World Renewable Energy Congress XXI
2022-12-04 - 2022-12-09 | Murdoch University, Australia
Professor Ali Sayigh, Director General of the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN), and Dr Martin Anda, Chair of Environmental Engineering at Murdoch University, welcome you to the World Renewable Energy Congress XXI (WREC2022) to be held at Murdoch University in Perth Western Australia from 4 – 9 December, 2022. What an exciting time to be sharing ideas, presenting the latest research, and discussing renewable energy science, technology, policy and associated social issues. The ongoing pandemic clearly presents us with many challenges at the same time making way for new ideas and innovation. At no time has energy played a more crucial role in the development and wellbeing of nations than at present. The source and nature of energy, the security of supply and equity of distribution, the environmental impact of its supply and utilization, are all crucial matters to be addressed by suppliers, consumers governments, industry, academia, and financial institutions. The World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC) is a major forum for networking between these sectors and addresses these issues through regular meetings, exhibitions, and conferences such as WREC2022.

35th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2022-12-05 08:00 - 2022-12-08 17:00 (Australia/Perth)
The AI2022 is the flagship conference for Australasian AI community. It is also an annual event to advance communication between academic researchers and industry AI practitioners. We encourage cutting-edge works contributing to the theory and practice of AI. Novel application domains including cybersecurity, healthcare, IoT, robotics, social media and big data real-world applications are highly welcome.

WA Innovator of the Year
2022-12-05 17:00 - 20:00
Congratulations to this year’s WA IOTY finalists. 12 finalists were chosen in both the Rio Tinto Emerging and Rio Tinto Growth categories in 2022. In addition to the program finalists, there was a further 12 finalists across the three Platinum Award categories: Business News ‘Great for the State’, Wesfarmers Wellbeing and Woodside Energy.
The winner of each category will be announced at an awards ceremony on Monday 5 December, 2022.
Prior to this event occurring, all finalists are invited to attend a suite of commercialisation training in topics such as accountancy, IP protection, a legal health check, social media and marketing, grant writing, pitching and more. They will also be involved in the production of a photography and/or videography package, to better promote their innovation.

Australia, Space & Technology
2022-12-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Australia
Hear from market leaders & former NASA execs how Australia is accelerating innovation & aligning with the global space industry

WTF Enconyx PropTech Showdown 2022
2022-12-06 14:00 - 17:00 | Co.Lab, Level 8, 125 Murray Street, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Start your #WestTechFest22 experience with SPEED NETWORKING and vote for which PropTech you think will be the next billion dollar company!
This fun, inclusive event offers you the chance to meet eight new contacts that you can get to know better during the WTF week.
Show Down Features;
Several door prizes, nibbles and drinks provided thanks to the Sipform Bar sponsor OFF THE PLAN, and you get the opportunity to hear from Perth’s most innovative PropTech companies as they battle it out for YOUR vote and the chance to win an Epic Trophy, $1,000 cash prize and bragging rights!!
Competition between the following PropTech’s;
1. Archistar
2. Enconyx
3. Stash
4. Time Unbarred
5. Off The Plan
6. Realty Assist Australia
7. Keeyco
8. Oopen Space
So what are you waiting for? With limited tickets available, make sure to get yourself a ticket and if you’re feeling cool, get your bestie one too. Last year, this event was sold out in three weeks, so please get your tickets today!!
Once the winner is declared, you will break out for speed networking so you get the opportunity to meet 8 new people.
After the event, join our designated event guide who will take the group to the next West Tech Fest event at the Westin Hotel!

DEADLINE: WA Innovation Seed Fund
2022-12-07 12:00 - 13:00 | online, Australia
The Innovation Seed Fund provides the opportunity for Western Australian innovators to develop their novel health and medical solutions to prime WA’s commercialisation pipeline, create high-level health sector jobs and bring innovations that improve the health and wellbeing of the community to realisation.
Funding will be provided on a competitive basis to innovators with early-stage proposals for novel processes, products and/or services that demonstrate potential to be commercialised and that may have a major impact on the health and wellbeing of the WA community.
The Innovation Seed Fund is open to innovators based in Western Australia.
Successful innovators will be awarded funding of $250,000 to $500,000 to undertake key de-risking activities that advance the innovation to a maturity level where it is positioned to attract investment through traditional funding sources to commence, or progress, the commercialisation process. Funded activities must be completed within no longer than a two-year period.

