| 1 April 2022| TechCamp Day 1 | |
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| Morning | Organizers’ meeting and venue walkthrough |
| 14:00 | Trainers meeting |
| 15:00 | Optional: Tour of Mack |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Walk to location (Flow CoWorking) + Registration |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Welcome Remarks - Lydia Snyder U.S. Embassy |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | What is TechCamp - Jessica and Sam |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Open Expo of local businesses + Flow Coworking 1. Flow CoWorking 2. DryTech 3. Norwegian Energy 4. Mack 5. KSAT |
| 18:00 - 18:45 | Dinner |
| 18:45 - 20:00 | What’s Your Challenge? Brainstorming Groups Pick a topic below and work as a group to brainstorm/discuss challenges in the field: 1. Climate change and environmental sustainability 2. Creating community and networks 3. Maritime businesses (fishing, marine, seaweed, etc.) 4. Creating technological solutions |
| 20:30 | Optional: We have booked tables at Ølhallen, Storgata 4. Here you can buy local produced beer |
| 2 April 2022| TechCamp Day 2 | |
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| 08:30 - 09:00 | Travel to SIVA and registration |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Design Thinking Plenary - Tomas Rakos |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Speed-geeking - Jessica and Sam |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Refreshments break |
| 11:15 - 13:15 | Interactive Training Session 1 |
| Interactive Training Session Topics | Trainers |
| 1. Participatory Planning | Tomas Rakos |
| 2. Starting and Scaling Your (Future) Business - The workshop is about personal and business development, ecosystems, business success and failure. Of course, we will look at the important entrepreneurial competences and your Ikigai! | Josette Dijkhuizen |
| 3. 10 Strategies to Building and Cultivating Successful Partnerships- These sessions will discuss the importance of building and cultivating local and global partnerships to successfully grow and solidify your business in its specific sector. Participants will acquire 10 proven success strategies that can be immediately implemented. | Hermence Matsotsa |
| 4. Bridging the gap: funding the early stages of your start-up - These sessions will focus on the role of financing in the earliest stages of your start-up journey. We will cover the most central sources of funding for early stage companies and discuss the main benefits and potential drawbacks to be aware of with each financing strategy. | Knut Nielsen |
| 5. The Networking and Personal Branding Map - Together we will discover the steps that lead to a successful network building and we will identify the tips and tricks to build a strong personal brand! | Melina Taprantzi |
| 6. How to Create Profit by Working with Sustainability | Arild Aspelund |
| 7. Pitching an Idea - Learn, Discuss, and practice giving your perfect pitch | David Hobbs |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | Lunch |
| 14:15 - 16:15 | Interactive Training Session 2 Choose second topic from the table above |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Coffee/Tea Break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Challenge Statement Brief |
| 17:00 - 18:15 | Challenge Statement Development Participants will go back to their brainstorming groups and narrow down top challenges to develop an actionable/tangible challenge statement |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | End of Day Announcements |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Dinner |
| 19:30 - 20:30 | Socializing and game |
| 20:30 | Transportation to hotel |
| 3 April 2022| TechCamp Day 3 | |
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| 08:30 - 09:00 | Registration and travel to SIVA |
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Morning Announcements |
| 09:10 - 09:30 | Challenge Statement Read-out and Project Groups Form One representative from each group will share what challenge statement they came up with and why it’s important |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | 1 on 1 Mentor sign up/Mapping Out a Solution Challenge statement teams work together to map out a solution to their challenge |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Continue working on solutions and presentations |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch + certificate |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Continue working on solutions and presentations |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Presentations |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Follow-on Announcement/Survey - Jessica and Sam |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Closing Remarks and Certificates |
| 16:15 | Departure SIVA |