Bendigo will host its first-ever Invention and Innovation Festival next month.
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The festival is an initiative of business organisation Be.Bendigo and will include the annual Bendigo Inventor Awards.
It will also form part of the Victorian Digital Innovation Festival.
Festival director David Hughes said the festival provided a “focal point for the great stuff that is happening”, such as the La Trobe Accelerator start-up program and the Bendigo Tech School.
“We have an opportunity to work together with other organisations to increase our impact, and ultimately assist people with good ideas to develop them into viable business models,” he said.
Mr Hughes said the “innovation ecosystem” was strong in Bendigo, citing a Regional Australia Institute report that labelled the city as a model for others when it came to innovation.
The festival will feature a one-day symposium, which will include workshops and speakers, the Inventor Awards and the Festival of Failure, an event that aims to turn the negative notions associated with failure upside-down.
Mr Hughes said there were also a number of free events in the festival program, as well as a two-day ‘datathon’ run by Bendigo Health, the first time such an event of this size was to be held in Bendigo.
To register for the symposium, visit the online ticketing site, where early bird tickets are available until 9am Monday, August 20.
More information on the festival can be found at the event website.
