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Entrepreneurship Educator’s Forum

February 2, 2022 by acere

Educators Forum theme: ”Preparing Future Entrepreneurs”
#ACERE2023

When: Tuesday, 7 February 2023 – 9.00am-5.00pm
Where: The University of Queensland St Lucia campus – MOD West, building 11A – Room 130
Registration: Registration to the full ACERE 2023 includes access to Entrepreneurship Education. For only the Entrepreneurship Education Forum register here Registration and Fees. Select Delegate General and then select Educators Forum only. The cost is $100.

What is next for entrepreneurship education? How do we best prepare future entrepreneurs? If you are at the forefront and making a difference in this space the ACERE Educators’ Forum is for you. Facilitate your best workshop or give a short `show and share` TED-talk style presentation, learn from the experts developing cutting edge approaches and meet others passionate about entrepreneurship education.

Educators Forum Program

This one-day forum aims to be an interactive personal development platform for academics, pracademics and industry representatives at the intersection of entrepreneurship and education. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from champion educators at the forefront of supporting entrepreneurs and exchange innovative learning approaches and teaching tools. Participants will come away with a new suite of learning materials, inspiration to apply them and an expanded network of colleagues who share a passion for supporting future entrepreneurs.

To facilitate knowledge sharing, we have developed two focus areas for the day: 1) How high schools can contribute to preparing future entrepreneurs and 2) Supporting entrepreneurs to navigate the startup ecosystem. Participants will have the opportunity to take a deep dive in their area of interest or mix and mingle across the program. Morning sessions will showcase keynotes and panel discussions before breaking into sessions for show and share among all participants.

Keynote Speakers

Nicole Dyson

Nicole is a globally recognized expert and practitioner in project-based learning and youth entrepreneurship. She is the founder of Future Anything, an award-winning, curriculum-aligned entrepreneurship program for high school students, the founder of YouthX, Australia’s only startup accelerator program for school-aged entrepreneurs, and the founder of Catapult Cards, a design thinking tool for corporates and classrooms.

Baden U’Ren

Baden U’Ren is an internationally recognised entrepreneurship educator and innovation professional, a multiple company founder, and has a background in investment banking and private equity. He works in two main fields, corporate innovation and education, and is available for individual engagements.

Nick Shewring

Nick Shewring Founder & CEO of Wonderlife. He is a serial entrepreneur with entrepreneurship and innovation in his blood. His experience includes co-founding BizDojo, New Zealand’s leading chain of startup hubs, where he became a trusted mentor and advisor for many of New Zealand’s fastest-growing tech companies. Nick has also led mobile product innovation at Air New Zealand and rethinking innovation in the WaterTech space as GM for WaterStart. Nick has coached and mentored hundreds of startup teams and has a significant network in the local and international startup ecosystem. His specialty is bringing people together to achieve impressive things.

Aaron Birkby

I am passionate about empowering ambitious entrepreneurs to grow bigger, faster by providing investment and support as the co-founder of Tribe Global Ventures. My background includes over two decades building and supporting technology companies to grow global, as a founder, advisor, investor, and facilitator. My clients have included Google, YouTube, Novartis, the UK Government, Universities, super funds, investors and entrepreneurs.

Lance Newey

Title: Our Education Opportunity: A Generation of Developmental Entrepreneurs

Dr Lance Newey is a Senior Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at UQ Business School. Lance specialises in the application of developmental psychology to assist leaders and entrepreneurs undertake transformative personal, organisational and/or community change. Lance pioneered the “Entrepreneurship for Community Wellbeing” program which works with Latin American communities to link their entrepreneurial initiatives to maximize community wellbeing. Beginning in Colombia, the success of the program has now spread to disadvantaged communities in Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico. More recently, Lance worked with the City of Anchorage Alaska to help them turn around from polarised gridlock towards regional renewal. These research programs have been funded by a small group of local Brisbane primary and secondary schools in a whole-of-education-system strategy aimed at the development of a new generation of systems leader capable of transformative change. The most recent output of this is the study program “An Introduction to Wellbeing Polarity Leadership for 21st century Parents and Young Emerging Leaders”, which will be shared in today’s Educator’s Forum.

Theme 1: How high schools can contribute to preparing future entrepreneurs?

Rationale: Entrepreneurial capability (mindset and action) is widely seen as key to how societies can develop sustainable solutions to their wellbeing issues. All levels of the education system can have a role to play in building this capability. Doing so can involve building two types of skills: 1) baseline, where the focus is on entrepreneurship at the level of individual projects and new businesses and 2) frontier, where entrepreneurial capability is applied to larger entities like cities, regions and countries. This High School Stream gives aspiring high schools a taste of both skillsets. The morning session showcases exemplar high schools and their entrepreneurship programs. The afternoon session introduces new developments in helping entrepreneurs to be systems thinkers and thereby create larger wellbeing impacts while also providing opportunities for educators to showcase their own innovations.

