Friday 10 August - Sunday 12 August 2018
Calling all rule-breakers, risk-takers & change-makers! The UQ Weekend of Startups is BACK, and BETTER than ever!
Over the weekend, you’ll be challenged to find your crew and come up with the next hot business idea. With support from our team and mentors, by Sunday night, you’ll have prototyped & validated your big idea and your team will be ready to deliver your killer pitch to our experienced panel of judges.
Already got a winning idea? Awesome! Bring yourself and your idea. This is an opportunity for you to test it out, find some co-founders and score some cool prizes.
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54 hours to formulate, prototype & pitch
100 developers, designers, hackers & hustlers
UQ students, UQ alumni and interested members of the entrepreneurial community
5:30pm Friday 10 August - Sunday 12 August 2018
Room 303, Advanced Engineering Building
UQ, St Lucia Campus
UQ Weekend of Startups begins on Friday night, where you’ll hear all the ideas and find your team. You’ll spend most of Saturday and Sunday validating and prototyping your idea, attending workshops, meeting mentors and practising your pitch. By Sunday night you’ll be ready to deliver your pitch to our panel of judges!
The weekend is a great platform for entrepreneurs, experts and builders to come together and create a final product, test real-world applicability and present your product to industry judges and investors.
The UQ Weekend of Startups is not-for-profit and is run by UQ students and staff volunteers as well as Brisbane's entrepreneurial community.
Anyone! UQ students, alumni and all members of the general public are invited to join. Each team formed on the weekend must have at least one current UQ student.
Yes! A strong team backs each other up and has a variety of different strengths and skills. So if you’re a marketer, designer, entrepreneur or just generally interested in shaking things up, this event is for you.
#CatalyseConnections
catalyse
transitive verb cat·a·lyse \kat-l-īz\
connection
noun con·nec·tion \ kə-ˈnek-shən \
We are more and less connected than we have ever been, yet connections are worth more than they’ve ever meant before.
Everyone and everything is connected, family, friends, work, social, university, school, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers – but how can we inspire connections in our ever changing, fast-paced world?
The need to connect is an inherently human trait -
“Let’s connect over coffee!”
“Connect with me on LinkedIn.”
“I feel a real connection here.”
Whether we’re connecting with people for the first time, deepening existing connections, or multiplying our networks,
we want to see how your ideas can Catalyse Connections.
We've got an awesome line up an experienced group of industry experts, investors and serial entrepreneurs joining the Weekend of Startups!
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Check out our fantastic prizes!
1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize
Vision6 are offering one lucky #UQWOS18 participant a ticket to the 2018 Email Marketing Summit Australia (EMSA).
12 month subscription of Zapier for Work.
'Best Hardware' of the weekend will be awarded 1 month of their Team Hardware Startup Membership (for up to 3 people) at Arc, valued at $500.
In order to get the most exposure for your sponsorship, we would love to hear from you as soon as possible.
For more information, please contact:
Director, UQ Idea Hub
