Satellite Events

WNT Ventures & Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia - Commercialising Advanced Materials workshop

Thursday 9 February 2023, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Millennium Hotel, Rotorua, New Zealand

KCA will be hosting a workshop at the AMN 10 Conference: Commercialising Advanced Materials. The workshop will be presented by Erin Rayment: Executive Director, Industry Engagement (QUT), Director, Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia, Chair of QUT Bluebox.

Advanced materials science has the potential to drive disruptive change across many of the global challenges facing society. But turning advanced materials science into high impact ventures is complex, challenging, and requires specialised capability to guide the ventures through the many choices along the way. With this workshop, we aim to enable our research entrepreneurs, TTO colleagues and founders to navigate the complexity and strengthen our advanced materials commercial ecosystem.

You will develop skills and confidence in navigating the complex requirements and decisions needed to pursue the commercial journey of taking an advanced material out of the lab and into commercial and industrial ventures. Aspects such as business models, industry requirements, accessing specialised expertise and how the IP strategy underpins industry and investor decisions will be covered.

The content is being developed in discussion with experienced research entrepreneurs, founders, investors and technology transfer professionals to ensure it addresses current best practice approaches.This Commercialising Advanced Materials workshop will be accredited for professional development points by the KCA via the Registered Technology Transfer Professionals (RTTP) system. It is made possible by the sponsorship of WNT Ventures as session sponsor, with further support of Kiwinet and the MacDiarmid Institute.

Matū Fund - Investor Advice individual sessions

Thursday 9 February 2023 - Individual time slots available Rotorua Energy Events Centre

We often get queries from research entrepreneurs wanting to know what investors think. Now’s your chance to speak directly with one of the pro-active lead investors in early-stage deep tech in NZ.
Matū is excited to introduce you to the early-stage investment process, and offer the chance to talk about where you can take your research, and how they can help you take it to the next stage of development.
This discussion session is designed around meeting you and your research, and will go into all areas across bringing research out of the lab and into the market, such as:

  • Is my research investable?
  • When should I consider raising capital?
  • What can private capital help me achieve that grant funding can’t?
  • How do I get started on my commercial journey?
  • What milestones should I be pursuing to ensure investors are interested?
  • When and how to approach investors?

We’d like to invite you to register for an individual discussion session with Kiri Lenagh-Glue and Samuel Sutton, Senior Analysts at Matū Group, for a time of your choice on Thursday 9 February. We welcome you and your Technology Transfer Office team to join the discussion.

Matū has NDAs established with a number of research and academic institutions throughout NZ, and all sessions will be confidential. If you would like to confirm whether your project is already covered by these arrangements please get in contact.

To book a time, please email kiri@matu.co.nz

For any other queries, please email Kiri or kevin.sheehy@vuw.ac.nz

MacDiarmid Institute Tech TastersCo-hosted by Kiwinet as a networking event with Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia (KCA)

8 February 2023, 5:30pm - 8:00pm Bay Trust Forum, Rotorua Energy Events Centre, Rotorua, New Zealand

Registration: No need to register separately if you’re a conference delegate. For non-conference delegates please RSVP to Kevin.Sheehy@vuw.ac.nz.

We’d like to invite you to join us at our Tech Tasters event which will showcase some of the local deep tech startups linked to materials science and our MacDiarmid Institute network. We’re pleased to be partnering with Kiwinet on this event to bring our combined networks together with Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia. Research commercialisation offers a step change in economic performance, impact on sustainability, dynamic careers for scientists and an opportunity for collaborative projects. Come and hear from 7 start-ups about their intended impacts in these areas. You’ll also hear deep tech insights from our MC serial entrepreneur Prof Cather Simpson and guest speaker, KCA Director Dr Erin Rayment (bio below). Refreshments (drinks and canapés) will be served in the Grand Hall alongside the event.

Join us for this evening session to meet investors, technology commercialisation professionals, the Kiwinet team and Pipeline Committee, entrepreneurial scientists and the MacDiarmid Institute Commercialisation and Industry Engagement team. Speaker Bio – Dr Erin Rayment Erin is a leader in commercialisation, passionate about creating impact with research and is currently the Executive Director, Industry Engagement at the Queensland University of Technology. Prior to joining QUT, Erin has led industry engagement and research development for several universities and has worked across Australia and the United Kingdom. She has a PhD in tissue engineering, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, is a Registered Technology Transfer Professional and a Superstar of STEM. Erin contributes to the commercialisation policy discussion through her role as Director of Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia. She is also Chair of QUT Bluebox and a Director of CelluAir. 

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AMN10 is the 10th of a series of international conferences organised by the MacDiarmid Institute.

AMN10 is managed by Conferences & Events Ltd.

Conference Manager: Amy Abel 
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This event is organised by Conferences & Events Ltd, Wellington, Auckland, Nelson & Nationwide.  We are a New Zealand business.