Happy New Year startuppy folks. We’re already a month into it, and we welcome back our Startup News writers, who are primed and ready to cover WA’s flourishing startup scene.
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Planning a major event for 2023? Look below, or be visited by the clash gods! 👴🏼
Overview of 2023
There’s already a lot in the calendar, especially in May/June and Sept/Oct 2023, and below is an overview of the main startuppy events, trips and conferences we know of so far in 2023, that may be happening or are already locked in.
March 2023
- 7th-10th SouthStart (South Australia’s largest startup conference) WA contingent of startup founders, Spacecubed, JTSI attending
- 23-25th Umagine Conference (Chennai, India)
April 2023
- tba – Curtin Accelerate Demo Day
May 2023
- tba – Launch of WA Innovator of the Year program
- 10th-11th CyberWest Summit & Cyber Awards run by WACSIH
- 10th-12th BIO Korea – Seoul, Korea
- 24th-25th AusMedTech – Adelaide
June 2023
- 5th-8th BIO International Convention, Boston
- 1 week possible Tech Company delegation to Israel, with Australian Israel Chamber of Commerce
- 12th-16th London Tech Week
- 24-25th West Tech Fest Investor Weekend Margaret River
- 26th-30th MIT REAP in Perth
July 2023
- tba – Curtin Ignition in Singapore
- tba – Incite Awards – WAITTA’s annual IT awards
August 2023
Sept 2023
- tba – Meshpoints Congress (one day event)
- 19th-22nd Global Entrepreneurship Congress – in Australia for first time in 15 years. Melbourne. WA startup founders, Spacecubed, JTSI attending (postponed from May)
Oct 2023
- 3rd-8th Curtin Ignition week
- tba – West Tech and Plus Eight trip to Singapore
- 9th-11th The MedTech Conference, Anaheim, CA
- 8th-11th HLTH, Las Vegas, NV
- 15th-22nd SouthbySouthwest (SXSW), Sydney
- tba – Curtinnovation Awards
Nov 2023
- 1st-3rd AusBioTech, Brisbane
- tba – Women in Tech WA (WiTWA) conference
- tba – Sunrise Conference, Sydney
- tba – WA Innovator of the Year Awards
- 3rd week MIT REAP – last workshop in Boston
Dec 2023
- tba – West Tech Fest week
Have a great year! And keep us close…