The University of Queensland

Got an idea for making a water smart Australia?  Want to work with top industry experts, present to and international audience and even win a grant to turn your idea into reality?

The 2nd Australia-Netherlands Water Challenge  is your chance to do this and more.  Kicking off this week, the challenge is a student-led innovation competition that aims to inspire international young water talent to take an active role in finding innovative and sustainable solutions to real-life delta and water problems.

This year’s focus is two-fold:

1. The collection of water data through social media (crowd-sourcing), and;
2. The development of smart decision-support applications (apps).

Join and submit your idea by 30 June to take part!

Girl Geek Coffees  is a meet up group for women in tech (https://sites.google.com/site/girlgeekcoffees/). We work closely with our industry ambassadors (Google, ThoughtWorks, Microsoft, Avanade, and more) to put on event for females and supportive male students (and those in early career) in IT and related fields.

One of our favourite industry ambassadors, ThoughtWorks, has kindly agreed to host our event this time round. They’ve got an excellent event in store for us, which will teach us a bit about Agile through the unconventional but amazing medium of PlayDoh! It’s going to be a great event, so I hope you can all make it!

Please note: If we get more than 20 participants, the event venue may move to a larger but still very central location.

When: May 6th, 6-8pm
Where: ThoughtWorks Brisbane Offices (127 Creek St, Brisbane)

RSVP via EventBrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6385058883/efbevent
Please send any questions/comments to qldggc@gmail.com

ilab is pleased to invite all UQ students to join us for a free lunch and a tour to view their facilities. You will get a chance to listen to pitches from current ilab companies and hear of the challenges and great satisfaction of running your own technology start-up. Learn about ilab programs for technology start-ups including a grant up to $20K to fund new ideas.

ilab has incubated over 100 start-up companies and helped them raise over $70 million in grant and investment capital to fund their growth and generate nearly 400 technology jobs.

Event Details:

Date:            Friday, 3 May 2013

Time:            Running every 30 minutes from 12- 2.30pm (Select one session to attend)
Lunch is provided

Where:          ilab, Gate 4, 80-120 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly

How do I get there? Catch the UQ Long Pocket shuttle bus from Chancellors Place, St Lucia Campus at 11:30, 12, 12:30 or 1pm.

RSVP:            Click here to register

About ilab

Owned by UQ, ilab supports and assists entrepreneurs and early stage, high-tech companies through the first few years of development providing seed funding, team development and mentor networks for founders; creating investor ready companies with increased chances of success.

For more information about ilab, visit their website.

It is with great sadness that we convey the news that Keith Bell, the Manager of the ITEE Engineering and Technology Support Group, passed away last Sunday night after suffering a heart attack.

Many students will have known Keith and interacted with him in his role as ETSG manager.  He will be greatly missed by all of us.

The School is inviting UQ staff and students to sign a book of condolence for Keith.   The book is located in the ETSG in 50-S309 and is available 8:30am – 4 pm Monday to Friday until Monday 6 May for people to share their condolences.