North West Innovation Workshop Series
Are you an aspiring entrepreneur, or curious about innovation & entrepreneurship, and interested in upskilling on creativity tools and techniques?
Catalyst are launching a ‘NW Innovation Workshop Series’ in Derry~Londonderry in October 2023, aimed at aspiring entrepreneurs in the NW region that are looking to take the first steps towards creating a successful innovation/explore a specific business challenge, or for anyone that’s interested in upskilling in innovation and creativity methods and Design Thinking.
The series is free of charge, open to anyone in the NW over the age of 18 and will consist of in-person half-day workshops.
The first two workshops will run at a central location in Derry~Londonderry on 24th October and 7th November 2023.
Discover your Innovation Opportunity – Searching for the right problem, and framing it as an innovation opportunity.
Workshop 1
Insight gathering to road-test your Innovation Opportunity’ – How to gather insights from the broader landscape, designing customer research and talking to users, making sense of the information.
Workshop 2
Creating Actionable Start-Up Solutions –
A Deep Dive into Ideation and Prototyping to create meaningful innovation-led solutions.
Delivered in 2024.
Workshop 3
This is open to anyone over the age of 18 who is based in the NW (Derry City, Co. Derry, Co. Donegal, Tyrone), any educational level or employment status.
Register your interest for the workshop series or an individual workshop below.
Workshop 1
Discover your innovation opportunity
A practical, hands-on and collaborative half-day workshop, where you will learn skills and techniques around how to explore and define a critical problem/ challenge and reframe as an innovation opportunity; and how your own experience contributes to this.
Date: Tuesday 24th October
Location: Derry/Londonderry central location (exact location to follow)
Time: 9.30am – 1.30pm (lunch will be provided)
Insight gathering & roadtesting your opportunity
Workshop 2
A half-day, collaborative workshop on how to validate your innovation opportunity in the real world. Learn how to do a deep dive on researching your chosen challenge area, as well as using empathy to design and run interviews with potential customers.
How to make sense of the data and turn into actionable insights.
Date: Tuesday 7th November
Location: Derry/Londonderry central location (exact location to follow)
Time: 12pm – 4pm (lunch will be provided)