Annual Funding Event Showcase Evening

ADM’s Showcase Evening celebrates gospel-shaped innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Showcase Evening follows on from our Annual Funding Event pitch day where ADM awards $60,000 to Australian Christian women leading gospel-shaped initiatives.

6pm - Join us for canapés and networking with other Christians interested in fostering innovation.

6.30pm - ADM Visiting Fellow Michaela O'Donnell Long will give a short keynote address, “Imagination, risk and innovation: Why the entrepreneurial mindset matters for Christians”. Following Dr. O’Donnell Long’s talk, four women from ADM's 2019 Incubator Program (the next step after our Annual Funding Event) will pitch so you can learn about the exciting work they’re doing through their organisations. Read more about the women pitching.

8pm - More canapés! This light supper is catered by the wonderful social enterprise Dinner on the Table, whose CEO Rachel Golding is one of the women you'll hear pitching on the night!

2019 ADM Visiting Fellow Michaela O'Donnell Long

Michaela is Senior Director of the De Pree Centre and Adjunct Professor of Practical Theology and Leadership at Fuller Seminary. She is also an entrepreneur who has started several businesses, most notably, she is co-founder and CEO of Long Winter Media, a branding and video production company.

In her role at the De Pree Center, Michaela is the principal leader of the grant-funded, Entrepreneurship, Faith, and Flourishing Initiative. This grant has enabled the De Pree Center to take the research of Michaela’s PhD dissertation, “Adopting an Entrepreneurial Posture: Vocational Formation in a Changing World of Work,” and turn it into practical resources for entrepreneurs and churches that serve them.

Michaela regularly speaks and writes on topics of vocation, entrepreneurship, and women in leadership. Recent publications through the De Pree Center include, “A Seat at the Table,” “Myths of Vocation,” and “She Is.” Her writing is featured widely including at the following outlets Relevant, Fuller Studio, Grit and Virtue, Faith Driven Entrepreneur, Made to Flourish, and Liberty Magazine.