17-19

JUNE

2019

LAUNCH FESTIVAL
SYDNEY 2019

Bringing the largest startup conference from Silicon Valley to Sydney, Australia. Featuring tactical growth talks, investor/VC panels, startup competitions, and more.

ATTEND

3 days
Monday - Wednesday

Sydney, NSW
Australia

Drop us a line:
festival@launch.co

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— 2019

SMC CONFERENCE & FUNCTION CENTRE
66 Goulburn Street
Sydney, NSW 2000
Australia

Jason Calacanis, founder

What is LAUNCH?

Our mission at LAUNCH has always been to support founders and inspire innovation. Since 2009 (the year our founder Jason Calacanis started this conference in Silicon Valley), we've had the great pleasure of providing value to the startups & founders that we come across.

The value comes in many different forms, such as:

Funding: By hosting this conference, we’re able to meet founders of many amazing startups that we often invite to our accelerator in San Francisco, and invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into them. To date, we've invested in over 200 startups. Our notable investments include Uber, Robinhood, Thumbtack, Desktop Metal, Wealthfront, DataStax, Calm, Tumblr, Trello.

Education: We’ve been hosting a 2x weekly podcast called This Week In Startups with 60M+ downloads, and have brought on guests such as Ev Williams, Chris Sacca, Chamath Palihapitiya, Patty McCord, Brit Morin, Esther Dyson, David Sacks & many more notable founders and investors.

MORE ABOUT LAUNCH

OUR MISSION

What is LAUNCH Festival?

LAUNCH Festival is the largest startup event in the world.

For the past 10 years we’ve hosted Festival in San Francisco, featuring fireside chats with Silicon Valley technologists and pioneers, demonstrations of cutting-edge future technology, and exciting startup competitions with founders and teams from all around the world.

In June 2018, for the first time ever, we brought LAUNCH Festival to Sydney, Australia, and in 2019, we're bringing it back.

Get your tickets

June 17 - 19

Schedule

12:00 pm

Angel University

A workshop for individuals interested in becoming professional angel investors.

Jason Calacanis

8:00 am

Registration & Demo Pit Opens

Registration

8:00 am

PITCHING: Sign up for 11:30am Startup Tuneup session

View details: launchfestivalsydney.com/pitching

10:00 am

Welcome from NSW

Nicole Cook & Gerard Mansour, Jobs for NSW

Nicole Cook

10:02 am

From LAUNCH Festival Sydney to San Francisco (and Back)

Pete Davis, Ampjar

Pete Davis

10:09 am

The Future of Early-Stage VC & Startup Funding

Charles Hudson, Precursor Ventures; Sam Wong, Blackbird Ventures; Monique Woodard, Investor

10:39 am

The Product-Market Fit Engine

Rahul Vohra, Superhuman

Rahul Vohra

11:09 am

Reimagining Cities: A Guide to the Future for Startups & Investors

Shaun Abrahamson, Urban.us

Shaun Abrahamson

11:39 am

Startup Tuneup: Onstage Pitching & Office Hours

Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH

Jason Calacanis

12:00 pm

Lunch & Demo-Pit

2:00 pm

The Future of Online Education

Fireside chat with David Rogier, MasterClass

David Rogier

2:30 pm

Learnings, A Tool Kit, and A Reality Check

Samantha August, LAUNCH

Samantha August

2:50 pm

Get Back to Work: A Fundraising Process

Jason Demant, LAUNCH

Jason Demant

3:20 pm

From LAUNCH Festival Sydney to San Francisco (and Back)

Jessica Koncz, Eatsee

Jessica Koncz

3:27 pm

Raising Money through Syndicates

Ashley Whitehurst, LAUNCH

Ashley Whitehurst

3:57 pm

Startup Competition!

Judges: Andrea Gardiner, Jelix Ventures; Elizabeth Yin, Hustle Fund; Monique Woodard, Investor. Startups: Everty, Preventure, Block42, Viveka, The Event Ecosystem, Notion, Zipidi. launchfestivalsydney.com/competition

5:30 pm