gemaker commercial director Athena Prib will moderate a start-up panel at Pause Fest 2014. With five keynote speakers and a panel discussion on the topic of ‘The connect and the disconnect,โ Pause Fest will bring together leading thinkers in the start-up space who will share their perceptions on how Australian start-ups measure up on a global scale.
Discussions are set to cover the start-ups to watch in 2014, how to overcome the language barrier between start-ups and big business, and what Australian start-ups can do to make themselves more visible on the global stage.
Keynote speakers:
- Kyri Theos, Country Manager for Elance
- Nigel Dalton, CIO of REA Group
- Melanie Perkins, CEO of Canva
- Jason Sew Hoy, COO of 99Designsย
- Tim Webster, Melbourne Community Manager for Uber
Panel members:
- Peter Huynh, Director of Optus-Innov8 seed program
- Rick Chen, co-founder of crowd funding platform Pozible
- Nathan Sampimon, founder of Inspire9
- Kyri Theos, Country Manager for Elance
- Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin, CEO of BlueChilli
Event details
Date: Sunday 16 February
Time: 10am โ12.30pm
Venue: Federation Square (Deakin Edge).
Tickets: Tickets for Pause Fest are now on sale. Visit the Pause Fest website for more information.