Idea Workshop: Business Experiments
Are you tinkering away on a new product or service? Understand your customer, product and market to build smarter and go faster.

Great solutions need evidence to grow. Learn how to design and run experiments that validate your ideas and demonstrate their real-world impact.
In this practical workshop, you'll master the tools and processes to test your ideas effectively and share your progress. You'll learn how to:
- Design and plan meaningful first steps to validate your solution
- Identify and engage early adopters who can provide valuable feedback
- Share your progress and needs with people who can help your idea grow
- Create simple experiments to test your key assumptions
Perfect for people who want to turn ideas into tested solutions, whether you're looking to develop your idea further through the I2N Pre-Accelerator or simply want to strengthen your experimental approach to problem-solving. This workshop will give you practical tools to validate your ideas and demonstrate their potential for impact.
Join us for our Idea Workshop series - choose individual sessions that interest you or attend the complete series for a comprehensive foundation in idea validation:
- 25 Feb - Jobs to be Done
- 6 Mar - Value Proposition Design
- 13 Mar - Ecosystem Mapping
📅 Order of Proceedings
4:00PM - Doors open
4:10PM - Housekeeping and introduction
4:15PM - Workshop theory
4:45PM - Practical session
5:45PM - Workshop Q&A
6:00PM - Workshop concludes
✨ What is the I2N Pre-Accelerator?
I2N Pre-Accelerator is for ambitious tech founders headquartered in the Hunter and Central Coast regions. If you've been tinkering away on a new product or service, our program will help to validate your customer and business model and get you ready for your next phase of growth.
Full program info at www.newcastle.edu.au/pre-accelerator
🚀 What is I2N?
The University of Newcastle's Integrated Innovation Network (I2N) is making the Hunter Region Australia's best ecosystem for startups. By harnessing our region's unique resources and network of innovation hubs, we empower the most promising innovators and entrepreneurs to transform their ideas into high-impact, sustainable global businesses. Through our enterprise skill-building programs and dedicated spaces, I2N is creating the foundation for startups to thrive and driving economic diversity across our region.
🙌 Thank you to our program partners