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.
1 problem
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 1 September - Sunday 3 September 2017
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.
#StudentLife
We get it. Student life can be hard. You’ve got assignments stacking up and the threat of exams is always looming around the corner. You’re surviving on Red Bull, UQ Union sausage sizzles and instant noodles. You use visits home as an opportunity to get your laundry done and stock up on homemade meals to bring back with you.
Between keeping up with tutorial work, locating the cheapest places to get a good feed, and diarising the best college parties, you’ve got your work cut out for you. So, it’s no surprise that you’ve occasionally thought something like: ‘I wish there was an app for that’ or, ‘this would be so much better if it worked like this’…
We know you have. So, here’s your chance!
Bring yourself and your killer #StudentLife ideas to UQ’s Weekend of Startups. With the support of mentors, industry experts and seasoned entrepreneurs, you’ll get a crash course in turning your ideas into reality.
Can you make life better, faster, easier or more impactful for students like you? Are you the next Google for student parties or Kickstarter for student ideas? Or maybe you’re the next Toms for textbooks. Your idea could change how visually impaired students participate in lectures; reduce student stress; or increase student wellness and financial security. Whatever your big idea is, find out if you’ve got what it takes at this year’s UQ Weekend of Startups.
Watch this space…
We’re lining up an experienced group of industry experts, investors and serial entrepreneurs and will be announcing them soon!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
President, UQ Entrepreneurship and Innovation Society
