Collaborative Innovation: How to Design Challenges that Engage Talent and Inspire Action

How can researchers, youth, and specialist communities of interest work together to generate novel ideas, business models, and prototypes that transform our communities? How can this collaboration grow the pipeline of entrepreneurs within an innovation ecosystem?

In this masterclass, participants will learn how to design, attract sponsorship and deliver an efficient and impactful hackathon, sandpit, open innovation challenge or industry co-design session. Delivered by the Canberra Innovation Network, this session will explain how diverse collaboration and co-ownership of challenges can become the pulse of an ecosystem that pushes innovative projects beyond the idea stage to implementation. Participants will also learn how this approach can support innovation-driven companies to attract talent — and will come away with proven tools and methods to implement.