UTS Startups Awards 2021

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Hi everyone I'd love to acknowledge the Gadigal people

 of the Eora nation who are the traditional custodians 

of knowledge of learning and teaching for 

this land that we're on right now I wonder 

where you are watching from uh we'd love to 

know where you are as well but we just want

 to yeah really acknowledge and honour the

 traditional custodians elders both past present

 and future. As we welcome you to the 2021 

UTS Startup Awards yes so exciting to be here it 

feels like it's taken forever to get here but we're 

here now yeah I mean this year has gone for

 a very long time but we're so pumped to be 

here with you tonight we are joined by some i

ncredible incredible people that I can't wait to

 introduce you to but my name is dave firstly I

 work with UTS Startups this is my co-host

 and our operations manager Emma thanks 

for coming everyone really

excited to be here

and we also have got to tell you that

later tonight there is a massive

announcement that we have been holding

on to and it's been really really hard

for me to keep this secret

also because  I alk a lot anyway but

i've been trying really hard so no one

knows uh but we're going to be telling

you something really really special

that's going to be happening with UTS

startups to change it's going to affect

a lot of people and so stay with us to

the end but it's going to be fantastic

so Emma very exciting we really want you

to first of all thanks for coming to

support our startups but we'd love for

you to continue that tonight

um on socials so get your socials out

startups awards if you're so inclined go

and find our pictures tonight and follow

them i'm sure they'd love that support

but tonight the awards so they are our

fourth annual UTS Startups awards the

flagship event in our UTS Startups

festival and that is all about inspiring

and supporting you to take your next

step it's not just about the incredible

startups you'll see here tonight it's

about every single one of you at home

taking our next step in entrepreneurship

together as a community

and UTS Startups can support you to do

that but for tonight why don't you share

what to expect okay we'll expect a

lot it's gonna be fun we're actually

featuring 23 different startups in the

space of a very very short window of

time so we'll see how that goes

but what we're going to see are some

incredible pictures so we've got a

whole bunch of categories we've got our

idea stage categories because UTS setup

is a program that really encapsulates

all sorts of startup businesses right

through from you know the very very

concept stage through to high traction

so we're going to see a whole bunch of

ideas staged 60 second pitches they're

going to go really quick so stay stuck

to the screen don't miss a thing and

then we've got our other categories um

including sister most sustainable

startup best application of research

we've got a whole bunch of yeah social

impact some other things coming up

and we're going to have some three

minute pictures there where again really

really condensed but startups are going

to showcase what they do who they are

they're going to tell you why you should

care about what they do  I hink you're

going to love it it's going to be really

cool but one thing  I ant to mention as

well Emma is the way that we yeah it

chose these finals because our community

is massive we've got hundreds of

startups but we were able to engage

like a big team of remote judges who are

really really grateful to so many um

incredible academics and supporters and

people in the ecosystem around UTS that

really helped us you know

review and judge a whole bunch of

pictures remotely produced by these

sites and i've got to say as well that

our startups you know we didn't send

a film crew around at everyone's house

uh that's just not the way it happened

they just had to figure it out so we

yeah we're gonna see some really

creative cinematography  I ould say

with iPhones they did such a great job

under the circumstances so put on every

single one of you yeah definitely so

that's what you can expect and it's

going to be full of surprises

it does take a village though to support

our startups and part of that village

are our incredible mentors so we have a

team of experienced entrepreneurs who

give up their time for free to help our

startups take their next step their time

their experience their expertise and

really they care to be part of our

community so we want to send you some

virtual love every single one of our

mentors thank you so so much

but first another supporter in our

community while we are sad to see him uh

leave UTS shortly we're incredibly

grateful for his championing of

entrepreneurship particularly

technology-enabled startups here at UTS

it is our vice chancellor at tiller

bronze

thank you kindly dave thank you very much

Emma you're very well welcome and for

organising tonight it is a very exciting

night a very warm welcome to you all

thank you for joining us this is one of

the most exciting events in the UTS

calendar

I would also like to pay respects to the

Gadigal people of the Era nation not only

acknowledging them as a traditional

custodians

um traditional custodians of this place

on which we stand but also acknowledging

elders past and present as a traditional

custodian of knowledge for these places

and people have heard me say time and

time again knowledge is the heart of

what we are as a university but tonight

we'll see the creation and innovative

use of knowledge in

incredibly exciting ways in all of these

startups as they pitch

as I ften say universities have a

unique role in society we exist for

public good not just for those who pass

through our doors but for all society

and that's easy to say but much harder

to do and as you all know we're living in

interesting and challenging times so

therefore our role as a public

institution is even more critical

so regardless of how challenging the

circumstances get we must continue to

provide benefit for all of our society

many of the startups you can use tonight

are designed to do just that to benefit

society tonight you'll meet some of

those UTS’s finest entrepreneurial

talent people who have created tech

enabled startups to play a crucial role

in also helping Australia recovery and

regrow from cover 19 pandemic generating

new jobs generating exciting employment

opportunities but also generating

products that people really need

and they've all done this alongside

their study and under challenging economic

circumstances as a university  I cannot stress how

important it is that we support our

students go beyond their studies to give

them the skills that they'll need to be

successful not just for their first job but

throughout their entire life and

programs like UTS Startups are critical

to developing these skills and giving

you new insights that you don't often

get just in a simple classroom

each person here tonight will have an

amplifying effect they'll go on to do

good work with the skills of learn from

their studies and programs like UTS

startup and the people that met the

networks have made along the way

and it wouldn't be possible without

universities inspiring and enabling and

nurturing this talent so  I'd like to

thank everybody right across UTS who's

been involved in this program all of our

mentors all the supporters of this

uts startup is very distinctive in the

way that you inspire and support the

technologically enabled entrepreneurs at

scale not only does UTS have the largest

community of student launch startups in

Australia which is quite an accolade

but importantly they're all doing

amazing things take for example iowa an on-site waste

to energy bin that converts common waste

materials directly into green electricity making waste expenseless

that we'll hear from them or open pages

an online directory providing equal

opportunity for refugees for migrants

through efficient and timely access to

critical information or pantaja a remote patient monitoring

platform that aims to provide the best

patient experience possible using

advanced health tracking communication

education and these are just some of the

individuals who are shaping Australia's

future and I  I w when I  I k across the whole

gamut I couldn't be happier that our

future is in safe hands so once again

thank you all for attending tonight's

events and all the very best of luck to

our startups back to youtube Dave Emma

thanks so much Attila we really

appreciate your time tonight uh so

tonight's all about trying to be as live

as possible we have live ish pictures we

have live judging live scoring so our

judges plants even ish ish live-ish

our judges tonight will start with the

executive director of the climate change

cluster uh he champions uh he works with

SMEs NGOs, other people trying to deliver a

sustainable circular bioeconomy and

part of what they do is deep green

biotech who works with us at UTS

startups we're incredibly grateful for

Peter Ralph thanks for coming welcome

Peter you look good there by the way i've got

to say that background i'm very on brand very own brand we

have also got another judge tonight who

is yeah she's special to us she's also a

mentor at UTS startup she's a lot of

things she's done a lot of things and

especially in the marketing advertising

social media space very very cool Jo Jacobs a lot of people

know her a lot of you I Iove her and

we're so grateful to have Jo Jacobs

here as one of our judges tonight thank

you so much it's a huge privilege I  I h everyone

all the very best tonight and i'm really

looking forward to seeing you all again

and our third judge you all know him we

are grateful for his transformational

leadership as a university of technology

um our vice chancellor Attila brungs

again thank you all right let's get into it shall we

yeah I  I nk what we should do as well

Emma is it's weird because we can't all

clap together and hear each other clap

and i'm finding that weird that's

something we didn't practice I  I uld

mention so if you're at home all

you've got to do both your hands put

them together give them a clap let's do

it just like that real easy if

you've got a little button and you're

clever like that you could press the

applause button anything you want to

do basically but hey trust me when I  I 

people are going to feel the

appreciation they're going to feel the

applause but instead of talking all

night we're gonna go straight into our

first category which is a very very

exciting category our best UTS startup

ideas stage now what's gonna happen here

is we're gonna have three of our

ideas staged startup finalists pitch

with their videos and then we're going

to hear from our judges so

would you all please put your hands

together press your applause buttons

whatever it is you want to do for our

first three idea stage startups which

are mark pitching for mirror we've got

gotham pitching for buck a lot and we've

got bella pitching for sex happens

hello my name is mark markov and i'm the

co-founder of mirror we provide a

solution to the ever growing increase in

online shopping clothing returns

our industry research shows fashion

e-commerce stores suffer 8 times more

returns when compared with in-store

brands with social distancing

potentially here for the long term these

figures are set to increase

for worldwide retailers losses from

clothing returns have already been

calculated at 12 billion dollars

annually our solution comes in the form of a

platform where users can access

customisable advertisers to demonstrate

how a product fits providing the

customers of the retailers with the

opportunity to access a filling room

when shopping online

our next steps are to contact our

shortlist of 124 retailers seeking both

their interests and suggestions for mira

our scanning and fitting room technology

is ensuring that retailers will save on

product distribution costs as well as

always providing their customers with

the best possible fit and unparalleled

online shopping experience thank you

