#TIF2025 Deep Dive into Indigenous Innovation
Event description
Deep Dive into Indigenous Innovation 2025
Welcome to #TIF2025
The Deep Dive into Indigenous Innovation returns for 2025, offering a transformative day dedicated to celebrating, advancing, and amplifying Indigenous innovation and entrepreneurship. This year's program has been specially curated based on feedback from our 2024 participants and the TNQ Indigenous Innovation & Entrepreneurship roundtables sessions, ensuring the content remains relevant, impactful, and community-driven.
This immersive day-long event brings together established and emerging Indigenous innovators, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders to share knowledge, forge meaningful connections, and collaborate on strategies for operational resilience and growth. We'll explore the current Indigenous business landscape, highlight success stories, and collectively identify pathways to further progress and opportunity.
Whether you're an Indigenous entrepreneur looking to scale your enterprise, or a non-Indigenous professional keen to learn from and collaborate with First Nations innovators, this event offers invaluable insights, networking opportunities, and practical knowledge from those at the forefront of First Nations innovation.
PROGRAM
In Partnership with Deadly Innovations and KJR
Separate registration required. Included with in Platinum tickets.
Friday 27th June, 2025 | 9am – 4:30pm | Novotel Oasis Resort
Deep Dive into Indigenous Innovation
In Partnership with Deadly Innovations and KJR
Separate registration required. Included with in Platinum tickets.
Time | Topic | Facilitator / Speaker |
9am | Registrations open |
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9am – 10am | Networking and Coffee | Tropical Terrace Café |
10am | Welcome to the 2025 Deep Dive into Indigenous Innovation
Traditional Performance
VIP Address | Marc Harbrow | Harbrow Mentoring Destiny Dewis | LIFES
Nathan Schrieber | Guri Guman
David Kempton MP | Member for Cook
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10:20am | Investing in Female Success Pathways
| Libby Cook Black | The Female Co |
10:40am | Innovation in creativity and design | Leesa Watego | One Business Talicia Minniecon | TTpop Facilitated by Destiny Dewis
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11:00am | First Nations Shape Changing | Thomas Holden | Nirrwara
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11:20am | Networking Break |
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11:40am
| Technological solutions for Ocean Health in Torres Strait Islands | Aaron Bell | KJR Dennis Fay | Salty Monkeys
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12:00pm | Innovation in First Nations workforce creation and development | Daijah Martens | ATW
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12:20pm | Lunch
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1pm | Lightening talks
| Facilitated by Destiny Dewis |
1:05pm | Walking in Two Worlds: The Power of Entrepreneurial Education
| Tiffani Seaton | Young Change Agents |
1:10pm | Partnering for success and impact | Kylie Young | Kylie Young Consultancy |
1:15pm | Collaboration for Data and Digital Inclusion | Drew Hammond | KJR |
1:20pm | Creating digital jobs in remote communities | Joanne Walters | Yarrabah Innovation & Digital Hub |
1:25pm | Innovation demands partnerships to build impact where its needed most. | Kirsty Davis | Cape York Partnerships |
1:40pm | Opening doors for First Nations young people to enter engineering and science | Dennis Jose | JABIN |
1:45pm | Roundtable collaboration | Marc Harbrow | Harbrow Mentoring |
2:15pm | Afternoon mini break |
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2:30pm | Innovation through Sports | Rick Hanlon | AFL Cape York Otis Gowa | Sprint Coach Facilitated by Marc Harbrow | HM
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2:50pm | What Indigenous innovators are bringing to engineering and STEM fields | Grant Maher | Deadly Coders Fireside with Destiny Dewis | LIFES |
3:10pm | Innovation, Success and Future in First Nations Tourism | Mali Ingram | Queensland Government Tourism Justin Wastnage | Vloggi Fraser Nai | Strait Experience
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3:30pm | Artificial Intelligence & Data; First Nations Respect & Empowerment. | Craig Lawton | Amazon Web Services |
3:50pm | Support for your First Nations business | AusIndustry Carmel Crathern | Queensland Government Innovation Julie-ann Lambourne | QIBN First Australia Capital
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4:10pm | Cultural connections and personalisation for sustainable business success.
| Juan Walker| Walkabout Cultural Tours Facilitated by Marc Harbrow |
4:30pm | Deep Dive Finishes and Thank you | Marc Harbrow | Harbrow Mentoring |
EVENING NETWORKING EVENT
Supported by AusIndustry and Space Agency Australia
4:30pm | Networking Event
Supported by AusIndustry and Space Agency Australia
AusIndustry Darryl Lyons | Rainstick
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6:00pm | Networking event end |
Accessibility
The full day program is priced to be inclusive. Participants of the 2025 FNQ Indigenous Innovation roundtables are fully subsidised thanks to our sponsors. This event is included as a bonus for Platinum pass holders for the Tropical Innovation Festival, but separate registration is required.
If you would like to attend but find the cost restrictive, please contact us - we're committed to making this event accessible to all who wish to participate and contribute.
Join us as we dive deep into Indigenous innovation and collaboratively shape the future of First Nations entrepreneurship.
Pitch Your First Nations Innovation – Do you have an innovative solution with First Nations founders or built in collaboration with First Nations communities? Apply to pitch your innovation in our dedicated pitch session where you'll connect with potential investors, partners and customers. You can apply to pitch here. https://forms.office.com/r/MXqvcVNbuN
Partner or Exhibit your product/service – If you would like to partner with TIFx Deep Dive into Indigenous Innovation, please reach out for more information. https://forms.office.com/r/yDm7rcJL1N
Part of the 2025 Tropical Innovation Festival. Explore more events at tropicalinnovationfestival.com.au
Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity
