How to Improve Your Industry Engagement

This event was held on Friday 4 March 2022

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Level up your industry engagement and commercialisation skills with PD+ Webinars

This webinar will outline effective strategies for opening doors to new industry partners.

What you'll learn

  • Why industry engagement matters
  • Drivers for industry engagement
  • Shortcomings in forming relationships
  • Forming a value proposition
  • Lead generation
  • A recipe for success
  • Building trust
  • Using LinkedIn
  • Tips for promoting your capabilities

Who should attend

  • PhD students
  • Postdoctoral researchers
  • Early and mid-career researchers
  • Industry-engaged academics
  • Industry-engaged professional staff

What you'll experience

PD+ is a free weekly webinar series that takes place every Friday from 12-1 PM. It is the perfect way to lunch and level up your industry engagement and commercialisation skills.

Presenter

Nick McNaughton is a highly experienced CEO who has been a successful entrepreneur, mentor, investor, and fund manager. Nick started his career in the software industry where he specialised in bringing US vendors into the Asia / Pacific region. He spent extensive time living and working in Asia. He has been a successful angel investor for over two decades. Successes include Soulmates Technology, Zookoda, Vocus (ASX:VOC) & Windlab (ASX:WND).

He is a veteran of the University IP commercialization field. He is the part-time CEO of ANU Connect Ventures a $37M seed investment fund (owned by the Australian National University and MTAA Super). He has reviewed and assessed a wide array of ideas, inventions, and discoveries. The fund invested in several successful companies including Lithicon (Trade sale FEI), InterfereX (Trade sale – NYSE: Dolby), Instaclustr, Liquid Instruments, and EpiAxis Therapeutics. He led the initiative by the Group of Eight & the University of Auckland to partner with the IP Group to open their Asia / Pacific office in A/NZ. He has also had extensive interactions with the applied technology Universities (UTS, Wollongong, Deakin, and Macquarie). He is the Chairman of the Discovery Translation Fund evaluation committee (ANU, University of Canberra, CSU) and spent 18 months on the UTS Commercialisation Advisory Panel.

Register

Event is free but registration is essential.

The PD+ webinar series is brought to you by the University of Newcastle's Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise (KEE) and Campus Plus.

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What is KEE?

The University of Newcastle's Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise (KEE) is responsible for facilitating impact within our regions through intellectual property commercialisation, business development, and entrepreneurship. KEE works with researchers and industry to identify and facilitate high-value licenses and research collaborations, in addition to supporting pre-startups, startups, and scale-up companies.

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Event Information

  • Date:  This event was held on Friday 4 March 2022
  • Location: Zoom