backpacks are insecure because backpacks

use buckles you can't use a padlock on

them the only product in the market to secure

a backpack is this and it's expensive

and heavy very few thieves walk around with knives

and scissors tech is often the result of

an easy opportunity and people are after and simple easy and

affordable solution and we've come up

with two versions because the point of entry to a backpack

are the buckles by securing the buckle

you secure the backpack the product will

be sold in pairs and suitable for securing any bag with a

buckle we have over 500 expressions of interest

worldwide and we have a provisional patent and

innovation patent in Australia

the market potential is huge with 42

million backpacking trips happening

around the world annually we plan to

launch wired crowdfunding and then

finally start the project airport and

license the product thank you for your

time let's talk about sex wasn't expecting

that exactly with sex happens we aim to

make the uncomfortable comfortable

there's this generational awkwardness

talking all things sex and sexual health

but why our education was simply inadequate

permeating this awkwardness misplaced

shame and embarrassment where there

should be empowerment and healthy

curiosity even parliament is

deliberating reforms nationwide but it's

not enough that's exactly why we created sex

happens for young adults 18 to 24 to

pick up where their education left off

we know those conversations are hard to

start so let our games start them for

you we're creating a cheeky adult car

game that puts it all on the table

normalising no one knows everything

about sex and we can only benefit from

discussing without unnecessary judgment

we catalyse inclusive conversation

dispel taboo and empower players to own

their sexual well-being we're creating a world where not talking

about sex is awkward so let's talk about

sex why because sex happens

fantastic how good is that amazing and

just the idea stage so much more I  I nk

i like videos Emma not maybe not as much as live or maybe

just as much as life because that was

a pretty good job yeah hey but what we

want to hear from is our judges so hey

joe ladies first do you mind telling us

yeah what did you think I  I  fascinated

and and ex i've seen some of these these

startups at earlier stages and the improvement

guys out of out of this world fantastic

well done love the fact that mark

has got 124 retailers ready to go for um

for his mirror product so that's

brilliant I  I e the fact that there are

500 expressions of interest for the lock

and I  I o think that bella is doing an

amazing job empowering the conversations

around sex so well done all three

fantastic thank you joe hey Attila

we'd love to hear what you think I  I nk

all of them were awesome and the way

that they could get their ideas across

in such a quick period of time is just

fantastic pretty much as joe said I  I e the fact

that there's retailers already done

for tomorrow which is going to be

fantastic I  I lly love i've backpacked

for many many years and in fact you know

i've got my kids backpacking now so i

think i'll be I  I t to be on the list

to get one of those padlocks

and finally particularly that sex

happens I  I nk that is an excellent i

cannot tell you how sorely needed that

is at the moment with the university

it's right up the line of what we're

trying to do with our respect now always

campaign and to do this more broadly i

just think you you're really doing something society needs

thank you awesome thank you so much hey Peter

so I  I 't want to recap on on what

Attila and joe has already said I  I ee

that both the sex happens is really

awesome and the mirror is awesome but i

was going to say the the backpack lock

boy oh boy that that hits the mark so

many people have lost so much stuff with

that I  I lly love all three of them but

the backpack was was especially good for

me thanks guys well done

yeah can we all appreciate those three

first startups I  I nk they've

done a very good job and the virtual

loved their way yeah and i've got to say

as well the judges are scoring these

pitches as well so they might say nice

things but you don't know

what is actually going on those scoring

sheets so we're gonna hope they're high

scores but hey no pressure we're

going to jump straight into our next

three ideas stage startups and i'm going to

read the right names just like I  I 

last time but okay we've got jamie uh

pitching for titan biodynamics we've got

fiona for air lab and colin for swan

energy so let's put our hands together

for those three idea stage startups

imagine an app that not only tells you

what exercises to do but actually gives

you real-time feedback on whether you're

doing them correctly gym users don't have an easily

accessible way of checking if their

technique is correct without hiring a

personal trainer which even then suit us

and give them 24/7 access

at time biomechanics our team of

biomedical engineers are developing an

app that uses ai to analyze your posture

and action provide real-time feedback

and guidance as you're exercising the

app is for anyone that exercises at the

gym regardless of their fitness level

from beginner to elite athletes all with

the same goal prevent injury build

confidence and maximize benefit

we also have the potential to expand our

app into other areas of fitness

yoga golf tennis and much more will

greatly appreciate for any contact in

the bar mechanics or fitness app

industry so that together we can help create a fitter future

thank you air is live but we're breathing

dangerous air if it's not filtered

properly the increase of global

pollution allergies virus are

detrimental to our health and is a

long-term issue however existing masks

are ineffective single-use creating

devastating amount of waste and a lot of

people's go-to as casual use i'm a

nursing student I  I athize with all

medical professionals during the

pandemic they are finding these masks

very uncomfortable they block facial

expression cause ineffective

communication in the medical field and

are detrimental to children's linguistic

development therefore at airlab we are developing

one innovative medical use smart mask to

filter out all harmful elbow particles

down to 0.1 microns using adhesives

around edges and bendable fabric it can

be shaped to fade around anyone's face

perfectly why risk health wear or mask

is aesthetic functional breathable

reusable and is transparent for people

to communicate and connect better i'm

looking for research funding and

engineers let's unlock a way for people

to interact with air safer thank you

when does it make sense to drive

electric vehicles do you send messages on carrier pigeon

anymore riding a horse and carriage isn't the

future so why buy a gas guzzler

swan energy is the evolution of energy

distribution and car share

the future is about working less and

enjoying more so why buy something

when it doesn't make you money

buy needy through us

or put your existing one on our network

and turn into an asset

make money by sharing your ev with other

people and when your ev is not in use

sell its energy to the swan network

so be greedy help everyone by helping yourself first

swan energy wow that was awesome I  I 't know if that

was james cameron or colin that's pretty

good so good um hey Peter that was a that was a

pretty cool three startups I  I ould say

i would love to hear what you think

i look all through them are really

exciting the masks the the sharing of

the energy but going back to to the ai

the bio the the ability to swap that

tech to golf to to to yoga

i think that's massive and I  I nk it's

really interesting how they developed

their opportunities so yeah well done

everyone but that one really stood out

for me fantastic thank you Attila

all of them are fantastic I  I e the

idea of the mask particularly getting

the facial expressions through I  I n i

can't tell you how often i've gone to a

room and when you you're talking a lot

of people and you look at them going are

you smiling are you laughing are you

hating what i'm saying it's really quite

disconcerting so I  I nk that that's got

it wonderful sharing energy is another

fantastic idea but look as i'm getting

older and stretching always happen to

other people and i've been an athlete

for years and basically what i'm doing

is i'm injuring myself I  I e the idea

of using ai and I  I 't like talking to

personal trainers I  I e using ai to

help me stretch do the moves properly

and not end up injuring myself on a

daily basis beautiful fantastic joe

well I  I nk the the extraordinary thing

about tartan is that there's a huge

opportunity to use that in

in rehab recovery in a whole on a whole

series of different uh levels for for in

aged care and in um

in uh in sports and in just general um

rehab clinics or in physios I  I nk um

air lab I  I ove the the actual little

example that we actually could see the

actual mask and be able to use it that

way and I  I course love the idea of

selling energy back to a network for

driving a vehicle what a great idea um

something that we've been talking about

in our homes why can't we do it for our

class well done all three

awesome thank you judges we appreciate

your input and well done to those

startups something I  I t got to quickly

mention as well is that we are not only

here with you guys in a zoom webinar we

are also live streaming to youtube and

in our brand new UTS Startups youtube

account we cannot wait to put more

content out there so we'd love you to

like and subscribe on youtube as well uh

that would be fantastic but thank you

again that was that was our first

category amazing

i don't know how you're gonna judge

already but while you are putting in

your scores we're actually going to do

something a little bit different and

announce a winner this is a really

exciting category actually because

community is what we have community is

the heart of what we do

um we have an incredible

community of what are we 800-900 people

at the moment and everyone is inspiring and supporting

each other to continue on this

incredible journey of startup life um

but we want to take some time to

recognise a particular startup that goes

above and beyond all the time just this

year alone they have contributed to

other startups through helping newer

startups just get acquainted in the

community they share their knowledge

and their experience with others

help run events when we could actually

do that in person but we want to

recognise the community morale award

winner and that is Leslie Maslow

we've got Andrew here from Maslow

tell us the best part about our

community you know firstly starting with dave Emma

and the uh the other guests that's

hosting the show as well and they're

probably three of the best parts of the

community but I  I nk that um

i think that one of the best parts about

the community is that running a startup things change over

time so you know one day you're

trying to figure out what your problem

space is the other day the next you're

trying to figure out how to

commercialise it and the next you're

sitting next to your lawyer having

really difficult conversations but um

the nice thing about a community is that

like a startup it actually gets to

evolve and change over time you know

you're not in the you know you're not in

the door one day and then out the other

and see you later it's about evolving

together it's about evolving with the

people next to you and evolving with you

guys as UTS Startups as you grow as well

hey Andrew you guys have such incredible

traction as a startup your team is

incredible high performing you guys have

got a product that is you know changing

lives like why spend your time helping

other other startups like what what is

in it for you guys I  I nk something

that's really interesting in the

Australian startup ecosystem is that

it's definitely growing at the moment

and it is a rising tide and I  I nk

that's everyone's responsibility

actually to give back to that rising

side and create a collective where we're

