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.