Scholarships

INNOVATION LEADERS – SCHOLARSHIPS TO ATTEND CREATIVE INNOVATION GLOBAL

Creative Innovation Global is excited to offer up to 10 places to the conference for emerging leaders from any sector.

“When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.”

We are searching for the most outstanding emerging leaders and innovators from across Australia who are creating the future. They are game-changers in society who are not content to just let the future happen, but rather are actively working to implement ideas that make a difference… Leaders that may at times feel afraid or uncertain, yet still rise to confront the needs and challenges of society head on.

Right now, the Race to the Future is occurring faster than we can imagine. Disruption is everywhere. The actions we take now will impact future generations in a powerful way and we need to find innovative solutions to the great problems of today, to make them the opportunities of the future.

The Creative Innovation Global scholarships are provided to emerging leaders to prepare them for the challenges of tomorrow and help them access key decision makers across society and the economy.

Ci2015 Innovation Leader Scholarship Winners

• Elise Bialylew (VIC) is Founder of Mindful in May, a one month global online mindfulness meditation campaign that teaches people to meditate and raises fund to bring clean, safe drinking water to people in Africa.
• Chris Breidahl (WA) is a Founder of MyGuru which is working on delivering online tutoring for every school students in Australia with a focus on improving education equality and the teaching of STEM subjects with a low to no cost model.
• Elliot Costello (VIC) is CEO and Co-Founder of YGAP which is an incubator for social change through the provision of youth education and youth leadership. YGAP supports poverty alleviation projects across Australia, Asia and Africa.
• Steven Farrugia (VIC) is Founder of ShareTree which educates, engages and empowers people globally to share their time and resources to promote equality and harmony for the benefit of society.
• Georgina Gold (NSW) is Creator of Hide and Seek: The Great Inclusion Game which is the world’s first empathy-building, social inclusion geocaching game brought via mobile app technology.
• Victoria O’Collins (Singapore) is Co-Founder of the Australian Science and Innovation Forum which aims to energise and support innovative scientific endeavours of young scientists, engineers and business professionals.
• Kate Rodgers (WA) is Product Manager of Curtin Challenge, a unique game inspired learning platform, where students ‘collaborate and apply’ working in multi-disciplinary global teams developing solutions to the world’s biggest problems.
• Nadine Saadi (SA) is Business Development Manager of Strategiize – a platform for innovation stakeholders across universities and industry worldwide to connect and bring cutting-edge ideas and technologies to the community.
• Kate Weiss (VIC) is Founder of Table of Plenty which has provided over 80,000 hours of sustainable ongoing work for people with disabilities in the FMCG marketplace.

Scholarship winners receive:

• A full place for the entire Ci2015 event
• The opportunity to present their vision for the future in the conference program and on the website
• A 60 second speaking spot during the main conference program

Eligibility Criteria:

• Australian or New Zealand based (can be an international student on a study visa)
• Developer or owner (individually or jointly) of the innovation
• Documented plan to implement your innovation

Application Process:

1. Email a maximum one­-sided A4 document answering the following questions:
   • In this era of disruption, what is your innovation to create growth and a sustainable future?
   • Why is it necessary? – What problem does it solve and how does it improve upon its predecessors?
   • How are you implementing your innovation right now, and how is it scalable?
   • What is the biggest barrier you face in getting your innovation to become a reality?
   • Who are you and why are you the person capable of creating the change you have identified?
2. (optional but highly regarded) Provide a link to a 90 second video promoting your innovation to future users, stakeholders and/or investors

Note: This application is strictly one A4 page only. Where more than one page is submitted, only the first will be read. Make sure it is not your cover page!
Note: The video must be maximum 90 seconds. Where more than 90 seconds are submitted, only the first 90 seconds will be watched. Make every second count.

Please email your application to scholarships@creativeuniverse.com.au
Deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2014
Our Innovation Leaders Selection Panel will consider applications. Winners will be announced by mid-December.

Scholarship Selection Panel:

• Tania de Jong AM – Founder & Executive Producer, Creative Innovation Global; Founder and CEO, Creative Universe; Founder, Creativity Australia
• Stephen Grant – CEO of Asia Pacific Business Coalition on Aids
• Peter Hunt AM –Chairman of Greenhill Australia
• Alrick Pagnon – Creative Development & Partnership Manager of Creative Universe, Creative Innovation Global

Ci2015 Innovation Leader scholarships are proudly supported by our Innovation Leader Partner

Ci2013 Innovation Leaders Scholarship Winners

Congratulations to:

• Anthony Aisenberg (VIC) – Founder of CrowdSpot which creates customised interactive digital maps for people to give input on geographic locations.
• Nkandu Beltz (VIC) – A young social pioneer, founder and director of YEPA (Youth Empowerment Program Australia). YEPA strives to establish a sense of ownership and belonging in youth communities while enabling them to become proactive leaders.
• Andrew Crowe (SA) – Co­Founder of Bioburner, an effort towards producing a low ­emission cookstove for use in the developing world with emphasis on affordability, efficiency and ease of manufacture.
• Shane Greenup (NSW) – Founder of rbutr, a browser plugin which tells people whenever the page they are looking at has been disputed elsewhere on the net.
• Stephen Johnson (VIC) – Co­Founder of Eunev, the world’s first online market place for business events providing an end-­to-end solution to find, plan and book venues and talent for business events.
• Katerina Kimmorley (NSW) – Co­Founder of Pollinate Energy, a social business, to provide solar lights and mobile phone chargers and smoke reducing cookstoves to urban slum communities in India.
• Ben Olsen (SA) – Founder of Re­timer sleep glasses, a device that helps maintain a consistent sleep­wake rhythm to maximise sleep quality.
• Gretha Oost (VIC) – Founder of Project O an enterprise that addresses plastic pollution by re­designing our water habits in public spaces.
• Catherine Prosser (ACT) – CEO & Co­Founder of StageBitz, a global network for the entertainment industry to design, create, sell, hire, trade or giveaway sets, props and costumes as well as intellectual resources. StageBitz aims to radically improve the environmental & business sustainability of the arts.
• Zezan Tam (VIC) – Founder of Lifestock, a company working on cultured meat technology to feed the ever increasing global demand for animal protein in a more sustainable way.

“A profound change is taking place in the organisations that are seriously concerned about the future of business and society as they are realising that rational man, is giving way to artful human.” John Richardson