Founder Sundowner
2022-12-07 17:30 - 20:00 | Nowhere Brewing Co, 25 Harrogate, West Leederville, WA, Australia
Calling all startup founders!
On the first Wednesday of each month, let’s get together for a tasty beverage or two, celebrate and/or commiserate the month that was, and share plans and ideas for the month yet to be!
You might even meet your future Co-founder, Lead Programmer, or Chief Ninja of Ideation and Crypto Research.
As Elon Musk could have once said, “All my success is due to drinking with other startup founders as often as possible”.
This is a very casual, monthly, after-work event, in addition to our fortnightly Morning Startup meetups at Spacecubed. So if you’re not a morning person, this is for you!
There will be no speakers or formalities. Just a bunch of startups, in a pub, having fun, and learning from each other.
We may or may not have sponsors, so make sure you save up ahead of time to cover the cost of your own exotic cocktails and Perth-priced-drinks.
(If your company is interested in putting on a bar tab or buying a pizza or two, in exchange for exposure to the Perth Startup Community through our extensive member list, let’s talk! contact@morningstartup.com )
To find us, ask the bar staff for the Founder Sundowner table and they’ll point you in the right direction.
Look forward to seeing you there!

Lean Startup Perth
2022-12-07 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-12-14 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-12-21 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-12-28 18:00 - 19:30 | online, Australia
What we’re about
Lean Startup Perth is a weekly informal meeting for anyone interested in learning more about Lean Startup (Eric Ries) and Customer Development (Steve Blank). We discuss issues facing startups, chapters from relevant books and, in particular, how the concepts and practices may apply to our startups. Everyone is welcome to attend!
Whilst we focus on tech startups and founders are our target audience you don’t have to be a founder or involved with a startup to come along. All you need to be is interested in learning about Lean Startup and Customer Development. We also ask that regular participants take turns in leading the discussion of a chapter or a special topic.
Please be clear though that this group is not for just starting a businesses. Startups are defined by their uncertainty (some aspect of their business model has never been used before) and often (but not always) a huge growth potential. As Steve Blank says “are temporary organisations searching for a repeatable and scalable business model.”
A Lean Startup’s approach is to hypothesise, build, measure, and learn as fast as possible to reduce this uncertainty and risk, to validate (or not) hypotheses about the product/service and business model. This differs from the traditional approach to startups that usually involves building something and hoping customers will come.
If you’d like to catchup briefly to discuss you can schedule a virtual catchup.
https://calendly.com/ashley-aitken/lean-startup
Cheers,
Ashley Aitken
Organiser – Lean Startup Perth

Perth Angels: Annual Investor Breakfast
2022-12-08 07:00 - 09:00 | Australia
Perth Angels invite you to join the WA investing community for our Annual Investor Breakfast. Enjoy a fantastic sit-down breakfast accompanied by special guests at The Westin Perth in the heart of Perth CBD.
This year Steve Baxter – Shark Tank Australia – is one of our very special guests.
Each year this sell-out event brings together WA’s Angel Investors, Business Leaders, and Founders to celebrate, share insights, and explore what is possible in Australia’s innovation ecosystem and beyond.
The event will include guest speakers from across Australia’s investment and innovation sector, a panel discussion with Q&A from the audience, and plenty of opportunities to connect with others from the community.

State of the Blue Economy 2022
2022-12-08 08:00 - 17:00 | WA Maritime Musuem, Victoria Quay Road, Fremantle, WA, 6160, Australia
The State of the Blue Economy Forum is the premier event to align on priorities for advocacy and action to advance WA’s blue economy.
Join leaders from fishing, energy engineering, research, tourism, and conservation and get insights into trends across state, national and international ocean sectors.
This is your opportunity to contribute to the discussions and prioritisation of changes in strategy, practice, and policy. Leaders and representatives of key sectors and locations will be agreeing priorities for advocacy, and government and industry will be there to listen.
This forum is also the place to discover new opportunities and advance collaboration for your venture.

