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First Thursdays is scheduled for Thursday, March 5, 2026 at 6:00 AM at Michael Crouch Innovation Centre in Sydney.

Where is First Thursdays located?

First Thursdays will be held at Michael Crouch Innovation Centre, located at Gate Two Avenue, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia, Kensington, NSW, 2033 in Sydney.

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Name: First Thursdays
Start: 2026-03-05T06:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-05T08:30:00+00:00
Location: Michael Crouch Innovation Centre

First Thursdays

Date & Time

📅 Thu, Mar 5, 2026

🕐 6:00 AM

Ends: Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 8:30 AM

Location

📍 Michael Crouch Innovation Centre

Gate Two Avenue, Kensington, NSW 2033, Australia, Kensington, NSW, 2033

🏙️ Sydney

About This Event

The UNSW Founders community monthly event for exclusive insights & networking

In March, our special speaker is Dr Silvia Pfeiffer, co-founder of Coviu and one of Australia’s most impactful digital health startups.

Silvia’s journey began in research. With a PhD in Computer Science and experience as a senior research scientist at CSIRO. Her research focus led her to shape the HTML5 and WebRTC standards at Google and Mozilla - well before Youtube even existed!

Driven by a desire to create real-world impact, Silvia returned to CSIRO to apply her expertise into healthcare. Where she helped develop a telehealth prototype that later spun out as Coviu, a startup she co-founded, bootstrapped, and scaled into Australia’s leading telehealth platform.

Today, Coviu powers 7M+ consultations for 90,000+ clinicians worldwide, achieved five-digit growth, and ranked #2 on the Deloitte Tech Fast 50.

Silvia was recognised for this amazing success and was named Founder of the Year at the 2020 Women in Digital Awards and was recognised in The Australian’s Top 100 Innovators list in 2022.

Fastforward to 2026 - Silvia is now Chief Product Officer at CARED. A startup that is helping health providers adopt AI, scale smarter workflows, and deliver better care at scale.

In this First Thursdays conversation, Silvia will unpack:

🔹 How to spin out research into a real company

🔹 How to build trust and traction in highly regulated industries

🔹 Leading product teams through hypergrowth and scale

Whether you’re startup enthusiast, a researcher-turned-founder, or someone figuring out your next move, this is one to mark in your calendar.

About First Thursdays:

The UNSW Founders monthly First Thursdays event is where we bring together the people that make the UNSW Founders community work.

Innovators, investors, founders, mentors, collaborators, and startup enthusiasts all gather to hear from an incredible speaker, ask them anything, and then network with the community.

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Date: Thursday 5 March
Time: 5pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Michael Crouch Innovation Centre, UNSW Kensington

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We warmly welcome you to this community initiative 👋

Bring your networking shoes! 👟

Refreshments provided.

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