The Foundations.
The Hot House
Strong startups are built on powerful connections.
The Hot House is a full-day event designed to help you expand your network, build confidence in collaboration, and learn how to bring the right people together for startup success. It’s about strengthening your ability to connect, communicate, and co-build effectively.
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Anyone looking to grow their startup network, develop skills to work better with others, and learn how to connect with the right people at the right time.
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Saturday 11th October at 10am-4pm
Catalyst, Titanic Quarter, Belfast
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Your choice! Continue refining your idea with the knowledge you’ve now gained. Or you can apply to more Co-builders activities, from Disciplined Entrepreneurship or The Toolkit!
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Stronger networking confidence
Improved communication and collaboration skills
Practical understanding of how to build effective teams
Valuable new connections to support your startup journey
AI Hackathons
Hackathons bring people together to explore AI, create solutions, and push ideas forward. It’s a powerful way to test yourself, grow your skills, and meet people who can help shape your startup journey.
Every breakthrough starts with an experiment.
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Anyone curious about AI and keen to explore generative tools, solve problems, and build new skills.
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Check back!
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Your choice! Continue refining your idea with the knowledge you’ve now gained. Or you can apply to more Co-builders activities, from the Hot House to Block 2 – Disciplined Entrepreneurship!
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Practical AI skills
Confidence using generative AI
Stronger ideation abilities
New connections and potential team formation
Improved presentation skills
The Ideas Bootcamp is a full-day workshop that helps you shape and strengthen your ideas. Whether you are starting with a problem area or an early concept, you will refine, test, and explore its real potential through hands-on activities.
The Ideas Bootcamp
Turn problems into possibilities.
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Anyone with a problem area or idea they want to explore further. You don’t need to arrive with polished plans, just curiosity, openness, and a willingness to collaborate.
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Saturday 27th September at 10am-4pm
Catalyst, Titanic Quarter, Belfast
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Your choice! Continue refining your idea with the knowledge you’ve now gained. Or you can apply to more Co-builders activities, from the Hot House to Block 2 – Disciplined Entrepreneurship!
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Defined your problem area
Generated and explored new solutions
Learned how to use PMR to validate your ideas
