UNCUT

The University of Queensland is hosting Ventures Uncut: Lessons from failure.

Our guest speakers will share their stories of failure including the lessons they learned and how their failures ultimately led to success. Join us for an evening of uncensored discussions, catering, and networking.

This event is proudly supported by Australia's Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA). From ideas to innovation, FaBA delivers world-renowned research expertise to solve complex food and beverage challenges across the product pipeline. FaBA is accelerating research commercialisation, fostering industry engagement and delivering science in a way that fuels the growth and global potential of Australia's food and beverage manufacturing industry.

Event details:

Date: Thursday 23 May 2024
Time: 5.30pm for a 6pm start, until 9pm AEST
Venue: Level 2, Newstead Brewing Co, 67 Castlemaine Street, Milton, Queensland 4064

Guest speakers

Nic Marchesi OAM

2016 Young Australian of the Year and 2020 Order of
Australia Medallist, Nic Marchesi is an entrepreneur,
innovator and storyteller. Nic is the Co-Founder and Chief
Delta Officer (CDO) of Orange Sky – the world's first free
mobile laundry and shower service for people
experiencing homelessness. Nic is committed to solving
problems, innovating and making a difference. This was
recognised through his selection as a Global Leader in the
2019 Obama Foundation Leaders Program.
As CDO Nic plays a key role in ensuring that innovation is
at the forefront of our evolution, leads our technical
function, is a key player in our supporter strategy and
plays a critical role in managing our strategic direction as
a member of the Senior Leadership Team. He is motivated by the vision to deliver on our five-year strategy
to help 40,000 friends by 2025.

Abbey Cameron

Co-founder and CEO of multi-million dollar meal delivery company Nourish’d, Abbey Cameron has spent ten years leading a high growth, boot-strapped, company to commercial success in a hyper-competitive market. Now also an investor, keynote speaker, and amateur bilinguist, Abbey enjoys long walks on the beach and coaching aspiring startups to greatness.

Siobhan Coster

Siobhan Coster is on a mission to improve access to ingredients with incredible health properties. As a qualified Dietitian with international business and a UQ MBA, she spearheads Eclipse, a cutting-edge biotech ingredients start-up incubated within CSIRO.

Eclipse uses the incredible science of precision fermentation to sustainably make high-value, hard-to-source bioactive and functional ingredients from yeast. The first ingredient is a wonder nutrient found in human breast milk and immune cells, called lactoferrin - an immune boosting, iron binding and anti-microbial compound that can help bring infant formula closer to mother’s milk.

Joel Di Trapani - Moderator

Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Vygo an ed-tech scale-up which helps university and college students connect with everyone they need on their own learning journey (mentors, counselors, advisors etc). He has grown Vygo through Australia and the UK and is now focused on the US. Joel is also passionate about helping other entrepreneurs learn how to build great products and businesses through his own podcast Do As I Say, Not As I Did where he brings on founders, authors and experts in the startup world to answer emails from the audience about problems people are really facing in their own businesses. Joel spends a lot of time mentoring, and coaching other startups on how to build great products and product teams.