all performing and you know just like

investing in yourself and taking care of

yourself you've got to take care of the

ecosystem that you're in as well and

that helps everybody succeed together

well we really appreciate you can't wait

to see you nidon and the whole team back

in person when we can as soon as we can

safely so thanks so much and

congratulations congratulations

um and our community would be nothing without this

next man doesn't need an introduction

so I  I l actually skip that our

director of entrepreneurship mr murray

we love you murray

likewise guys uh andrew I  I ld listen

to you all night uh i'm sorry to go to

me after you but uh thank you for

everything you do uh and look at this

chat this chat's exploding thank you

very much for participating here from uh

watching and on youtube as well so uh remember last year in the great

hall uh people were spaced out awkwardly

around a giant room I  I ember thinking

that was a bit of a pain well uh welcome

to 2021 hopefully it gets better from here

thanks for tuning in wherever you are i

know there's a bunch of very special

people tuning in uh many of whom are

great enablers of our work uh you know

who you are and I  I reciate you all

thank you for watching and thank you

everyone else as well uh we may not be

together but as you're seeing tonight

good things are still happening

uh so uh I  I murray hopes i'm the

director of entrepreneurship UTS i'm

proud to lead one heck of a program in the form of UTS

startups UTS Startups inspires and supports

technology-enabled entrepreneurs

why why do we do this keep the chat going jump in the chat

with thanks we do this because entrepreneurship is good

you get to decide what you work on for

yourself instead of being told what to

work on for someone else I  I  to solve

problems that matter to you you get to

create things that you enjoy creating

you get to be your own boss on your own

schedule where you want to be

it's a great way to work is just

convincing anyone so far

but it's also a rewarding way to work

i'll say every entrepreneur gets

something from their journey whether

it's a success of the company uh the

impact on the world or learning new

skills for application elsewhere

and on that skills point I  I nk this is

probably the most important point for me

uh we asked 192 of the people that were

supporting what they learned from what they're

doing the most common responses were

perseverance adapting to change

prioritization self-discipline open-mindedness these are what people

say they learn from being entrepreneurs

and if you think about what people need

to succeed in 2021 I  I d it hard to

think of attributes more important than

those so entrepreneurship is not

is good for the entrepreneurs but just

to state the obvious I  I  it's also

good for Australia entrepreneurs drive Australia's growth

uh we're working with day one startups a

lot of the time in UTS Startups but

despite this 23 of the startups we're supporting are

generating revenue and the average

amount of revenue they're generating 102

000 each so much more advanced than you might expect

from a student startup community uh they

are creating jobs as well uh based on

the data we have last year 402

paid jobs were created by the startups

that we're supporting 402 and i

guarantee there's more than that that

we're not seeing they're generating learning so not just

for themselves but for all the other

students at UTS as well

2 200 UTS students have worked with our

startups in the last year whether it's

internships in subject projects

workshops or other engagements

it is incredible what kind of benefits

you can get from doing this

entrepreneurship is good for the

entrepreneurs and good for those around

them the best part is we can create more entrepreneurs

so UTS Startups is engaging with

thousands of people who don't care about

entrepreneurship or may not care and

help them uh to help them see what they can be and

to take their first steps three years in

we're at 372 odd startups that we're

supporting 717 in total over those three years

uh it's it's been incredible how as soon

as people start to realize what they can

do what they're actually capable of

doing and they're seeing that already

tonight and we should create more entrepreneurs

uh look around you uh I  I ember saying

the same thing at last year's awards uh

that there's never been a better time or

more important time to do what we do but

it's even more true today to

empower people to create jobs to give

people skills we need to be doing that

so we will create more entrepreneurs UTS

is unique in the capacity and track

record uh that we have for creating and

supporting brand new technology-enabled

entrepreneurs uh i'll say universities in Australia

have had a tough couple of years uh

that's understating it um and uh i'm personally particularly

sad uh to be losing a couple of key

people that have enabled our work

margaret petty I  I w you're watching

none of this would be here without you

you're incredible you're very much

missed patrick woods another great

enabler and Attila bronze uh probably

the largest most amazing enabler of

everything that happens across UTS uh

and i'm honored Attila to have you here

with us tonight judging providing feedback but instead of

dwelling on setbacks let's keep this

positive margaret patrick Attila everyone else

that's watching I  I rantee you you can

be darn sure we're going to be doing

everything we can to keep doing what

we're doing and growing what we're doing

we have the best team in UTS Startups

that i've ever worked with we have the best possible supporting

environment across UTS from every part

of UTS it's been ridiculous we have the

best community of incredible

entrepreneurs most importantly out of

anything that we have who are all inspiring and supporting

more entrepreneurs and building this kind of flywheel of

wonderful activity we can create more

entrepreneurs we should create more

entrepreneurs and we will create more

entrepreneurs in UTS Startups

so i'll wrap up i'll say stay tuned for the

end of tonight we've got something

really really exciting coming it's like

an hour away it's uh it's going to blow

some socks off and for now i'll just say everyone

watching please get excited jump in the

chat get rowdy if people can't hear you

you need to be in the chat thank you

very much everyone take it away

thank you murray we love you and we

couldn't be more fortunate with the

team that we've got here especially with

murray he's just the best

um and I  I 't have to say that that

that's just for free uh but we've got to

move on okay so there's there's so much happening here

one thing that we we really want to

focus on tonight and and keep reminding

you of is UTS's commitment to

sustainability and particularly to our

green future our environmental

sustainability and we couldn't do what

we do at UTS starts without the

partnership that we have with c3 and the

new south wales deep green biotech hub

now if you didn't know what that is

that's okay have you heard of algae I  I w it's kind

of everywhere it's probably in your fish

tank but algae is actually powering a

whole new uh crop of startups and smes

working with UTS in research

partnerships they're working in

commercial and and you know incredible

um ways to yeah leverage the power of

that little green stuff and and so

deep green biotech hub is at the

forefront of doing that they work

with us a lot they empower a lot of our

startups through different accelerated

programs etc they've also been doing

a lot lately with regional district

challenges etc and you know we're just

so happy to have them and Peter who is

one of our judges tonight is actually uh

you know it's the director of c3 but

he's actually an argue researcher this

guy knows everything there is to know

about algae and so we just want to make a point of

that as we transition into our best UTS

startup most sustainable category um

this is an awesome one I  I e all these

guys we're not allowed to have favorites

are we Emma no no I  I 't I  I 't have any favorites in

this category you know what i'm saying

but we are going to welcome the very

first pitch tonight is from awa so

bodhi is going to take it away via video

let's all put our hands together for

body you know humans have produced some

pretty amazing inventions but I  I nk we

can all agree the garbage bin isn't one

of them not only are they disgusting but

they also make waste very expensive the

physical collection of waste can cost a

lot of money but it also costs a lot of

time because changing regulations and

recycling rules make taking out the

trash I  I ss at best and confusing time

drain at worst now if you run a business that's a

problem a very real problem because

expensive services and inefficient uses

of time can be the difference between a

business success and failure

now my co-founder and I  I think it's

time to rethink the bin which is exactly

what we're trying to do with aywa aw is

an on-site waste to energy bin and by

using a thermochemical treatment process

aor converts common waste materials

directly into electricity users can

throw all their rubbish into one stylish

bin and have it quietly and safely

converted into green electricity

that's huge savings for a business and a

huge sigh of relief for the environment

now aol operates under a highly scalable

business model known as technology as a

service so instead of users purchasing

unit they lease aol units at a price of

600 a month per unit this way cash flow is never a barrier to

sustainability now you can feed ay your rubbish and

have it converted into green electricity

in as quickly as 90 minutes how well

when waste is placed in a while it

begins a thermal treatment process which

breaks waste down to a hydrogen-rich gas

that gas is then cleaned before finally

reaching a fuel cell at which point it's

reformed into electricity rinse and

repeat and with the help of our partner

lab the institute for chemical fuels and

alternative resources we've actually

built a proof of concept prototype which

demonstrates the feasibility of this

technology for our beachhead market

we're targeting sydney's hospitality

groups we chose this target audience

because they produce a lot of waste they

have a lot of capital and we have

connections in the industry down the

line however we do wish to target

similar groups domestically and

internationally and even service other

highway sectors like retail and

households because let's be honest waste

is a pain for everyone now priorities are actually driven by

real customer conversations we've

surveyed over 640 managers employees and

owners of Australian hospitality groups

you know what they want to make waste

expenseless for a hospitality group

annual waste collection costs can total

close to a million dollars every year

and aor cuts that figure in half

plus by converting waste into

electricity business can reduce its

carbon footprint by over 80 percent

now combined our team has over 25 years

of direct experience working with waste

energy technologies and so we have bold

dreams we want aywa to be in a billion

buildings by 2050 because we're done

seeing plastic flow past us in the ocean

we want a world in which landfill is

gone the trucks gone the concept of

waste all together gone we believe ay

can do that and fundamentally change the

world thanks for your time

amazing that was so good i'm worried about the

bin chickens though Emma but it's not

about that hey Attila you mentioned ay

in your speech earlier what did you

think of body's pitch that was incredibly compelling well done

uh i'm blown away and the other thing i

loved about your business model as well

is i'm not sure what your technology is

but one of the challenges with that type

of treatment is the contaminants because

there's always contaminants and they

build up over time but by having it a

rented business model it means that the

people themselves don't have to deal

with the contaminants you can take them

back to the central source because it's

rented deal with the contaminants then

