B2B Rocks set to make Australia rock

As well as listening to the inspiring speakers, attendees at B2B Rocks will have the opportunity to participate in round-tables, open discussions and networking activities with rising start-ups, fast-growing companies, VCs and journalists.

B2B Rocks is coming to Sydney to be the first B2B and SaaS start-ups conference in Australia.

The event will happen on Thursday, 27 October 2016, from 9am to 6:30pm, at the Australian Technology Park.

The first Australian edition of this international conference series will gather over 20 speakers from leading start-ups and investors in the B2B and SaaS space, giving 20-minute talks and 40-minute panel discussions about disruptive technologies (IoT, VR, Cloud solutions), success, failures, growth hacking and how to go international to up to 500 high profiles attendees (60% founders and entrepreneurs, 10% VCs and investors and 30% C-Level executives).

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

After three 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.

B2B Rocks will be also part of the Spark Festival (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.

The speakers lined-up to date for our first Australian B2B Rocks include:

• Matt Mickiewicz (co-founded 99designs, SitePoint, Flippa and Hired)
• Ex-CIO Westpac NZ and startup advisor Jason Millett (Moelis & Company, Senior Adviser)
• 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)
• eCommerce 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)

You can find the current event schedule at www.b2brocks.co/sydney/details/.

The event is supported by partners including:

• Offis Multi Cloud Services, who have 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, higher quality and more cost-effective client experience.

Aurelien Clou, Event coordinator, B2B Rocks

Inside Small Business is a media partner of the B2B Rocks Sydney event