Events

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!

Bringing innovative individuals from across the world to our community, Plus Eight Boosted has now launched the October Series, Design to Scale with Shana Dressler.

Health Tech startups are rapidly growing across not only Perth but the whole of Australia, as we see more founders and entrepreneurs combining the use of technology and passion to make their innovative concepts a reality.

With today's consumers more interested in supporting brands and businesses that make a positive impact in the world, it's more important than ever for us to be discussing how to use tech for good.

Spacecubed are excited to be partnering with both West Tech Fest, and Rotto Tech Fest for their eighth year as a key sponsor and partner, shining a light on innovation, technology and new ideas from across Australia and the world.

Coming up on Wednesday, 19th of June, Skills of the Modern Age are hosting a community debate to discuss this popular design framework. Raising questions such as; Is Design Thinking dead? Can anyone be a designer now? And if so, what’s next?

Perth{web}Girls is a movement empowering women to code and offering pathways into tech careers by organising free programming workshops and events.

We're delighted to host two of the co-founders of Elementice, James Presneill and Ben Hegarty, on April 2nd at Riff for the WA launch of their new event-based photography product WalkerKam.

Coming to Spacecubed’s Riff on Monday March 25, the Junior Dev community are kicking off the year with a new theme, Getting Started.

Spacecubed hosts many regular meetups and a new addition for 2019 is Empowering Consciousness.

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!

Equity crowdfunding has revolutionised startup finance in the UK. Australia’s crowd-sourced funding regime is finally here.

Running from 29th June to 1st July, Startup Weekend’s fast-paced, non-competitive hackathon aims to teach people the foundations of building a startup, this time with a twist.

Our Couch Talks series brings together women entrepreneurs who have experienced a plethora of challenges faced in their careers to share valuable knowledge with others.

Game makers and creative innovators bring along their work in progress for the public to try at a fun salon-style evening event.

If you're an entrepreneur or startup looking to grow your business, there's sure to be a meetup at Riff to suit your interests. Not only will these meetups teach you something new, but you'll be able to network with a community of like-minded thinkers.

Perth Web Girls, powered by Spacecubed, is empowering women to learn coding by organising free programming workshops and meetups.

If you have an idea and a drive to succeed, then Summer Startup is for you!

The Plus Eight Accelerator Launch is taking place on Tuesday 5th December, with information about what we are looking for in the 2018 Plus Eight cohort, key dates for the program and how to apply.

We invite you to join us for the race that stops a nation! The Melbourne Cup is happening again on Tuesday 7th November, and both Spacecubed and FLUX will be live streaming the event.

West Tech Fest, Perth’s largest tech festival is back for its sixth year.

Introducing Boosted, you're exclusive opportunity to get a knowledge boost directly from the tech startup world's most renowned and successful members. Hear their stories, take away valuable insights and tricks of the trade to help your business grow and succeed in the Global economy.

SURGE is the latest way Spacecubed is supporting the wider startup and entrepreneurial ecosystem in Western Australia.

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.

Community building expert, Bryony Cole, will be joining us all the way from New York on Friday 7th April for a special lunch time session at FLUX.

Today, after a week of over 26 awesome events at both Spacecubed and FLUX, we’re wrapping up West Tech Fest with our second Perth Web Girls of 2016.

Keep your professional development constant and up to date at FLUX and Spacecubed

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.

We've got some world class speakers with some world class events this year at West Tech Fest.

Kleenheat, a subdivision of Wesfarmers Limited, recently held their special Innovation day in the RAC Think Tank to focus on new opportunities and find exciting new ways to bolster customer experience.

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. From the 8th until the 15th of October, we are joining forces with the broader community and standing as one to raise awareness for Mental Health and wellbeing.

Startcon 2016 - Australia's largest startup and growth conference

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?

Are you or your startup looking to harness global opportunities and skills in Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation?

The FLUX Launch and Spacecubed's 4th Birthday

On Friday 16th September, our awesome community got together, and celebrated Spacecubed’s 4th birthday, and the launch of our latest coworking space, FLUX.

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.

Scarily named and intrusively sounding, yet productive in nature, if you haven’t attended a hackathon, or if you don’t know what one is, we can highly recommend you attend this one.

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.

Last week, Spacecubed and HBF held the first of three scheduled HBF Activate masterclass sessions as part of the programmes design phase, presented by Andrew Hall.

We live in a time characterised by both opposition and opportunity. As a society, we often identify ourselves in opposition to others, and as such, miss out on those opportunities that matter.

Australia and New Zealand have kicked off Uber’s largest global event in its history today (Friday 15th July) which sees Uber volunteers, employees and supporters selling ice-cream in over 400 cities worldwide.

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.

Aligning with the Ideas Boom and the National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA), Inspiring Australia and Scitech have joined a team of key sponsors to support the upcoming Startup Weekend.

The WA Startup Ecosystem Report 2015, estimates the potential economic impact of disruptive digital and internet technologies on WA’s economy in 2025 as high as $76 billion per annum (25% of Gross State Product) and says now is the time for WA entrepreneurs to create change.

On Tuesday, we had over 70 people attend the much-anticipated launch to witness Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy swing the sledgehammer for the official groundbreaking of FLUX.

Join John Kat from UK trade and Investment for a special lunch time learning session on Wednesday, February 17th in the Level 9 board room.

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.

Innovation Bay, the networking platform for innovation and investment in the high-tech space are hosting their first Perth ‘Speaker Breakfast’ event of 2016 on Wednesday 16th of March 2016

Spacecubed is partnering up with muru-D and Pollenizer to bring you a night of 3-minute pitches on October 15th for a chance to win a fastpass to the interview stage of the selection process for the third muru-D Sydney accelerator intake.

If you have an idea and a drive to succeed, then Summer Startup is for you!

If you have questions about the federal government’s direction on innovation strategy, keep Tuesday 15 December from 5:20-6:30pm free.

“The Asia Pacific region is a great source of innovation in the digital space”.

After the highly successful program in 2014, Spacecubed has teamed up again with RAC to launch the second round of RAC SeedSpark.

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.”

The WA Innovator of the Year Program is now in its fourth year and continues to raise the profile of innovation in Western Australia by supporting the delivery of government initiatives to advance the growth of the State’s innovation-based industries.

How did you decide to get into running workshops for women?

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!

“Am I being tough? No. I am just not being as gushingly kind as everybody else.” Fans of Shark Tank Australia will recognise these words from Entrepreneur and Investor, Steve Baxter, who Spacecubed is thrilled to be hosting a members-only event with: 8am, Wednesday 8 July.