Showcase your innovation to the NRL!
Calling all innovative Queensland-based businesses! This is your chance to shine in front of key NRL Executives and Magic Round stakeholders in Brisbane on 17 May 2024.
In collaboration with the National Rugby League (NRL), Advance Queensland is excited to offer a unique opportunity for up to 20 local businesses to showcase their groundbreaking products and solutions to key decision-makers from the NRL, clubs, stakeholders, and major sporting organisations across Queensland.
Why participate?
- Unprecedented exposure: Gain visibility among top executives and influencers within the NRL and sporting industry.
- Access to decision-makers: Connect directly with NRL decision-makers, clubs, and stakeholders to pitch your innovative solutions.
- Showcase your impact: Highlight how your products can revolutionize fan engagement, event operations, athlete performance, data management, and more.
- Endless possibilities: Whether it's enhancing fan experiences, optimising event operations, or supporting athlete performance, the possibilities are limitless.
What we're looking for
We're seeking expressions of interest (EOIs) from businesses with innovative solutions in areas such as:
- innovative fan engagement and fan experience enhancement
- event operations and broadcasting optimisation
- health and wellness technologies for athlete performance improvement
- cutting-edge business data solutions for customer engagement and performance
- any other technology solutions that can elevate the NRL's product offerings and sponsorship value
- venue operations and management – including ticketing, food and beverage, field/facilities management.
Think Big!
Consider how your solution could support the NRL's expansion into new markets like the United States, or how drone use and visual data analytics could revolutionise coaching strategies. Imagine using AI and machine learning to predict fan engagement levels in real-time, both in-stadium and at home. The potential for innovation is boundless!
Beyond NRL
Don't miss out on the opportunity to showcase your innovations and ideas for pivoting your technologies to the NRL and to other professional sporting organisations and major events seeking innovative tech solutions. Your innovation could transform the landscape both on and off the field!
Funding and support
If chosen, the applicant Queensland business will need to:
- make themselves available on Friday 17 May from 12–4pm for the showcase
- make themselves available to be coached on what to pitch.
A small funding pool is available to assist selected regional applicants to attend the event.
Eligibility
To be eligible to submit an EOI you must:
- be a business, social enterprise or start-up organisation and/or ecosystem builder headquartered in Queensland as of April 2024
- have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- have no more than 200 full-time-equivalent employees
- not be a subsidiary of a group of companies that has more than 200 FTEs in total
- only one (1) application per ABN or a financial beneficiary of a business.
How to apply
Expressions of Interest have now closed.
Successful applications will be notified by Tuesday 30 April 2024.
Contact the Advance Queensland partnerships team on partnerships@dtis.qld.gov.au for any queries.
