Tech Frontiers is global platform connecting brands, creative agencies and investors with tech entrepreneurs and startups Our aim is to harness the creative community to create real and sustainable solutions for developing communities. Below are some key areas of the programme: Accelerator programme fast tracking development for startups, with mentoring from the world’s leading creatives and planner An investment fund working with early stage start-ups and social impact entrepreneurs A crowdsourcing model for social enterprise products and service A platform for startups to scale their products through global brand campaigns A hub and on-line directory for global incubators, accelerators, competitions and co-working space

2. A global platform connecting brands, creative agencies
and investors with tech entrepreneurs and startups
Hackathon and accelerator programmes fast tracking
development for startups, with mentoring from the
world’s leading creatives and planners
An investment fund working with early stage startups
A crowdsourcing model for social enterprises, products and services
A platform for startups to scale their products through
global brand campaigns
A hub and on-line directory for global incubators,
accelerators, competitions and co-working spaces
A place where creative campaigns and innovation
meets real & sustainable solutions
A commercial business model, with the values of a social
enterprise. 50% of Tech Frontiers activities will focus on social impact
// WHAT IS IT?

3. WE CELEBRATE AND EMBRACE
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES:
// Nanosensors and the internet of Nanothings
// Next generation batteries
// Blockchain
// Two dimensional materials
// Autonomous vehicles
// Organs-on-chips
// Perovskite Solar Cells
// Open Al Ecosystem
// Optogenetics
// Systems Metabolic Engineering
// CUTTING EDGE
OF TECHNOLOGY

4. // CREATIVE AGENCIES
& NETWORKS
KEY CHALLENGES:
Emerging technology and innovation is impacting
society on a scale never seen before
The Creative agency business model is being disrupted.
Agencies are becoming more product focused rather than
service providers
Brands are looking for great ideas and campaigns
that have innovation at their core
The global talent pool is diminishing - Millennials are more interested
in being a startup founder than an art director or copywriter
Many are questioning on whether the industry
needs to redefine it’s cool factor?
Creative leaders are looking to re-focus industry wastage
into working together towards a sustainable future!

5. // BRANDS HAVE
THE POWER TO
CHANGE THE WORLD
DOING GOOD BY DOING CREATIVE:
Addressing the worlds key issues through creativity
and innovation
Brand citizenship is a marketing function that drives
transactions at scale and creates advantages for
companies in the talent wars
Consumers care about social impact and
are engaging with brands that have a clear
social purpose
Consumers are willing to pay more for products and
services provided by companies that are committed
to positive social and environmental impact
Some of the more interesting technologies have
been deployed by large brands, rather than
startups!
We could achieve so much if our innovation &
marketing spend was applied to solving the world’s
most challenging issues!

6. // TECH FRONTIERS SOCIAL
ENTERPRISE FOCUS
It is estimated that 1 billion people live in
extreme poverty with health, education,
connectivity and infrastructure issues.
// HOW CAN
WE MAKE A
DIFFERENCE
Across the developing world, tech innovations are making a
significant impact on the lives and wellbeing of communities
Innovation is one of the key avenues by which individuals at the
base of the economic pyramid can be brought out of poverty.
It enables us to find solutions to urgent developmental
challenges such as providing access to drinking water,
eradicating diseases, or reducing hunger.
The explosive growth of mobile in developing countries
creates opportunities to drive innovation

7. // SOME KEY
AREAS OF FOCUS
// Water
// Health/Medical
// Education of women
// Coding in developing nations
// Sustainable energy
// Refugees

8. Creating funding opportunities for tech innovations that
can have real and sustainable outcomes for developing
communities?
Harnessing a global community to drive greater collaboration
between developing and developed countries.
Accelerating tech innovation and assisting developing
communities to be competitive in a tech-driven world!
// SOME KEY AIMS

9. // PARTNERS
WE ARE AN EARLY STAGE
STARTUP AND ARE LOOKING FOR
BRAND AND CREATIVIE AGENCY
PARTNERS TO HELP US SCALE

10. // ADVISORY BOARD

11. FOUNDER// PAULA TAYLOR
Paula is Executive Producer of the OzAPP
Awards & West Tech Fest, Regional Director for
D&AD across ANZ & SE Asia.

12. tfrontiers.com