DeFi for real estate
2025-05-28 17:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Perth) | Riff, 45 St Georges Tce, Perth, Australia
Decentralised finance (DeFi) and tokenisation of real estate. Sharing news from RWA Regional Hub Perth powered by Blocksquare.
Learn how you can participate in a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO), join in governance pools, staking pools and contribute to tokenisation marketplaces launching.
Learn more here: DeFi for real estate

IP Australia Masterclass: Trade Marks for Brand Success
2025-05-29 10:00 - 11:00 | online
Discover essential knowledge and practical tools to safeguard your brand identity with registered trade marks.
Why attend?

Understand the value of trade marks for your brand.

Debunk common trade mark myths.

Learn how to use the TM Checker tool to check if your brand name or logo is unique.

Discover actionable strategies to protect your trade mark.

What to expect?

Interactive demos.

Real world case studies.

Q&A session with a trade marks expert.

Learn more and register: IP Australia Masterclass: Trade Marks for Brand Success

Get Investment Ready Webinar
2025-05-29 12:00 - 13:30 | online
Join Tash Teakle from Innovation Cluster and our Chair, Rob Davis, who are both experienced early stage investors and have worked with and helped multiple startups.
This interactive online workshop will take you through different types of pitching and how to structure your pitch, along with tips on raising capital and growing your startup.
Learn more HERE

Innovation Leadership Webinar Series: Dr Antoine Musu
2025-05-29 12:30 - 13:30 | online
Create, deliver and capture value: the significance of innovation rent configurations
Join our guest speaker, Dr Antoine Musu, as he explains the concept of innovation rent and its implications for commercialisation.
Dr. Antoine Musu is a lecturer at the University of Western Australia, where he teaches Innovation and Commercialisation in the Sciences, as well as MBA programs. He holds a Master of Innovation, along with a Master’s and Doctorate in Business Administration. His professional career spans the management and development of hotels and private membership clubs, and he holds executive positions with Australian and International Hotels and Professional Membership Club Management companies in several countries.
Register here: Innovation Leadership Webinar Series: Dr Antoine Musu

DEADLINE: Propel-AIR Program
2025-05-30 08:00 - 09:00 | Apply online
Propel-AIR is a call to action for startups, scaleups, and innovators to boost the development of their solutions.
The Sprint provides business opportunities for 10 AI and robotics companies and culminates in each company virtually pitching their solution to an international panel of experts. The winning pitch secures an opportunity to travel to MassRobotics in Boston for a one-month residency.
All 10 participants will receive business development assistance, including VC mentoring, product market fit assessments, and media opportunities.

DEADLINE: Impact2Innovate Program
2025-05-31 08:00 - 09:00 | Apply online
Fast track your impact business or social enterprise growth with individualised support valued at up to $50,000. Be it through mentoring, strategic planning or access to our deep WA cross-sector networks including corporates, government and impact funders, Impact Seed’s Impact2Innovate (i2i) program can help.
i2i provides customised support, meeting your business/enterprise at whatever stage it’s at, and helping it get to where you want it to go. Types of support range from mentoring, business development, strategic planning, social impact evaluation, grant application wrap around support, and investment readiness.
If you are a business that has a positive impact on your community, or a not for profit organisation that runs a business, then the i2i program may be for you.
The 2025 program particularly welcomes interest from regional WA as well as First Nations businesses.
Learn more and apply: DEADLINE: Impact2Innovate Program

DEADLINE: SPARK Women in Business Grants: Round 8
2025-05-31 23:00 - 23:30 | Apply online
The purpose of SPARK is to help women in business grow their profit & impact. We do this by creating the resources, insights and community for women to shortcut their success. And while we believe you can do a lot on hustle, sometimes girls just need funds. So we’re reinvesting our profits back into a quarterly $10,000 + $5,000 business grant.
We believe that if we want change.
It starts with us.
Join us for this free information session and find out about our fabulous SPARK community and how we can support your business!
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE SPARK GRANTS.
Round EIGHT – applications open 1-31 May, 2025.
Judging 1 – 30 June, 2025.
Grants awarded and funded 10 July 2025.

