• Regional NSW founders-to-be will pitch their business ideas online at 6.30pm Monday 17 May at the Charles Sturt Innovation Hubs: Ready to Launch pitch night
• The Ready to Launch programs help take businesses, products or services from idea to execution in just 10 weeks
• Award winning speaker, change-maker and author Ms Lucy Bloom will be the event MC, and OzHarvest Founder Ms Ronni Kahn will be interviewed for the event

Ten regional entrepreneurs will pitch their business ideas to a ‘live’ online audience at the Charles Sturt University Ready To Launch Pitch Night on Monday 17 May.

Award winning speaker, change-maker and author Ms Lucy Bloom will host the event and OzHarvest founder Ms Ronni Kahn will make a special guest appearance.

The event is part of the University’s Ready to Launch incubator program, which supports regional innovators to validate and transform ideas from conception into a potential reality in just 10 weeks.

Acting Charles Sturt Innovation Hubs Manager Ms Siobhain Howard (pictured) said, “This is our eighth Ready To Launch cohort stepping up to our virtual stage to pitch to a live audience from across NSW, with participants from across the Charles Sturt University regional footprint, including Port Macquarie, Griffith, Junee, and Wagga Wagga.

“The participants will present some incredibly innovative solutions to age old problems and we’re excited to share these ideas with people across the state.”

During the event, Ms Kahn from OzHarvest will be interviewed about how innovation has helped her organisation reduce food waste, feed people in need and protect finite environmental resources since 2004.

“We know that Ms Kahn will bring much inspiration to entrepreneurs across the region,” Ms Howard said.

“We’re also delighted to welcome back the indomitable Ms Lucy Bloom who will bring her usual pink vigour to proceedings as MC for her second pitch night with us.”

OzHarvest founder Ms Kahn said, “I’m thrilled to be joining the Ready To Launch pitches. Innovation is key to solving huge global issues like food waste, especially when it comes to supporting farmers in the primary production stage.”

Registrations for the event are available via the Eventbrite website.

The Charles Sturt University Innovation Hub funding is provided under the Boosting Business Innovation Program and co-investment from Charles Sturt University.

For more information, see Charles Sturt Innovations Hubs’ Social media:

facebook.com/AgriTechIncubator/

twitter.com/AgriTechCSU