EVENT CANCELLED - Pembroke Career Connect - The Entrepreneurial Mindset
Description
The Entrepreneurial Mindset – Creating Opportunities, Embracing Risk and Building Your Future
Career Connect provides a space for Pembroke alumni to learn from one another, explore ideas and strengthen professional networks across industries and generations.
Following the outstanding success of our inaugural Career Connect event, which brought together more than 60 alumni for an evening of meaningful conversation and connection, we are delighted to continue the series in 2026.
Details for our next event are outlined below, with further information, including guest speakers, to be released in due course. We look forward to welcoming our alumni community for another engaging evening designed to inspire, challenge and connect.
Event Details
The Entrepreneurial Mindset – Creating Opportunities, Embracing Risk and Building Your Future
Date: Thursday 27 August 2026
Time: 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Venue: Eastside Room, Electra House, 131 King William St, Adelaide SA 5000
Dress: Smart Casual
Cost: $25 (includes canapés and drinks)
RSVP: with ticket purchased by Tuesday 25 August 2026
Our topic:
The Entrepreneurial Mindset – Creating Opportunities, Embracing Risk and Building Your Future
Guest Speakers: Laura Tolson (2006), Jason Huang and Tyson Grubb (1996).
A discussion about recognising opportunities, embracing uncertainty and taking initiative to shape your future.
In a rapidly changing world, the ability to identify opportunities, embrace uncertainty and take initiative has become one of the most valuable skills in any career. Hear from entrepreneurial alumni as they share how they've transformed ideas into reality, navigated setbacks and built successful ventures. Whether you're running a business, leading a team or looking to take the next step in your career, this conversation will explore the mindset, adaptability and courage needed to create opportunities and shape your future.
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Lineup
Laura Tolson (2006)
Laura Tolson co-founded Lateral Vision, an Adelaide creative-technology studio, and grew Swyvl out of it. Swyvl is the spatial-data platform its clients now use. Over more than a decade she's turned captured places into data teams can actually use, made the leap from a services business to a self-funded product, then rebuilt it from the ground up in 2026. Away from the screen, she leads brand and marketing for her family's farm, Broke Estate, which runs cattle and a few distinctive short-stay retreats. She's also a mum of three, which is the least scalable and most rewarding thing she does.
Jason Huang
Jason Huang is the Founder and CEO of GGP Energy, a South Australia-based energy investment company pioneering affordable, clean, and green electricity solutions for residential and commercial developments. He built GGP Energy around a mission to help landowners, businesses, and community leaders achieve net-zero emissions without financial barriers, and a vision to empower remote and underserved communities through self-reliant, renewable energy systems. Under his leadership, GGP Energy develops ground-mounted solar and battery farms, rooftop solar, and embedded network solutions in new builds and apartments, delivering both economic and environmental value while advancing Australia’s clean energy transition.
Tyson Grubb (1996)
Tyson Grubb is the founder and CEO of Instrument Choice, an Australian e-commerce business he has bootstrapped from a start-up into an eight-figure company through nearly two decades of continuous growth. An electronic engineer by training, Tyson believes entrepreneurship is about recognising opportunities, solving real problems and creating value for others. His achievements include being awarded a Churchill Fellowship and leading Instrument Choice to win its category in the Telstra Australian Business Awards, as well as two Community Achievement Customer Service Awards. Alongside Instrument Choice, Tyson and his wife Sarah own The Gladys, a luxury accommodation in the Adelaide Hills, demonstrating that the same entrepreneurial principles can be applied across very different industries. A long-time member of Entrepreneurs' Organization and former Learning Chair for EO Adelaide, Tyson is passionate about continuous learning, innovation and challenging conventional thinking. He has also served as a judge for the Telstra Best of Business Awards. As a Pembroke Old Scholar, Tyson enjoys sharing the lessons he has learnt from embracing uncertainty, taking initiative and building businesses with a long-term focus on helping customers and creating value.
Vince Ciccarello OAM
Vincent joined Pembroke in 2024 to lead the culture of giving. He is well known in the wider community through his work with the Art Gallery of South Australia, as Managing Director of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and his contributions to the tertiary education sector. Vincent has a Bachelor of Music (Honours) from Adelaide University, a Graduate Certificate in Management (Arts Management) and a Graduate Diploma in Journalism. His career includes roles as a journalist, in Arts management and extensive board and advisory panel work, specifically across tertiary education and The Arts, with his most recent role as Head of Philanthropy and Enterprise at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
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