DEADLINE: Innovate to Grow: Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence
2025-06-01 06:00 - 07:00 | Apply online
The program will assist you in:

Refining your innovation idea and learning how to transform it into an R&D opportunity
Accessing tools and information for a comprehensive understanding of R&D collaboration and key considerations at each step
Applying this knowledge to advance your technology or R&D concept
Gaining industry insights from experts, researchers and your mentor
Collaborating with like-minded SMEs and expanding your professional network.

The program is made up of virtual webinars and online learning
Open to any SMEs based and operating in Australia who are working on digital technologies or artificial intelligence in any of these sub-sectors:

Artificial Intelligence, including:

Computer vision
Machine learning
ChatGPT / large language models
Natural language processing

Digital manufacturing
Quantum computing
Cybersecurity
Robotics and autonomous systems
Other

Learn more: DEADLINE: Innovate to Grow: Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence

Fractional Directory Launch | Networking Event
2025-06-02 17:30 - 19:30 | Long Neck Brewery, 306 Riverside Drive, East Perth, WA
Join the Fractional Directory teams for a casual happy hour and networking as we celebrate our launch in Perth!
Working as a Fractional Leader can often feel lonely, especially as a sole trader. This event is meant to bring together Fractional Leaders, “Fractional Curious” and supporting companies in our ecosystem to have a bit of fun and get to know each other.
Click HERE to learn more about Fractional Leadership.

DEADLINE: Pitch / Showcase at WA Drone Event
2025-06-03 08:00 - 09:00 | Apply online
Call for Aerial Drone SMEs, Startups, Researchers to Pitch and Exhibit their Ideas/Products at the Shaping the Skies: Advancing Aerial Drone Innovation in WA Event

SMEs or researchers are strongly encouraged to actively participate in our pitching & exhibition session to showcase their products. There will also be a time to showcase a demo in a specifically-designed demonstration zone at AARP.
There will be an AWARD for the best pitch/exhibit!
Learn more and apply by 3 June: DEADLINE: Pitch / Showcase at WA Drone Event

Introduction to the Research and Development Tax Incentive
2025-06-03 13:00 - 14:00 | online
Join representatives from the Australian Taxation Office and the Department of Industry, Science and Resources to learn about the Research and Development Tax Incentive program. You will be introduced to the program and guided through key eligibility requirements. We highly recommend attending this session before submitting an application.
What you will learn:

the benefits offered by the R&D Tax Incentive
who can apply
what R&D activities and expenditure are eligible
the importance of record keeping
when and how to apply.

Learn more and register: Introduction to the Research and Development Tax Incentive

The transformation of Australia's energy system
2025-06-03 16:30 - 17:30 | online
Australia’s energy system is undergoing a major transformation, rapidly evolving from reliance on coal-fired power stations to a future of renewable energy like wind and solar and the rise of consumer energy resources such as rooftop solar and battery energy storage systems. Urgent investment is needed in both infrastructure and new technology, to ensure reliable, secure and affordable electricity supply in a net-zero future.

This presentation will explore the challenges ahead as the country undergoes this historic transition, and is open to all.

Learn more here: The transformation of Australia’s energy system

How to Hire a Fractional Leader | Perth
2025-06-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Riff, 45 St Georges Tce, Perth, Australia
The Fractional Directory started in 2023 in New Zealand, and has since expanded to Singapore, mapping every Fractional Leader publicly operating in the region.
Starting June 1, we are launching a new Directory specifically for Western Australia to help companies better identify the regional Fractional Leadership talent pool, and learn more about this innovative operational model.
Come join in for a free 45 minute hands-on workshop to navigate the talent pool, answer key questions about the Fractional model, and meet other Founders and Business Leaders thinking about exploring this space.
Learn more and register: How to Hire a Fractional Leader | Perth