and then send the product back out again

which I  I nk is a very good way of

dealing with it fantastic hey bodhi did you want to sort

of respond at all or sort of shed any

light on the technical side there

um yeah well I  I ss you you kind of hit

the nail right on the head that is the

benefit of kind of going for a leasing

model as we can we can capture a lot of

those um those contaminants and keep them stored

for you know seven eight nine years

because they're very low volume for most

of them and then we can kind of hit the

refresh and send it back out because

most of most materials are very very

durable it's steels and alloys and

whatnot and so good to go for another 10 20 years who

knows fantastic I  I e that yeah I  I e the

enthusiasm can't wait to see what's next

fantastic hey we've got to keep moving

so we're going to introduce jaden

who's going to pitch for clear

connections so would you all join me in

welcoming jaden after years of experience as an engineer

in water and waste industries i've seen

some amazing things that you can do with

waste such as turn it into electricity but it

pains me to see that this just isn't

happening households are sending 2.5 million tons

of food waste to landfill every year

only eight percent is reused causing

massive greenhouse gas and a seven

billion dollar cost that's expensive for business

and costly to the planet

now the issue is because there's no

smart way to check for contaminants like

glass or plastic in the current green

bin system making it unviable for many

reuse facilities that's why I  I nded clear connections

we have engineered an ai enabled

software and sensor system to address

this problem i have the perfect team on board where

engineers with experience in waste water

gas and energy industries

my team and I  I e engineered a sensor

system which secures directly onto

existing pickup trucks it scans the bin

at the source

before it's picked up

using our sensor and ai package so clean

loads can go straight to energy

we enable the waste value chain of

tomorrow

household food waste can now travel all

the way through the chain and be turned

into clean energy

we enable you at home to be issued

carbon credits turning your waste into a

valuable resource

and we've done the research and found

local governments and waste companies

need this product now

in the current climate they're desperate

for a solution like ours

our customers are local governments who

benefit from increased landfill

diversion

waste company can make data driven

decisions

and the reuse facilities are now able to

take all that extra food waste from

homes which was risky before

we've surveyed the top 10 councils in

new south wales and can save them 40

million dollars a year

flying onto a total market savings of

seven billion dollars

we'll be working with strategic

partnerships and licensing agreements in

the short term then shift to a sas model

for full implementation as we scale

so far we've made proof of concept

through our medium to large scale

application and have begun making

strategic partnerships

we're raising one hundred thousand

dollars to further engineer our product

for industrial integration run industry

trials and file a patent to protect our

technology

thank you so much and I  I e you're

having a great night

fantastic jaden that was so good joanne

jacobs we'd love to hear what you think

do you have any questions for jaden

i'll start off jaden you've got a great

team having gemina sydney water you

brought together all the players and i

think you you've

identified the real challenge with

contamination as a tiller set for the

last innovation contamination is your

problem as well

have you thought about how you're going

to go from domestic household waste to

commercial waste are your sensors going

to be able to work

for a woolies or a coals or something

like that

yeah so we've done some market research

with a few

niche organics waste companies who um

actually need this solution

as something that could be brought

forward quicker than the households um

on the truck because we found that

the trucks when they go through like

alleyways and things like that the

driver actually has to get out and have

a look inside the bins so a handheld

solution is what we're actually

developing right now based on that um

yeah and the the

the household market is is I  I ss the

the the market where

the whole market that we're looking for

but our entry to market is actually

commercial as you said

yeah

great thank you

no worries

fantastic well done jaden we've got

to keep moving and that was awesome but

we've still got julie

um who's gonna pitch full power block so

let's welcome julie

imagine a world without dusty

renovations and noisy jackhammering

imagine a world with infinite power

point locations to suit your recurring

changing needs

imagine an infinite backup storage power

welcome to power blocks the way our

walls will speak to us in the future

the power sector and renewable energy is

really a complex beast when you add in

microgrid estates and strata constraints

it gets even more complex and costly

renewable energy is amazing it costs

only a thousand dollars additional per

year on top of your normal power bill

but envisage that you spent that

thousand dollars

on an asset for your own home that you

could interchange

and

include the possibility of earning

revenue

current battery technology takes up

space

introducing power blocks a way to use

the space in your walls as a way to keep

your energy storage and personal options

for floor plans open

use the bricks for your non-structural

walls and fill the cells in as you

require with the relevant technology

update them

disassemble them

send them to the power blocks kiosk for

a safety check

this is a highly flexible technology

which we want you to use in your home

industrial and outdoor estates

it's a diy ikea experience where you use

your phone or computer as a platform

technology

you can scale it up or down according to

your personal needs with a comparable

price of a thousand dollars per kilowatt

hour

this is designed to be compatible with

your existing assets and investments

you can use it ready for a camp trip or

you can just plug it in to the future

pipeline of new plug-in renewable

sources

this is a gap in the market the

difference between camp gear and tesla

power walls

we have the traction from winning the

green sprint 21 sustainability award we

have a very intelligent and sustainable

partner called whatcost that brings all

the intelligence to our power blocks

we have a very skillful team with a lot

of experience both in energy sectors

and design and a comprehensive board

join us on our journey

we ask you to get excited

so good julie amazing

yeah we love that hey I  I t to open

it up to the judges who would like to

respond to this one

i'm happy to respond if that's okay bye

everyone uh tell us julie what what

are your customers looking like have you

got some have you gone to market yet

have you got some expressions of

interest and have you talked to

people in the smart spaces area in

particular

intriguingly yes my team members

being that exactly and my brother

company so what cost is all about

um understanding how to make your home

intelligent

um through your home sensor systems and

we are designing to integrate with that

and that's already got a market in

itself in the domestic context now

that's what's extraordinary about that

team is that we have experts in the

industry that already

mingle with these types of people and

the validation and support from my team

members who are expert and

comprehensively involved in the

industries

both business to business and business

to institution is quite phenomenal so

we're going to do the detailed interview

process once we do our actual

demonstration for functions and then

we'll be drafting potential contracts

and then assessing our manufacturing um

you know rates to fast track the

commercial actualization there going to

market so if you haven't got a specific

client at this stage but you you're

working with what what costs clients

oh no no no we're not actually

specifically speaking with clients at

the moment because

we're really at the research and

development phase to get the pilot going

but we're verifying and validating

through the various individual companies

and supporters in our network and

getting very good feedback that this is

the way forward thank you julie thank

you all of our startups thank you judges

um that was awesome I  I 't believe how

much we've just gotten through but

i'm yeah we're ready for the next

category I  I ss so next category three

startups three minute pictures

application of research we are of course

a university yes unashamedly young

university of texas not do your own

research it's actual research actual

research and its impact driven

research for not just uh industry but

for the community at large and these

startups uh demonstrate an application

of research in some way so we'll kick

things off with mark from savvy

beverages

hey i'm mark curry founder of savvy

beverages we make the natural drink that

helps you think it's a smart energy

drink so when I  I ked as a lawyer I  I 

a problem first hand of people

overworked with a forever increasing

to-do list the same stresses of modern

day living in every profession the only

solutions were tea

and coffee and energy drinks which

hadn't been updated since red bull which

is 37 years old energy drinks have had

the same recipe for almost four decades

which is just really not good enough

it's leading to numerous issues in

mental and physical health we need a

healthy change so five years ago I  I t

my professional gig teamed up with

nutritionists dietitians and health

experts to work on a solution to shake

up the biggest industry in food and

beverage

beyond blue and black dog institute show

that one in five Australians are

experiencing high or very high

psychological distress and anxiety

this has increased to one in three

younger Australians between 18 and 34

and we wanted to help by taking the most

popular beverages and giving them

additional benefits to positively impact

this trend using ingredients that can

improve mood reduce stress and reduce

anxiety

the energy drink market is male

dominated and filled with unhealthy

products and we all deserve a refreshing

change

energy drinks like red bull use 27 grams

of sugar while savvy has zero sugar

energy drinks are filled with artificial

ingredients while savvy is 100 natural

energy drinks use five synthetic

ingredients to provide energy while

savvy uses 13 functional eutrophics to

provide more than just energy energy

drinks cost three to four dollars while

savvy's the same price and it's

Australian made and owned it's a

no-brainer it's not surprising the only

function of an energy drink is to

provide

a burst of energy from synthetic

caffeine and sugar

savvy is a reimagined concept of an

energy drink made for your brain using

high quality ingredients that combat the

major deterrence of energy like stress

anxiety and low mood savvy is the only

drink based on over 500 clinical studies

with ingredients scientifically proven

to boost focus boost mood boost energy

and reduce stress and anxiety

the savior journey has made smart coffee

and drinks in the market and we're now

about to launch our brain boosting

beverage

120 000 drinks on october 2021. sixty

thousand lemonade

summer fruits and we are delighted to

say our taste testers have said they

absolutely prefer savvy over the current

market options

the savvy team has been privileged to

welcome on board the ceos of famous

sodaco a multi-million dollar Australian

company and market leader in the better

for you carbonated beverage space now we

can't wait to fill the world with

positive energy

thank you

if these new drinks are anything like

the coffee that i've tried things are

looking good Attila could we start

with you do you have a quick comment or

question a fantastic pitch I  I e the

idea again  I'd love to buy one the

question I  I e for you again and I  I e

