Startup Support for the Indigenous Community - Let's Get It Right!

Encouraging access to entrepreneurship is vital to ensure the equitable growth of the sector for all startups, however there is an opportunity to improve engagement between the innovation ecosystem and aspiring Indigenous entrepreneurs. There is a lot of interest in increasing access and opportunities to collaborate between the startup sector and Indigenous businesses, but how do we do this in an effective and respectful way?

Nathan Lovett is a proud Yuin man from the NSW South Coast and has a lot of passion for improving the way in which corporate entities can engage with and provide opportunities for Indigenous people, creating change by implementing meaningful measures that result in actual outcomes.

Join us for an exclusive Fireside Chat on Wednesday 26th October at 11:00am at the Western Sydney Startup Hub (WSSH) and meet guest speaker Nathan Lovett, CEO, National Indigenous Culinary Institute and event moderator Georgia Marshall, who previously ran Minderoo Foundations's Dream Venture Masterclasses, for an open discussion on engaging with the Indigenous community and what we need to consider.

Through the conversation, Georgia and Nathan will discuss:

How do we get cultural consideration correct?
Best practice when it comes to community engagement
What can we learn from how engagement between the startup community and the Indigenous community has happened in the past?
How can we all be collaborating with the fast-growing Indigenous business sector?

This is a rare opportunity to gain a better understanding of community collaboration and hear Nathan’s personal stories, thoughts and experience on creating economic change for Indigenous people.

Fireside Chat with:

For the past 15 years, Nathan Lovett has been changing the space of the employment industry for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. From his experience in NSW Government and the Department of Industry, across into the corporate world managing Westpac’s national Indigenous employment programs, CEO of the National Indigenous Culinary Institute and being a part of many high functioning youth based programs, Nathan has set the standard for the implantation of education and employment programs, creating economic change for Indigenous people around the country.

During his time with Melbourne Storm, Nathan started working with The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, managing the Macquarie University program. It was here that Nathan changed career course and completed a Masters in Educational Leadership, using it to further his career in Indigenous programs by going into Leadership roles and becoming an Executive. His recent work has seen him co-create a Western Sydney Engagement Strategy for Lendlease and create the Tenpin Bowling Australia Reconciliation Action Plan, to go with his other sporting experience with the NRL and being a part of their Reconciliation Action Plan Committee. He also was the internal lead for creating the Westpac's employment targets for their new Elevate RAP.

Nathan’s family connections go back to Moruya on the South Coast of NSW and is a descendant of the Yuin people. He is very proud of the South Coast and the Hunter Valley where he grew up.

Georgia Marshall has spent the past five years working alongside hundreds of early-stage startups, social enterprises and Indigenous businesses. She currently leads programs at Folklore Ventures - a venture capital fund that partners with ambitious startup founders, and talks about all things social impact and innovation in her monthly newsletter.

Previously, Georgia ran Minderoo Foundation's Dream Venture Masterclasses for over 75+ First Nations founders and aspiring investors around Australia, and scaled the community at Fishburners - one of Australia's leading coworking spaces for startup founders and their teams. Georgia is passionate about supporting businesses that are solving big problems and hoping to make the world a better place to be.

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