Freo Startup Fest
2022-12-08 13:30 - 17:00
Get ready to experience Freo Startup Fest’s 4th annual event for networking, learning, brainstorming, and celebrating WA’s emerging startups and offering innovation networks across Fremantle.

About the event
This year’s guest speakers from successful startups and innovation circles bring to the table stories, trials and tribulations of what it means to innovate, grow and succeed in a dynamic business ecosystem.
Starting at Freo’s symbolic Maritime Museum and ending at everyone’s new favourite haunt, Gage Roads, this year will be one for the books.

Core Tech Talk Tuesday
2022-12-13 12:00 - 13:00 | CORE Innovation Hub, 191 St. Georges Terrrace, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Each month CORE Innovation Hub hosts Tech Talk Tuesdays – an intimate members-only lunch connecting innovators & entrepreneurs with business & industry leaders.
Join us for lunch and a deep dive into some of the technologies and innovations shaping the future of energy & mining. Each week a special guest will deliver a half hour key note talk and then invite audience discussion before wrapping up with some informal networking.
Event Schedule
12:00pm – Arrival & Lunch
12:15pm – Tech Talk + Q&A
12:45pm – Tech Talk Concludes + Networking
1:00 pm– Event concludes
This event is strictly for CORE members or by private invitation. To express your interest in attending, please contact info@corehub.com.au

DEADLINE: Core, Hot 30 Awards
2022-12-15 08:00 - 17:00 | online, Australia
CORE Innovation Hub is calling energy and mining innovators, technologists, entrepreneurs and game-changers to apply now for the 2023 Hot 30 Awards.

Announced in early 2023, the Hot 30 is a curated list of 30 technologists and entrepreneurs driving innovation in some of Australia’s most important industries.

The Hot 30 is about celebrating and amplifying Australia’s leading SME’s who have been working to revolutionise the mining, energy and resources sectors.

Be counted as one of Australia’s premier energy and mining innovators
Leverage National exposure and profiling opportunities
Gain industry recognition and further validate your innovation
Amplify your brand alongside CORE Innovation Hub
Gain access to CORE’s 5000+ National energy and mining ecosystem

Digital Solutions, SUMMER SERIES: START A PODCAST IN 2023
2022-12-21 09:00 - 10:00 | online, Australia
o many people writing so many blogs. So few of those blogs ever getting any views at all.
With 600 million of them on the web, unless you do something extraordinary, it’s unlikely that your blog will ever get much traction.
But with only 2.4 million podcasts – 82% of which don’t have more than three episodes in them – it’s much easier to get discovered, listened-to and highlighted.
And you’ll be surprised how easy it can be to start your own podcast.
While the professionals have $400 microphones, padding studios and fancy equipment, you don’t need any of that.
In fact, you can start a podcast on your mobile phone with wired earbuds or just your laptop computer with a $50 microphone.
How?
In this live demonstration of three ways to make your podcast, you will learn:
– How to record your podcast audio
– How to edit the audio
– How to syndicate your episodes

MTP Connect Spotlight Series
2022-12-27 08:00 - 09:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, 6 Verdun Street, Nedlands, WA, 6000, Australia
The MTPConnect WA Life Sciences Innovation Hub invites you to join the monthly WA MTP Sector Spotlight Series event.
About this event
Our monthly breakfast series is an opportunity for representatives from across the MTP sector to connect, collaborate and learn about upcoming opportunities, and hear the stories and successes of WA organisations developing health and medical innovations. Join us over a light breakfast in the last week of each month at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research.

CORE Connects Conversation Series
2022-12-28 16:30 - 18:00 | CORE Innovation Hub, 191 St. Georges Terrrace, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia
Join CORE Innovation Hub to explore some of the big ideas in the energy and mining sector.
CORE Connect Conversation Series will see a mixture of guest speakers and panel style events tackle some of the big questions facing the energy and mining sector and explore solutions and pathways to create a bigger and more sustainable future for the energy and mining industry.
Event Schedule
4.30 – Arrival & Networking
5.00 – Talk Kicks Off
5.15 – Presentation + Q&A
5.45 – Networking & Nibbles
6:00 – Conclusion

Morning Startup
2023-01-18 07:30 - 09:00 | Riff, 45 St Georges Tce, Perth, Australia
Morning Startup – Perth – where people talk about startups.
If you’re involved in a startup, or thinking about starting one, chances are you can learn from others that are doing and thinking the same.
Morning Startup is a fortnightly morning catchup where founders, potential entrepreneurs and others in the startup community (VCs and Angels welcome) get together to learn something interesting, get feedback on idea, vent frustrations, and meet some new friends in the game. We look forward to seeing you there!

