Announcing The Startup Grind APAC Conference presented by MYOB!
Just in case you needed a reason to visit Australia for our summer!
On August 23rd I hosted both my 75th Startup Grind event in Melbourne and hosted an ‘announcement party’ that would reveal Startup Grind’s first APAC Conference!
So, after many years of work, I am proud to announce Startup Grind’s first conference in a region which now proudly boasts over 50 chapters!
The conference will take place in Melbourne over two massive days at the state-of-the-art Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Here are some of the speakers we have announced to date (with plenty more to come)!
INTERNATIONAL
- Guy Kawasaki (Canva / Apple)
- Genevieve Leveille (Co-chair TechUK’s Blockchain Group)
- William Bao Bean (SOSV / Chinaccelerator) — #4 most active seed investor in the world
- Jessica Alter (Entrepreneur in Residence at Social Capital)
- Calvin Chin (Managing Partner at E14 — MIT’s Venture Fund)
- Ruud Hendriks (Co-founder of Sky Radio and Startupbootcamp)
- Andrew Filev (Founder and CEO of Wrike) — Named one of the fastest growing tech companies in North America by Deloitte for the third straight year and a leader in Enterprise Collaborative Work Management Software.
MAJOR LOCAL SPEAKERS
- Paul Bassat [founder of SEEK ($7.5BN) and SquarePeg Capital $240m fund]
- Elaine Stead (Bluesky Ventures $200m fund)
- Emily Rich (Managing Director — Microsoft Startups)
- Justin Dry (Co-founder / CEO of Vinomofo)
- Craig Blair (AirTree Ventures — $250M Venture Fund)
- Katherine McConnell (CEO & Founder — Brighte) — Fintech leader of the year and an $18.5m Series B.
- Martin Hosking (Founder of Redbubble) — Over 400k creatives worldwide.
- Samantha Wong (Partner at Blackbird Ventures — $250M Venture Fund)
- Lucy Liu (Cofounder and COO of Airwallex) — Recently raised $108m from Tencent, Square Peg Capital and Sequoia Capital.
- Grace Wong (Cofounder Liven) — Cashless payments for dining with 350k users in Australia! Currently raising US$28m.
+ Presentations Announced:
- Priscilla Harris (Head of ANZ at HTC/ Vive) — ‘The Future of Virtual Reality’
- Omar DeSilva (Founder — Plato Project) on ‘Empathetic Leadership’
- Nadine Saadi (GiftSkout / Startupweekend) on ‘Diversity and Community Empowerment’
If you would like to keep across the event — feel free to join the Melbourne Facebook Group and look forward to seeing you down under!
