Join the FB IDEAs Lunch & Learn with NOAH Connect and discover how the Research & Development Tax Incentive (RDTI) can support your innovation and growth. Gain insights into how to identify eligible R&D, structure your claim and maximise federal tax incentives for your business.

Join the FB IDEAs Lunch & Learn with Hub member Accelerate Funding Group and hear about investment readiness and funding pathways, and explore his approach to closing funding gaps through hybrid funding models.

Hear from ELIoT Energy about how their FB IDEAs supported trial in Fishermans Bend led to opportunities for the innovative hardware startup on local and nation wide level.

Join the FB IDEAs Lunch & Learn with Hub member Hypso to explore the strategic landscape of federal funding and priorities to learn how to position your company as a preferred partner in key national initiatives.

A forum to bring together Sustainability Managers in Fishermans Bend to share knowledge and explore collaboration opportunities.

Join the FB IDEAs Lunch & Learn with Hub member Octive Consulting, supporting Medtech innovators with a roadmap through the Valley of Death - the gap where grants fade before major investment is attainable.

Curious about where agtech is heading and the opportunities for advanced manufacturing in Fishermans Bend? Join us to learn more, and put your ideas to the test…

Join us at the FB IDEAs Hub for casual end-of-year drinks and celebrate being part of the community.

FB IDEAs is proud to host the next come-together of the new Women of Fishermans Bend Social Circle, facilitated by Hub Member Helena Chen Erck. This initiative creates a safe, supportive space for local women to connect, share experiences, and build community.

Join Pianos Recycled to celebrate circular design + music. We invite everyone with an interest in creativity, climate action, and sustainability to come along and look, feel and play musical instruments made using unwanted piano elements, plus share ideas for speeding up progress towards circularity through music (and imagination).

Join ANAT for a short, online lunchtime conversation to explore the nature and nuances of multidisciplinary collaboration featuring the artists, researchers and partners of ANAT programs in 2025, including the ANAT Bespoke :: Re-cultivate project that FB IDEAs supported in partnership with South East Water.

Your teacher Arabella will guide you through the basics of punch needling using both yarns and fabric to create small artworks on embroidery hoops. Feel encouraged to tap into your creative instincts, guided by Arabella’s distinctive textile-based artistic practices.

FB IDEAs is proud to host the next come-together of the new Women of Fishermans Bend Social Circle, facilitated by Hub Member Helena Chen Erck. This initiative creates a safe, supportive space for local women to connect, share experiences, and build community.

Join our punch needle tufting workshop, at Romulus Folio Gallery in South Melbourne.

Your teacher Arabella will guide you through the basics of punch needling using both yarns and fabric to create small artworks on embroidery hoops. Feel encouraged to tap into your creative instincts, guided by Arabella’s distinctive textile-based artistic practices

Create Your Own Wearable Art In Just 1 Hour

Join artist Andrea Vargas for a fun workshop creating stylish and original jewellery.

Come along to Fishermans Bend on Saturday 22 October for the Westgate Park Volunteer day & BBQ. Join Westgate Biodiversity for a morning of volunteering, helping care for the park and local habitat followed by a sausage sizzle.

Join us to hear about the study results of ESI’s thermodynamic study and explore the impact which retrofitting existing buildings with triple glazing solutions in Fishermans Bend could have - Dr Yakow Elgart presents the FB IDEAs project under local property partnership.

Join artist Gerard Russo for a gentle introduction to observational drawing

Celebrate National Recycling Week and join us for a day of creativity, community and circular innovation as we celebrate the makers turning waste into wonder at the Circular Design Collective.

oin us for the Opening Night of the Observer Exhibition.

Through painting, sculpture, fibre and mixed media, Observer considers the act of looking, not as passive seeing, but as a relationship between the viewer and the viewed. Each artist reveals what happens when perception meets emotion, and observation becomes expression through action.

Join us for the FB IDEAs Lunch & Learn session with Hub Member PCO Engineering. Resident algorithm and control systems expert Philip Oefner will share insights on how systems thinking connects with digital twins called functional mockup units - used to analyse and simulate real world behaviour.

Join the Victorian Cleantech Cluster for a chance to connect with Victoria's peak body for cleantech networking, collaboration and innovation. 100% for the sector, by the sector. Celebrate the PowerOn Incubator Participants and discover future opportunities.

Join a compelling line up of First Nations urban culturalists, Stevie Thorpe, Bianca Easton and Merilyn Merm Duff for a unique intercultural art parade, yidaki healing, film screening, exhibition and yarn. Together we commemorate the delicate dance of decolonizing a community of practise into a culture of care.

FB IDEAs is proud to host the new Women of Fishermans Bend Social Circle, facilitated by Hub Member Helena Chen Erck. This initiative will create a safe, supportive space for local women to connect, share experiences, and build community.

Join us for the FB IDEAs Lunch & Learn session with our Hub Member honepd. Resident product design expert Andrew Jack will share insights on moving from prototype to physical product - covering key principles and pitfalls in developing engineered, mass-manufacturable goods, based on honepd’s decade of experience designing and delivering millions of units.

Come along to Fishermans Bend on Sunday 26 October for the Westgate Park Volunteer day & BBQ. Join Westgate Biodiversity for a morning of volunteering, helping care for the park and local habitat followed by sausage sizzle and tasting of local wines.

Your teacher Arabella will guide you through the basics of punch needling using both yarns and fabric to create small artworks on embroidery hoops. Feel encouraged to tap into your creative instincts, guided by Arabella’s distinctive textile-based artistic practices.

Join our punch needle tufting workshop, at Romulus Folio Gallery in South Melbourne.

Your teacher Arabella will guide you through the basics of punch needling using both yarns and fabric to create small artworks on embroidery hoops. Feel encouraged to tap into your creative instincts, guided by Arabella’s distinctive textile-based artistic practices

Join the Fishermans Bend Business Forum for an important community briefing on the evolving plans for Fishermans Bend.