Previous Business Acumen Events

Key learnings from this panel discussion included:

• The power of having your first customers as ambassadors - helping to spread the word about your great product or service.
• The importance of "old school" customer service, deeply understanding your customers and forging real relationships.
• Using technologies like AI, augmented reality and more to help deliver this high-quality customer service, and quickly.

Thanks to our Innovation Leaders (speakers):

• Anthony Skeats, Micro-X
• Summer Petrosius, Kindship
• Kelly Jamieson, Edible Blooms
• Ben Jamieson, Foil Drive.

How did two of South Australia’s fastest growing startups land their first ‘big fish’, an enterprise client?

Business founders Flavia Tata Nardini of Fleet Space and Matthew Shorten of Trellis Technologies each brought along one of their customers to explain how they were able to build and maintain these productive relationships.

October’s Business Acumen event welcomed special guest Vicki Saunders from Canada. Vicki is the founder of Coralus, a global crowdfunding organisation that has funnelled $1b+ from women into women and non-binary led businesses.

Thanks to our other Innovation Leaders (speakers), representing their businesses and the support organisations they’ve established specifically for female founders:

• Kelly Jamieson, Edible Blooms, Fearless Females
• Rachel Kidwell, TCPinpoint
• Onnie Chan, ADA Lab
• Paula Turbill, EGM Partners, Women in Innovation.