A range of workshops to help you succeed
Practical workshops that help participants master lean innovation and advanced startup techniques.
Practice the methods that enable innovators to start up faster and cheaper through a range of workshops on offer at the Canberra Innovation Network. Validate your ideas and increase the impact of your work using the right tools and lean techniques.
Online Workshops & Webinars
If you’re growing a business, developing a product or just want to change the world, our goal is to show you relevant new ideas and challenge you to rapidly try them out.
Hear from experienced entrepreneurs, experts and industry leaders, and learn how to create and test a new ideas in your business.
You’ll meet a community of like-minded entrepreneurs in these interactive online sessions. For every entrepreneur, founder and business leader.
Idea to Impact
The program is for researchers and entrepreneurs with early traction with their ventures who are looking to progress their ideas towards being investment-ready and having paying customers.
Through 5 half-day workshops with intensive content over 10 weeks, participants will be challenged to apply the lean methodology to their projects with customer conversation goals.
The Idea to Impact Intensive program is a competitive program for researchers and entrepreneurs who have had early traction with their ventures to explore market opportunities.
The current cohort is currently in progress. Please leave us your details and we can get in touch when the program is accepting applications for the next cohort in early 2021.
Research to Impact
As a researcher, you may be frustrated by the difficulty of finding ways to apply your research or ideas into meaningful results in the real world. The changing landscape has led to career challenges for early stage researchers and lower funding for research team leaders.
Research to Impact is a two-part webinar series for researchers (PhD candidates and upwards) to introduce practical tools that help you take your research out of academia, engage with industry and find new opportunities.
Advance your research by upskilling and enabling you to find answers about industry needs, how you can adapt to make you more prevalent in your field and attract the resources you need to take your projects forward.
Upcoming Workshops
Idea to Impact
If you are intending to start a new business this will give you the confidence to move forward fast.
Advanced Startup Workshop
I wish I’d done the workshop before I’d started selling!
Research to Impact
You may have an idea, but attend this great workshop and meet amazing leaders who can help you conceptualise and get the idea off the ground in a much shorter time period.
Lean Startup for Facilitators
Great methodology that creates a shift in the individual mindset and approach to business cases.
Idea to Impact
A great starting point for people who wish to take ideas to market!
Research to Impact
To be frank, this is a great workshop I was looking for for many years. If you have an idea and want it become reality, this is the place you should be go in Canberra.
Research to Impact
Totally worth taking the time to attend. A multiple facilitator approach clearly identifying idea through to impact and asking the hard questions along the way.
Lean Startup for Facilitators
The experience of the facilitators takes you on a journey to explore your own potential. You realise you have a great deal to contribute to your own project or within your workplace.
Advanced Startup Workshop
A realistic simulation of sitting in the ‘hot seat’ of a business transaction. About as close as you could get to the real thing in a short space of time.
Idea to Impact
Great presenters thoroughly teaching simple yet powerful tools that have instant real-world application. Highly recommended!
Research to Impact
The workshop really helped to open my eyes to the opportunities for researchers to create impact not just in the academic sense. It was invaluable in getting me to think about the ‘users’ and what value I am creating for them.
Lean Startup for Facilitators
Working with the CBR Innovation Network always makes me feel like I am part of something bigger, part of the innovation heartbeat of the nation’s capital and beyond. It not just content but the method and the experience that they bring to their programs that I value.
Idea to Impact
Practical get-going methods, I can see these techniques saving me a lot of time, money and effort.
CSIRO ON Prime
The workshop gives participants a structured method to test ideas before investing heavily. A must have skill set for researchers looking to generate impact from their work.
Research to Impact
The programme as a whole challenged me to really step out of my comfort zone, but the concepts and tools that I have been exposed to throughout the programme will influence how I develop and discuss research ideas in the future.
Research to Impact
I believe this is a must-have skill for any researchers of the present-day world particularly in a prime pressured environment where reaching out to the target audience and communicating your research through short pitch is of utmost importance.
Research to Impact
A challenging, yet rewarding experiences I highly recommend it to all researchers, irrespective of subject area, to help ensure greater impact of your work.
Research to Impact
Your way of thinking about research work will change after these intense and amazing four days. I definitely recommend this course to anyone working on science.
Research to Impact
If you have ideas, every second not enrolled in the workshop, is a second wasted.