The West Tech Fest conference & the OzAPP Awards is gearing up to be a fantastic event! With a great line up of speakers, the event will also feature pitches from 5 of APAC's top startups competing for the opportunity to pitch at CES Las Vegas for XTC.
Date: Thursday 8 December 2016
Time: 8:00am to 6:00pm
Venue: Perth Town Hall, Cnr. Hay and Barrack Streets, Perth WA
Find out more & register attendance here
The 26th International World Wide Web Conference promises delegates a sustainable, relevant, innovative and memorable program and is the centerpiece of Perth's Festival of the Web eight days of social events from dawn to dark, focusing on Four Themes that address the significant challenges of our era and beyond.
In Perth from 3 to 7 April 2017... Find out more
By Andrea Kovszun at Sporteluxe - iPhones, can’t live with them, can’t live without them! It seems with every new iOS update comes a stream of new, sometimes frustrating-to-get-use-to features. What can I say, most of us are creatures of habit. Yet, this little marvel of technology seems to be evolving every day, and it can sometimes be hard to keep up with everything it can do. There are, however, a few hacks to make your life that much easier. We played around with our phones to let you in on a couple tricks... Read iPhone hacks you can use every day read
CLINTON HOUSE
"When you do make the decision, and for me that decision was putting everything into insights and letting go of everything else, you just feel liberated. You’re able to deliver a better product and a better experience” said Clinton House... Read more
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Curtin University are running HealthHack, a product-building event that runs from a Friday evening through to Sunday. Teams work on problems that have been submitted by Problem Owners- typically medical researchers, medical organisations, hospitals or government.
HealthHack gets going on Friday the 14th of October at 6pm and continues all day and night on Saturday 15th concluding in the evening on Sunday 16th. Festivities wrap up on the Sunday at 4pm with judging and prizes ... HealthHack
Mental health is currently a topic of intense focus in the global community and many are struggling to provide proactive and effective solutions. Governments are under constant pressure to increase the funding for mental health services and programs. Yet there is a lack of available and effective early intervention strategies. This award will go towards developing applications for parents and care workers (e.g. Doctors and Counsellors) to complement our existing applications for schools and workplaces.
The State Government awarded the winners of Start IT Up WA Challenge.
With mental health week in full swing, it is currently a topic of intense focus in the global community and many are struggling to provide proactive and effective solutions... Read more
VERGE COLLECTION 'Open Plan Living' EP Launch with special guests Segue Safari & Dennis Cometti on Saturday 22 October at "THE BIRD" ... Read more
Launched this week, the corporate Innovation Thinking Workshops will provide their staff a common language and platform for corporates to elevate their innovation thinking, by applying startup thinking techniques.
The program is run by Atomic Sky CEO Andy Lamb, who holds a Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and is an Honorary Fellow of Innovation at UWA... Read More
Amazing achievement! CEO and Director of Tap into Safety, Dr Susanne Bahn has been announced as a finalist for the Telstra Business Women’s Awards.
Jack’s Labs is a startup studio and development house in Jakarta. We turn ideas into tech businesses that solve problems for the Indonesian market. Why Indonesia you ask?
Well, admittedly, at first glance it doesn’t seem like the most obvious place to spend three years of your life, especially with three young kids in tow… but for the few Australians building businesses in that market it is an obvious choice.
Let’s take a look at the numbers. 250 million people, most under the age of 30. A growing middle class and economic growth rate of +5% for the last ten years. And of course, most exciting for tech entrepreneurs, a massive mobile market to sell to ... Read more
The WA Venture Philanthropy Fund helps social purpose organisations in Western Australia to become stronger, more sustainable and more impactful. The fund provides ventures with the strategic funding and hands-on support to build their capacity and deliver more sustainable impact, at scale.
SVA is committed to using evidence to drive systemic change. We conduct extensive research and work closely with our local partners and WA Advisory Group to identify and support high impact venture partners. We measure and report on the outcomes generated to build an evidence base of what works... Read more
The leading competition in APAC for early stage startups with mobile, web and cloud app concepts. Entries close 28 October
Powered by Curtin University, The OzAPP Awards are seeking the Asia Pacific region’s best early stage startups with mobile, web and cloud app concepts. This program is only open to teams living and working in APAC... Read more at ozapp.com.au
Agriculture, Biotechnology, Business Products, Business Services, Clean Technology , Computers and Peripherals, Construction, Consumer Products, Digital Marketing, Education, Financial Services, Fintech, Gaming, Healthcare Services, Industrial/Energy, Internet / Web Services, IT Services, Lifestyle, Marine, Medical Devices and Equipment, Mining, Mobile, Nanotechnology, Networking and Equipment, Oil and Gas, Retailing / Distribution, Robotics, Software, Sports, Transportation, Travel
Last week, the WA Government held its first WA Innovation Summit. 250 business leaders were brought together in one room - about 100 of whom were chief executives - to formulate the State’s 5 year Innovation Strategy.
That's a large group and even Giles Nunis, WA Government Chief Information Officer, admitted it was ambitious, "People were asking me - why would you hold a summit with 250 people? It's crazy" ...Read more by Mark Shelton
Knowledge Week is a celebration of Perth’s achievements in technology, education and innovation and an exploration of the city’s future as a knowledge capital. This inaugural Knowledge Week takes place in and around Perth’s new knowledge and cultural precinct: the new City of Perth Library and the State Buildings at Cathedral Square. In a rapidly changing world, the opportunities for the next generation of Western Australian innovators, creators, inventors and learners are as exciting as they are limitless. The program explores the future of education, science, technology, gaming and robotics.
During Knowledge Week, 16 - 21 October 2016, the historic State Buildings quarter will become the centre of activity for Perth’s community of innovators and future-oriented thinkers... Read more
The IC platform is built on the experience of industry experts & mentors with decades of proven commercialisation success. We also adapt lean startup thinking for traditional businesses to pragmatically change culture via the principals of engage, educate, adapt and grow... Read more
At the Marnin Studio, in the central Kimberley town of Fitzroy Crossing, boab nuts are being transformed into carefully crafted festive decorations by local women.
Each day, women from the surrounding Aboriginal communities gather for a cuppa, a chat and to create beautiful objects.
The boab nuts are a modern twist on an ancient art form with Indigenous men from the area having painted the distinctive hollow nuts for thousands of years.
Back in Fitzroy Crossing, Marnin Studio director Brooke Small said the social enterprise program was going from strength to strength.
"It's really beautiful to watch the ladies go through that process, to see them grow as they watch their products travel around the globe," she said.
"It builds pride, it builds confidence, and it builds worthiness... Read more
Last week saw the official launch of BloomLab, a collaboration between St Catherine’s College at The University of Western Australia and not-for-profit student organisation Bloom.
BloomLab provides young people with the infrastructure, support and engagement needed to inspire and grow their ventures
Andy Lamb, cofounder of Atomic Sky, has been a big supporter of Mark Shelton, Bloom’s director and CEO, and Profectus before it evolved into Bloom and will continue to act as a mentor at BloomLab... Read More at Atomic Sky
CSA Global Chairman Peter Rossdeutscher has been appointed to the RSPCA Board of Directors. Mr Rossdeutscher is also chairman of Trails WA, a non- executive director of Austmine, and a resource industry advisor to Austrade... Read more at Business News WA
I used to teach Design at a university in Perth WA. A common question I was asked from students was; “how to do I come up with an original idea?” To which, in a post-post modern society, the obvious answer is, there’s no such thing.
In my opinion the desire to be original is simply another way of saying I want to be different. True originality is unattainable. Something at first may seem original, but is actually a culmination of little ideas that have been curated and refined ... Read more