Business Station: Automating real time market intel capture using LinkedIn
2023-01-18 12:00 - 13:00 | online, Australia
WEBINAR Presented by Tristan Senycia
One of the most important aspects of entrepreneurship is of course the ability to read the market…
In this day & age markets evolve very rapidly. It is hence super important to set up your business up to capture real-time market intel.
In this session, we look at some of the features LinkedIn Premium provides to do just that.
After all, we need to have a solid read of market in order to get to Market-fit for our products and services!

Lean Startup Regulars: Getting On with Customer Development!
2023-01-18 18:00 - 19:30
This “Getting On” meeting is for founders (and potential founders) who understand the Lean Startup with Customer Development approach (and have preferably attended one of the “Getting Started” meetings). It’s about supporting founders taking a Lean Startup with Customer Development approach for their startups.
Hello Perth Founders and Friends (aka Perth Starters),
Have you got a great startup idea? Or have you already started a new business and it’s not going so well? Don’t waste any more time or money on building an app or product, getting PR, or even marketing. Come along to Lean Startup Perth and we’ll help you find a successful business!
Customer Development is the Lean Startup process to organise the search for a business model. The core process behind Customer Development consists of using the hypothesis-build-measure-learn loop to find and validate a scalable, repeatable and viable business model.

District 32: Ladies Connect Business Growth Event
2023-01-21 08:00 - 17:00 | Marmion Angling and Aquatic Club, West Coast Drive, Marmion, WA, 6020, Australia
Join other entrepreneurial ladies to discuss how, as women, we build and develop key business relationships.

The Neuroscience of Well Being
What is holding you back from reaching your highest potential? Can you relate to any of these very common subconscious programs that prevent us from creating the success we deserve in our lives:
➡️ Lack of confidence
➡️ Fear of not being enough
➡️ Low self-worth
➡️ Not feeling capable
➡️ Comparison to others
➡️ Feeling stuck
➡️ Procrastination
➡️ Scarcity mindset
➡️ No clear direction
➡️ People pleasing
➡️ Lack of healthy boundaries
Thankfully there is a way to lead a life with less stress, greater resilience and more peace. Each one of us has the ability to shift mindsets and overcome subconscious programs that have limited our growth and expansion. It’s time to believe again in you and your dreams.
We will unpack the neuroscience of well-being and what keeps us stuck. The presentation by Dr. Vish Ramakonar, Neuro Change Solutions consultant, will explain the main factors based on neuroscience that affect our mental and physical well-being and sabotage our success.
If you are a business professional, either employee, employer, self-employed or an entrepreneur who wants to create more success and well-being in your organisation and life, then this event is for you.
Dr Vish Ramakonar is part of a global network of corporate consultants trained by Dr. Joe Dispenza, New York Times best-selling author, lecturer, and researcher, to teach organizations how to apply the neuroscience of change to increase employee engagement, collaboration, creativity, productivity, and ultimately — business results.
Be inspired and take away 3 key outcomes:
✳️ The neuroscience of well-being and how we get stuck
✳️ The concept of ‘coherence’ and how it can scientifically help us get unstuck
✳️ Learn a tool to use in the moment that is scientifically proven to create more coherence in our heart and brain
McKinsey & Company research shows that 70% of change programs don’t reach their stated goals.” Sustaining change requires a major reset in mind-sets and behaviors—something that few leaders know how to achieve.”
May 9, 2016 Mickinsey Article: The ‘how’ of transformation.
After this training you will uinderstand some of the neuroscience of what is required to change mindsets and behaviours.

