Event Schedule
Friday, February 27, 2026
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Journey to the Genesis Residency (Group Departure)
The journey begins! Meet the crew at our Melbourne CBD meeting point and hop on the buses as we kick off Genesis together. New faces, first conversations, and the start of an unforgettable weekend — all before we even arrive.
Station st trading co (cafe)
Bus pick up address: 11:20 for 11:30am departure. 107 Raglan St, Port Melbourne VIC 3207 (railyway club hotel)Meeting point: 11am at 166 Station St, Port Melbourne VIC 3207 (cafe for coffee!)
Residency Check-In
Guests are welcomed into their luxury shared houses, complete with cosy spaces, modern comforts, and everything you need to feel at home. Meet your housemates, explore your new environment, and settle into the space where your week’s journey begins.
Residency Check-In
Guests are welcomed into their luxury shared houses, complete with cosy spaces, modern comforts, and everything you need to feel at home. Meet your housemates, explore your new environment, and settle into the space where your week’s journey begins.
Residency Check-In
Guests are welcomed into their luxury shared houses, complete with cosy spaces, modern comforts, and everything you need to feel at home. Meet your housemates, explore your new environment, and settle into the space where your week’s journey begins.
Lunch & Leisure
A restorative midday pause designed to nourish both body and mind.
Lunch & Leisure with special Guest Simon Wright (Intervalley Ventures)
A restorative midday pause designed to nourish both body and mind.
Lunch & Leisure
A restorative midday pause designed to nourish both body and mind.
House Kick-Off & Goal Setting
A curated house meeting where residents come together to define personal and collective goals, establish expectations, and shape a supportive, growth-focused environment. This intentional session anchors the house’s journey and elevates the residency experience from the very first day.
House Kick-Off & Goal Setting
A curated house meeting where residents come together to define personal and collective goals, establish expectations, and shape a supportive, growth-focused environment. This intentional session anchors the house’s journey and elevates the residency experience from the very first day.
House Kick-Off & Goal Setting
A curated house meeting where residents come together to define personal and collective goals, establish expectations, and shape a supportive, growth-focused environment. This intentional session anchors the house’s journey and elevates the residency experience from the very first day.
House Kick-Off & Goal Setting
A curated house meeting where residents come together to define personal and collective goals, establish expectations, and shape a supportive, growth-focused environment. This intentional session anchors the house’s journey and elevates the residency experience from the very first day.
88 Doors
Instead of pitching or performing, residents are invited into structured, small-group conversations focused on one simple but powerful question: “Whose door can I help open?”
Somatic Practice & Nervous System Science Workshop
A calm, spacious wellness pause designed for gentle restoration. Residents can take this time to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with themselves, whether through journaling, breathwork, light stretching, or simply enjoying the soothing atmosphere of the house.
Prompt Engineering Foundations Deep Dive
A hands-on technical lab for founders, operators, builders and creatives who want to unlock the full power of AI. This workshop takes residents beyond basic prompting and into structured, high-performance frameworks that elevate productivity, creativity, and decision-making across their work.
Leads Without the Grind: Your First AI Marketing Workflow
Here we will walk through how AI marketing workflows work in the real world, share examples, and unpack how founders can think about automation in a way that’s sustainable and human.
Creative free time & Matching
Breath Work Session
The Breath Portal is a fast, embodied reset for founders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers. Your nervous system and health are your most valuable business assets – and in this workshop, breath becomes your access point to clarity, regulation, and sharper decision-making. Step out of mental overload and back into grounded focus, ready to lead, create, and move forward with intention.
Grants, R&DTI & Non-Dilutive Capital
A practical session unpacking how founders can access equity-free funding — including grants and the R&D Tax Incentive (R&DTI) — without derailing momentum or building for compliance instead of product.
Genesis Hackathon: Rapid Innovation Sprint + Claude Code Deep Dive Mentoring
A fast-paced innovation sprint where residents collaborate to build, prototype, or test ideas using emerging AI tools and rapid-development frameworks.
Funds x Founders: Strategic Matchmaking Session
A high-intent matching session designed to help founders understand how to strategically position themselves in front of investors. This workshop flips the script, instead of chasing capital, residents learn how to attract it by becoming fund-ready, data-ready, and narrative-ready.
