MULTIPLE HATS: STEM Careers | Reinvention | Entrepreneurship |Thought Leadership

Embark on this series with UNSW founders special accelerator programs and hear from UNSW program managers and founders.wether you have already started or just have an entreprenarial itch, this is sure to show you what's possible when you dare to give it go.it is packed with founders stories, near explosions, realisation that there must be a better way as well as the incredible involvement of the program manager who can make this entore community of support possible.Lots of insights on the steps

Breaking Barriers: Championing Women Entrepreneurs with UNSW's New Wave Program22% of startups are founded by women only and they receive only 0.7% of the private capital.Do the numbers line up to you? Not to me!We need more female entrepreneurs and more funding for them.UNSW Founders' New Wave program is breaking barriers right at the beginning for female entrepreneurs.Victoria Rose Tucker, New Waves program manager covers the inception, structure, and impact of New Wave, which provides a

It all started with a 15 year old visiting in a biotech lab. Bam, the next generation of innovator was shaped and not so long down the track,Alinta Furnell,would become the CEO and co-founder of Synbiote, a company focusing on creating high-grade industrial bioplastics.Alinta's journey, from an unexpected email halting can production for their non-alcoholic beer to transforming waste into innovative bioplastics.Alinta shares her unique perspective on biotech, viewing it as harmonizing natural

Imagine what it would be like to struggle with poor vision every day and not be able to afford a pair of glasses. That's the reality for many people in remote communities across the globe.Dr. Sarah Crowe recallsan ambulance driver in Papua New Guinea who found himself in dangerous situations due to his poor vision.Stuck by the astonishing reality that so may people do not function properly, when all they would need is a pair of simple glasses, she founded OOXii Global and the 4eyesVision Foundation

A Deep Dive into the UNSW Founders Program - one of the most acclaimed accelerator in Australia.Community is everything! If you are a founder trying to reinvent the wheel, you are going to have a hard time but if you can find the right community for where you are in your journey, it is a fast track for your start-up.A fast track in motivation, in network, in knowledge and know how and in funding access.In this episode of 'Multiple Hats,' we take a deep diveon the entrepreneurship ecosystem in

You want to make an impact but you're not up to shooting rocket to Mars?No worries. You can use your skills to make a difference without being born a billionaire, without having gone through a life traumatising event or having a genius idea.Tom Jacobs is an engineer from Australia and he did just that with Bokan Tseo, his corporate buddy, and local to Lesotho - better the lives of thousands of people by applying is engineering skills to building water infrastructure in places where people don’t have

Ideation and invention is the start of the journey but there is so much more going into bringing a business and a medtech to life. Where you start matters but Maryam stories is a tell tale about how to be at the right place at the right time and engage with the right stakeholders.Tune in fordr. Maryam Parviz is the co-founder and CEO of SDIP innovations, a medtech company which technology is a bioresorbable implant which promises to prevent multiple surgeries for patients, cut down on theatre time

Like any kids, Cassie Leonard wanted to go into space and so she studied aerospace engineering ( at UCLA, mind you)What if you turned up on your first day and was the only woman in a room of 35 engineers? Maybe quite daunting.But it did not stop Cassie from spending 16 years at Boeing!And You know what's great in accumulating 16 years of corporate experience in the biggest aerospace company in the world?You get to explore a lot of possibilities and growthto your own pace!After a lot of technical