🎙️About the Speaker
Dr Vish Ramakonar is part of a global network of corporate consultants trained by Dr. Joe Dispenza, New York Times best-selling author, lecturer, and researcher, to teach organizations how to apply the neuroscience of change to increase employee engagement, collaboration, creativity, productivity, and ultimately — business results.
Dr. Vish has over 20 year’s experience where she has implemented successful organisational change initiatives.
For the past 10 years, she has excelled as a corporate trainer and speaker in customer relationship management, change management, project management, agile project management, big data analytics and more recently as a NeuroChangeSolutions (NCS) consultant and leadership coach.
She has trained hundreds of people in many industries including the government and private sector and her passion is to bring out the highest potential in individuals.

Emergence 2023 - Sydney (online as well as live)
2023-01-21 08:00 - 17:00 | online, Australia
Emergence is the ultimate conference for VCs, HNW investors, Family Offices and Fund Managers. Why? For the 7 reasons listed below.

Emergence was born out of a simple idea – to shine a spotlight on the innovation ecosystem and at the same time, as making it the ultimate destination for investors across 2 days. Our hope in doing this is simple – to create new opportunities for tomorrow.

We know the power of an introduction. We know the power of bringing people together in the spirit of collaboration and opportunity.

If you haven’t already secured your ticket, these are 7 reasons why you should take the time to join us for 2 days.

7 Reasons Why You Should Join Us for Emergence 2023:

Generational Transformation: The Emerging company space is going through a generational transformation, with innovation powering new technology platforms. At Emergence, we provide a deep dive into several of those platforms and showcase innovative companies utilising themEnergy, AI, Robotics, DNA sequencing, and Blockchain
50+ Speakers: The panellists and guest speakers represent billions of dollars of Funds Under Management. They have invested in hundreds of emerging growth companies. Their experience and insights are from what is happening in the market right now.
Discover, Embrace, or Avoid: Innovation solves problems. For many investors, some of those innovations will replace current investments. 2 days of learning from some of the leading investment minds will assist you in discovering what to embrace and avoid. This represents a potential for outsized investment returns!
Latest Trends: As a company, we are in a fortunate position. We can observe and showcase innovation trends as they unfold, sometimes even years before the retail markets see them. In just 2 days, you will gain insights directly from CEOs, VCs, Deal Makers, and Fund Managers, which can shape your strategy for the 12 to 24 months to come!
Like-minded Networking and Deal Making: Your network is your net worth! The network effect of a conference, like an Emergence, plays out across years, not days. Whether it be stories of acquisitions taking place, from an initial meeting at the conference, investments made, strategic opportunities created in international Markets or commercial opportunities, there is something special about the Conference which sets a platform for deal-making.
Timely thematics: The Great Transformation in energy, healthcare, AI, Deeptech and web3 will be the focus of emergence 2023. Each area represents exponential opportunities for investors over the next decade. We place each of these under a spotlight and empower the engagement across the 2 days.
Opportunity Access: Presentations from 100 companies across three days covering many sectors, including AI, Healthtech, Climate tech, Life Science, Web3, HR Tech, Funds Management and many more.

Business Station: Using Online Speed Networking to sell products & services
2023-01-23 12:00 - 13:00 | online, Australia
WEBINAR Presented by Tristan Senycia
Online speed networking has taken the Small Business & Startup ecosystem by storm.
In this session we look at:
– How it works
– Why it is so effective
– How to calculate the unit economics of Online Speed Networking for your business
– The specifics of selling to small business
– Building referral networks within the Small Business Community
– How to leverage Online Speed Networking to undertake Customer Development
– Which markets you can target around Australia & the World

Business Station: How do the new workplace laws impact your business?
2023-01-24 10:00 - 11:00 | online, Australia
We’ll be answering questions like this in our 1-hour webinar which might help you sleep soundly at night knowing you’ve fulfilled your obligations as an employer.
Find out which laws apply to different workplaces, what the exemptions are and when the laws come into effect (some changes were immediate while others are scheduled for 2023).
Come with all of your questions and Pauline will share up to date guidance to offer you peace of mind. Please note that this session contains general information and is not legal advice.

