SYDNEY PROGRAM



02.00pm Welcome


02.05pm The Angel Landscape
Speaker: Professor Michael Vitale, Director, Commercialisation, Monash Asia-Pacific Centre for Science and Wealth Creation

What is angel money? What types of angels are there? Where do angels get their money and what are they spending it on? Michael Vitale will provide attendees with a useful overview of the angel environment here in Australia and provide comparisons with overseas markets, especially the USA.


02.40pm Understanding the Funding Menu
Moderator: Scott Wilkie, Vice President, Arasor International
Speakers: John Murray, General Partner, Technology Venture Partners; Rob Antulov, Co-Founder & CEO, 3eep Pty Ltd; Philip Alexander, CEO, OrderPoint Australia

The panel will weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of the funding options available to high growth technology businesses - family and friends, venture capital, angels, corporate and strategic investors, grants. What sort of investment suits when?


03.30pm Afternoon Tea


03.50pm Bring me an Angel
Moderator: Nick McNaughton, CEO, Blue Cove Ventures
Speakers: Juliet Potter, Director, Autochic.com.au; Ian Webster, IRM; Ron McCulloch, Chairman, VioCorp

How to find and attract an Angel? This panel will discuss how to meet angels and gain an initial meeting. Understand why and how angels in the technology, media and communications sector initially invest.


04.40pm Having an Angel
Moderator: Mark Jones, Founder, Filtered Media
Speakers: Roger Allen, General Partner, Allen & Buckeridge; David Skellern, CEO, National ICT Australia (NICTA); Mike Cannon-Brookes, CEO & Co-Founder, Atlassian Software Systems

Having secured angel funding, what happens next? What role is an angel likely to take? This panel will discuss "smart" money, collaboration, the role taken by angels as mentors, board members and when gaining additional funding.


05.30pm Drinks & Networking


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