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OFFICIAL EVENt PROGRAM

SATURDAY JUNE 24  10.00am - 4.30pm

Speakers.Workshops.Skill-building.teamwork

10.00am SUMMIT OPENING

  • Madeleine Grummet & Edwina Kolomanski girledworld Co-Founders

10.05am OFFICIAL SUMMIT OPENING ADDRESS

  • Hon. Kelly O'Dwyer MP Australian Federal Government

10.15am VICTORIAN STARTUP ECOSYSTEM
Hear from key players in the startup, entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem

  • Georgia Beattie Startup Vic CEO

  • Georgia McDonald Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship General Manager

10.30am-12.10pm ENTREPRENEURSHIP + STARTUP 101
Learn about startups, Silicon Valley, how to launch a business, female founder experiences and hone your leadership and public speaking skills in a 50-minute Workshop Intensive

  • 10.30am - Lisian Teh Melbourne Accelerator Program
    So what's a start accelerator, what's entrepreneurship all about and how do you start?

  • 10.45am - Ele Toulmin & Sarah Last Mimictec Co-Founders
    Hear from two cracking female founders what it's like inside a fast-growing AgTech startup

  • 11.00am - Jeanette Cheah The Hacker Exchange
    Learn about Silicon Valley, startup hubs and just what it takes to make it as a female founder

  • 11.20am - Angela Nicholls Public Speaking: Finding Your Voice For Leadership
    WORKSHOP 1
    Pitch perfect: How to use storytelling to tap your inner voice, engage your audience and create powerful presentations

12.10pm-12.45pm LUNCH (Emma & Toms Beverages/Water/Catered Sandwiches/Fruit/Snacks/Brain Food)

12.45pm-3.00pm INNOVATION + BUSINESS SKILL BUILDING

  • 12.45pm - Wadzanai Nenzou Herconomics Finance
    WORKSHOP 2
    Finance 101: Grow your money mindset and gain financial literacy

  • 1.00pm - Sarah Hyne MYOB UX Design
    WORKSHOP 3
    UX: Let the MYOB UX all-girl team show you how to optimise design interface

  • 2.00pm - Kirsty Costa Design Thinking
    WORKSHOP 4

    Design Thinking: Prototyping, MVP, Ideation, Problem-solving, Team Play

3.00pm-3.15pm AFTERNOON TEA 

3.15pm-4.20pm TEAM PLAY, PITCHING + FUTURE TECH DIVE

  • 3.15pm - Anna Leibel CIO/Agile Teamplay
    WORKSHOP 5
    Work in teams to explore agile techniques, team optimisation and innovation skill-building

  • 3.35pm - BrainSTEM Innovation Challenge
    BrainSTEM connects high school students with mentors to work on innovative STEM projects. Meet the winning team.

  • 3.50pm - Susan Sheldrick S&G Virtual Reality
    WORKSHOP 6
    Future Face: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality & Artificial Intelligence Deep Dive, plus get a chance to test out the tech!

4.20pm OFFICIAL SUMMIT CLOSING ADDRESS

  • Hon. Philip Dalidakis Victorian State Government, Minister for Small Business, Innovation & Trade

4.30pm EVENT CLOSE

 

SUNDAY JUNE 25 10.00am - 5.00pm

LEADERSHIP, ROLE MODELS, STARTING UP & STEPPING UP

Speakers, Panels, Audience Q&A + Goodie Bags!

10.00am SUMMIT OPENING

  • Madeleine Grummet & Edwina Kolomanski girledworld Co-Founders

10.05am SUMMIT OPENING ADDRESS

  • Dr Kate Cornick Launch Vic CEO

10.30am-12.50pm TECH, GEEK + STEM CAREERS

  • 10.30am - Sarah Moran Girl Geek Academy Co-Founder & CEO

  • 11.00am - Mary Raleigh Atlassian Strategy & Operations Team Lead Cloud Apps

  • 11.20am - Mahtab Mirmomeni IBM Software Engineer, Biomedical Data Sciences, IBM Research Australia

  • 11.40am - Lucy Liu Airwallex Co-Founder & CEO

  • 12.00pm - Eva Ross Airbnb APAC Marketing Operations Manager

  • 12.30pm - Jessica Vovers WISE UniMelb (PHD), Science Gallery Melbourne

12.50pm-1.20pm LUNCH (Giggle Fizz Drinks/Water/Catered Sandwiches/Fruit/Snacks/Brain Food)

1.20pm-2.40pm STARTUP FOUNDERS, BUSINESS LEADERS & E-COMM

  • 1.20pm - Kate Morris Adore Beauty Founder & CEO

  • 1.40pm - Kirsty Bennett Frank Body Marketing Director

  • 2.00pm - Aimee Marks TOM Organic Founder & CEO

  • 2.20pm - Izzi Dymalovski luvurskin Founder & CEO

  • 2.30pm - Panel Audience Q&A

2.40pm-2.55pm AFTERNOON TEA 

2.55pm-4.45pm LEADERSHIP, SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP & FINDING PURPOSE

