Techfugees Australia was one of the first “chapter” to start activities after the Techfugees inaugural conference and hackathon in London in 2015. Several cities got involved, including Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. A team of volunteers is currently active in Adelaide.
News
Read all the Techugees’ news here
Agenda
Take a look at the Techfugees global calendar here
2020, February 10th: Techfugees Adelaide – Strategic Planning meetup
2019, December 9th: Techfugees Adelaide Meetup
2019, June 20th: World Refugee Day Sydney Meetup
2018, November 24th-25th: Techfugees Sydney Hackathon in Blacktown 2018
2018, July 11th: Techfugees Australia workshop
2018, June 20th: Techfugees Australia World Refugee Day meet-up
2017, May 26th>28th: Techfugees Adelaide Hackathon
2017, May 4th: Techfugees Meetups Kickoff with TripAdvisor
2017, March 17th > 19th: TechfugeesBNE Hackathon
2016, November 5th-6th: Techfugees Australia Hackathon with Young People
2016, April 15th>17th: Techfugees Melbourne Hackathon
2015, November 28th-29th: Techfugees Sydney Hackathon: Finding tech solutions through the magic of collaboration
The Core Team
Techfugees Adelaide is currently led by:
Jeannine Malcolm, Adelaide – Australia
Jeannine has a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) from the University of Melbourne. Her career spans the highly regulated pharmaceutical and biotech sector as well as experience managing multi-million dollar capital projects in the wine industry. Jeannine has strengths in strategic planning, operations, process improvement, equipment and process validation and team management. Jeannine has been applying her interpersonal and organisational skills to the community services sector for the past few years but has always maintained a strong interest in innovation, technology and social entrepreneurship. Techfugees came to her via Twitter where soon after, she found herself organising the first Techfugees Hackathon in Adelaide, South Australia.
We would like to warmly thank Annie, Anne-Marie and Nicky for having run several hackathons and meetups across Australia since nearly day one.
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Stay in touch
Follow Techfugees Australia on Facebook, Twitter, Meetup and Eventbrite!
Press coverage
Take a look at Techfugees’ general press coverage
- The importance of Techfugees, John Westgarth Medium (June 2019)
- The refugee hackathon, ABC National Radio (April 2019)
- Hacky Place in the Collective Hub Magazine (September 2019)
- Techfugees Adelaide – in Aid of Refugees, Techsoup (July 2017)
- Techfugees Adelaide, The Awesome Foundation (May 2017)
- 5 Startups that nurture the entrepreneurial spirit of refugees, Collective Hub (September 2016)