to sound cynical as a scientist but i've

seen so much good scientists go out

there in the market and not cut through

you know you've got your your your

drinks based on you know five hundred

thousand or whatever the number was

clinical hours of real research which is

fantastic

and they'll go against someone else

who's put sugar and caffeine and just

has a better marketing campaign how are

you going to compete with us and how

you're going to pitch you know your

product which has real benefits and a

real differentiation against others who

just claim benefits and pretend you know

good things for you

so tiller great question the first

few years that I  I ually started and i

produced version 1.0 I  I nd out that

actually you cannot rely upon a product

alone to pierce through the market so

what we've done this time is uh we've

actually teamed up with a group called

famous sodaco

and they are phenomenal in the space of

healthy better for you beverages so they

are effectively piercing through and

they're a heavier sister in us being

able to get to market putting us with

key distributors and many other avenues

to market so using that and also quite a

few different other funds we're going to

be able to actually utilize a lot to

pierce through to the market this time

great thanks so much mark all right next

startup up welcome david from telenor

education

hi, i'm dr david lakissa from telenor

education we specialize in helping

sporting organizations optimize their

skills in working with pacific athletes

globally pacific athletes meaning those

of polynesian micronesian and melanesian

heritage are more visible than ever

before and within a 500 billion dollar sports

business industry it is clear

that pacific sporting prowess

is experiencing a prolific rise

world rugby reports approximately 20 of

all professional contracts

are signed by athletes of pacific

heritage in australasia some rugby

football codes and competitions feature

up to 50 percent of their contracted

athletes so what does that mean for

individuals and teams

well that depends heavily on your vantage

point my phd research revealed organizations

can better engage understand manage and

support specific people through

initiatives that are linked through

family and kinship networks

spirituality culture and service

then and only then can they access

shared

shared knowledge systems increased trust

improved

productivity in the workplace

tylenol education provides professional

development and knowledge partnering

products and services to help

organizations gain that competitive edge

we are guided by

a well-balanced team of academics where

associate professors daryl adair and

katharina taywa and dr sierra kia as

well as assisted through growth

growth strategy and online learning

through jainish gonda and jermaine

alberts

we're currently in mvp stage

but we have traction

here are past confirming and pending

clients

currently we are revenue positive but

we're looking for more clients

per client we are aiming for monthly

recurring revenue or mrr

of approximately six thousand dollars

with a 12 month initial commitment

our goal within the next 12 months

is 100k mmr by securing at least 16

clients across australasia

having said that we are

we have four confirmed clients within

six months of operation

in other words

we have 15 percent of the way there

our moonshot vision is the start here at

home

to go global by 2025 to have at least

100 sporting organizations or clubs and

a reach to serve

almost 400 million sporting fans that

can better

understand

manage

and appreciate and optimize the skills

of pacific athletes and by extension

their families in the sporting workplace

thank you for listening

thanks david amazing pitch uh might

throw to you joe for a question if you

have one

do can you tell us just a little bit

david about what you would like to see

the outcomes of your organization in

about say you know when you're when

you've had a year working with a bunch

of different clubs what would you see as

being the greatest opportunities that

come out of your learning program

we're learning

program

primarily it's a cultural diversity

workplace

or cultural diversity management i

guess initiative and in Australia here

we have such a culturally diverse you

know workspaces primarily in the

sporting world in this context anyway

so the ideal really is to bridge any

cultural divides to increase you know

productivity and performance and

increase trust because based on the

history of the growing number of pacific

athletes and and say super rugby and nrl

there's there's certainly some

challenges that have risen in the last

two decades

thanks david well done I  I n I  I e the

diversity in this category in particular

number three of three is another totally

different but incredible startup welcome

cat from brilloup

hi i'm catherine and brillop is making

it easy to find brilliant online courses

by independent creators to help you grow

your business

if you're a graphic design freelancer

who wants to learn how to use video to

get more clients

there are so many online course

marketplaces but they all offer the same

type of course they're one teacher to

thousands one size fits all it's no

surprise that less than three percent of

these courses get finished the best

online course that will help you grow

your business is not taught by a

celebrity it's taught by another

independent business owner who gets

where you are and really cares about

helping you

but because these types of courses come

in all different shapes and sizes they

don't fit into the main course

marketplaces they're not easily found on

google so the course doesn't get found

and the graphic designer doesn't learn

the skill that could grow her business

and the course creator misses out on

customers

but even though these courses are niche

the market is not these ignored and

hidden courses make up most of a 300

billion market

now most attempts at solving this

problem involved building yet another

learning platform that requires course

creators to move their course onto

another system

which just further fragments the market

we're taking a different approach we're

building a marketplace where creators

can list their courses and keep their

courses wherever they host them

just like how etsy brought together

artisan crafters selling from tiny local

market stores to create a 10 billion

dollar marketplace

we're building the go-to place to find

unique online courses by independent

creators

our online course marketplace recently

went live and we have listed around 100

courses

so far we've driven over 11 000 visits

to those courses and their creators

our business model is to take clip on

transactions and we're also developing

our own paid programs we're focusing on

self-employed professionals like our

graphic designer and we've completed

over 150 user interviews and found that

this group are the biggest purchasers

and creators of indie online courses

the creator economy alone is estimated

at 100 billion dollars and the larger

freelance economy is worth 1.2 trillion

creating your own courses is becoming a

key source of income for many creators

and freelancers

next we plan to expand our acquisition

channels to professional organizations

and universities

there's a lot of room to grow because

the lifelong education market is worth

five trillion dollars

brillout draws on our team's extensive

research on independent lifelong

learning and we've also been part of

indie course creator communities for

years

we're looking for advisors who have

experience with early stage high growth

marketplaces and fragmented ecosystems

we'd also love to connect with anyone

who is passionate about independent

lifelong learning please reach out to us

at catbrillup.com

thanks kat that was great now Peter

did you have a question for kat

yeah just a quick one so you had 11 000

visits

how many of those visits turned into

contracts between the service provider

and the the the client

yeah so that's a really good question we

don't actually know that as yet because

essentially what we're doing is

um we're focusing on um

um

essentially getting stock and so we're

not actually taking a clip at the moment

and so for us to actually find that out

we'd have to be taking that clip so we

don't we're not tracking whether

that's actually each of those clicks

have eventuated in sale or not what

we do know is that these these types of

courses do have a higher rate of

purchase than

um you know the sort of generic kind of

generic courses the average sale is

about a hundred dollars and so yeah

it's like I  I nk like a lot of the the

courses once you actually get them to a

sales page they have relatively high

conversion conversions rates of up to

even like 50

some of them wow yeah so

um

just because they're so different from

you know what's what's around and

um and and so kind of the fit is so

personal you know you can really see how

the the

the person teaching that really cares

about what they're doing

okay no that makes sense thank you

thanks so much kat really well done

what's on next dave okay well we are

actually we've only got two more

pitching categories which is crazy

we've seen so much already I  I 't know

that everyone viewing at home and on

youtube is probably in need of a

stretch at this point so while you are

stretching while you are combating the

zoom fatigue i'm going to let you

know that our next category is our

social impact category UTS is a public

institution committed to public good the

good of the community which which makes

it really really easy for us to

really encourage some great social

impact startups so without any more

um talking about that dave we are gonna

hear from mohsen with open pages let's

all appreciate racing

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imagine migrating to a new country by

choice or force that has a completely

different language and culture millions

of refugees and migrants like me have to

invest a lot of time and effort building

or restarting their career in a new

country

early 2018 I  I rted open pages an

online directory for refugees and

migrants we got over 4 000 users from

farsi speaking community only and a

little advertisement revenue

here is a user's story ali and his

family are refugees from afghanistan

recently arrived in Australia

ali checks out open pages to find list

of all organizations that can help him

with preparing resumes and interview

skills and then listings for

volunteering internship and entry level

jobs addressing inclusivity diversity

and equal opportunities

his wife samira checks open pages to

find an accountant who speak their

language and understand their culture

they also check open pages every week to

stay in touch with cultural and

community events

that's little extra help in early days

can significantly change someone's

future

there is about half a million temporary

and permanent arrival every non-covered

year in Australia

that have similar needs

open pages is all about centralizing

critical information about settlement

employment and community which is highly

scattered

our sustainable business model is about

building partnership with community

service providers and businesses

we've got endorsement from industry

leaders helping us build trust and

relationship more effectively

my name is mohan joyan and i'm founder

of open pages I  I age my own business

in telecom services

it was very difficult for me to restart

my career in Australia so I  I ided to

help others like myself

to have a better chance to succeed romel

is a good friend of mine who is highly

experienced in community services

helping me with networking and advisory

i'm looking for talents in marketing and

community services as advisory board

co-founder and volunteer

we are also looking for business

responses to jump start the venture

stay in touch with our facebook

instagram and linkedin thank you very

much for your time

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beautiful thank you so much mason and

