Student Entrepreneurs

Startup Camp 2010 invited 30 university students to spend a weekend this month, locked in a room, to create six new web-based businesses in 48 hours. Participants included a mixture of coders, business “geeks” and graphic designers from the University of Melbourne, RMIT, Monash University and Swinburn University. The event began with participants brainstorming ideas [...]

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Alice Boxhall, a Google Software Engineer will present,
Your Logo Here: A look at the technologies used in building a single Google product.

Google’s “Sponsored Map Icons”, developed entirely in Sydney, allows advertisers to show branded logos on Google Maps. In this talk, Alice will discuss the Google technologies used to build this product, including MapReduce, Google File System, Google App Engine, and others.

For our second talk – Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web.

Come and find out if your business idea on the back of a napkin is flying you to Sydney! This is your lifetime opportunity to engage with local entrepreneurs, business people and visit innovative environments including the Googleplex (plus more)

If you haven’t submitted yet, remember the deadline is Wednesday 7th April.

Click here to submit your idea!

Date: Friday 16th April
Time: 2.15 – 3.15pm