Funds x Founders: Strategic Matchmaking Session
A high-intent matching session designed to help founders understand how to strategically position themselves in front of investors. This workshop flips the script, instead of chasing capital, residents learn how to attract it by becoming fund-ready, data-ready, and narrative-ready.
SOS Model: Culture for Communities
A powerful, culture-building workshop for community leaders, operators, and ecosystem builders. This session explores the SOS Model — Structure, Ownership, and Shared Identity, the proven framework that underpins thriving, resilient communities.
House Dinner Experience
A relaxed, cozy dinner at your house. Food is delivered straight to your door, giving everyone a chance to unwind, recharge, and bond with housemates.
House Dinner Experience
A relaxed, cozy dinner at your house. Food is delivered straight to your door, giving everyone a chance to unwind, recharge, and bond with housemates.
Go Live: Your GTM Blueprint
A strategic, fast-paced session where founders craft a clear, actionable GTM blueprint. Through guided frameworks and real case breakdowns, residents learn how to position, package, and launch their product with clarity and confidence.
Founder’s Table - Led by Léonie (Racine) and Trish (Mesa)
As part of GENESIS, FOUNDED — a Founder’s Table hosts an intimate, guided dinner experience exploring the lived reality of building something from the ground up.
Community & Impact Pitch Night
A high-energy, community-driven pitch evening where residents present ideas that drive social impact, cultural change, and community innovation. Each pitch is followed by expert insights, storytelling feedback, and frameworks for communicating impact authentically.
Movie Time: Lounge & Wind Down
A calming end-of-day ritual where residents gather for a cozy film experience designed to help you relax, reset, and connect. Sink into comfortable seating, unwind with your housemates, and enjoy a gentle pause from the high-energy residency flow.
Super Secret Startup Shit Mixer
Welcome to the revolution. We are the next generation of Startups/founders striving for more.
Bomboras - 48 The Esplanade, Torquay VIC 3228
Bomboras for drinks!
Super Secret Startup Shit Mixer
Welcome to the revolution. We are the next generation of Startups/founders striving for more.
Bomboras - 48 The Esplanade, Torquay VIC 3228
Bomboras from drinks!
Rooftop Coding Under the Stars ✨
Human-Powered Connection. Head to the rooftop balcony for some coding and chats under the stars ✨
Investor X Founder Chats Under the Stars ✨
A dedicated evening lab where tech-minded founders, builders, and operators dive into focused co-working, idea testing, and collaboration, paired with AI-powered matchmaking that connects residents with the right people based on their goals. This is where technical minds cross-pollinate, exchange insights, and spark high-value conversations that don’t happen anywhere else.
Super Secret Startup Shit Mixer
Super Secret Startup Shit Mixer
Bomboras - 48 The Esplanade, Torquay VIC 3228
Bomboras for drinks!
Welcome to the revolution. We are the next generation of Startups/founders striving for more.
This edition of Super Secret Startup Shit will be held in Torquay as a "side quest" of Genesis - members of the public are welcome to apply!
This is where the hidden magic happens. The raw, unfiltered truth about scaling, raising, bootstrapping, and all the chaos of building something big. Come for the secrets. Stay for the breakthroughs. Live for the founder/startup shit talk 😘
First rule of Super Secret Startup Shit: If you show signs of tall poppy syndrome, you will be deported to somewhere where you can grow up. 🧐
Second rule: This isn’t a competition. We rise together or we don’t rise at all. (don't just say it, walk it) If you are worried that someone will copy your idea, then your idea needs to be better. 😎
Third rule: If you’re not here to break things, don’t even bother showing up.
Fourth rule: No egos. This isn’t about titles. It’s about what you’re building.
Fifth rule: You share. You give, you take, but you leave with more than you came.
Sixth rule: Whatever you say here stays here. No screenshots. No backchannel gossip.
Seventh rule: You show up. If you say you’ll be here, you’ll be here.
We do not care who you are, who you know or where you come from. We are looking for the bold and brilliant.
🎟 Limited capacity. Apply to join us!
Our last Event had over 90 people ON A WAITLIST. Please ensure you RSVP no later than 03/02 to confirm your place due to high demand. Spaces are limited, and if we are unable to host you this time, we may keep your application and invite you next time. If you are unable to attend, please let us know in advance so we may open up a waitlist spot in your place.
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