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ACIC-PUSHAtal Community Innovation Centre

Events & news

Learn, connect and collaborate

The Centre’s public programme: sessions where innovators meet mentors, communities meet students, and prototypes meet the people who will use them.

Calendar status

Opening soon

No event is listed until it has been scheduled and approved. Ask to be notified and the Centre will contact you when the first programme is published.

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Upcoming

What is open for registration

Nothing is open for registration yet

The calendar opens with the Centre’s first published programme. Each listing will carry its date, venue, format, who it is for and how to register.
Explore the programmes behind these events

Event formats

Nine kinds of gathering, each with a different job

From a two-hour workshop to a multi-day camp in a community — the format follows the purpose.

  • Workshop

    Short, practical sessions on design thinking, prototyping, IP, finance or business models.

  • Bootcamp

    Intensive multi-day programmes taking teams from problem statement to venture plan.

  • Hackathon

    Time-boxed builds against defined problem statements, with expert review.

  • Community Innovation Camp

    Field-based camps that bring problem owners, students, mentors and makers together.

  • Innovation Challenge

    Open calls on community, institutional or industry problems, with prototype support.

  • Demo Day

    Supported innovators present working prototypes and ventures to an invited audience.

  • Investor / Industry Meet

    Structured introductions between ventures and prospective partners or investors.

  • Conference

    Convenings on community innovation, inclusive entrepreneurship and technology translation.

  • Webinar

    Online sessions extending reach beyond those who can travel to the campus.

Past events

An archive that will build itself

Every completed event is recorded with its attendance, outcomes and media — which is also what makes the outreach indicators auditable.

The archive begins with the first event

Reports, photographs and participation records will be published here as events are completed.

News & media

What the Centre will publish, and who maintains it

News, press releases, articles, galleries, video, podcasts and a newsletter — maintained by the Communications Officer through the CMS.

  • News
  • Press releases
  • Articles
  • Photo gallery
  • Videos
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter

Media enquiries

Journalists and media organisations should use the contact routes and mark the enquiry as “Media and communications”. Photographs of participants and community members are published only with consent.

Contact routes