AGENDA of the evening

• 3:30pm: IP Mentoring and Q&A with Griffith Hack
• 4:00pm: Pitch Coaching Class
• 5:10pm: Break madly updating pitch decks
• 5:30pm: Pitches
• 7:30pm ish: Chat with Speakers, Judges, and other entrepreneurs
• 8:00pm ish: We try to kick you out!

To

front of an awesome judge panel, please fill out the form at: https://tinyurl.com/NSINpitching

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IP WORKSHOP LEAD BY:

TBA
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PITCH COACH

TBA

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THE PITCH PROCESS

Pitches

are 5-7min, warning bell at 5min and 'the plug is pulled' at 7min. Then

there's a Judge Q&A so pitchers will be given constructive advice

on how to better sell their ideas. And spectators will get to see the

brave rise or fall... ;-)

Judges will have 5min or so to Q&A

so a whole pitch should take 15min including swap over. We will try and

get through 8 pitches in the night...

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THE JUDGES

Martin Duursma (https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinduursma/)
Partner, Main Sequence Ventures

Martin

is dynamic technology business leader with a track record of innovating

next generation products, developing vision, setting strategy,

motivating teams, developing leaders, people management, managing large

scale complex programs, budgets and distributed team environments.

He

is also a highly motivated entrepreneurial individual with diverse

technical expertise derived from hardware engineering, application

development, low level systems design and understanding of technical

infrastructure from top to bottom. Martini also possesses a passion for

Australian startup innovation and getting new ideas “out of the lab” and

into the hands of the customer.

Benjamin Chong (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminchong/)
Partner, Right Click

Benjamin has a track record of investing in and building successful

Internet-related businesses for over twenty years. He has also consulted

in the areas of ecommerce strategy, online marketing, and technology

for major clients.

Benjamin is an active technology start-up community member in Australia, South East Asia and United States. He has served as a mentor, guest speaker and panellist at various start-up,

entrepreneurship and industry programs including Centre for Innovation

and Entrepreneurship (UNSW, Sydney), Echelon (Singapore), Fashhack

Australia, Founder Institute (various cities), H2 Ventures, Incubate

(University of Sydney), and muru-D (Telstra, Sydney), amongst many

others.

Zara Crichton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zara-crichton-4bb110b/)
Executive Director, Venture Cafe Sydney

As Executive Director of Venture Café Sydney, Zara is focused on

connecting meaningful ideas to people who can make things happen. As a

start-up founder – both failed and successful – she knows that providing

a support system for innovators of all backgrounds and identities will

foster relationships that increase an individual’s access to resources

encompassing; capital, talent and ideas. Her professional experience

encompasses leading companies such as; Connect Macquarie Park, Macquarie

Bank, Consolidated Press Holdings, Warner Bros and Pixar.