QUT hosts Visiting Entrepreneurs in Residence (VEiRs) to help you get an insiders understanding of different aspects of making a venture work.
Whether you're looking to learn about business structures, finding customers, supply chains, social media marketing, team building and culture or other topics, the VEiRs can help.
Masterclasses run from 1-2pm every Wednesday in the foundry (Gardens Point campus, B Block, Room 230) where the VEiRs draw on their own learnings, insights and practices in creating, building and growing ventures.
Bookable one-on-one mentoring sessions are available after the Masterclasses.
Who are the VEiRs
Santi Valasquez founded EyeSyght, where technology is being developed to allow users to feel textures on touch screens and Hailo, which is solving public transport accessibility for visually impaired users. He is a TedX and keynote speaker, has been invited to speak to the UN three time. Santi is an innovator and disability and accessibility advocate.
Rebecca Wilson is an expert on modern ageing helping people build longer, happier lives. As the founder of Starts at 60, Rebecca created the online home of the over-55s community bringing them news, information, travel, health and finance information. Her new venture, Epic Retirement, focusses on helping retirees plan for and live a long, happy, healthy and financially secure life.
Yas Grigulinas is an impact entrepreneur and a circular economy pioneer. She designs and executes circular economy solutions having built Circonomy (previously Worlds Biggest Garage Sale) in Brisbane and is now taking it to the national stage with Officeworks as a key client and investor.
Chris Seaton is the Origin Tea founder and CEO. Origin Tea is an integrated family-owned Australian company, producing some of the finest, freshest and purest teas from their own Sri Lankan plantations which are sold around the world.
Ale Wiecek is the founder and Chief Empathy Officer of Sqr One, a Brisbane-based customer experience design studio dedicated to helping businesses design empathetic products, services, and strategies. Bringing her skills across marketing, digital transformation and creative thinking, Ale guides people in building customer-first, socially conscious and innovative businesses.
To attend a Masterclass, QUT students can register through UniHub.
To book a mentoring session with one of the VEiRs, QUT students can register through Outlook Bookings.