Xiaohongshu
Innovation Fest Programme 2026
| Time | 🚀 DAy 1: Launch | 💠day 2: prototype and ideate | 💡 day 3: From Prototype to Pitch | 🎤 Day 4: Pitch Day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.00-9.30 | Registration | Registration | Registration | Registration |
| 9.30-10.00 | Keynote Speaker: Lesley Sackey (Founder, Fight Forward CIC) | Keynote Speaker: Adam Mitchell (Co-Founder, homefolk) | Keynote Speaker: Chris Howard (UCL Professor & Innovation lead for Climate Crisis) | Keynote Speaker: Victoria Austin (UCL Professor & Strategic Lead for Inequalities, Co-Founder, Global Disability Innovation Hub) |
| 10.00-11.00 | Team formation Meet your team | Workshop: Rapid fire ideas generation and prototyping Learn how to turn ideas into tangible prototypes | Mentor Office Hours Get feedback on your prototype from industry mentors | Independent work time |
| 11.00-12.00 | Workshop: Social Enterprise 101 Learn about how to map systems & create solutions through social enterprise | Independent work time | Mentor Office Hours Get feedback on your prototype from industry mentors | Independent work time |
| 12.00-13.00 | Networking lunch With Social Enterprise partner organisations | Independent work time | Workshop: Impactful Storytelling (Cambio Consultancy) Become a master communicator and get ready to turn prototype into pitch | Independent work time |
| 13.00-14.00 | Social Enterprise x Student Consultation 1 Introduction to your Social Enterprise partner organisation and their challenge | Lunch | Lunch | Networking lunch With representatives from across the social innovation ecosystem |
| 14.00-15.00 | Independent work time | Mentor Office Hours Get feedback on your prototype from mentors in the Student's Union Social Enterprise team | Independent work time | Opening Remarks into Semi-Finals |
| 15.00-16.00 | Social Enterprise x Student Consultation 2 Dig deeper into the challenge with your Social Enterprise partner organisation | Mentor Office Hours Get feedback on your prototype from mentors in the Student's Union Social Enterprise team | Independent work time | Semi-Finals Four teams go head to head in each theme |
| 16.00-17.00 | Day 1 Wrap-Up Overview of the week to come | Alumni panel: Social Enterprise & Your Career Explore the opportunities of working in and for Social Enterprise | Pitch feedback Bespoke feedback on your pitch from mentors in the Student's Union Social Enterprise team | Finals One team from each theme will compete in the grand finals |
| 17.00-18.00 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Prize Ceremony & Photos Get your team picture and learn who the winners are |
| 18.00-19.30 | N/A | N/A | N/A | Networking Drinks With representatives from across the social innovation ecosystem |