Morning Startup Presentation
2025-06-04 07:30 - 09:00 | Riff, 45 St Georges Tce, Perth, Australia
Morning Startup – Perth
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.
If you’re not a morning person, we also host a casual afterwork catchup on the first Wednesday of each month called Founder Sundowner.
We look forward to seeing you there!
You can contact the organisers either by sending a message through this meetup group, or via:

contact@morningstartup.com
slack.morningstartup.com
twitter.com/morningstartup
facebook.com/morningstartup
linkedin.com/company/morning-startup

CORE Community Coffee
2025-06-04 10:00 - 11:00 | The Foyer, Parmelia House, 191 St Georges Tce, Perth, WA, 6000
Join CORE Innovation Hub for a coffee and a chat and meet the local Perth energy and mining ecosystem
Community Coffee is a great way to meet local innovators, technologists and entrepreneurs working to solve some of the big challenges. This is your opportunity to connect with CORE members and guests and find out more about the opportunities and the challenges within the sector.

Leading with Connection: Relational Wisdom for Women Entrepreneurs and Innovators
2025-06-04 10:30 - 12:00 | 3/256 Adelaide Terrace, Perth, WA
Join for Meshpoints’ second Women in Innovation & Entrepreneurship Community of Interest for 2025, facilitated by Befriend, focused on ‘Leading with Connection: Relational Wisdom for Women Entrepreneurs and Innovators’
Did you know that human beings are wired for connection? Whether you’re an innovator, changemaker, or entrepreneur, nurturing strong relationships is essential to making a meaningful impact. In this special session facilitated by Befriend, a community-building organisation championing inclusion and belonging, you’ll be invited to explore practical ways to lead with connection.
The session will delve into:
✨ Deep listening as a tool for building trust
✨ Practices to cultivate warm and authentic relationships
✨ Self-awareness as the foundation for impactful leadership
Learn more here: Leading with Connection: Relational Wisdom for Women Entrepreneurs and Innovators

ASME: Monetising Your Innovation Webinar
2025-06-04 17:30 - 18:45 | online
Monetising Your Innovation: Turn Your Big Idea into a Business
Whether you’re sitting on a brilliant idea, tinkering with a prototype, or wondering how to turn your clinical insight into a business, this event is for you.
About the organiser: ASME are a not-for-profit home for doctors, medical students & other clinicians interested in using their training and experience to make an impact at scale on healthcare through entrepreneurship and innovation.
Register for the online webinar: ASME: Monetising Your Innovation Webinar

10x10 Perth
2025-06-04 18:00 - 21:00 | Exchange Tower, 17/2 The Esplanade, Perth, Western Australia, 6000, Australia
The grand challenges of our time, such as homelessness, addiction, mental health – can’t be solved by single solutions working in isolation. 10×10 is where people who care about social innovation come to connect and this event is hosted by a committee of volunteers!
Join on 4 June 2025 for a shark-tank style pitch and crowdfunding event to support three exceptional early stage Social Purpose Organisations (SPOs) innovating to solve social challenges in Western Australia.

Young Investors Circle: Crypto and Tax with Aaron D'Vauz
2025-06-05 08:00 - 09:00 | Young Investors Circle, Level 17/2 The Esplanade, Perth, WA, 6000
YOUNG IC is bringing the energy with an intimate and interactive Q&A session featuring Aaron D’Vauz, a seasoned Chartered Accountant and Cryptocurrency Advisor.
Think: real talk, smart strategies, and straight answers to the money moves you should be thinking about as the end of financial year approaches.
Whether you’re an investor, entrepreneur, or just keen to level up your game, this session is designed to leave you better informed, more confident, and ready to take action.

