GEN NZ 2023 Unconference and Workshops

This year's GEN NZ Unconference and Workshops will be held on Friday 3 March (Workshops) and Saturday 4 March (Unconference) at Victoria University of Wellington Pipitea Campus, right next to the Railway Station. After going virtual in 2022, we're back kanohi ki te kanohi / face to face to learn from each other about the art and science of entrepreneurship, and how to improve our entrepreneurial ecosystem. After years of pandemic-induced isolation, we know you'll want to come and join your ecosystem colleagues for a barely controlled explosion of entrepreneurial energy.

The Unconference on Saturday 4 March brings together people from all over the country and the various niches in the entrepreneurial ecosystem to collaborate on how we can connect entrepreneurs to the resources and people they need to thrive, locally and globally. At an unconference, you set the agenda - and we’ll be soliciting ideas for sessions closer to the date. We’ll meet in small groups and discuss topics that are of interest on the day. Everyone can contribute to the conversation, and the main idea is to connect with like-minded people that you can work together with to achieve your common goals. The Unconference sessions will be facilitated, but there won’t be a single “presenter” as such in the sessions.

The Unconference will be preceded by a day of optional workshops on Friday 3 March. The workshop sessions will be like more traditional conference workshops - lead by one or two people, with presentations, each with specific learning outcomes, and ideally followup in the following day’s Unconference sessions. We’ve already had a number of workshop proposals, including Design Thinking for Ecosystems, The Entrepreneur Playbook, The Entrepreneurship Manifesto for the upcoming elections, Becoming an Entrepreneur Leader, Positive Sum, and Lessons from Building the NZ Tech Startups Ecosystem. If you're interested in running a workshop, please let us know by emailing nz@genglobal.org