovators of all sorts. Hear from Canberra’s budding entrepreneurs in our high intensity 60 second pitching format and meet new people over drinks and nibbles. It is free to come along, register now to go in the draw to win a prize on the night! (You must be at the event to claim the prize.) —————————————————— FAQ ...
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Wage Subsidy for new Apprentices/Trainees Extended

By Talha Tariq posted 01-04-2022
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Dear Members, I am pleased to inform you that the government has extended the popular wage subsidy incentive program ( Boosting Apprenticeship Commencement ) for 3 months until 30 June 2022. Any employer who takes on an Apprentice or Trainee up until 30 June 2022 can gain access to: 50 % of the eligible Australian Apprentice’s wages in the first year, capped at a maximum payment value of $7,000 per quarter per Australian Apprentice, 10 % of the eligible Australian Apprentice’s wages in the second year, capped at a maximum payment value of $1,500 per quarter per Australian Apprentice, and 5 % of the eligible Australian Apprentice’s wages ...
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FREE INNOVATION WORKSHOP FOR PUBLIC SERVANTS

By Canberra Innovation Network posted 18-03-2022
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The Canberra Innovation Network is partnering with Amazon Web Services to deliver two free half-day day workshops on an introduction to Lean Innovation for Australian Public Servants. The practical workshop will include experienced entrepreneurs and feature practical case studies and useful tools for the application of lean innovation in the workplace . Participants will experience a “day in the life of an entrepreneur” to learn valuable pitching and engagement skills. These skills can be translated into the workplace by changing the way teams and individuals work on projects, deliver presentations, and assess professional tasks and goals. The workshop ...
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Female Founder Coworking Day

By Canberra Innovation Network posted 17-03-2022
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To wrap up our month long celebration of women in innovation, we invite all female founders, leaders, and entrepreneurs, and those working for female-founded businesses, to work in our Coworking Space for the day at no cost. Join our Coworking Community at 10am for Morning Tea and get amongst the movers and shakers of Canberra innovation. You’ll have access to all coworking facilities from 9am to 5pm which includes a desk, meeting rooms, break out spaces and coffee machine! Register here!
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Seeking innovative ideas to change the future of Canberra.

By Canberra Innovation Network posted 17-03-2022
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In collaboration with ActewAGL , the Canberra Innovation Network is encouraging people with innovative ideas to enter the Canberra Adaptive City Open Innovation Challenge . The competition is aimed at people with ideas, solutions and concept proposals that can help materialise a future of Canberra that is clever, connected and full of creative energy. The competition is running from the 8th of March until the 15th of April 2022 and will give entries the chance to win prizes from a cash pool of $20,000 . This competition is free and open to all demographics within Canberra, we encourage all age groups and minorities within Canberra and surrounds to ...
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Lean Innovation Workshops for the Public Sector

By Canberra Innovation Network posted 17-03-2022
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The Canberra Innovation Network and Amazon Web Services will be delivering two free half-day Lean Innovation workshops, submit an expression of interest form to secure your spot! Lean Innovation intro sessions are highly practical, interactive sessions where participants get exposed quickly to the key experiences of entrepreneurial lean innovation. Learn from real entrepreneurs how to apply lean innovation at your work in these practical sessions on the 28 th of March from 1:00pm to 4:30pm, and the 4 th of April from 1:00pm to 4:30pm. These in-person sessions will be facilitated by the Canberra Innovation Network Amazon Web Services to teach ...
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Funding for Canberra’s clever, connected, creative innovation startups

By Canberra Innovation Network posted 23-02-2022
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Local innovation startups have once again shown just how clever ideas can become a reality through the latest funding round of the Innovation Connect (ICON) grant program. $195,000 has been awarded to 8 local companies looking to change the way we do things for the better. A partnership between the ACT Government and the Canberra Innovation Network, ICON provides early stage businesses an opportunity to receive matched funding of between $10,000-$30,000. The grant aims to support the market testing, prototyping, and determining the commercial feasibility of the recipient’s concept. “Money is vital to any business, and we’re very grateful for ...
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9 Ways to Make the Most of a Bad Day