Building a Compelling Pitch for Medtech Investors
2025-06-05 08:30 - 11:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, 6 Verdun Street, Nedlands, WA, 6000, Australia
Are you ready to pitch with confidence and clarity to global investors? Join this practical, high-impact session designed for startups looking to sharpen their investor proposition and improve engagement outcomes. In this hands-on workshop, David Uffer will unpack what investors are really looking for—from strategic alignment and risk mitigation to storytelling that resonates.
The session will cover:

Investor Mindsets & Pitch Essentials – Understand the expectations and priorities of venture capital and strategic investors, and learn how to tailor your pitch to align with their decision-making frameworks.
Case Examples & Group Insights – Explore real-world examples from startups who have successfully raised capital, and participate in interactive group discussions to extract key insights and lessons learned.
Live Feedback & Pitch Sharpening – Selected participants will have the opportunity to deliver their pitch and receive live, constructive feedback from David and peers, focusing on structure, clarity, and investor relevance.

Learn more and register: Building a Compelling Pitch for Medtech Investors

Sustainability Research Forum
2025-06-05 09:00 - 15:00 | Murdoch University
At this event, the importance of sustainability in research will be explored, along with how impactful work can make a positive difference on the environment and society. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and share their own research projects.
Learn more here: Sustainability Research Forum

Unlocking digital health opportunities in Southeast Asia
2025-06-05 10:00 - 10:45 | online
Find out about opportunities for Australian digital health exporters in the region’s evolving healthcare ecosystem.

Join Austrade’s Southeast Asia experts plus Alex Barty from ANDHealth as they explore the region’s evolving digital health ecosystem.

Learn more here: Unlocking digital health opportunities in Southeast Asia

Doing different to be different – Addressing our pressing challenges with innovation
2025-06-05 10:00 - 12:00 | online
Australia is at a critical juncture where evidence-based policy and technological advancement are essential ingredients to address our most pressing challenges. Drawing from experience, Dr Foley will consider our innovation system and why we are not “zinging” when we have some of the best research in the world.
What do we really need to do if we are going to make the changes we need and what is ATSE’s role in helping government and society achieve change? Free event that is open to all (join online).

Learn more here: Doing different to be different – Addressing our pressing challenges with innovation

Accelerating decarbonisation through industry hubs – European lessons and their relevance to Australia’s industrial regions
2025-06-05 11:30 - 12:30 | online
Join internationally renowned expert Göran Roos, adjunct professor at The University of Adelaide’s Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources, for an examination of how European industrial hubs have navigated the shift toward sustainability, while reducing emissions in the steel, cement, chemicals and aluminium industries.
Hear about:

The pivotal role of circular economy principles in achieving emission reductions, including evidence suggesting that material efficiency could contribute up to 50% of required emission reductions by 2050
The importance of cross-sectoral collaboration, with examples such as Sweden’s HYBRIT project and Denmark’s Kalundborg industrial symbiosis network
Region-specific transition pathways, economic and technical barriers, and disparities in decarbonisation progress across Europe
Insights into policy mechanisms such as Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfDs) to support sustainable industrial investment.

Professor Göran Roos
Professor Roos is a Swedish academic, technologist, author, and businessman. He is one of the founders of modern intellectual capital science and a recognised world expert in the fields of innovation management, and industrial and innovation policy.

Digital Foundations for Social Start Ups
2025-06-05 13:00 - 16:00 | online
Join us for this interactive 3-hour workshop designed specifically for small social enterprises looking to leverage technology more effectively, delivered by Zentient.
Presented by Zentient, a WASEC-endorsed social enterprise that specialises in building digital cultures for purpose-driven organisations. Founded in 2021 by James Audcent and Steven Hodgskin, Zentient has grown to become one of Perth’s most innovative tech consultancies dedicated to the not-for-profit and social enterprise sectors. Their team combines deep technical expertise with a genuine understanding of the unique challenges facing mission-driven organisations.
Learn more HERE

ScaleUP WA + CEWA Presents Scaling Up the Circular Economy Sector
2025-06-05 13:30 - 17:30 | Engineers Australia, 77 St Georges Terrace, Perth
Presented by ScaleUP WA in partnership with Circular Economy WA, this special event is kindly hosted by Engineers Australia – WA and brings together key industry participants from industry committed to building a strong, sustainable Circular Economy sector in WA.
Hear from:

