Events

    Past MID events

    • May 1, 2017 — May 7, 2017

      Melbourne Knowledge Week 2017

      Melbourne Knowledge Week is a week-long festival that melds art, technology, business and science to explore and co-create our future city. Over 90 new wave events have been designed to…

    • May 2, 2017 — May 6, 2017

      Urban Ideas Playground

      Join a playground of urban ideas to be part of a week of thought provoking discussions with local experts, exploring bright ideas through playful making sessions that bring your ideas…

    • May 3, 2017

      Melbourne Knowledge Week Rescue Dinner

      Tuck into one of the world’s biggest growing concerns – food insecurity. Some of Melbourne’s most celebrated chefs will use rescued food (safe food about to be discarded) at this…

    • May 6, 2017 — August 7, 2017

      Creating Well Beings: Night Hack at the Museum

      Creating Well-Beings: Night Hack at Melbourne Museum is an all-night hackathon at Melbourne Museum to develop ideas that improve visitors’ health and wellbeing as part of an upcoming exhibition about…

    • June 13, 2017

      Innovation District Student Showcase

      This event brings together students from across RMIT and the University of Melbourne to share their work imagining the future of an innovation district in the CBD North. Students and…

    • August 16, 2017

      MID partnership launch

      We are delighted to invite you to join the City of Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, RMIT Vice-Chancellor Martin Bean and University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis for the launch…

    • August 22, 2017

      Energy Infrastructure Innovation: The Land Art Generator Initiative Public Lecture

      The great energy transition will have an impact on our built environment and our visual landscape like no other technical shift since the automobile. Our cities and countrysides will look…

    • September 20, 2017

      #CelebrateRMIT

      Celebrate RMIT, is a street party acknowledging the 130th Founders Day anniversary, the completion of the New Academic Street Project and the emergence of the Melbourne Innovation District. Head to…

    • September 20, 2017

      Melbourne Conversations – Inner city innovation in a nutshell

      The northside of the CBD is already a hub of education, research, business, culture and community. But now one of the oldest and best-loved parts of our city is starting…

    • November 1, 2017 — November 30, 2017

      Raising The Bar 2017

      Raising the Bar Melbourne is part of a global initiative from a social start-up with a goal of bringing intellectual content to the public via bar talks from experts in…

    • November 29, 2017

      Innovation Impact Hackathon – Less waste, better space

      RMIT Activator and the Melbourne Innovation Districts team invite you to experience our first collaboration, shaping the future of Queen Victoria Market with your chance to win prizes worth over…

    • May 8, 2018

      MKW18 City Shaping Symposium

      In a world of accelerating change, how can we shape a city that works for everyone? We need to talk about Melbourne. The digital revolution is rewiring our economy, our…