Who is this Session for? Interested in introducing entrepreneurship to your school but not sure how? Looking for exemplars? Want to hear about new developments in the application of entrepreneurship to creating better societies? This session is for you.

Aim: That teachers walk away with a sense of 1) the importance of entrepreneurship education for young emerging leaders to address societal issues and 2) practical how-to’s for curricular/extra-curricular initiatives.

Theme 2: Supporting entrepreneurs to navigate the startup ecosystem

Rationale: Coursework programs for entrepreneurship have grown tremendously in the past decade, including some universities embedding entrepreneurship fundamentals across all undergraduate programs. But, what about learning experiences beyond the classroom? How can students, alumni and members of the broader community who want to become more entrepreneurial but don’t want to commit to a full degree program? This stream covers support for entrepreneurship beyond degree programs, including MOOCs, microcredentials, private sector training, incubators, accelerators, and everything in-between (meetups, competitions, events series, etc.).

Who is this Session for?: This session is for people who offer support for entrepreneurs that is typically not for course credit. Budding entrepreneurs in these programs may be current university students, recent alumni or others further along their careers.

Aim: The aim of this session is twofold. On the one hand, participants will get a sense of the broader ecosystem that supports entrepreneurship. This will help explore where the entrepreneurs they support come from and can go to next as they seek support for their entrepreneurial pursuits. On the other hand, this session expects to share good practices around how to support entrepreneurs, such as mentorship, training, referrals, etc.

Call for Submissions for Afternoon TED-Style show and share and Interactive Practice Sessions

The afternoon sessions are an opportunity to showcase best practice and teaching innovations. If you would like to present in either the TED-style talk (10 min show & share) or run a mock classroom session (Interactive Practice Session) then please follow the following submission instructions:

10-minute TED-style Talk

10-minute TED Style Show and Share. Please provide a brief overview of your teaching innovation. Max 400 words. Please use the following headings.

  • Describe the innovation & motivation behind it
  • Learning outcomes
  • How to implement it
  • Results

Please submit your proposal by 5pm, 15th of December. To apply, please fill in the ACERE Educators Forum Submission Form.

30-minute Interactive Session

In this session you would run a mock class. Please provide an overview of the lesson plan. Max 600 words. Please use the following headings:

  • Describe the innovation & motivation behind it.
  • Learning outcomes
  • How to implement it (lesson plan)
  • Results

Please submit your proposal by 5pm, 15th of December. To apply, please fill in the ACERE Educators Forum Submission Form.

Educators Forum Conveners

  • Lance Newey, The University of Queensland
  • Anna Jenkins, The University of Queensland
  • Martin Bliemel, University Technology Sydney
  • Julienne Senyard, Griffith University

Filed Under: General

ACERE 2023

Key Dates

Activities:

Doctoral Consortium: 6 February 2023

Paper Development Workshops: 7 February 2023

Educators Forum: 7 February 2023

Industry Forum: 10 February 2023

Main Conference: 8-10 February 2023

Social Events:

Welcome Reception: 7 February 2023

Social Event: 8 February 2023

Awards Night: 9 February 2023

Submission and Deadlines:

Full paper submission deadline for the conference: 30 November 2022

Educators Forum submission deadline: 7 December 2022

Application for the Doctoral Consortium: 15 December 2022

Registration early bird prices: 15 December 2022

PDWs submission deadline: 3 January 2023

Testimonials

As a first-time participant and a new doctoral student just 6 months in, the conference has been extremely useful for me in terms of my own personal learning and in meeting new, liked-minded individuals. I would definitely encourage more of my friends to apply the conference in the future.

Thomas Ding

As a first-time participant and a new doctoral student just 6 months in, the conference has been extremely useful for me in terms of my own personal learning and in meeting new, liked-minded individuals. I would definitely encourage more of my friends to apply the conference in the future.

The ACERE conference was extremely well organized. Communication, planning and execution; it all works perfectly. High academic standard, very skilled participants, nice presentations, interesting topics and discussions, as well as relevant key-notes and a nice atmosphere. A truly great conference.

Martin Senderovitz

A fantastic conference. Quality of papers and quality of feedback provided is of a high standard. The key notes were superb. The size of the conference supports a real community feeling amongst the participants.

Jillian Gordon

I have been in touch with ACERE for more than ten years. This is a great venue for young scholars to learn from each other and a great opportunity to closely interact with top scholars in the field of entrepreneurship research. I deeply appreciate the efforts of the organizing team in initiating a great learning environment among participants. Doctoral consortium, pitching, and paper development session are the examples of those initiatives.

Thanaphol Virasa

The 2018 ACERE conference was my first visit and I came for the conference from Pakistan. I found the conference very productive and interactive. It gives an excellent platform to new researchers to discuss their research with outstanding academic scholars

Dr. Noor Muhammad

I would like to congratulate you for the wonderful ACERE Conference you organised in Brisbane this year – 2018. I was happy to participate in such great event! – Thank you

Christian Felzensztein
PhD

‘I just wanted to let you know that ACERE was the best conference I’ve ever attended. Fantastic people, fantastic food, fantastic location(s), fantastic events, and on and on. This was my first time to Australia and I’m completely smitten. In sum, thanks for an amazing experience and I hope to be a life-long attendee moving forward!’

David Gras
University of Tennessee

Great conference and wonderful event!

Patricia McDougall-Covin
Indiana University

Thank you so much for this very well organized and high quality conference.

Charlott Menke
Otto-von-Guerick Universitat

I really enjoyed DC and main conference. It was really a wonderful experience for me.

Linh T. Nguyen
University of NSW

I wanted to thank you and congratulate you on the format and quality of the conference. I had the chance for one my papers to be included in the PDS session, and I believe it has truly been helpful. The initial as well as PDS reviews were of high quality, and the exchanges during the session itself, outstanding. I hope you will re-conduct this format in the future!

Virginie Vial
Kedge Business School

Thank you for setting such a supportive and developmental tone both for the doctoral consortium and for the whole ACERE conference. I haven’t been to too many conferences, but I’ve been to enough to know that ACERE offers a unique and golden opportunity for doctoral candidates and early career researchers to learn from some of the best in the field about how to improve and position our research.

Thanks again for providing our research community with such an inviting and generous conference.

Lene Foss
Professor
The Arctic University of Norway

As a practitioner, I thorougly enjoyed the 2014 ACERE conference in Sydney.  Unlike the other BIG entrepreneurship conferences that I have attended, ACERE covers many of the important issues and topics in entrepreneurship research and also provides a rich practitioner and policy perspective. More importantly the ACERE conference team were entrepreneurial in their thinking- they knew the needs of their customers, the participants, quite intimately and provided an awesome customer service. The conference was the “right size” which facilitates excellent networking opportunities not only for researchers, but also for students, practitioners and policy makers. I plan to be back!

Dr. Suresh Kumar
Founder and CEO
NexAge Technologies USA Inc/Green Earth LLC and Game Changers LLC

I gained a great deal from this session, particularly the need to properly frame the paper (and any paper), and ways to link my research to the theory. In addition, the discussion helped me to work out a “template” that I can apply to a number of research ideas that I have vaguely been thinking about. This was a really valuable session for me, and it helped me to finish the conference on a very high note.

Peter Balan
University, South Australia

I really enjoyed the conference – it is great value, something that you cannot say of many conferences.

Martie-Louise Verreynne
University, Queensland

As a first year PhD, I had no idea how invaluable it would be to learn from others, gain insight into the research process, gain valuable feedback, and network in a very supportive environment. I’m so glad that I came and hope to see you next year. Well done on hosting a great event.

Erin Castellas
Monash University

Thank you for hosting a very successful and enjoyable conference. I am looking forward to build my career and network by taking part in the future activities of ACE.

Saskia de Klerk
University, New South Wales

Thanks for organising the ACERE conference. It was a great success. On the whole there was a lot of value in meeting and discussing projects etc.

Jeremy Zwiegelaar
Massey University

“It was a fantastic conference!”

Lene Foss
Professor
Tromsø University Business School

I’d just like to thank you again for the great conference – We learnt so much from all the different sessions, the experts and it was great to be able to get personal feedback.

Retha Scheepers
University, the Sunshine Coast

Thanks for such a great conference!

Morgan P. Miles
Professor
University

Thank you for providing doctoral students like me a wonderful opportunity to showcase their work and ideas as well as get invaluable insights into academia and research through the sessions and interactions. I found the Doctoral Consortium and the PDW especially helpful. The first one provided me good feedback on my work and the PDW really helped me in understanding how a paper had to be structured and how Editors looked at one.

Vidhula Venugopal
Doctoral Candidate
Indian Institute

It was amazing how much mentorship was embedded into the consortium and conference. I truly do believe that I gained tremendous value from attending the conference. Thank you all so much for sharing.

Sharon Simmons
PhD Candidate
Syracuse University USA

The ACERE/Diana conference was fabulous!

Roxanne Zolin
Associate Professor
QUT Business School

I particularly enjoyed the PhD Consortium

PhD Candidate

This was my first time at the Acere conference, and I was impressed. A small group of highly engaged scholars. Well organized, multi-track meetings that ran on schedule. Fun social evenings. Topped off by a highly valued Paper Development Workshop that provided wonderful feedback. Well worth the long trip to Western Australia!

Brian King
PhD, Professor - HEC Montréal

Thank you once again for the superb organization of the conference. It was a very enriching and enjoyable experience.

Tatiana S. Manolova
Associate Professor
Bentley University

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