**Meetups for Rebels of all kinds — to connect, learn and share**
This is a Social Networking event with a Fireside Chat with [Jess Rowlings](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jess-rowlings/), CoFounder of Next Level Collaboration, a Neurodivergent-led social enterprise in gaming and education.

📍 This Event is hosted at Natural Velocity AI Learning Centre, Docklands,
🍕 Free Pizza & drinks will be provided

**Agenda:**

* 5:45 - 6:30 PM (45 mins) - Get to know each other & Welcome
* 6:30 - 7:20 PM (50 mins) - Fireside Chat & Q&A from Audience
* 7:20 - 8:15 PM (55 mins) - More Social Networking

There’s no dress code, no hard sales pitches, and no pressure — just great people and meaningful conversations 🙂

🌍 Est. 2013 – Rebel Meetups now run globally
🆓 This event is free thanks to our members, our partners, our volunteer hosts, and generous venues.

**This event is hosted at [Natural Velocity AI Learning Centre](https://www.linkedin.com/company/natural-velocity/ "https://www.linkedin.com/company/natural-velocity/")** **— a venue generously supporting our community**
Notice: We will be capturing content from the event, to post on our socials.

See you there!

**Directions Help:**
Up the Escalator, between 'Melbourne College of Hair & Beauty' and 'Gap Maps'. As shown in the red dots in the image below:
[Directions Map](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fkcpXvzZrEs0kKMPEI_vXbUCz7OEPTzf/view?usp=sharing)

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Jess Rowlings bio:
Jess Rowlings is a qualified speech and language pathologist and co-founder/CEO of Next Level Collaboration, a social enterprise that runs strength-based programs to support neurodivergent children in developing collaborative skills and social connection through cooperative video games. She is proudly the first openly neurodivergent (AuDHD) CEO from a University of Melbourne spinout, and led the application for the first successful Genesis Pre-Seed Fund investment in a social enterprise (University of Melbourne/Breakthrough Victoria). As the leader of Next Level Collaboration, she leads a team of 15 neurodivergent staff across a growing portfolio of programs. Jess also serves as an Honorary Enterprise Fellow and researcher at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Education. 




She specialises in the design and analysis of video game-based intervention to build social capacity in neurodivergent children. This includes contracts with industry, government and non-government organisations in harnessing the affordances of digital games-based learning to promote inclusion and a sense of belonging. Her work has included developing and running a dedicated Minecraft server to support neurodivergent girls and women. Informed by her lived experience of receiving autism and ADHD diagnoses as an adult as well as her lifelong love of games, Jess is also completing her PhD investigating the experiences of neurodivergent women in gaming communities.

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Startup Networking⚡Fireside Chat w/ Jess Rowlings (Founder in Gaming & Education

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