A week where the NSW startup ecosystem runs its own program, and every event is free. The eleventh edition opens at the UTS Great Hall and spreads across UNSW, Stone & Chalk, Greenhouse, Cicada, Tech Central and Parramatta. The useful sessions are the specific ones: what venture capital and private equity look like from the inside, the Tech Council and J.P. Morgan on funding an AI business, what the federal budget actually does to your R&D claim, a CSIRO and Cicada deep tech mixer, and a founders' dinner. Anyone can host, so the quality is uneven, but the density of real operators in one week is the best Sydney gets.
Spark Festival
Conference Monday 21 September 2026 · 13:00 · Spark Festival
