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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)