AI Startup Pitch Night

It's a fun, low-stakes pitch competition 🚀🚀🚀

• Get better at pitching ideas, or watch inspiring pitches
• Get inspiration for your next kickass AI project
• Network with the brightest machine learning indie hackers in Melbourne

You can either participate in the pitching, or just come to network, watch the pitches and learn by osmosis 🙌

This is how it works (for those coming to pitch):

💡- Arrive with an idea for a business venture which involves AI!

🤝 - Form a team of 2-4 at the event (if you came with friends you can team up with them) 

👀- Watch a 10 minute talk on how to do a great AI pitch delivered by Dr. Sam Donegan from Support Sorted

🌱 - Seed Round: You have 20 minutes to workshop the team's best idea and refine it into a 3 minute pitch which you will deliver in front of a small group. The wining pitch from each group goes through to Series B.

💰- Series B: The finalists will pitch in front of the whole group, plus 3 judges from Melbourne Venture Capital firms and the winner will be awarded $300 

🚀 - You're now an AI startup! Congratulations! Time to move to San Francisco I guess...

We'll also be supplying light refreshments for everyone 🍕🍹, it's gonna be really fun and literally the best way there is to learn about how to pitch tech related startups.

Agenda:

1740 - Attendees arrive, networking

1800 - How to Pitch: watch a short presentation by Sam Donegan on how to do an excellent 3 minute pitch

1815 - Seed Round Pitch Ideation: teams assigned, workshop a 3 minute pitch for a AI enabled startup with your team

1845 - Seed Round Pitch: pitch your idea to a small group (1/4th of the attendees), also watch the other pitches in your group

1905 - Seed Round Voting: vote for the best pitch within your group each group will have one winner

1910 - Pitch Advice Talk: a short presentation by Antler's Akhil Sharma on how to give an excellent pitch

1920 - Food beak 🍉🍌🍕 + Networking, if you won your group this is some extra time to work on your pitch

1935 - Series A Introduction: Judges are introduced as well as and series A voting roles 

1945 - Series A Pitches: the winners from each group each have a chance to give their pitch a second time

2000 - Series A Voting: help the judges pick the final winner

2005 - Winner announced! The winning team receives $300 for their idea. This is the end of the event.