I moderated a panel on the Australian Startup Ecosystem as part of The Big Pitch in Melbourne. Fascinating discussion. On the panel with me:

- Doron Ben-Meir from University of Melbourne

- Bronwen Clune from Culture Amp

- Scott Handsaker from Startup Victoria

- Peter Bradd from StartupAUS

I was invited by the team at Melbourne's Oxygen Ventures to help curate and moderate a live panel just before the Big Pitch event in June 2015 in Melbourne.

We pulled together a great panel to discuss "What Corporates can learn from Startups". On the panel with me were:

- Alan Noble from Google

- Geoff Gourlay from Impact Investment Fund

- Patrick Barrett from ECAL

- Mark Drasutis from News Corp

As part of the Sunrise conference this year I had the chance to interview the amazing Jost Stollmann from Tyro. Thanks to Niki and the guys from Blackbird for pulling the conference together. Really valuable for the whole sector and great fun too.

Tony Surtees is the co-founder of Zeetings, an amazing tool to make presentations and meetings more engaging and interactive. For both the presenter and the audience.

I visited the hotbed of Canberra startup innovation, the CBR Innovation Network. One of their hottest startups is Instaclustr, which offers cloud access to the remarkable Apache Cassandra database. Only about a year old this startup has delivered an amazing product, expanded overseas and raised over $2m in funding. I sat down and chatted to Doug Stuart, their CEO.

Alternative Finance panel - ASX 30 April 2015 by The Unicorn Farm

Luke is the founder and CEO of Safety Culture, one of Australia's most promising startups.

Laura is the founder and CEO of Scale Investors, a female-focused investment fund.

Darcy was one of the co-founders of the remarkable starup factory, York Butter Factory. Hear the story behind this and an insight into Melbourne's startup scene.

Andrew Corbett-Jones, Tyro Fintech Hub by The Unicorn Farm