by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 19, 2016 | Coders / Hackers, Digital Disruption, Innovation, Social Impact, Social Innovation
Social innovation can refer to a range of different developments, ideas and solutions that strengthen human society. Thinkable and Hitachi have teamed up to award $15k in seed funding for ideas within the categories of Smart Cities, Connected Health, Mining and Smart...
by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 18, 2016 | Future of Work, Hackathons, Innovation
By any measure, the number of people seeking refuge around the world has reached crisis proportions. Locally, those who are able to successfully navigate the complex requirements to gain refugee status in Australia, struggle to gain a foothold in a foreign land....
by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
Photo credit: Stephen Cooper Last week I attended the first-ever ‘Wednesday Evenings short talks’ at the Vibewire Common Room. Pioneering the weekly events was futurist, trend spotter and keynote speaker Tim Longhurst who spoke to us about his experiences...
by Joanne Jacobs | Oct 3, 2016 | Future of Work, Innovation, Marketing-led Startups, Startups
When I first started building businesses for companies, it was an expensive and time consuming enterprise. We’d need to think through and plan for every aspect of a creating a large scale business even though we’d always start small. After all, this was an investment...
by Joanne Jacobs | Sep 15, 2016 | Hackathons, News
Hackathons are the perfect events to connect business with innovators, designers with developers, and ideas with production. Building on the momentum established with our last collaboration with Qantas, this year’s Qantas Codeshare Hackathon offered no less...
