Venture Makers Innovation Challenge
About Venture Makers Innovation Challenge
Venture Makers is Launch Pad’s entrepreneurship training and development program for students, researchers and staff designed to build and support an entrepreneurial culture & ecosystem.
In this ONE DAY challenge, teams worked with participants from various disciplines (from Business, Communications, ICT, to Health, Psychology and others), to explore how we could use technology/digital tools in education to ensure fair access, participation, and success for all learners.
The Challenge Question
"How can we use AI for a positive sustainable social change?"
We are now in the age of smart technology. Artificial Intelligence has now become entrenched in both our personal and professional lives. While AI provides many advantages it also has the potential to create, significant negative impact on society.
Participants worked with specialist mentors from startups and industry to help them develop ideas that apply advanced technology concepts and innovative business models whilst working in a real-world environment.
Students came as individuals to meet and join forces with other participants from other disciplines to make an impact! It was a great way to connect.
The Challenge Question
"How do we promote mental health in Western Sydney?"
Our mental health is critical to our wellbeing. Now more than ever, we need to contribute to solutions that are easy to access, equitable and impactful.
The Venture Makers Innovation Challenge put participants in the driver’s seat to solve an emerging problem and develop and communicate innovative ideas. The skills learnt in this challenge would be valuable whether they become an employee for any organisation or choose to become an innovator, inventor or entrepreneur.
Learn more about how Venture Makers Innovation Challenge champions Mental Health in Western Sydney.
The Challenge Question
"How do we stop the climate crisis by accelerating to a net carbon zero economy?"
One of the biggest challenges facing all of our future employers over the next decade is getting to net zero. Nearly every project, every team and every employee are being asked to consider this in all jobs whether it is medicine, law, engineering, creative arts and media, manufacturing or transportation.
Understanding these challenges and how to be part of a team to solve them can be exciting and relevant to future employment prospects. The Accelerating to Net Zero Innovation Challenge put participants in the driver’s seat to solve this problem and develop and communicate innovative ideas. The skills learnt in this challenge would be valuable whether they become an employee for any organisation or choose to become an innovator, inventor or entrepreneur.
Working in teams, participants proposed new ideas and solutions for Accelerating to Net Zero with a human-centric approach that delivers the most benefit to society.
The Challenge Question
"How do we build a Metaverse for good?"
The teams worked to conceptualise metaverse solutions in areas such as mental health, diagnostic tools for dementia, therapeutic approaches for treating lower back pain, innovation in retail, marine conservation, immersion, social good, fitness through human-machine integration, and sustainability.
Learn more about how Venture Makers Innovation Challenge embraces the Metaverse.
The Challenge Question
"How can we design Digital Identity Technologies for Justice and manage Digital Identities for a more secure, fair and more equitable world?"
Over 50 students from the STEM, humanities, business and health disciplines at Western Sydney University have come together virtually to develop solutions to the pressing challenge of human identity in the digital age.
Learn more about how Students look to the future of human identity through innovation challenge.
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Venture Makers is Western’s highly experiential and innovative entrepreneurship training and development program. We provide a series of premium quality innovation challenges and training opportunities based on developing solutions to current key global challenges and fostering innovation in Western Sydney.
Venture Makers is available to all Western students, researchers and staff across STEM, humanities and social sciences, business, education and health to collaborate across disciplines to develop entrepreneurial skills, enhance work readiness and establish key industry contacts.