Roast & Toast

🎉 Event: Innovators Meetup – Roast & Toast
Got an idea, startup, side project, or challenge that could benefit from some fresh perspectives? Or maybe you’re simply curious about what people are building and working on around Christchurch.

Join us for an evening of networking, collaboration, and constructive feedback with Christchurch’s innovators, entrepreneurs, creatives, and problem-solvers.

🤝 Networking
Meet fellow entrepreneurs, founders, innovators, creatives, and community members over food and drinks.

🔥👏 Roast & Toast
Our signature interactive session where ideas are challenged, refined, celebrated, and strengthened through community feedback.

What is Roast & Toast?
The concept is simple: every great idea benefits from both encouragement and honest feedback.

🔥 The Roast is the constructive part — thoughtful questions, alternative perspectives, identifying blind spots, challenging assumptions, and helping presenters think through problems.

👏 The Toast is the celebration part — recognising what’s working, highlighting strengths and opportunities, and sharing useful resources, connections, or introductions.
The goal isn’t to tear ideas down. It’s to help people leave with new insights, useful connections, and practical next steps.

🚀 Roast & Toast Format
We’ll have 4–5 innovators, each with up to 10 minutes to introduce an idea, project, startup, or challenge they’re currently working through.
If you’re one of our pitchers, we’ll send you a short

pre-event Roast & Toast form to complete before the meetup; https://forms.gle/gEU66JNfthWSFFnw8

You don’t need a perfectly polished pitch or slide deck. The form simply helps you tell us:

• what you’re working on;
• where you’re currently at;
• what challenge or question you’re trying to solve;
• what you’d particularly like the room to Roast; and
• where you’d like a Toast, opportunity, resource, or connection.

We’ll use that information to help guide the conversation on the night so you’re getting feedback that’s actually useful to you.

👥 After each pitch, we’ll open things up to the room for constructive feedback, questions, ideas, resources, and introductions.
Whether you’re validating an early idea, building a startup, working through a product problem, exploring a new venture, or simply keen to learn from what others are doing, you’ll find a welcoming community ready to help.

🍕 Food & Drinks
There’s no sponsor covering food or drinks for this event, so this one is BYO — feel free to bring along whatever you’d like to eat or drink while you enjoy the evening.

Come along, bring your curiosity, and be part of the conversation.

📍 Location: EPIC Innovation Centre, Christchurch CBD
Access via Manchester Street.