hey remember everyone at home these

judges are judging live so send all the

good affirmations hey judges what are

you thinking does anyone want to make a

comment or a question at this point

i can may I  I  just saying uh to to to

myself tell us how you're getting

access to new refugees that are arriving

in the in the country so that they can

actually know how to know the value of

your service

well we have partnered with ssi so

they

they are the organizations when the new

refugees come they go to airports and

pick them up so

we partner with them and they're gonna

introduce a platform to the new refugees

fantastic thank you so much judges thank

you mason we're next going to hear from

generation entrepreneur with esmen so

welcome esmen

according to the foundation for young

Australians 60 of high school students

are being trained for jobs they've been

radically transformed by automation in

the years to come with the Australian

startup and tech ecosystem being one of

the fastest growing globally empowering

and engaging high school students

through entrepreneurial and enterprise

skills has never been more important

whilst many teachers want to upskill

their students in this respect most

would have the time or expertise that's

where generation entrepreneur comes in

for the past seven years we've developed

and delivered high school

entrepreneurial workshops hackathons and

incubators with the intent of educating

inspiring high schoolers to solve

problems they deeply care about through

entrepreneurship while simultaneously

equipping them with the skills they will

need to succeed in the future workforce

surveys have on average seen 82 percent

of participants rate our programs with

at least a four out of five satisfaction

score

student teacher and pilot testimonials

also strongly support the value of our

programs as a not-for-profit we will

continue to serve so that more students

can start business clubs at school make

five digital returns from their startup

or be accepted into tech companies like

canva right after high school our

business model scales irrespective of

the experience of the teacher overseeing

the program in addition to our in-person

programs where schools and parents are

charged based on their financial

circumstance we've also utilized an

existing edtech platform to distribute

packaged virtual programs which schools

can purchase on a subscription basis and

use to teach their students in fact a

teacher in the us has successfully

conducted one of our virtual programs to

a class of 30 within a 100 completion

rate all done remotely with no

assistance from our team whatsoever

our goal is to tap into the 18 billion

industry within the 81 high countries to

fund our programs free of charge in the

remaining 114 countries

in our seven years of operation this

not-for-profit has built up the

knowledge and expertise required to

deliver programs to high school students

from diverse backgrounds our advisory

board includes leaders with 20 plus

years of experience in the venture

capital startups education and

technology space two of whom have been

on the board since our inception

providing us with a confident source of

long-term commitment and guidance on top

of this we're joined by more than 200

mentors from multi-disciplinary fields

who work with our high school students

to ensure that an idea has every

opportunity to see the light of day

we've developed long-term partnerships

with two Australian state departments of

education to make our programs

accessible to more public school

students and we looked it up further

with similar stakeholders despite

working closely with governmental bodies

we've continued operating in a lean

manner delivering programs to students

regardless of their socio-economic

status

that was me as a participant at

generation entrepreneur's flagship

hackathon when I  I  still in high

school five years later i'm just as

inspired as the ceo

our mission is to one day empower high

schoolers all around the world to say i

have the power to change this world for

the better are we there yet not quite

but believe me when I  I 

we're only

just getting started

awesome yes

you are doing something cool there um

hey judges I  I nk

Attila you've got something

i mean how could I  I  I  I n the reason

i'm so supportive of UTS Startups is i

think what they're doing is bloody

brilliant okay going back into schools

is fantastic so well done um

a question I  I e for you only because

i'm so excited by seeing this go you had

partnerships with the government you've

got other partnerships and people you've

brought abroad how are you going to

scale this I  I n because I  I  all the

value  I'd love to how are we going to

make sure that it's across every single

school student in Australia particularly

in regional areas

absolutely first and foremost thank you

so much for your kind words it honestly

means as well there are a lot of team

members in this chat as well so I  I w

they're going to appreciate that how

we're going to scale it so the startups

we've it actually I  I t to announce to

you guys that just two days ago we

secured something with the south

Australia department of education so

we're making really great progress there

but on top of that what we're really

thinking about is because this

organization is based around

high school students and universities on

volunteer model we're able to scale that

no matter if it's other parts of

Australia or other parts around the

world and this model we believe can

really be scaled if we have a leadership

team who's constantly backing us we see

this on a wide scale 180 degrees

consulting university level we really

want to make sure that we're also going

in there with sponsors with partners who

also back what we do and we absolutely

love being here at uk starts one of the

best ones as well

thank you thank you judges thank you

asmed hey we're about to hear from abby

who's going to pitch for your 100 year

life so welcome abby

hey i'm dave I  I k after my parents

grandparents partner two kids and yo-yo

my munchkin

there's so many things going on and

despite using these apps reminders

emails and devices

i still keep missing my dad's regular

health checkups I  I 't know what his

vaccination status is his next physio

appointment where his driving license is

and who is managing his tax affairs

and yes where to buy that special food

assist tool for my granny

to top it all off i'm raising a

three-year-old while holding down a job

if you like the meat and the sandwich

hi i'm abby bloom i'm part of the team

at your 100 year life a social

enterprise

we've created the world's first dynamic

life journey manager for aging

people are living longer and living

within an intergenerational ecosystem

that can involve up to four generations

someone takes responsibility for

coordinating the support

of their aging loved ones and this is

how they feel

so how can we help

we've set up a sas based platform

that first and always free our social

impact aggregates and curates the

essential information that families need

to support their loved ones at home

next

we've put together questionnaires and

checklists to help them better manage so

they can then

store that information in a personalized

lock box secured by world leading

military-grade security

and authorized co-pilots or other

sharing to help in the decision making

step three

relax manage and focus on the caring

our customers get it they never dreamed

that they would have something like this

available to ease the stress and worry

in their lives

the market opportunity is extremely

large and it continues to grow as

societies age so how do we get to the

markets first b2b

we know that financial institutions

trustees insurance companies and others

who are involved with this demographic

want our product because it helps them

do their job better

on the other hand we've also set up

quite separately an e-commerce shop

where we've again

sourced aggregated curated

really useful reliable stuff some of

which also has an edge because today 70

year olds think they're actually 40

will have a measurable social impact in

areas that matter

and we'll do that to a team that is

experienced dedicated and passionate

so help us make that social impact if

you're an investor and if you happen to

have an aging parent or grandparent

please sign up now

beautiful and actually I  I nk abby is

looking after her mum so she's

temporarily not available to jump into

this scene so we've got harrain here

from the team who's able to take any

questions but judges was there anyone

who sort of had a question or a comment

about that pitch

i'm going to sign up straight away this

this is this is awesome i'm exactly your

number one client my my brother and i

are looking after our aging mum we can't

keep track on the information we we

can't communicate effectively enough to

work out who's doing what I  I e it it's

you've hit a really really important

market and it is going to keep growing

so no question but just sign me up

awesome

thank you thank you for watching

go ahead

yeah I  I ss

what our customers have been saying is

that they really need this right away

and we've been running some beta tests

and the feedback has been really

phenomenal for us so all your kind words

and enthusiasm only helps us keep going

ahead thank you so much really

appreciate the kind words

awesome well done guys okay Emma we are

moving ahead

um you've heard from lots of different

categories but the next one is not so

much category specific but stage of

journey specific yes uh so this is some

startups from our community that have

seen their idea through to execution and

are gaining loads and loads of traction

it was really a tight race in the

semi-finals but we'll kick things off

with mohamed from pantea

for the past few years my co-founder

mark and I  I e been consulting leading

private clinics to bring in patients and

form better experiences speaking to one

of our clients we learnt about hannah's

true story hannah had a tummy tuck her

procedure went well and she was

discharged with a photocopied care plan

for the next four weeks a sheet of paper

with dot plane instructions one week

post-op hannah noticed inflammation

around her wound and referred back to

her care plan where it mentioned

minimize activity and rest after

struggling to get in contact with her

clinic and asking online she decided to

ignore the pain and one week later she

was rushed to theater for her wound to

be cleaned and restitched this story and

struggle is real and hannah isn't alone

at pantea we've discovered hundreds of

unheard stories from patients like

hannah who deserve better care and

clinicians agree with us looking at

hannah's story we realized the true

impact on our existing clients we

discovered that every single negative

patient experience life hannus may lead

to a revenue loss of up to seventy five

thousand dollars per year for one of our

clients clinics this potential revenue

loss was up to one million dollars per

year working with clinicians we created

pantea a platform for private clinics

and patients specialised in clinic

optimization and patient engagement

combining monitoring education and

communication following hannah's first

appointment she connects to a clinic and

tracks her health with detailed insights

into her recovery she's assigned

education modules to improve her

understanding which saves the clinician

time and consultations and now she's

able to communicate with the clinic to

provide updates and ask questions after

consulting leading clinics we understand

that insights and optimization is a key

selling point each procedure monitored

with pantear creates valuable insights

and across the network builds pantera

pathways offered back to our clinics as

well as patients around the world to

self-manage their recovery we employ a

subscription model charge to private

clinics and generate further revenue

through our patient self-monitoring app

consulting data licensing and in-app

purchase referrals we have an attainable

market of 2.1 billion dollars with a

goal of 212 million dollars per year

capturing 1 of patients and 0.2 of

clinicians performing elective surgeries

with a focus on plastic and cosmetic

compared to our competitors we focus on

elective surgeries and private clinics

with a patient self-monitoring app our

competitive advantage lies in our

procedure-specific protocols predictive

insights and pantera pathways offered

back to our patients today we've

generated revenue through our existing

clients and our clinic mvp trials are

launching later this year we've secured

investments and are forming partnerships

with leading organizations who see the

benefits of pantea in healthcare our

go-to-market strategy focuses on clinic

trials to develop case studies within

the plastic surgery niche powered by our

existing network of clinics with the

potential for rapid growth bioreferrals

we'll be launching globally in network

relevant countries through partner

clinics and patient self-monitoring what

we believe in most though is our team

driven by our personal experiences with

healthcare our vision is to create a

world where every patient is connected

to their health mark leads development

in operations and I  I d product in

client relations we've formed a strong

digital health tech team who understand

what it takes to develop a secure

product and we're backed by our medical

advisors who help bring pate to life

from day one we're currently raising and

we'd love for the UTS community to join

us on our journey

wow kanter doing great things on track

for even greater

judges thoughts questions

fantastic now I  I lly like pantera i

like the way that not only are you

focusing on helping the the the patients

of course

um two things you've also focused on not

only just a let's got a care problem but

also financial problems for clinics

which gives them let's go an added

incentive to be part of what what you're

doing

then the platform itself has a potential

nav you focus on a very clear market to

start with but I  I  actually see this

being able to expand and the opportunity

of people self-managing their health

i've seen time and time again with very

well educated very you know

well-informed people not wanting to ask

a clinician a question or not wanting to

bother people or not wanting to go back

and this gets rid of all of that and all

of those uncertainty and gives people

sort of power back in their health which

i think is fantastic

absolutely yeah thank you Attila thank

you Peter joanne as well thanks for

everyone who's running this event we

completely agree with you I  I n we

started off with plastic and cosmetic

because that's where our network exists

that's where we built our brand and

that's where the trust exists and at the

same time patients who are going for

elective surgery uh sort of have those

intrinsic motivations to take that extra

step and to get the best result out of

the high ticket purchase item that

they've made but we absolutely see the

potential for pantea across healthcare

and as we said our grand vision is to

have every patient directly connected to

their health and we're really excited to

see what we can do within the space

well done muhammad really great work um

so we'll move on now please welcome

arnkit from facade

how many cloud platforms do you use

maybe some storage accounts messaging

apps and project management tools

