fellow sydney cider at that so it's great to have a another great accent in boston so nathan do you want to provide a little bit of info about yourself

sure thank you and thank you everyone for having me as well i think the australian contingent in boston is running strong now and i think that's like a big role in getting the the invitation from james but as james mentioned gotten to know him through his involvement in venture cafe and cambridge innovation center my role is co-executive director of venture cafe global institute despite its name we don't actually serve coffee but it's named after the concept of a coffee house because venture cafes runs physical hubs is a place where people interested in innovation, entrepreneurship, and those looking to build and grow a venture can come together, can identify the right kinds of resources, education, knowledge, as well as connections to further their initiatives.

And so we've been doing this now for 15 years.

Today, we operate in 16 cities around the world.

We spun out of an organization called Cambridge Innovation Center, which James mentioned before.

And for those who are unfamiliar with Cambridge Innovation Center or CIC, they were really one of the first globally doing this concept of creating physical spaces and co-locating a high density of startups, investors, people in really deep tech research fields.

So where I'm sitting today, between this building and the next building there's around 900 companies that are based here most of them are startups most of them in the deep tech space as well being boston but obviously we run hubs all around the world some notable companies that came out of here included google android that started here and grew and the final thing i'll say is venture cafes programs are diverse so Yes, we have startups.

Yeah.

So Nathan, do you wanna provide a little bit of info about yourself?

Sure.

Thank you.

And thank you everyone for having me as well.

I think the Australian, uh, contingent in Boston is running strong now, and I think that's played a big role in getting the, the invitation from James.

But as James mentioned, gotten to know him through his involvement in Venture Café and Cambridge Innovation Center.

My role is co-executive director of Venture Café Global Institute.

They're probably getting ten percent of the power of it.