For those of you in Sydney on October 1st, come down to the Opera House and get involved in the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
I’ll be hosting a panel on Australian entrepreneurship, but I really want to get to the bottom of a couple of things which have been bugging me since coming back from the UK. Is Australia really the country to return to if you want to sell a big idea? And what would it take to have an Australian Mark Zuckerberg?
We’ve managed to pull together a few good speakers. Alan Noble, head of Engineering in Google Australia and an Australian-born Silicon Valley start up entrepreneur, is going to be there. So will Martin Rogers, head of Prima Biomed. I recently learnt he is commercializing a cure to ovarian cancer. I’ll also have the pleasure of interrogating Alec Cameron, Dean of the Australian School of Business.
Are we just a lucky country – a faraway island blessed with mining – or something much more? Come and find out.
Kick off is 2.30pm. We’ll head to the Opera Bar for a drink and informal chat afterwards. Tickets are selling fast, so book now here