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B2B Rocks, the first international B2B and SaaS conference coming to Sydney on 27 October

Announcement posted by B2B Rocks 07 Oct 2016

Sydney, Thursday 6 October 2016 -  B2B Rocks (www.b2brocks.co/sydney) is coming to Sydney to be the first B2B and SaaS startups conference in Australia.The event will occur on Thursday 27th October 2016, from 9am to 6:30pm, at the Australian Technology Park, Sydney’s outstanding business and technology conferencing venue.   

After 3 successful editions in Paris, France, and thousands of top-notch attendees, we decided to expand internationally and come to Sydney where the B2B and SaaS ecosystem is growing quickly.

The first Australian edition of this acclaimed international conference series will gather over 20 speakers coming from leading startups and investors in the B2B and SaaS space, giving 20-min talks and 40-min panel discussions about disruptive technologies (IoT, VR, Cloud solutions…), success, failures, growth hacking, how to go international and other things, to up to 450 high profiles attendees (60% founders and entrepreneurs - 10% VCs and investors - 30% C-Levels). Find the event schedule here: https://b2brocks.co/sydney/details/ 

B2B Rocks will be also part of the Spark Festival (http://sparkfestival.co - ex-Sydney Startup Week), a one-week festival connecting people, ideas and resources across the entire innovation and startup ecosystem from 22 October to 30 October.

 

To date, our speakers for the first Australian edition include:

  • Matt Mickiewicz (co-founded 99designs, SitePoint, Flippa and Hired)

  • Cloud guru Franck Demoiseau (Offis – CEO)
  • Ben Wong (Co-founder & CEO – Academy Xi)
  • Advocate for Tech Startup Ecosystem Pete Cooper (The Start Society - Founder)

  • Customer success strategist Åsa Nyström (Buffer – Customer Success Director)

  • John Henderson (Airtree, Partner)

  • Mehul Patel (Hired, Global CEO)

  • Ian Buddery (Maestrano and Critical Arc, Chairman)

  • E-commerce fulfilment expert Francine Ereira (Temando – VP APAC)

  • Global entrepreneur Arnaud Lachaume (Maestrano – Co-Founder and CTO)

  • Digital Marketing Expert Liam Teh (AB Tasty Australia - BDM)

  • IoT expert Dale Rankine (Reekoh - CEO and Co-founder)

  • Industrial Internet of Things evangelist Renald Gallis (ThinXtra – VP Ecosystem)

  • Augmented and Virtual Reality evangelist David Francis (Virtual Method - Founder)

  • Innovation Catalyst Anuraj Gambhir (Avantage Global - Strategic Innovation Advisor)

  • Advocacy and WOM expert Marc Cowper (Recomazing - Founder)

  • Dave Gardiner (Carthona Capital - Partner)

  • Nick Hitch (Hitch Advisory - Director)

  

With more speakers to be announced closer to date, B2B Rocks aims to become the first B2B and SaaS startups conference in Australia for entrepreneurs and investors.

Besides the inspiring talks, attendees will have the opportunity to participate to round-tables, open discussions and networking activities with rising startups, fast-growing companies, VCs and journalists at the Locomotive Workshop.


The event will be supported by partners such as:

-     - Offis Multi Cloud Services, who has been helping Australian and international businesses achieve greater productivity and agility with virtualised tools and infrastructure since 1997

-     - Hired, a career marketplace for the world's knowledge workers, which Forbes rated as one of the "100 Most Promising Startups of 2015".

-    - LegalVision, a market disruptor in the commercial legal services industry who has already assisted more than 15,000 businesses. Their innovative business model and custom-built technology assist their lawyers to provide a faster, better quality and more cost-effective client experience.

-       AB Tasty is a solution for testing, reengagement of users, and content personalisation, designed for marketing teams. It helps them to improve ROI from their digital businesses.


 

Save the date!

Grab your tickets for an all day pass including tea breaks, lunch and beverages for only $199 until Sunday, 14 October with the promo code B2BFACEBOOK
★ Link: http://www.eventzilla.net/web/event/b2b-rocks-2138854479

If you want to learn more about B2B & SaaS startups, check out the European edition videos on the B2B Rocks Youtube channel.