PROGRAMMES, WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS
Our programmes, events and workshops are free for all current students and staff at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland.
Research to Innovation Hatchery
Gain entrepreneurship skills while exploring pathways to amplify your research’s social and commercial impact.
Applications close Sunday 16 March
Start-up Fireside Chats
Join a community of start-up founders and receive support and advice from experienced entrepreneurs. Featuring startup founders as guest speakers at each session.
Start-up Studio
Start-up Studio is CIE’s on-campus co-working space and community for early-stage founders.
Start-up Support
Get advice on progressing your start-up from CIE staff and experienced and practising innovators and entrepreneurs.
Velocity $100k Challenge
Enter your start-up plan to win a share of a $100,000 prize pool and kick-start your venture!
Velocity Ideas Challenge
Share your start-up idea for a share of a $20,000 prize pool!
Velocity Leadership Committee
Join the team and be part of delivering New Zealand’s iconic university entrepreneurship programme.
Māori Innovation Wānanga
Join our monthly innovative wānanga, a space to foster whakawhanaungatanga, networking, and manaakitanga.
Whiua ki te Ao
Be inspired by the journeys of Māori innovators and entrepreneurs who are making a difference in the world through embracing and creating opportunities.
One-Day Start-up Workshop
Learn the basics of creating a start-up in just one day! Get introduced to tools, frameworks, and methods including validation and business planning basics.
Doctoral Entrepreneurial Leadership Programme
A free, year-long opportunity for University of Auckland doctoral candidates to unlock their entrepreneurial potential and explore future career pathways.
📝 Applications close Sunday 2 November
Ignite Innovation
Learn the tools, frameworks, and methods to make an idea a start-up.
Solve It
Solve real-life challenges posed by established Kiwi organisations.
Summer Lab
Start-up your summer! Take a problem inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, form teams and develop an innovative solution.
Venture Lab
Venture Lab is a six-month incubator programme designed to take your start-up to the next level.
Women in Entrepreneurship
Be inspired at a community event celebrating local Women innovators and entrepreneurs.
Pasifika Talanoa
Hear from Pacific innovators and entrepreneurs and be inspired to explore a world of opportunity.
Start-up Careers Showcase
Meet with Kiwi companies and learn about the NZ start-up scene.
Vanguard Entrepreneurial Leaders Expedition
Study tour of Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay area, including visits to start-ups, investors and iconic companies, meeting alumni, a tour of the Stanford campus.
Kurutao Entrepreneurial Leaders Expedition
Embark on a journey of discovery with like-minded innovators, connect with inspiring Māori entrepreneurs and explore a world of opportunity.
Technology Training Sessions
Sign up for a training session at one of CIE’s innovation hubs – Unleash Space or Te Ahi Hangarau.
Distinguished Graduate Award
Your involvement with the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship can be formally recognised on your academic transcript through the University’s Co-curricular Recognition Programme.
Doctoral Entrepreneurial Leadership programme
The Doctoral Entrepreneurial Leadership programme is a free year-long programme for University of Auckland doctoral candidates from all disciplines. It is designed to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and skills.
Hynds Entrepreneurial Fellows Programme
The Hynds Entrepreneurial Fellows Programme aims to embed innovation and entrepreneurship in the curricula across the University of Auckland by working with and supporting academics from all faculties.
Ignite Innovation
Do you have a great idea but are unsure of how to transform it into a reality? Ignite Innovation will take you through the journey from concept to creation.
Kurutao
Kurutao is a Māori Entrepreneurial Leaders expedition designed to inspire and introduce Ngai Māori (Māori Peoples) to Aotearoa’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
One-day Start-up Workshop
If you have an idea but don’t know how to turn it into a business, this one-day workshop is for you. The day is designed to give you a good understanding of the basics of building a business case and starting a venture. Free for everyone at the University of Auckland to participate.
Researcher Hatchery
The Researcher Hatchery is designed to provide entrepreneurship and commercialisation capabilities and support the translation of research into impact for society and the economy.
Solve It
Solve It is the innovation sprint that gets you to think, ideate and create solutions to tackle some of New Zealand’s toughest problems. Develop ideas to use technology to make the world a better place, with opportunities to gain friends, professional contacts and cash prizes!
Start-up Interns
University of Auckland students are invited to gain hands-on experience in a start-up through the Start-up Interns programme. Lend your skills to an early-stage venture and learn new skills, geared to accelerate your future.
Start-up Studio
A dedicated co-working space, Start-up Studio is actively used by a group of entrepreneurs and start-up founders using Unleash Space as their ‘home’ and place of work.
Start-up Support
Do you have a business idea, but unsure on your next step? Are you a founder with a problem, or are you looking for some suggestions on how to grow your business? CIE’s Start-up support sessions are for you!
Summer Lab
No matter what you’re studying and what you go on to do, you’ll need innovative skills and an entrepreneurial mindset to prepare you for this new world of work. Make the most of your summer and start something wonderful.
Vanguard programme
Each year in September a cohort travels to Silicon Valley for one week. Applications are by invitation only.
Velocity
Velocity is the University of Auckland entrepreneurship development programme. It unleashes potential, giving momentum to people, innovation and ideas. We provide mentoring and intensive workshops for ideas to be ignited to the next stage.
Venture Lab
Venture Lab is the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s incubator programme, open by invitation only to winners of the Velocity 100K challenge competition.
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