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Opening with Coffee/Tea on Arrival 8-9
- 0800 Expo Open on Levels 3 and 4
- 0800 Meetups Open on Levels 2 and 4 (rooms) and Level 3 (casual)
- 0900 Conference Open
Conference Plenary Commencement
- L3 MA 0915 Clover Moore Lord Mayor City of Sydney
- L3 MA 0920 Alex Greenwich NSW MP Linkedin
- L3 MA 0925 Angus Armour Dept Secretary NSW Trade & Investment Linkedin
- L3 MA 0930 Pitch Rush
- L3 MA 0935 Pete Cooper – SydStart Founder – State of the Startup Keynote LinkedIn
- L3 MA 0940 Matt Barrie Freelancer.com CEO & Founder – Recent IPO ASX:FLN 12m customers. Recent acquisition Warrior Forum. Linkedin
- L3 MA 1000 Melanie Perkins Canva.com CEO & Co-founder – Raised $6.5m+ remarkable growth.LinkedIn
- L3 MA 1020 Daniel Friedman NinjaBlocks CEO – Internet of things startup – record holding success on Kickstarter
- L3 MA 1030 Liz Kaelin Startup Singer
- L3 MA 1015 Mike Cannon-Brookes Atlassian CEO & Co-founder – Recent $3.5b valuation. Linkedin
- L3 MA 1040 Niki Scevak – StartMate/BlackBird Ventures/Sunrise – Co-Founder – Ecosystem Update. Linkedin
Morning Tea Break in Expo Levels 3 and 4 [11-11:30]
- L3 MA 1130 James Windon Brigade CEO & Co-founder – US. Recent raise. Previously causes.com.LinkedIn
- L3 MA 1155 Matt Symonds Society One CEO & Founder – Raised $8.5m. Peer to Peer Lending.LinkedIn
- L2BR6 1200 Masterclass: Alex North Building Your Engineering Team
- L3 MA 1210 Max Kraynov JetRadar CEO – Raised $10m. International Travel. Linkedin
- L3 MA 1220 ArleneWherrettBlueWolf CEO – Top Talent Management for Startups
- 1100 Ric Richardson (aka the $400m man) on planning and protecting your startup (patents, intellectual property & other techniques) – from Uniloc – confirmed
- 1100 Kevin Lippy from Fishburners on growing very large Facebook communities fast – from Mumbership – confirmed
- 1100 Rob Wood from Fishburners on growing a huge special interest community online with ~ 500K followers – from LightStalking – confirmed
- 1100 Mike Zammit – Shelston IP – on strategic intellectual property management – from a leading firm TBA – confirmed
- 1140 Speaker/Panel – Funding Insight
- Stuart Fox – Artesian Capital/Venture Crowd – Director/Founder – Australia’s first equity crowd funding platform – confirmed
- Anna Maguire – Crowd Fund It – Author – has researched over 300 crowd funding and related platforms for her book – confirmed
- Bill Bartee – SXVP / Blackbird Ventures – To be confirmed
- 1200 Sebastian Eckersley-Maslin – Blue Chilli Group – CEO & Founder – Just raised $9.5m for startup incubator accelerator – confirmed
- 1230 Bosco Tan & Alvin Singh – Pocketbook – Co-founders – Just raised 500K after SydStart launch and growing rapidly – confirmed
- 1235 Benjamin Chong – Founder Institute – Director (Sydney) – One of the largest mentoring and accelerator organisations globally has produced over 1,000 companies. An update and call for their May 12th intake class. Ben is also Director and co-founder of his own VC firm Right Click Capital.
- 1245 Murray Hurps Fishburners.org General Manager Leading Co-working space- One of Sydney’s largest startup co-working spaces is getting a makeover
- 1255 Lunch [12:55 – 2:00]
- 1400 Charlotte Yarkoni, Annie Parker, Mick Liubinskas Co-Founders Muru-D Accelerator – Major Telstra sponsored incubator program
- 1415 Speaker/Panel
- 1425 Speaker/Panel
- 1430 TBA
- 1445 Sebastian Eckersley-Maslin CEO of BlueChilli on innovation
- 1500 Afternoon Tea in Expo – Confirmed – Catering by SEC
- 1520 Surprise Speaker and 6 lightning pitches
- 1500 Speaker
Wave Two – Pitching Competition – People Who Are Trying To Do Stuff – Intro
- 1535 Startup Trophy – Shortlisted from 220 applicants to 80 semi-finalists and 30 finalists. Would the Judges please assemble. Battle for prizes decided by judging criteria
- 1540 Pitch 1 – BLRT
- 1550 Pitch 2 – GoFar
- 1600 Pitch 3 – YouChews
- 1610 Pitch 4 – Thinkable
- 1620 Pitch 5 – CoalFacer
- 1630 Pitch 6 – UrbanOutsource
- 1640 Pitch 7 – StockSpot
- 1650 Pitch 8 – Rbutr
- 1700 Pitch 9 – NextForSale
- 1710 Pitch 10 – Touch Payment
Judging and Awards – Startup Trophy – Would all judges and major sponsors and finalists please be available.
- MA 1720 Thank you to our sponsors and supporters
- MA 1730 Oversight of the judging process with thanks to our supporters PwC
- MA 1730 Subject to available time we may also see a pitch from some others that just missed the short list. TBA
- MA 1730 Thank you to sponsors, volunteers, supporters, speakers, community and exhibitors
After Party – Nearby venue/s are being arranged
Overall Event Statistics
- 1,000+ delegates from 8am to 6pm at Sydney Hilton opposite QVB Level 3 registration
- 120+ exhibitors, most with table, stool, free standing sign, laptop phone and support staff x1 or 2
- 50+ speakers/panellists
- 20+ volunteers
- 4 break out rooms (2 on L2 and 2 on L4)
- 2 expo areas (L3, L4) totalling 120 exhibitors
- 2 stages (L3 main, L4 expo)
- 6 streams (4 breakouts with masterclasses, 2 stages)
- One speaker prep room (L3 corner)
- Catering on L3 and L4 plus espresso coffee all levels (cafe on L3, machines on L2 and L4)
- 35 Journalists
- 30 Pitches (top 10 on main stage in afternoon, next 20 on expo stage spread throughout the day)
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