Introduction to IDEAFEST Workshop 2023

The Introduction to IDEAFEST Workshop is an opportunity offered to students who intend to enter IDEAFEST. This workshop provides some insights into how to submit a great entry, covering the theory and practice of business idea generation and development, as well as some tips from members of the IDEAFEST judging panel and former competition winners.

The workshop will be held online via Microsoft Teams on 20 January 2023, 1:00pm. The full schedule is outlined below:

1:00pm - Welcome (Professor Norbert Morawetz)

1:05pm - So You Have a Business Idea: the Seven Principles of Winning IDEAFEST (Professor Norbert Morawetz)

1:30pm - Protecting Your Business Idea (Jurek Sikorski)

1:45pm - What You Need to Know About Legal (Jacob Montague, Solicitor, Clarkslegal)

2:00pm - Break

2:15pm - IDEAFEST 2023 Competition (Jurek Sikorski)

2:30pm - IDEAFEST Finalists' Panel (former IDEAFEST finalists from 2022, moderated by Jurek Sikorski)

3:00pm - Networking and Refreshments

3:30pm - Finish

To register to attend the Workshop, please sign up here.

If you have any queries about IDEAFEST, including how to enter and when applications open, please check our website here.