2017 UTS Venture Day

We're delighted that we're celebrating here the first Venture Day but also the end of the first year of this great program.

- Professor Andrew Parfitt, Provost & Senior Vice-President, UTS

The panel of judges included:

• Petra Andrén, CEO of Cicada Innovations
• Lance Kalish, Co-founder, Yes to Inc
• David Langford, Chief Investment Analyst, Long Lake Research
• John Lee, Partner, Gilbert + Tobin
• Ali Linz, Co-founder, GroupTogether

We were treated to a glimpse of innovations that may drive efficiency and challenge the status quo.

- David Langford, Chief Investment Analyst, Long Lake Research

Participants

The 2016/17 MBAe cohort was made up of individuals from different backgrounds with an average professional experience of 14 years, great motivation and big ideas. The strongest proposals were selected for public pitching in areas including technology, services, entertainment, education, logistics, social services and the not-for-profit sector.

Winners

Liam Daley Dlivee First Place Winner A personalised automated shipping concierge. Online shopping deliveries to customer preferences... not the couriers.	Annette McClelland Tekuma Second Runner Up Tekuma's one-handed UAV control system inspires user confidence and allows for faster task completion.	Maria Cadena Liftmii Third Runner Up Liftmii connects talented but underprivileged youth with caring citizens to sponsor university studies.

I'm fundamentally thinking differently... I'm feeling empowered to develop business models for my ideas.

- Liam Daley, Founder of Dlivee & MBAe Venture Day Winner

Other participants included:

• Fabiana Alvarez - The Make Shift
  Crossing social and cultural barriers through handmade products and the stories of the people behind them.
• Damian Amamoo - Sydney Film
  Supporting parents, entertaining children and raising community consciousness through film.
• Damian Dulanovic - Ignite Team
  Delivering event technology solutions for remarkable experiences.
• David LT - Batyr
  Batyr connects students with the mental health support they need by enabling universities to reduce mental health stigma and foster help-seeking behaviour.
• Ann Hoban - BlindNav
  BlindNav is an open technology collaboration platform for people who believe that blind people should navigate their city just as easily as sighted people.
• Luke Jones - Investant
  Investant is an intuitive investment platform that helps advisers and their clients plan and derisk their investments.
• Mladen Jovanovic - Recrew
  Non-MBAe student, Winner of UTS Business School's 3P Competition
  An innovative gateway service that allows tradesmen to access one another's services on demand and with ease.
• Peta Portelli - Cou\Tech
  Shoes designed around your orthotic made-to-measure and customisable to help women get through the day in comfort and style.
• Christian Raftery - Carrott
  A simple personal finance app to help manage your money and stop lazy cash.
• Johan Svensson - GoBrain
  GoBrain is an over the counter supplement that gives back control to professionals, entrepreneurs and students through the optimisation of brain performance.
• Elle Fleming, YuXin Kwan, Cory Mayfield, Theresa Nguyen, Jeremy Wijaya - Sendform
  Sendform is a platform that automates and simplifies the visa application process to connect people and streamline processes, for a peace of mind.

Read more about Liam's journey, the prizes won and the MBAe program here.