START(UP) ACADEMY

Get ready to ignite your mind, challenge your perspective, and be part of the next generation of leaders, thinkers and doers! Upon arrival, you will be greeted by our friendly SQUAD and ushered in to begin your START(UP) ACADEMY experience.

And we're off! Join our incredible facilitator Nicole Dyson as we kick-start the day with a host of inspiring voices, sharing their personal stories, experiences, and lessons from their entrepreneurial journeys. You will develop your understanding of the importance of hard work and dedication, as well as the power of dreaming big and having the courage to take risks.

To ensure a thriving & sustainable future for our people & planet, we must play an active role in identifying & solving the challenges of today. But where do we begin? During this session, you'll have the opportunity to dive into one of four challenges presented by our event partners - diving into a mission to brainstorm creative solutions. No idea is too wild. It's time to think big!

How might we be resilient in the driest state in the driest continent and be efficient with our use of resources for generations to come? During this session, you will learn how to tackle the unique challenges of building resilience in the driest state in the driest continent and find ways to be more efficient with resources for future generations. Join experienced professionals from SA Water and develop your entrepreneurial thinking and human-centred design skills. This is your chance to be a part of helping to shape the future of water management in South Australia!

Join us as we come together to brainstorm, develop, and present innovative solutions to prevent burnout in the workplace. Participants collaborate to address the root causes of burnout, such as work-life imbalance, stress, and lack of support, and propose new approaches to create a more sustainable and fulfilling work environment. The goal is to bring about tangible, actionable solutions that can be implemented to promote well-being and prevent burnout in the future.

What does the Smart home look like for you ? What problems do we need to solve for the smart home, How can we make the smart home have a positive environmental impact. It is up to you how you solve these problems, is it a technology solution, has the design of the smart home changed to maximise green energy, does the design capture and or filter rain or wastewater. Where do we live, if working from home is the new office how does that impact the smart home.

If we could start again, what would our world look like? What systems would underpin societal structures? Would "society" as we know it even exist? Join YouthInc & Global Shapers Adelaide for this immersive session!

(Lunch not provided - bring your own or visit the food trucks!)

After an inspiring & thought- provoking morning, you'll be invited to select from one of four masterclasses on offer, designed to help you bring your ideas into reality. From pitching your idea to building a prototype, finding your first customer - and more. You'll be exposed to a wealth of tactical knowledge, kick-starting your path into the future.

Communicating who you are and what you're all about is a cruicial skill for entrepreneurs. In this Masterclass, you'll learn how to sell yourself without being too "cringey", how to structure a pitch to get sales or investment, and some secret presentation hacks that you can use in job interviews or startup pitches. Your hosts have pitched ideas in Silicon Valley, New York, Canada, Japan and Australia, and the UK, and they're thrilled to be in Adelaide to share what they know!

What is the best way to make a difference to your career? What are the common mistakes to avoid so you know you're making a difference? In this session, you'll learn tips and tricks for maximising the social impact of you as a person, and of startups/companies in general. You'll get insightful career advice and learn useful tools & techniques for how to accurately measure social impact.

Join Steve Forbes in this fast-paced, hands-on Product design workshop, where you will learn a practical step-by-step framework that will help you transform your rough ideas into a minimum viable product (MVP).

That's a wrap! Join us in the Victoria Spiegeltent to reflect on our learnings, and what it means for our future beyond today!