  • 2.55pm - Mim Bartlett Founder & CEO Mim Bartlett Consulting & Leadership Coach

  • 3.05pm - Sheree Rubinstein One Roof Women Founder & CEO

  • 3.10pm - Mariam Issa Space2b / R.A.W (Resilient Aspiring Women)

  • 3.20pm - Mumtaza Panel & Audience Q&A featuring:
    Yassmin Abdel-Magied Mumtaza Founder & CEO
    Sarah Agboola Entrepreneur, FYA Board Member, Mumtaza, Co-Founder M-Time
    Dr Yan Ting Choong PHD STEM, Entrepreneur, Mumtaza, Co-Founder M-Time
    Maeva Heim League of Extraordinary Women, Lawyer, Mumtaza

  • 3.50pm - Laura Pintur What's Normal?, Victorian Young Achiever of The Year 2017

  • 4.10pm - Emma Haakenson VCA Creative Artist, Social Activist & Model

  • 4.20pm - Tilly VW Student/Singer/Songwriter

4.45pm - OFFICIAL GIRLEDWORLD SUMMIT 2017 CLOSING ADDRESS

  • Madeleine Grummet & Edwina Kolomanski girledworld Co-Founders

5.00pm EVENT CLOSE



The girledworld BIG IDEAS Leadership Summit was the 2017 flagship event of female-founded edtech startup GIRLEDWORLD.

Proudly supported by the Australian Federal Government and opened by Hon. Kelly Dwyer MP, Hon. Philip Dalidakis of the Victorian Government, LaunchVic CEO Kate Cornick and StartUpVic CEO Georgia Beattie, this Australia-first event was held at the University of Melbourne's Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship.

The girledworld Summit was an exceptional opportunity for girls in Years 7 to 12 in Australian secondary schools to immerse in skill-building leadership workshops, hear incredible, transformative stories of startup success and career advice from inspiring and extraordinary female mentors, and experience first-hand the 21st century innovations and enterprise skillsets that will define the future workplaces they will inhabit.

The event also featured powerful public speaking programs (think TED for girls), collaborative and interactive Design Thinking, teamwork and prototype workshops, mentor-led expert experiential learning opportunities, deep dives into STEM, coding, virtual reality and the world of tech, keynotes from rockstar global female leaders and homegrown startup founders, plus a chance for students to learn world-class business practices and enterprise skillsets. 

This is about better learning, better outcomes, and building girls up so they can better shape their futures.

Because at girledworld we know all too well the challenges the next generation will face in a shifting world of work.

Exponential technologies, automation, digital disruption and the erosion of traditional 'safe' jobs are moving quicker than the school system is capable of responding, and STEM continues to spearhead the future of work and life as we know it. The fact is, if you don't keep up, you'll be left behind. 

So the girledworld Summit specifically addresses the urgent need to upskill, educate and equip secondary school aged girls with transferrable skillsets in creativity, leadership, problem-solving, digital literacy and STEM. This will ensure they are world-ready, idea-fuelled, confident and connected to an incredible community of mentors who can help them navigate their future career pathways.  

 

Designed as a dynamic, informative, empowering and interactive educational event, the girledworld Big Ideas Leadership Summit 2017 FEATURED:

SPEAKERS 
High-profile, industry leading speakers from across the globe who are paving the way in business, startup and social entrepreneurship and will provide career advice and tips on getting started to the audience via keynotes and Q&A

STEM
Engaging expert keynotes and audience Q&A on the importance of embracing technology, break downs on coding, STEM and the future of work in the age of exponential technology and disruption

STARTUP
How to build a business from the ground up, getting started, business models and entrepreneurship workshops (How to Fail Safe, Pitch Perfect and Bring Big Ideas to Life) 

LEADERSHIP
Facilitated workshops in leading self, leading teams, public speaking, power posing, finding your passion and purpose, and how to use your influence for good

VIRTUAL REALITY
Immersive future technology sessions including virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence and its applications for work, life and play 

FINANCIAL LITERACY
Finance 101: Equipping, empowering and educating girls with financial literacy and basic business finance so they can grow their money mindsets 

DIVERSITY
Drill downs on the gender gap, diversity as an innovation driver, and why it's good for business, good for Australia and good for the globe 

INNOVATION
Innovation made easy with age-specific interactive breakout workshops on Design Thinking, Agile and Lean Start Up business toolkits 

ENTERTAINMENT
The Summit showcased incredible young creative talents from VCA, Victorian Young Achiever of the Year and an extraordinary singer songwriter who is making waves while still at school.

We are all about impact and making a real difference in the educational experiences, learning outcomes and career pathways of the girls we engage.

Thank you to the hundreds of students, educators, industry, parents and government representatives who joined us for an extraordinary weekend of career education, inspiration and empowerment.

Edwina Kolomanski & Madeleine Grummet
Co-Founders girledworld
University of Melbourne - Wade Institute of Entrepreneurship
Master of Entrepreneurship 2016 Alumni