how much data is stored on each of these

you've probably got multiple versions of

the same file somewhere

now think of this problem at the size of

your team

scale this up to the size of a company

and it's clear

we're drowning in data

data is costing up to 10 times more than

what it needs to

i'm ankit from pasade and we want to

give you peace of mind and a sense of

control when it comes to your own data

we've built a platform to connect and

manage all your cloud services

we've come up with a particular set of

tests and features that have developed

our algorithm to classify useful and

redundant data

we don't want to introduce any more risk

so we classify by only looking at

metadata

this is a problem that everyone has and

we can solve this problem for everyone

but from a business perspective those

who are crying out for this

manage between five and a hundred

terabytes of data

they work in small technical teams

usually without dedicated data cyber or

information specialists

and we know this because we've spoken to

200 decision makers

in just the last couple of months

and the quarter want to do something

about it

we're currently validating our business

model with early adopters to share in

the value of savings generated by

reducing redundant data and the

associated costs

our customers will save on their cloud

costs

and we'll take 150 dollars per terabyte

saved to share in these savings

we're also working with distribution

partners to scale our offerings for a

commission

we want our customers to have a holistic

impact when it comes to data which is

why as an x factor we're in the early

stages of being able to certify their

data practices as low emissions

under Australian carbon offset schemes

by offering a holistic approach in

looking at our customers data

we've found an innovative approach in

b2b sales we skip traditional

gatekeepers by targeting sustainability

managers to get a champion inside the

business right from the start

with a combined 20 years of industry

experience you can be confident in our

founding team

we've been through the ups and downs on

different projects over the last five

years

we've already received lots of support

as well as investment associated with

the cefc for Australia's commitment to

the paris climate agreement we're

looking for more funding to close out

2021

please scan the code stay in touch

thanks ankit so good given the

overlap with sustainability hey Peter

how about we throw to you for a question

yeah look I  I ove this and I  I nk

bringing to to the front you know

a hundred terabytes equals two tons of

co2 equivalent that's phenomenal and

this is what businesses need to hear

about

yes I  I e the fact that you identified

the risk of of the dark data being

critical data but boy oh boy we've got

to reduce our

data storage as part of decarbonization

so I  I ed it so well done really

exciting

yes uh we definitely agree and it's this

problem that kind of crept up on us that

you know we're all kind of excited to

use the cloud the internet and yet in

the background we're inadvertently

creating this mess and

we definitely don't want to be doing

that as the next four billion people

come online for the first time

in a world of 5g iot and blockchain so

definitely

glad you guys can share in our vision to

create

thanks unkit fantastic that was meta

love it I  I 't know about you guys

at home I  I 't know about you dave but

i could listen to our startups um

inspire me for a lot longer but we've

only got one

pitching starter at the end almost not

quite the end

so

shake it off we've got one person

emily compass iot

bring it home

hi my name is emily bobbis and i'm one

of the founders of compass iot

now

it's absolutely no secret that

Australians love their cars

over 90 of aussie households own at

least one vehicle

not only that but road infrastructure

spending equates to almost two percent

of the Australian economy

but

this love affair with driving and owning

your own vehicle does come with a bit of

a dark side

every year there are over 1 000 deaths

and 35 000 injuries on Australian roads

that means every year we have 36 000

friends families and loved ones that are

killed or injured due to crashes on our

roads to put it into perspective it's

the equivalent of 360 sydney b-line

buses crashing every 12 months

it's almost one bus crash for every

single day of the year not only that but

existing methods mean that it often can

take two to three years to collect

enough data to identify crash trends in

order to address them

the problem with this is that over that

two to three year period while we're

waiting for a trend that means we can

have over two thousand deaths and over a

hundred thousand injuries

so the problem that we're trying to

address is that city planners road

safety officers road operators and

researchers have to rely on lagging

indicators and reactive measures such as

police reports to improve road safety

the problem with this approach is that

we often lack data about what causes a

crash meaning they can happen again in

the same place under the same

circumstances

it means a death or a serious injury has

had to occur and it relies on accurate

reporting or reporting even being done

in the first instance

so how do we help

compass has built safepoint a digital

road intelligence tool

the purpose of safepoint is to use

connected vehicle data such as car

braking and steering patterns and

g-force data to identify near-misses on

our roads

the value for users is that they have

access to leading indicators allowing

them to proactively address road safety

by identifying high-risk roads and

intersections before a crash occurs

in terms of some of the traction our

data was recently used by trans urban

who are one of Australia's largest road

toll operators to halve crashes on

pennant hills road

we're also used by a host of state and

local governments and research

institutions including UTS

not only that but we grew

521 percent last year which means that

we doubled our net income every quarter

of 2021

but before I  I ish my pitch I  I t you

to think back to those 360 buses worth

of people

and why does compass do this

as a team of young Australians our

mission is to contribute to building

safer communities as well as help road

safety officers city planners and

governments reach their target of

towards zero road deaths

thanks emily what a strong way to bring

us home

joe do you have one last question for

emily one last question yes please i've

got like 10 but there's one um

how are you communicating with the

drivers on the road what's what is it

that how are you actually engaging with

these people to actually so that they

avoid the accidents

sure so the kind of the great thing

about the compass data is that it comes

from the vehicles themselves so you

don't actually have to talk to the

drivers directly and get them involved

in those processes in order to have

benefits for them uh but of course we do

talk to governments it's one of the un's

sustainability goals to have

partnerships between public and private

industries and that's what we're doing

so we're hoping that by talking to the

government and introducing this emerging

tech and this innovation we're then able

to help them support their social media

campaigns that then get passed down to

drivers that way

fantastic sounds good to me yeah love it

i'm a bit sad

but it's not all over Emma it's not all

over we have a few things to do we

actually have yes we've been live

scoring all of these startups we have

some winners to announce but before we

do that with a few things a few people

to thank because it does take a village

to raise a startup

of course all of our semi-finalist

judges

before tonight but huge thanks to Peter

joe and Attila tonight for your judging

we

appreciate you we appreciate it uh but

this year's festival record number of

partnerships with ecosystem industry who

just want to give back they want to

support our startups with

500 over 550 000 worth of cash and kind

prizes would you look at their beautiful

logos up on the screen please we'll call

them out because they're so fantastic

and we can't do it without them of

course deep green biotech

we've got sprucing and ferguson basic uh

s

cam from boston canva cost smart

fcw lawyers fish burners full stack

advisory hazen agency hubspot for

startups legal vision lmwip

oh I  I d a breath there's so many

you're doing well

microsoft for startups mr t studios

where we've got these fabulous things

uh protospace pwc emerging companies

ryland ventures and singularity u

Australia please send them a virtual we

appreciate you uh make sure you head to

startup

awards.uts.edu.edu to find the full list

of partners that we work with not

only are they up there not only are we

talking about them they are supplying

some of the most incredible prizes that

we're about to give out which is cool

but hey everyone watching on youtube

make sure you like and subscribe to

this channel because we are going to

keep uh drip feeding you some extra

special content there are some

incredible things that you've seen

tonight but that is the tip of the

iceberg when it comes to ucs startups

and so I  I ted to announce we've got a

couple of winners already up our

sleeves one thing that we like to do

every single year because UTS Startups

is different in that way so we don't

just take existing startups on promising

companies and make them better we

actually invite students who don't

actually care at all about

entrepreneurship that just want normal

jobs that just want to be left alone at

university they've got me and Emma and

our whole incredible team yeah just

bashing down all of their lectures to

tell them about entrepreneurship and so

we want to put front and center the

whole concept of inspiration so the most

inspiring startup uh 2021 we are really

had a good long think there are so many

startups as you can see that are

inspiring and we had so many actually

that we're actually giving two awards

for the most inspiring so  I'd love to

welcome richard from crypto spend

and angie from consent labs

congratulations you are our joint

winners of the most inspiring award um

this year at UTS arts awards hey richard

tell us a little bit about crypto

spanning your journey over the last few

months yeah I  I n that's awesome it's

been a great night a lot of fantastic

pictures a lot of great startups i'm

one of the co-founders of a company

called cryptospin as you can see behind

me the nice fancy little card here uh

essentially what we've done is we've got

a platform to allow people to buy sell

and spend their cryptocurrencies really

easily and the difference about us is

we're trying to make it easy you

probably know there's a lot of people

out there that really have you know no

idea what they're talking about when it

comes to crypto they've heard of bitcoin

but it's really hard to actually get

into that market and that's a solution

uh an app that we've built

and

hey just one more question mate um

you've kicked some big goals

there's a little word just behind you

there visa tell us about that what's

going on

yeah so we are actually the first

Australian native company to get a uh

crypto visa card program uh for crypto

cards so that's something that we're

very happy with we're very happy working

with visa on this project and yeah we

are we're hoping that the customers

enjoy our products as well

awesome mate so good and I  I e this

story you guys met at university you

guys were just kicking around playing

ping pong you do play some mean ping

pong

um if you guys can keep it down in

future that'd be good but that's okay um

you guys are inspiring and we absolutely

love team crypto spin we've also got

angie here from consent labs one of my

favorite things ever angie um

congratulations it's it's a no-brainer

for me you guys are doing incredible

things tell us a little bit about what

consent labs is up to

wow thank you so much this is so

unexpected um

so consent labs I  I n this has been a

massive year for consent I  I n i'm

pretty sure we've all heard the words so

many times this is actually the first

year that we managed to crack into the

high school market and the crazy thing

is by the end of this year we'll have

spoken to 10 000 students and parents

which is a massive milestone and a

really another big milestone for us is i

actually went full time on consent labs

at the beginning of august which

i mean I  I nk is just a testament to

yeah what we've been doing and you know

how much

young people and schools really believe

in the importance of consent education

hey angie what you enjoy doing is so

incredible we thank you so much for

leading the change leading the charge um

congratulations guys we're so happy to

have you as part of our community cool

well done

hey Emma tell us what's next should we

announce another

yeah it's winner's time that's sorry yes

you're right let's do it so at UTS

startups all you need is an idea but

this one is really about

um celebrating a startup that does more

than that they demonstrate traction

weekend week out month in month out

because that's what our community is

about it's not just about talking about

their startup it's about taking steps

every single day to grow

i'm not going to spoil all of their

traction points and we we might let them

share all of the incredible work they've

been doing this year but this year's

high attraction award goes to urban

plant growers

dilhan you there

yeah hey how are you great

tell us all of the incredible leaps and

bounds you've made in the last little

bit yeah well well firstly thank you

so much I  I n't expecting this yeah

this year's been a really big one so

we've landed a couple of b to b deals

that we didn't have last year so david

jones flower power and costco which have

been absolutely incredible for urban

plant growers

we really are trying to use these uh

platforms to kind of reach the mass

market and start making our products

which enable people to grow this stuff

in their own home available to everyone

on top of that we've been doing a lot of

product development so we're developing

a new modular product so you can get you

know many of these and put them together

and slot them in on your wall and do

whatever configuration you like

and we're really excited to be you know

working with some manufacturers in china

to get that done

fantastic dilhan we are inspired by you

and well done I  I 't wait to get my

hands on an urban plant growers kit

because yeah plastic plants are great

but real ones better hey well done

congratulations I  I uld mention as well

i just told these guys to show up in

this zoom we didn't really tell them

what we're doing classic day of

communication but hey Emma we've got

um what have we got next the big

announcement day oh yeah we we told you

we were gonna we had a big announcement

i forgot all about it hey if you're

watching on youtube remember you need to

subscribe because we keep announcing

things you better be there for it but

hey we have got a very special person

uh boss of mine and yours murray

first I  I  acknowledge a few important

people at the start uh who were leaving

uts as one person I  I n't acknowledge

who is staying at UTS which is glenn

whitewick our dvc that makes everything

we do possible uh thank you glenn for

everything you do

including what i'm about to announce now

so

uts is defined by our support for the

economic social and cultural prosperity

