Start your Tuesday with free coffee and three local stories from The Wild Rovers, Wolf Coffee and Favour. 13 October, 7 to 9am, Mountain Club Beach St.

Some of the best conversations in this town happen before 9am, over a flat white, before anyone's opened their laptop.

The Entrepreneurs Coffee Jam is back at Mountain Club Beach St on Tuesday 13 October. Startup Queenstown Lakes and The Mountain Club are opening the doors again, the first round of coffee is on us, and three locals are bringing their stories. They'll share what they're building and why, answer a few questions, and then the floor is yours for any asks, offers or ideas.

Guest speaker:

Alexander Tong - Wolf Coffee

Alex left Queenstown Resort College in 2009 with a plan to open a roastery in the region within five years. It started instead in a shipping container on Auckland's Princes Wharf, and took a little longer than planned to come home. Wolf Coffee now roasts on Buckingham Street in Arrowtown, on a restored 1950s roaster, with a house blend reworked after the local tradies let him know what they thought of the first one.