HackFood Launch Party!
Details
FoodTechAus (http://www.foodtechaus.com) will be holding a HackFood (http://www.hackfood.com.au) pre-hackathon launch event on Thursday 15 Oct. We'll be "whetting your palate" with an industry panel focusing on food, tech and the digital space at Fishburners Sydney (http://www.fishburners.org).
The panel will feature dynamic conversation with cutting edge industry professionals within food tech. There will be time for audience Q&A. During the event we will also set the purpose and briefing for the hackathon.
Our featured panelists (bios below):
Ani Green and Chris Burrell, founders / admins, Fatties Burger Appreciation Society (https://www.facebook.com/groups/513077892146229/)
Alexandra Iljadica, Founding Director, Youth Food Movement Australia (http://www.youthfoodmovement.org.au/)
Dave Malcolm, Co-Founder and CEO, Marley Spoon (http://www.marleyspoon.com.au)
Panel moderated by Liz Kaelin, Co-Founder and CEO, You Chews (http://www.youchews.com), Co-Founder, Food Tech Aus (http://www.foodtechaus.com), Co-Founder, HackFood (http://www.hackfood.com.au)
Space is strictly limited so please be sure to RSVP via the Meetup page.
Look forward to seeing you all there!
CHRIS BURRELL, FATTIES BURGER APPRECIATION SOCIETY FACEBOOK GROUP
Chris has been an admin on Fatties for over a year, from a stage when it was still a small group of under 1000 members. Having 20 years experience in sales, marketing and management, he has worked with the Fatties team to help create a balanced community through creating guidelines and standards. He has also worked closely with several of the Business owner members of the group to provide them an understanding on how best to leverage the page.
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ANI GREEN, FATTIES BURGER APPRECIATION SOCIETY FACEBOOK GROUP
In March 2014 two friends showed Ani Green a list of 10 burger joints to try in a year long burger crawl, and she added to the list. A self proclaimed Facebook addict, she created the group the "Fatties Burger Appreciation Society" with her husband Brendon, so each person could review the burgers they tried, as they all couldn't be on the burger crawl at the same time. The group organically grew, starting off with friends joining, and catching on from there. Ani assisted with creating the Fatties brand, enlisting the help of fellow members to create the logo, teaming up with burger shops to create deals for the members, co-organising the 1st Birthday Party for Sydney burger institution Pub Life Kitchen and administrating the day to day running of the group. Ani works full time as a fraud product and analytics manager. She has a 5 year old daughter who started school this year, and is trying to get a good "burg-life" balance.
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ALEXANDRA ILJADICA, FOUNDING DIRECTOR, YOUTH FOOD MOVEMENT AUSTRALIA
Alex is the co-founder of the Youth Food Movement (YFM). YFM is a national volunteer-led organisation that aims to build the skills, knowledge and experiences that young people have around food.
Today, YFM has 4 local YFM chapters – Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and a uni chapter at Western Sydney University. Since YFM’s birth four years ago it has created and run 36 different food projects and have reached over 16K people across Australia – mostly on volunteer time. YFM estimate that its volunteers have spent a combined 32,000 hours working toward YFM’s vision of a heathy food future. Alexandra believes that realising this future through food projects it is entirely possible, but that it is up to us (young people) take the lead creating this change.
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DAVE MALCOLM, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, MARLEY SPOON AUSTRALIA
Dave Malcolm has a long history in the digital and marketing space across Europe and Australia. During his time as Head of Marketing & PR at Rockstar Games, Dave's affinity for technology and marketing were cemented and led to a clear focus on business design and process.
Using his experience in technology and entrepreneurial flair, Dave's input has seen Marley Spoon launch with an aggressive pace in Australia. After successfully launching in the USA, UK, Germany, and The Netherlands, Marley Spoon brings market-fresh cooking back to the people - with the added bonus of choice, made possible through the technological innovation behind the service.
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LIZ KAELIN, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, YOU CHEWS
Liz Kaelin is a dietitian and foodie-turned-founder of You Chews (http://www.youchews.com/), an online platform making it easy to find great food for meetings and events. She has previously worked for the World Health Organisation, Harvard University, and Fortune 500 food companies such as Nestle. Liz is an instructor for General Assembly and a startup mentor for Pollenizer (http://www.pollenizer.com/), FashHack, UTS Project Pitch, the Lean Startup Machine, Telstra's Imaginarium, the Australian School for Social Entrepreneurs, and INCUBATE (the University of Sydney’s startup incubator). She is a muru-D (https://muru-d.com/) class#2 alumni, a portfolio CEO of Heads over Heels (http://www.headsoverheels.com.au/), a Telstra Women in Business spokesperson and was recently named one of Australia’s Top 50 Female Entrepreneurs under 40 (http://www.startupdaily.net/2014/02/top-50-australian-female-entrepreneurs-under-40/). Liz is also the co-founder of FoodTechAus (http://www.foodtechaus.com) and of HackFood (http://www.hackfood.com.au/), Australia’s 1st Food Tech Hackathon.
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