An overview to give you insight to the Hub Melbourne. Enjoy. Get in contact with us via www.hubmelbourne.com

1. HUB MELBOURNE OVERVIEW – JULY 2010 WHERE CHANGE GOES TO WORK.

2. THE STORY IN 60 SECONDS 01 25 SEPTEMBER 2009 What is Hub Melbourne? Hub Melbourne is a community of people, places and ideas. It´s physical home will be a creative and social innovation centre located just 20 meters from Southern Cross Station. Scheduled to open in March 2011, Hub Melbourne will link Victorians to regional, national and international networks of people working to create positive social change. Hub Melbourne will personify and leverage the culturally diverse, creative and innovative nature of Melbourne to create a socially inclusive ´third place´ for the community to imagine, implement and scale their initiatives for a better world. The Hub, founded in London in 2005, is a global network of independently owned and operated Hubs currently situated across five continents and over 23 cities. Hub Melbourne will be the first in Oceania. The Hub attracts people who change things from within and beyond the public, private and third sectors. These are the brave professionals working at ´new frontiers´ to tackle both the world´s, and local communities, most pressing social, cultural and environmental challenges. There is no absence of good ideas. Ideas are important. For Individuals, Organisations. Communities. The economy. Our lives. The problem is a crisis of access, scale, resources and impact. So it felt vital to create places around the world for accessing space, resources, connections, knowledge, experience and investment. We create places that borrow from the best of a member’s club, an innovation agency, a serviced office and a think-tank to create a very different kind of innovation environment. Places for working, meeting, learning, innovating and collaborating. Places with all the tools and trimmings needed to grow and develop new ventures. Places to access experience, knowledge, finance and markets. And above all, places for experience and encounter, full of diverse people doing amazing things.

4. ÍNVITATION 25 SEPTEMBER 2009 An invitation… This is an invitation to be part of a unique global ecosystem of people, places and ideas dedicated to creating a better world. The Hub is about the power of people with ideas. It’s about the audacity, optimism and drive of the people who believe they can change things. Change minds, change lives, and ultimately change the world a little. This is the thing. Another world is not just possible, it’s happening. People from every profession, background and culture are being united by one thing - the imagination and drive to pursue enterprising ideas for a radically better world. These are the people who see and do things differently. The entrepreneurs, the executives, the policy-makers, the freelance professionals, the community leaders. The Hub is becoming the place they call home. Hubs can be found in cities all over the world. They are places to work, meet, innovate, learn and relax. They are designed for people who crave the inspiration, resources, knowledge, connections and investment to start and grow new ideas. In the same way that an ecosystem is about the interaction of living things with their environment, the Hub is about the power of inspiring places where new connections, relationships and initiatives can evolve, adapt and thrive. 03

5. MISSION 25 SEPTEMBER 2009 Local impact, global reach Hub Melbourne is part of a unique local and global ecosystem of people, places and ideas. Things began in a derelict warehouse in London five years ago, and now the network expands to places as diverse as San Francisco, Bombay, Sao Paulo and Amsterdam. A further 15 Hubs will open in 2010, with the ambition to exceed 60 by 2013. 2010 plans include the opening of the first ‘rural’ Hub in Oaxaca in Mexico, the first Peace Hub in Kabul, and the first ‘emerging market’ Hub in Minneapolis along with clusters of pop-up Hubs in Sao Paulo and London. Our mission is to create a global network of values-driven entrepreneurs working together to create a radically better world. Our ambition is to be an organization of global significance in the 21 st century - an infrastructure and diverse community of enterprising, free-thinkers and doers with the focus and agility to solve some of the most pressing problems facing the world today. For Victorians and Australians, Hub Melbourne offers this unique opportunity. 04

10. ‘ Probably the most gutsy and dynamic event I have ever been to.’ Dame Anita Roddick, The Body Shop ‘ We’ve been searching the world for a physical space that embodies and cultivates our ideas. At The Hub we have found it.’ Dr Otto Scharmer, MIT “ This place is proving what is possible.” Kofi Annan For all enquiries please contact: Brad Krauskopf [email_address] +61 417 740 007