Climathon NZ
27-28 October 2017
Creating a new energy future for every Aucklander
Auckland is New Zealand’s largest and fastest growing city.
How can we power this growth in a low carbon way that is
affordable and accessible for every Aucklander?
Our challenges range from how we generate and use energy to how we travel.
Let’s design a brighter energy future for our brilliant city.
About Climathon
The University of Auckland's Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, in partnership with Vector, is hosting Auckland's first ever Climathon! A 24 hour global ideas hack, the event will take place simultaneously in over 233 cities worldwide. Climathon was designed by Europe’s largest public-private innovation partnership focused on climate change,
known as Climate-KIC.Take part in this large scale international programme to bring to life innovations and solutions to climate change issues.
The Auckland Climathon will be held over 24 hours from Friday night, 27th October to Saturday night, 28th October.Students, staff, and the greater Auckland community are invited to participate (we’ll let you sleep, we promise!).
We'll keep you fed, inspired and ready for action. This is a free event, thanks to the generosity of our sponsor Vector.
Venue
Climathon Auckland will be taking place at
Unleash Space, the University of Auckland's new 900sqm innovation hub and makerspaceHow Climathon Works
What you can expect during the 24 hour event
Friday - 5-11pm (Registrations at 5 for 6pm start)
Saturday - 8am - 8pm1Propose solutions & form teams
Friday night is all about
exploring the challenges
Auckland faces around climate and ideating solutions to those challenges.
We will have
open-mic pitches, where
participants get 1 minute to
pitch their ideas to the crowd,
to get people inspired to work
on your solution.
Teams form around ideas, and the remainder of the night is spent working in teams and with coaches to determine how best to tackle the solution in the remainder of the time.
2Run experiments to test your ideas
Saturday is all about action – using the Design Led Thinking process to develop your idea into a prototyped solution, and using lean methodology to test your assumptions in the market place. You’ll be surrounded by science and climate experts, design led thinking and lean methodology coaches to really support you.
3Present progress and win support
On Saturday evening, teams present their solutions to a judging panel, who will determine which ideas are most appropriate for each of the available support packages.
Why take part in Climathon?
· Bring to life solutions or innovations for climate change issues
· Get a taste for what it is really like to build a start-up or commercialise an idea
· Test your idea to see if it has viability
· Find partners and co-founders equally passionate about your idea!
· Test yourself to see if entrepreneurship, innovation, or building a start-up is for you
· Network and meet likeminded people from a variety of industries who are equally passionate about start-ups and/or solutions to climate change!
· Develop skills in design led thinking by applying it to a real life experiment
· Upskill in lean start-up methodology, and practise lean principles on your Climathon idea
· Surround yourself and network with our expert mentors in design led thinking, lean start-up, climate change and sustainability
· The winners of the Auckland Climathon event will receive follow up support and mentoring to develop their idea into a venture. This follow up support will be tailored to the needs of the venture, and will be delivered by Akina, or another provider.
How to Climathon
Delivered by
Climathon Auckland is delivered by the University of Auckland's
Centre for Innovation and EntrepreneurshipPowered by Vector
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