Huia Adkins, Chair, Circular Economy WA sharing how CEWA is contributing to catalysing and enabling a circular net-zero economy in WA.
David Harrison, CEO Kwinana Industries Council overviewing how they are taking strides to build circular economy practices into a vibrant industrial precinct.
Nicholas Bastian, Innovation and Sustainability Manager, BGC Cement on initiatives they have undertaken to create new product by adopting circular economy principles.

Have the opportunity to interact with the panel as to what they see as the greatest opportunities for the sector going forward and what they believe is required to take advantage of them.
Learn more: ScaleUP WA + CEWA Presents Scaling Up the Circular Economy Sector

AFAC25 Emergency Management Hackathon - Reverse Pitch Event
2025-06-05 17:30 - 20:00 | Curtin University
Join the AFAC25 Emergency Management Hackathon Reverse Pitch Event, where industry leaders, government agencies, and emergency management experts will reveal the real-world challenges they need your help to solve.
This is your opportunity to:
🔹 Hear directly from challenge owners about the problems facing the emergency management sector.
🔹 Ask questions to better understand the challenges before the Hackathon kicks off.
🔹 Network with other participants, industry experts, and potential teammates.
🔹 Start brainstorming innovative solutions ahead of the Hackathon
Whether you’re a developer, data scientist, engineer, emergency management specialist, entrepreneur, or creative thinker — this is your chance to make an impact.
What is a Reverse Pitch?
Instead of startups pitching to investors, at a reverse pitch industry experts pitch their challenges to you. You’ll learn about the problems that need solving, so you can come to the Hackathon equipped with ideas and strategies.
Learn more HERE: AFAC25 Emergency Management Hackathon – Reverse Pitch Event

DEADLINE: Curtin Ignition 2025 Scholarships
2025-06-06 08:00 - 09:00 | Apply online
Curtin Ignition is an intensive training program for aspiring entrepreneurs, academics and corporate innovators to trial and then prepare business ideas for the commercial environment.
Ignition comprises of practical teaching sessions, expert clinics, mentor sessions and experienced advice and support from leading entrepreneurs and innovators.
Ignition 2025 will run from Saturday 30 August to Friday 5 September.
Learn more sbout the range of fully funded scholarships available HERE

DEADLINE: Resources Technology and Critical Minerals (RTCM) Trailblazer Scholarships
2025-06-06 08:00 - 09:00 | Apply online
The Curtin led Resources Technology and Critical Minerals (RTCM) Trailblazer will support researchers and inspiring entrepreneurs to translate research and innovative concepts into breakthrough services and products that support the energy and resources sectors.
The RTCM Trailblazer aims to meet the needs and future aspirations of the resources industry through three focus areas:
• University Transformation – affect deep and lasting change in the way commercialisation and industry-led research is embedded, facilitated, taught, and rewarded in universities.
• Technology Readiness – partner with industry to de-risk new technology and make it more attractive for SMEs, investors, and industry to adopt and implement new ways of working in the Resources Technology and Critical Minerals sector; and
• Commercialisation – become a world leader in the translation of research outcomes into new products, services, and industry processes.
The RTCM Trailblazer is sponsoring up to 25* fully funded scholarships to attend the 2025 Curtin Ignition Program.

CSIRO Conversations: Fork in the road - time to design the food system we want
2025-06-06 09:30 - 11:00 | online
In this new report CSIRO has explored our currently limited view of the food system and what we can do differently to meet our food system goals.The report uses science to explain the challenges and opportunities and how we can better connect the different elements. It’s a call to action to create the food system we want for the future. The panel, moderated by Larelle McMillan, will explore the findings of the report and the next steps.

Learn more here: CSIRO Conversations: Fork in the road – time to design the food system we want
