Sir Graeme Avery, will be one of the judges at Hawke's Bay's inaugural Startup Weekend. Photo / Paul Taylor
Experienced business leaders are the judges at Hawke's Bay's inaugural Startup Weekend, beginning Friday.
The three-day event will be held at the EIT campus in Taradale, where people with technology-related ideas can pitch their concepts, form teams, build prototypes, be judged, and may even find funding to launch their company.
Judges are Sir Graeme Avery, Suse Reynolds and Michaela Vodanovich.
Sir Graeme owns Sileni Estates and spent 33 years with global publishing business Adis International. Fourteen years ago he founded Hawke's Bay Wine Country Tourism Association and Hawke's Bay Food Group, kicking off the highly successful Farmers Market movement in New Zealand.
Ms Reynolds is the founder of Angel HQ, the Wellington region's angel network. She was formerly the chief operating officer and investment general manager at Grow Wellington.
