Events

Are you ready to showcase your unique skills, strengths, and value to the world? Want to get noticed by influential leaders in your industry? It’s time to focus on the business of you. Take part in this hands-on workshop with the Ventures team at the UQ St Lucia campus.

Are you ready to showcase your unique skills, strengths, and value to the world?

To successfully scale your company, you need to understand the financial implication of every business decision. But where can you go to learn this information without completing an accounting degree? UQ Ventures in partnership with BDO for Startups, has designed this financials fundamentals workshop specifically to help startup founders and business owners.

Meet with Ventures ambassadors Van and Jess! Our Ventures @ The Edge sessions give you the chance to meet our ambassadors to learn more about how Ventures can support you in building your confidence, skills and friendships.

Join us for our open house event where you can learn about our programs, meet the Ventures team and meet startup entrepreneurs.

Want to learn how to be creative, resilient and agile to venture forward successfully in your studies? Join us for an information session on how you can think like an entrepreneur at our beautiful Ventures Space.

Are you looking to grow your leadership capabilities?
The inaugural Ventures LeadHers Staff Day seeks to support emerging female leaders in the university to reach their potential. Open to all female-identifying staff at UQ.

Rise is a program that finds brilliant people who need opportunity and supports them for life as they work to serve others. The program starts at ages 15–17 and offers a lifetime of benefits including scholarships, mentorship, access to career development opportunities, funding, and more as they work toward solving humanity’s most pressing problems. Apply before 25 January 2023.

Join Ventures as we bring together and support emerging and established women entrepreneurs, and leaders from the UQ community. Connect over a coffee, gain insights from our panel of female leaders, snap a new headshot and stop by for a free consult with a female-led Brisbane business.

Please join us at the 2021 Ventures Annual Showcase to celebrate the year that has been and to learn more about the startups who are accelerating ideas to impact.

Hear from inspirational founders from the greater UQ community as they share their unique entrepreneurship stories, key learnings and advice. For the next Founders Talk, we'll be joined by Daniel Flynn founder of Thankyou.

This year our Ventures Giving Day campaign is supporting the ilab Accelerator program - with your support, we can boost the entrepreneurial spirit of our students and help young founders participate in the program.

This pitching workshop will help students understand the fundamentals of narrative patterns and tools; learn how to communicate their message in a simple and concise way; learn how to build a compelling story and how to persuade their audience and practice and master the art of storytelling.

Talk 1-on-1 about your startup and book in a 20-minute session with Ventures staff or ilab alumni founders, in-person or via online consult.

Early-stage investment is a critical part of the commercialisation and a powerful source of financing for high growth companies.

Challenge yourself to create and pitch a business in just one weekend! Together UQIES, UQ EWH and Ventures have partnered to support 100+ students formulate, refine and pitch a new business idea for prizes. Get your ticket to join the UQIES Weekend of Startups 8-10 October.

In preparation of submitting your ilab Accelerator program application, we will go over the judging criteria, application form, and schedule for the selection interviews.

Hear from inspirational founders from the greater UQ community as they share their unique entrepreneurship stories, key learnings and advice. For the next Founders Talk, we'll be joined by Vanessa Murillo, Co-founder of I Am Grounded.

Meet Sam Jockel and Yotam Rosenbaum, Ventures Entrepreneurs in residence, and learn more about their experience of being a founder and how they can support you in your founder journey by being apart of ilab.

Hear from inspirational founders from the greater UQ community as they share their unique entrepreneurship stories, key learnings and advice. For this week's Founders Talk, we'll be joined by Mathew Townsend, Founder of Nature Freedom. 

Early-stage investment is a critical part of the commercialisation and a powerful source of financing for high growth companies.

Join a panel of speakers of ilab alumni and hear what they have to say about the ilab Accelerator program and being a founder of a startup.

Join the Ventures Industry Challenge Co-work and check-in session with your team to answer questions and test your ideas with Ventures mentors.

Curious about the ilab Accelerator program and want to find out more? See whether you are a good fit for the program and what you would get out of it.

Are you looking to grow your leadership capabilities?
The inaugural Ventures LeadHers Staff Day seeks to support emerging female leaders in the university to reach their potential. Open to all female-identifying staff at UQ.