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Australia's 29th Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, will speak on "innovation and opportunity in an environment of rising authoritarian populism, anti-global and protectionist agendas", after which he'll have a one-on-one with Freelancer CEO and founder, Matt Barrie.

Think of a cross between X factor and Startups Got Talent and you've arrived at StartCon's Pitch for US$1 million competition, one of the world's largest, with entries open to more countries and startups than ever before.

StartCon, Australia’s biggest growth and start conference, has announced nominations for the 4th annual Australasian Startup Awards have officially opened, so nominate the best and brightest our local start up community and eco system has to offer.

StartCon is Australia's largest Start Up conference, with Uber, eBay, Airbnb just some of the international speakers, with 4000+ expected to arrive and around 100 international and local speakers - it's a can't miss event!

At 6.30pm on April 10, 2019, the third cohort of the UNSW Founder 10x Accelerator program had its excellent demo and pitch night, with the top-notch pitches captured in full on video below.

Five finalists have been selected from among 85 applications for the Optus inaugural innovation challenge, with the telco praising the high volume of quality start-ups which participated in the program.

Australia’s StartCon says it's "on the hunt for the next global hotbeds of tech innovation and the startups emerging from them", with Silicon Valley "not on the list".

It's your last chance to see Marc Randolph, the inspiring Netflix co-founder who shares the incredible start-up story behind the global juggernaut, and how you too can spark successful disruption against the odds.

It's really luxe working at Lendi, where its owners certainly aren't having a lend of its employees judging by the Lendi list of initiatives listed below. 

Brisbane-based technology start-up Citrus is claiming successive new client wins both in Australia and globally, including wine merchant Dan Murphy, since launching its online advertising platform last December.

Is there any area of life blockchain won't touch? The latest chip off the old blockchain has landed in the eSports industry, with Sydney-based "Fuel Games" raising $2.4 million to "help pioneer the blockchain gaming industry".

JAR Aerospace has taken home the grand prize at Cisco’s Start Challenge pitch event, with full videos below of the pitch event, the winner announcement and a video interview with JAR's Samuel Lewinson.

Blasting off into the chief space officer position at Finnish start-up Space Nation is former NASA astronaut Gregory "Box" Johnson, to advise on the Space Nation Astronaut Program and future ISS missions.

New Australian start-up, Sweep, has its eponymous app using geo-location, messaging and AR skills to allow users dubbed "Sweepers" to "discover and interact in the world around them".

Billed as the largest start-up and growth conference to help you disrupt the disruptors, StartCon 2017 is bigger and better than ever to help you grow smarter.

The NSW Government is backing Australia’s largest start-up conference, StartCon 2017, with the NSW Government-supported Jobs for NSW now a leading sponsor in the quest to provide further growth opportunities.

It’s no token sale just for the sake of it, but the first chance to support Veredictum’s crypto-anti-piracy platform with a "core target raise of $7.5 million and a hard cap stretch target of $20 million".

Optus has announced the finalists who are vying to win a share of $300,000 in its Future Makers funding and mentoring programme for start-ups, with ideas ranging from a virtual psychologist to an app to improve educational outcomes for disabled children.

StartCon 2016 was on over the weekend and was filled to the brim with great info, sessions, speakers, stages, a hackathon, Security Cup challenge and more – and you can still buy a digital pass to experience all that content!

One of the world’s largest global start-up accelerators Startupbootcamp will come to Australia courtesy of a “large funding round” as part of the Victorian government's new start-up initiative, LaunchVic.