Join UNE SMART Region Incubator for RISE

Are you interested in tourism in regional Australia? Sitting on an idea that could take our region to another level? We need you!

UNE SMART Region Incubator is putting out the call to anybody with a brilliant idea for tourism innovation to be part of RISE – a two day event in partnership with Tamworth Regional Council that will call for ideas from participants made up of high school students, UNE students, innovators, entrepreneurs, micro businesses, programmers and regionally based tourism operators. Is this you?

You’ll pitch your idea to participants in 3 minutes, teams will come together around their favourite ideas and spend a total of 24 hours together to collaborate around turning these greats ideas into a reality.

RISE will bring together entrepreneurial and innovative minds with varied skills, knowledge and expertise together for a 24 hour period to collaborative in the ideation process to create a viable product and real solution to a real issue affecting regional Australia.

RISE will be held at UNE Tamworth, the home of the UNE SMART Region Incubator at 24 Fitzroy Street to utilise the work spaces and state-of-the-art IT and AV facilities available within a CBD location.

Held over two days, RISE will commence at 5.00pm on Friday 16 March and finish up at 9.00pm on Saturday 17 March. Teams will work independently, utilising the talent and learning skills within their team, plus mentoring, resources and knowledge that will be made available to them through the UNE SMART Region Incubator network.

We’re excited to invite those entrepreneurially-minded amongst us to be part of something exciting, energetic and meaningful for our region, and beyond.

Everyone has different skills to contribute – register now and take part in this unique event!

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