Innovation Forum this Friday, Social drinks relaunch, Shark Tank, Pitch Club and more!

Things are heating up for innovation in Bondi as it gets cooler! Bondi Innovation Forum is on this Friday, it’s the major annual event and will be special. Monthly social drinks are relaunching with a bang, and plenty more events to be announced soon.

Read below for upcoming events, our members platform, and far more.

• Bondi Innovation Forum is on Friday!

• Relaunch of bigger, better monthly Social drinks

• Bondi Shark Tank this Thursday

• Bondi Pitch Club coming 5 June, apply to pitch

• Member platform launching soon!

• Recap of Founder Lunch and GenAI Leaders Lunch

• Join Tech Australia Advocates

• We’re hiring! Bondi Innovation events/ community manager

Bondi Innovation Forum is on Friday!

Bondi Innovation Forum 2024 is on Friday 10am - 12pm followed by networking. The event delves deep into how AI can create value for small and mid-sized businesses. There are some amazing speakers, you will get great value packed into this brief event. Either join us at Bondi Pavilion to experience it live and join the networking session with snacks after the presentations, or watch for free online.

Come join us at our fourth Forum in our annual partnership with Waverley Council and Bondi Chamber of Commerce.

Social Drinks Relaunch 15 May

After a pause we are relaunching our monthly social drinks in style! We will gather every third Wednesday 6-8pm at ChouChou at 13 O’Brien St Bondi Beach, kicking off on 15 May!

REGISTRATIONS ESSENTIAL! Tickets are $10 which includes your first drink and light snacks. There will be a great crew, hope to see you there!

Shark Tank this Thursday

This Thursday, the evening before the Bondi Innovation Forum, Bondi Chamber of Commerce is organising a “Bondi Shark Tank” pitch event, featuring Mitchell Bissinger, Cathleen Santoso, Sam Cust, and Waverley Mayor Paula Masselos as judges.

Monthly Pitch Club coming!

We are partnering with local entrepreneur Thibault Roumagoux and Bar ChouChou to bring a monthly Bondi Pitch Club event on the first Wednesday of every month, starting 5 June. It is a casual fun event where you can practice your 90 second elevator pitch in front of a friendly audience.

Full details coming soon, for now you can apply to do your pitch at the event!

Bondi Innovation platform launching soon!

Big launch coming very soon! Bondi Innovation will launch a platform for our members, and kick off a Premium membership that will allow you get event discounts, special offers, connect with the most inspiring local innovators, and support the development of a world-class entrepreneurial ecosystem in Bondi!

Recap: Founders Lunch and GenAI Leaders Lunch

An amazing inaugural Founders Lunch overlooking Bondi Beach, with a crowd of super-inspiring local founders. More lunches coming soon.

Our third GenAI Leaders lunch was exceptional. Read a summary of discussions and insights generated.

Join Tech Australia Advocates!

Tech Australia Advocates is a support network for the full cross-section of the technology ecosystem. This includes tech entrepreneurs, founders, CEOs, coders, start-ups, scale-ups, corporates, financial and academic institutions, professional services firms, government representatives, and industry bodies.

It has just been launched, we’re partnering with them to help support the Australian tech ecosystem. It’s free to join, get in there!

Hiring: Bondi Innovation community/ events/ partner manager - part-time

Bondi Innovation is looking for someone who believes in the vision, wants to help catalyse the incredible innovation potential of Bondi region, and can help grow this to the next level.

Please pass this on to anyone you think would be great and might be interested!!!

Help grow the community!

Please support us, by coming to our events, telling the right people about Bondi Innovation, connecting us with anyone who has energy to help make good things happen for the community.

See you at one of our events soon!

Ross and the Bondi Innovation team