Lean Startup First-Timers: Getting Started with Customer Development!
2023-01-25 18:00 - 19:30
This introductory “Getting Started” meeting is for founders (and potential founders) who are first-timers to Lean Startup Perth (or those who wish to get a refresher on Lean Startup). It’s best for you to attend one of these meeting before attending a “Getting On” meeting (although it’s not required).
Hello Perth Founders and Friends,
Have you got a great startup idea? Or have you already started a new business and it’s not going so well? Don’t waste any more time or money on building an app or product, getting PR, or even marketing. Come along to Lean Startup Perth and we’ll help you find a successful business.
This “Getting Started” meeting will introduce you the “big ideas” in Lean Startup and Customer Development. Did you know that Lean Startups don’t do sales, don’t do marketing and don’t do product development? Well, what do they do then? Come along and you will find out that and more,
Created by Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the Lean Startup with Customer Development approach is a radically new way of doing startups. It changes everything about startups (more than most founders, service providers and investors realise). It changes the very meaning of what it is to be a startup.
We suggest new members come along to one of these “Getting Started” meetings to learn about Lean Startup with Customer Development before coming the to “Getting On” meetings. This “Getting Started” meetings are repeated but will only run if there are enough new members attending.
We welcome anyone keen to learn about Lean Startup with Customer Development.
All the best for success!
Cheers,
Ashley.
Organiser, Lean Startup Perth.

Business Station: Finding who your B2B Key Partners & Allies are on LinkedIn
2023-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 | online, Australia
WEBINAR Presented by Tristan Senycia
Understanding who your Key Partners are likely to be is a critical component of operating a successful business model.
This requires the following steps to be undertaken:
– Setting up LinkedIn to help you identify who else is servicing the same unmet or underserved need as your product or service
– Establishing contact to confirm and validate partnership potential
– Activating key partnerships for mutual benefits.
We will be looking at a number of prospective Key Partners we might choose and what mutual value can be co-created as a direct result of collaboration.

DEADLINE: Spinlab Startup Accelerator
2023-01-31 08:00 - 08:30 | online, Australia
WHAT YOUR STARTUP CAN GET FROM THE SPINLAB
We put founders first, and this is the startup accelerator application you want to submit if scaling your startup is a priority for you.
Leipzig is an awesome place to live, work, and grow, and your startup will truly be taken to the next level if you’re accepted into one of our classes. We offer our program hybrid, so you don’t have to move to Leipzig. However, we expect one of your founding team to be on-site in Leipzig during the focus week.

Space Situational Awareness for a Sustainable Future in Space
2023-02-01 - 2023-02-02 | Curtin University, Australia
Join us for our inaugural Space Situational Awareness (SSA) event, bringing together industry and academia with the theme of Sustainability

The Australian Space Data Analysis Facility, in partnership with the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, are hosting a Two Day event highlighting diverse perspectives.
Day One – Curtin Perth Campus, 137 St Georges Tce, Perth CBD
08:30 – 1630
Day Two – Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, 1 Bryce Ave, Kensington
08:30 – 1700 (includes a facility tour and sundowner on the deck)
Speakers featured over the two days will include:
Prof Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, Director ASDAF and Director Curtin Institute for Computation, Curtin University
Prof Deen Sanders OAM, Partner, Deloitte Access Economics
Prof Tat-Jun (“TJ”) Chin, Professorial Chair of Sentient Satellies, University of Adelaide
Dr Darren McKnight, Senior Technical Fellow, LeoLabs
Mark Stickells, Executive Director, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Prof Steven Tingay, Executive Director Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA), Curtin University
We look forward to seeing you there. Please note there is the option to attend both or either days – please select the appropriate ticket registration so we can cater accordingly.
Food and refreshments will be provided during the event, with dietary requirements taken into consideration.
Program overview and speaker details, as well as the full list of speakers, to be announced shortly – stay tuned!

While admission to the event is free, registration is mandatory and spaces are limited.
Please be aware that people who register for ASDAF events and then do not attend (without cancellation or notification) will not be prioritised to attend future ASDAF events.
This event follows Curtin University’s principles of Respect Now Always. We are committed to providing a safe and respectful environment to all staff and participants. Any behaviour going against this principle (i.e sexual assault or harassment)will result in immediate removal from the event venue and following investigations.
