Up-skilling researchers on networking with Industry and pitching innovation

University of Sydney

Organisational Profile

Australia’s first University, The University of Sydney is one of the world’s top research universities. The university has significant capability in more than 20 major areas of research and offers the widest range of academic programs of any university in Australia.

Service Provided

gemaker was engaged by the Commercial Development & Industry Partnerships team to facilitate and develop an Innovation Week partnership event for research and industry. To ensure that both the University and individual researchers got the most out of the partnership event, gemaker ran a masterclass for participating researchers in pitching & networking with industry.

gemaker’s provided valuable assistance to ensure our research industry partnership event was a success. They’re approach was flexible, they had great ideas and we appreciated their willingness to use their own networks to benefit our researchers. In particular, the pitch training was very well received and provided valuable tools for researchers to better engage with industry

Katie Richmond

Commercial Development & Industry Partnerships, University of Sydney

University of Sydney

Organisational Profile

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