of our communities uh that's pretty much

line one of the strategy document i

think literally line one

uts is also dedicated to delivering

learning and development opportunities

for our students throughout their lives

uh for our first three years UTS

startups has been focused on supporting

current UTS students

i am pleased today to share

we're going to be expanding our

eligibility to support startups

launched by all UTS alumni

so this means

all people

who have studied at UTS anytime in the

past will be able to apply for support

from UTS Startups uh this support is

free of charge including free

collaborative office space free

mentoring free workshops free free free

loads of opportunities for promoting

your startup uh and most importantly uh

the chance to be part of an incredible

community of entrepreneurs as you're

seeing tonight

i i'm pretty sure I  I t heard two

hundred thousand alumni shout out and

enthusiasm and then go quiet the chat is

exploding this is wonderful

uh I  I l say there's two quick caveats

uh we're probably going to have a

waiting list for applications for from

alumni that's because of the demand

we're expecting we will be supporting as many people as

we can but let's expect that to sign up

uh and we will continue to prioritize

current students um

that's what we do and I  I nk it's uh

the the continues uh to need to be the priority

of what we do uh we're gonna be asking

all of the alumni launch startups to

help us in helping startups so to help us to

inspire and support uh the entrepreneurs

that we're supporting as well

i think you can tell when an

announcement is big based on how nervous

you are when you say it

uh so the nerves from that are quite

high but I  I nk it's going to be a big and

very special thing for a lot of people

um and this is just one of those

nerve-wracking announcements as dave was

saying there's more things coming up uh

that we're going to announce later this

year so stay tuned uh if you are a UTS alumni with a

startup head to startups.uts.edu.edu i'm going to chuck

that in the chat uh to apply before the rush

and uh we look forward to working with

you okay thank you very much uh back to

you dave and Emma hey murray that was awesome and yeah we

are so excited to be able to expand what

we do i'm kind of scared as well but

that's okay I  I  join now proud

alumna I  I 't get kicked out which is

awesome you're stuck with us forever

murray so good but hey murray what did you

think of the pictures tonight we're

about to announce a whole bunch of

winners selected by our judges

um what did you think how's the quality

where you impressed

listen I  I nk this is the first awards

night i've ever seen where there's more

people watching at the end than at start

like there's something strange is

happening here like particularly in

lockdown and everyone has zoomed out and

everyone is wanting to take care of

their kids or have dinner or other

things uh there must be something very

special going on and I  I nk obviously

there is in these pictures uh these were

incredible um and uh this thing I  I 't wait for

the lockdown to be over and everyone to

be back on campus doing the things that

they do with each other to support each

other but uh this has lit the fire back in me and i'm sure

it has in everyone watching as well this

has been incredible congratulations

everyone and thanks to all of the startups for

reminding us why we do what we do every

single day you're amazing yeah hey I  I w this is

naughty we're a little bit over time but

i just wanted to know judges you

submitted your scores how do you feel um

are you excited was there anything that

stuck out for you Peter what do you

think let us know

look it was so tough the the the the

the quality was so

so across the board stunning so I  I ked at

my scores when I  I  submitting and i

was like oh is that really fair so it

was tough and I  I e no idea what Attila

and what joe have come up with but yeah

it's it's been a tough judging for all

of us I  I nk but be pleased everyone

you did stunningly I  I  really

impressed I  I  a great night thanks

thank you Peter joanne

yeah look I  I n just i'm i'm so proud

of of the work that that UTS Startups

does and all of your teams you really have done

an extraordinary job in very difficult

circumstances this year and uh i

think that you that

i I  I w it's a sort of a cliche but

everyone's a winner really you've all

done an extraordinary job and um

i'm very proud of you and i'm sure that

the whole community is

beautiful thank you joe and we thank you

again for your input there hey Attila um

we'd love to hear what you think as well

nothing much I  I  add to Peter joe

everybody should feel deeply proud of

what they've done but as I  I d what  I'd

like to say is not only are all the

pictures great but at the end of long

day on zoom which is always a challenging

medium every single one of the pitches

tonight has energized me you know you've

just given that energy so not have the

ideas been good what they've been trying

to achieve their business plans have

been good but the way they're presented

has just given us all energy so thank

you all for that as well

thank you Attila i we are gonna miss you i'm not crying

Emma's not crying no one's crying but

we're gonna miss you and thank you so much for your time

judges we appreciate you but it is time

Emma it is but hey murray and I  I e had

the absolute privilege of announcing

these winners for the last couple of

years so this year hey dave the most

inspirational guy I  I w why don't you

announce the winners I  I 't know if i

can but i'll try i'll tell you so our

best ever team has been furiously

working behind the scenes to make sure

we're not having a steve harvey moment

um we've checked double checked triple

check quadruple checked and yeah why

don't you start with ideas today oh my

gosh i'm sorry i'm not procrastinating

here but we've also got the best UTS

startup team and the best production

team ever here at UTS it is the

university of technology we've got some

good technology going tonight thank you

nat thank you the whole team who's

produced tonight we really appreciate

you but okay i'm not gonna keep you

longer the best UTS startup ideas stage

you probably guessed it you might not

have it is titan biomechanics jamie where are you are you here

yeah i'm here wow i'm speechless do

not expect this before the amazing

start-ups we're up against I  I t want

to give a big thank you to the rest of

the team dan brian kelvin and tim and yeah big

thank you for you guys for organizing

this terrific event mate it's true I  I n I  I  you a few

months ago you guys literally started

this with a group assignment is that

right yeah so as we all engineering

students and as part of our degree we

have to do a six-month internship and

we're fortunate enough to

have this opportunity as our six-month

internship and it's just it's been

amazing that is awesome hey we appreciate you

jamie and well done congratulations so

exciting oh I  I uld mention as well

usually if we were all here we'd be

having our beautiful proto space UTS

proto space trophies that we'd be

presenting to you and we'd have photos

and everything i've got this really

miniature version of our this is

trophy which is slightly less spiky than

last year I  I uld can I  I that it

needs to be at least three times

it's a trophy for ants

but hey it's gonna be

we'll mail it to you it'll be safe

don't worry Emma who we got next next up most

sustainable and not only do they get um

a share of the suite of prizes but they

get an extra special cash prize to

support their startup from d3 and

biotech that is awesome I  I very

excited to announce this i'm so best UTS

startup most sustainable this year goes

to aywa woohoo body are you here are you still at work

he was in a work meeting when we were

soundchecking which was kind of funny

multitasking extraordinaire yeah still

working never not working body are you

surprised what happened what do you

think sorry this is so confusing

um yeah super surprised

do you have anything inspirational to

say do you have any one you'd like to

thank i guess you know never stop grinding

because i'm not for sure right now so

keep it on the entrepreneurial brand and

let's go with that hey we love you buddy thank you so much

and congratulations come on guys thanks

alrighty application of research oh do

it yes okay best ucs startup application

research the winner oh

oh my goodness the winner is talanova education

david are you here he's somewhere

he might be here I  I  hear him

thank you judges thank you david uh Emma

murray cat phoebe and even fiona ants and

catches up with me regularly and I  I eally thought mark and the rest are

light years ahead of him of my pitch so

um just thank you for your entire team

you guys awesome beautiful thank you david well done and

congratulations okay how many more winners have we got

two two more of the pitching cards

okay two more pitching category winners

best UTS startup social impact can you

guess it drumroll generation entrepreneur

oh my goodness you guys absolutely

amazing thank you so incredibly much i

mean i i've practiced this like my entire

life my oscar receiving speech like this

is what is what i've lived for so just

i'm going to take one minute but no in

all seriousness wouldn't have got this

five if it wasn't for our advisory board

you know gary gg suru jack and victor who all on this call

today sending me so many good vibes you

know they went through the pitch they've

been here since day one our team our

just our partners find the project

academy they've been amazing to you

guys Peter joe Attila and everyone at

the UTS startup team you guys have

literally embraced us with open arms

since we joined months ago and we just

would not be here if it wasn't for you

guys and finally you know till it with

your words we are going to work harder

and we're going to give back to the

community this isn't just about me it's

not about team it's about so much more

and hopefully you know in years time our

startups from our high school students

can become UTS Startups and really bring

this full circle so we'd love to do that

and thank you again for this amazing

amazing present such a proud auntie i'm actually tearing

up a little bit one more I  I  do it

we can do this dad i can't I  I 't announce this one Emma

oh okay ucs startups award for the

most the best ucs startup established i

can't say anything properly at this

point it is campsite emily you've won another award as per usual

how do you feel i feel like I  I e words that I  I 't

like say in front of people right now

like there's a lot of if you could beat

me out that would be great

um yeah no like I  I onestly don't

really know what to say I  I w that nick

and I  I nk vince were watching in the

chat earlier I  I  them like yeah

there's vince um really couldn't do it without the

support from the UTS team and

definitely from the rest of the team

like if we could just like cut any of

the awards up into like maybe nine

pieces and that would be like great

because as me and angus are co-founders but with we

definitely don't do the most of the hard

work it's definitely down to the to the

rest of the team so they deserve this

hey congratulations emily you and the

team are incredible well done hey murray

we have one more award for tonight um

you know what it is we know what it is

can you tell us a little bit more

okay i'm going to say this quickly well

done to all our finalists and all the

startups that have participated

our startup of the year award uh so

probably my favorite award uh

because we get to choose it

and we get to see all the startups that

we work with and say you're doing

amazing things based on the

like it's one thing to see someone

pitches another thing to see people

working over the years and see what they

actually do uh whether uh so in terms of recognition uh

i think this should go to a company uh

that's doing incredible things amongst

all the incredible things that we see

but whether that's growing a company

remarkably uh against all the odds or

stepping up and continuously helping all

of the other startups uh while also

running their own startup or literally

saving hundreds of lives around

Australia with their startup at the same

time this startup has it all

uh drumroll please join me in congratulating thank

you very much startup of the year 2021

sorry emily uh it's compass iot welcome

back again the words I  I bably can't say in

front of like 99 people but

yeah vince is going to be really jealous

because he pitched last year was kind of

upset that he didn't win so I  I erally

don't know what to say uh really

appreciative um we really appreciate I  I lly really

like being part of this the UTS startup

community and the team has really missed

coming in on fridays like everyone's

like our fridays suck now because we

can't go and have beers in the basement

anymore so really looking forward to

kind of coming back and and getting

involved it's gonna be really cool once

we get out of lockdown congratulations guys we're at the end of

our event I  I w we ran a little bit

over time i'm sorry about that it's my

fault but hey that was so awesome we had

so much fun I  I e I  I l the energy i

feel a lot from you guys at home we so

appreciate every single one of you that

have tuned in that have spent your time

supporting our startups believing in

what we do believing in them and hey

if you want to join UTS Startups hey we

are ready for you all you need to do

is tell us what your idea is you can be

a student or now you can be an alumni

um if you don't have an association with

uts come and study here we are both UTS

alumni we turn out all right i'm telling

you it's not so bad it's actually

awesome we'd love to have you here

but UTS Startups is about inspiring

supporting the future entrepreneurs that

are gonna turn this place around and

we're just seeing some incredible stuff

already be part of it we can't wait to have you where do they

go oh startups.uts.edu dot a u jump on in

there and while you're at it it's not

the end of september yet we are still

in the last couple of days of UTS

startups festival it's been happening

all september there is so much online in

terms of resource in terms of how to's

inspiration heaps of stuff there for you

if you are even a shred inspired by what

happened tonight get amongst it it could

be in your future too and yeah let's all

take our next step together yes let's

take our next step and on that our next

step join UTS Startups we've got so

many cool events coming up that you want

to be a part of get on in there and

by the way let us know if tonight was um

any good we hope it was but we'd love

to know what you thought we love your

feedback as always we want to keep doing

what we do better I  I 't know if we

could make it better than some of the

pictures tonight but we'll try

um how can you top that but we're always

here to learn and do better as well just

like our startups community but if you

wouldn't mind scanning that it won't

take you to service new south wales up it'll take

you to something much more fun yes we

won't steal we really appreciate it yes

fantastic hey we love you guys thank you

so much for being with us it's been

fantastic and we're going to let you all

go go to the fridge make a cup of tea

eat a crumpet whatever it is

we thank you so much and we'll see you

online and at UTS startup soon. Thanks so

much.