By Tammie Horton (Phynix Initiative) posted 01-02-2022
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There are plenty of things you can do to save the day. Instead of lying down and surrendering, you can fight back with a smile. Show that bad day who’s the boss. Use these tips to make the most of a bad day: Set reasonable goals for the remainder of the day. It’s okay that your day has been awful so far. There’s still time to salvage it. Take a look at the amount of time you have left in the day and re-evaluate how you’re going to spend that time. Throw your previous plans in the bin and start over. Have fun with it. It can help to just laugh about how poorly things are going. Decide that you’re going to persevere even if the rest of the ...
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What Twelve-Step Programs Can Teach You About Dealing with Chaos

By Tammie Horton (Phynix Initiative) posted 04-01-2022
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Twelve-step programs have helped millions of adults who felt like their life was spinning out of control. Even if you’re not addicted to alcohol, drugs, or gambling, their philosophy may help you when external events make your situation seem unmanageable. Maybe your life has been disrupted by health issues, job loss or the impacts of COVID-19. Maybe your relationships are strained, or you’re isolated from others. Your wellbeing depends on how you respond to challenging situations. Take a closer look at twelve-step programs and the lessons they contain. You’ll find wisdom that you can apply to any kind of hardship. Face Reality: Know yourself. ...
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RD Consulting (Chamber Member Spotlight - December 2021)

By Canberra Business Chamber posted 01-12-2021
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RD Consulting started life as a dream. A dream to communicate more effectively, with greater client-centricity, and with bigger impact. RD Consulting’s CEO, Colin Anstie , has been passionate about business since his childhood. From collecting trolleys for 20 cent pieces to picking and selling daffodils on the side of the road, in many ways, Colin has been chasing his passion of providing people with services his whole life. But he found his ‘why’ after working in private sector marketing during his early professional career at Telstra and Commonwealth Bank. Colin had grown frustrated with lengthy bureaucratic processes and believed ...
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Simply Lentils (Chamber Member Spotlight - November 2021)

By Canberra Business Chamber posted 16-11-2021
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An interesting Q/A with Manjula Misha, Owner & Director - Simply Lentils When and why did you start thinking of getting into business? I returned from my India trip last year on 22nd March after completing an intensive Yoga teacher training course, to be welcomed by quarantine, lockdown and a series of restrictions. I had plans of starting my own Yoga classes in Canberra, but the universe had something else planned for me. It had been two years since I arrived in Canberra from Melbourne, and I was on a career break. I was trying to figure out my life or should I call it mid-life crisis!! It took me two years to explore myself by ...
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Government Support - Wage Subsidies for Staff

By Talha Tariq posted 03-11-2021
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Dear Members, I hope you are well and had a successful re-opening in bringing back your clients and customers. Lockdown may be over but businesses still need support to recover from the impact that the lockdown had on their operations. With government support diminishing as we reach target vaccination rates, thankfully, businesses have other options available to them to qualify for incentives such as wage subsidies for new trainees/apprentices. To assist with the impact of COVID-19, the federal government is providing support to all employers who engage an Australian Apprentice/Trainee. The Australian Government has announced the Boosting ...
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Scott Leggo Gallery (Chamber Member Spotlight - October 2021)

By Canberra Business Chamber posted 26-10-2021
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Scott's interesting journey from being a diplomat to a photographer cum businessman In 2003 I was deployed to the Middle East for the war in Iraq. I was in a fortunate position to see and experience both successes and failures. But one failure stood out, involving an attack by the US Army, using over 30 Apache attack helicopters against one of Saddam Hussein’s elite republican guard divisions to the south of Baghdad. The mission was a massive disaster. Every single helicopter was shot and severely damaged. One Apache was shot down, with two aircrew captured as prisoners of war and paraded on TV. Others struggled to make it back because of the damage. All the ...
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Productivity Commission's research on SME access to finance

By Canberra Business Chamber posted 05-10-2021
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This week, the Productivity Commission released a new research paper ‘ Small business access to finance: The evolving lending market ’. This study examines SMEs’ access to debt finance, which is the more common option sought by SMEs needing external finance. It focuses on the medium-term trends that are changing the market rather than the temporary disruptions due to COVID-19. The PC research found that almost 15 per cent of Australian SMEs applied for debt finance in 2018-19, compared to only 5 per cent applying for equity finance. In 2017-18, most SMEs (69%) seeking debt finance applied to banks. While Australian banks remain the major source of funding for ...
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