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From design, fashion and visual art, to games, screen, or creative technology, ECU's Creative Entrepreneurs Bootcamp is a hands-on program for ECU alumni who are establishing or growing a sustainable business around creative practice, products or experiences.

Whether you are shaping a new idea, formalising an existing practice, testing a creative product or looking to grow your audience, this program will help you explore how to build a more sustainable creative enterprise.

PROGRAM DETAILS:

The Creative Entrepreneurs Bootcamp will be delivered by Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Dr Geremy Farr-Wharton with support from Creative Futures, School of Arts and Humanities and the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Dates: Tuesday 28 July - Thursday 30 July 2026
Times: 9:00am - 3:30pm each day culminating with a group reflection and celebration drinks til 4:30pm on the final day
Location: CreatorsLAB, ECU City

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These 60-minute sessions - led by student guild club Tone Deaf - give students and staff the opportunity to experiment with DJ'ing and digital music production or share new work they create whilst socialising with their peers.

Tone Deaf fosters a vibrant community for ECU students passionate about DJ'ing, electronic music, and event production. The group organise student-centered events such as rave parties, open-deck nights, and DJ showcases.

SESSION TIMES

• Thursday 16 July - 2:00pm - 4:00pm (2 x 1 hr sessions)
• Friday 31 July - 2:00pm - 4:00pm (2 x 1 hr sessions)

Register for one of these sessions here

Australia’s AI ecosystem is evolving rapidly, but some of the most exciting developments are happening closer to home, in startups, research labs, universities and innovation communities across Western Australia.

​Join ECU and SMEC AI for an evening exploring how foundational models, generative AI, and emerging technologies are enabling the next generation of innovation, entrepreneurship and research.

SESSION TIMES:

• Thursday, July 23 - 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

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Discover ECU's new innovation studio on one of our CreatorsLAB tours.

More than a room of technology, the CreatorsLAB is part of an ecosystem that connects ECU’s community with Perth’s growing creative and technology sectors, strengthens partnerships with global industry leaders, and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration.

Available to both ECU staff and students, tours will include a presentation on this exciting new asset; a walk-through of the space; and the opportunity to share ideas for future programming.

Upcoming Tours:

• Thursday 9 July - 12:30pm - 1:15pm
• Wednesday 22 July - 12:00pm - 12:45pm

Register for an upcoming session.

New York-based Looking Glass Factory are global leaders in holographic and light field display technologies.

In 2019, they launched the world’s first desktop holographic dev kit, then followed it up in 2020 with the Looking Glass Portrait, the first spatial display designed for 3D creators. In 2022, it announced the Looking Glass 65”, the world’s largest holographic display, then in 2023 it debuted the first holographic display built on Spatial OLED technology.

In 2025, Looking Glass revealed its Hololuminescent™ Display (HLD), a fundamentally new type of holographic technology that combines 2D display layers with a 3D holographic volume. The Creative Futures team acquired one of the first of these displays in Australia which is now proudly installed in the CreatorsLAB, ECU's new creative innovation studio, at ECU City.

Join the team live from New York in the CreatorsLAB to discover the opportunities this exciting technology presents to creatives, academics, product developers, architects, advertisers, and so many more whilst getting the opportunity to interact with the new 27” Hololuminescent™ Display (HLD).

REGISTRATION OPTIONS

In-person: Click here to register one of the 40 places available for this event in the CreatorsLAB

Online: Click here to attend the event online

SESSION TIME:

• Friday 24 July 9:00am-10:00am AWST

Watch what happens when diverse minds come together to create MAGIC!

This fun, high-energy workshop helps ECU students and staff learn how to collaborate in cross-disciplinary teams to develop early-stage ideas with creative, practical, social or cultural potential.

Working in small teams, participants will explore new opportunities, consider who will be impacted by that opportunity being realised, what form it could take, and how it could begin to evolve.

The session concludes with each team pitching their concept to the group using the infamous Gaddie structure whilst discovering more about how the CreatorsLAB can take your idea to the next level.

SESSION TIMES:

• Tuesday 21 July - 11:00am - 12:30pm

Register to attend an upcoming session.