Coming up this December, West Tech Fest is bringing to Perth a week long innovation festival featuring an incredible line-up of global founders, investors, CEOs & tech industry visionaries. With an incredible lineup of speakers and guests set to attend, we've listed a handful below to get you excited for the upcoming event!
Spacecubed is pleased to announce that we are hosting the upcoming YOW! Night Perth 2018, with Dr Sam Aaron creator of Sonic Pi, as part of a new partnership between Spacecubed and YOW!. We were delighted to have Executive Director Michele Playfair at Spacecubed on her first visit to WA to find out more about the local dev scene - see below for her take on WA!
Featuring the prestigious World Wide Web conference, WWW2017, and a host international and local conferences and events, the Festival of the Web will cover topics from Big Data, to Web 3D and VR; from Business, Government and technology, to Web Accessibility or the Internet of Things in Mining, Oil and Gas.
West Tech Fest is back and this year it promises to be bigger and better than ever before. Perth’s largest tech festival will take place from the first week of December (4th until the 10th), showcasing Perth’s brightest tech, entrepreneurial, startup, educational and business talent, and attracting some of the world’s leading experts in these respective fields.
At Spacecubed, we're always looking for new and exciting ways to bring our community together. It's often said, that 80% of any message is retained in social settings, so in terms of networking, what better opportunity to network and establish key contacts than over a champagne at Melbourne Cup?
With just a week to go until GovHack Perth 2016, we’ve decided to share with you some insight into the data that you can expect to find, use and innovate at the event. On top of new government agencies delivering unseen before new and exciting data, there will also be a GovHack first taking place at this year’s event held at FLUX.
This weekend, FLUX hosted its first hackathon and Perth’s biggest GovHack ever, seeing over 175 registrations, and 128 participants to the event. This event in particular was something special, as over 400 people have now been part of all events held at FLUX in what’s only its first week of being fully open.
Spacecubed just hosted its 8th Startup Weekend event. The 54-hour intense weekend saw participants create teams, conceptualise ideas for a lucrative business and put together everything a startup needs to succeed. Working on their ideas, teams were tasked with acquiring their first customers, implementing a business model and strategising their potential businesses to cover every area for business growth.
Ideas can come from anywhere: be it a part-time hobby in someone’s garage, a heated planning session over the kitchen table, or at the local university’s funded incubator. However, ask any venture capitalist and they will tell you: ideas and people willing to work hard are easy to come by. But, the process of maturing an idea (no matter how brilliant) into a successful business, that’s the difficult bit.
20% of all young adults are affected by some form of mental health problem per year. This number seems quite small, but it’s a yearly statistic, meaning that in a lifetime, over 45% of all Australians would have experienced some form of anxiety, depression or other mental health related illness.
It’s been a week since Spacecubed and Meeting for Minds had the great pleasure of bringing Australia it’s first ever mental health hackathon. With over 70 people interested and participating, the event was able to create new innovative solutions to mental health problems that burdens thousands of Australians each year.
Griffith Hack has partnered with Spacecubed to offer a monthly popup for 2016. IP Amplifiedwill be run on the last Friday of every month. (Directly after the Spacecubed members breakfast). IP Amplified offers our insights and discussions on relevant topics happening within the Spacecubed community.
Held last weekend, the GovHack Australia 2015 Red Carpet Awards in Sydney, saw West Australian teams win nine awards and honourable mentions, including two at an international level. Minister for Finance, Mines and Petroleum, Bill Marmion stated “events like GovHack are important to Western Australia’s technology future and to the Government because they show what can be achieved when government makes data available and brings people together to analyse and reuse it.”
Morning Startup Perth is certainly making it worth your while to leap out of bed every second Wednesday. From Startup AUS Founding Director, Peter Bradd, Amcom Upstart’s Felicity Millman (RestAlert) and Founder of Witan, Matt Hewitson – the depth of knowledge being shared with the Perth Startup community just gets stronger and stronger each week. If you haven’t been to a meetup as yet – jot it in your calendar. You’ll meet other members of the entrepreneurial community and network your ideas, challenges, and possibly even make some new contacts!