ASTN WA Networking Event: Showcasing WA’s sportstech leaders and global trends in the sportstech & investment landscape

ASTN and our partners City of Perth (major sponsor) and the Government of Western Australia New Industries Fund (supporting sponsor) welcome you to our special end-of-year event where we will hear from leading voices from WA’s and Australia’s world-class sportstech industry. We welcome anyone interested in sports, entrepreneurship, investment and sportstech to come along and understand what is happening both locally and globally in sportstech.

Date: Tuesday 3 December 2024
Time: 5:00pm-7:30pm
Venue: City of Perth Library (The Auditorium)
Address: 573 Hay St, Perth WA 6000

ASTN WA Networking Event: Showcasing WA’s sportstech leaders and global trends in the sportstech & investment landscape

Three of Australia’s prominent sportstech investors will identify the key trends that they are seeing in the global sportstech industry and investment landscape, and the likely opportunities these trends will have on the Australian sportstech and broader sports industries.

Panel 1: Future Trends in Sportstech and Venture Capital
Three leaders in Australia’s sportstech industry will share their insights on trends that they are seeing in the burgeoning global sportstech industry. They will highlight what they see as the key growth segments of the industry as well as provide insights into the fast-moving sportstech venture capital landscape.

James Godfrey – Group CEP & Foudning Partner (XV Capital)
Stirling Mortlock – Founding Partner (XV Capital)
Craig Hill – Co-Founder (Australian Sports Technologies Network)

To round out the event, across two panel sessions, eight of WA’s leading sportstech founders will share their journeys and showcase why their technologies are making them category winners in a burgeoning global sportstech sector.

Panel 2: Leading Sportstech Founders
Some of WA’s leading sportstech founders will share the ups and downs of their journeys and showcase why their technologies are making them category winners in the sportstech sector.

Sebastian Gray – CEO & Co-Founder (Everclime)
Isaak Dury – Founder (TidyHQ)
Steve Mancini – Business Analyst (MiClub)
Ben Sandhu – Co-Founder and Director (IDA Sports)

Panel 3: Emerging Sportstech Founders – Pitch / Panel
Some of WA’s emerging sportstech founders will showcase details of their early-stage startups which are servicing various segments of the sports, health and fitness industries.

Gaby Villa – Founder (IntensEATFit)
Phil Steyn – Co-Founder and CEO (SportCentrALL)
Bhavesh Nathoo – Founder (3D Measure Me)

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Partnership facilitates community engagement

In partnership with the City of Perth, ASTN hosted three events on 3rd December in Perth focused on building a plan for the future of the sportstech industry in Perth as well as showcasing leading and emerging sports technologies.

The day started with 30 sports, sportstech and vested industry stakeholders contributing to an interactive Industry Roundtable aimed at developing ideas, activities and other initiatives that can help drive the growth of the local sportstech industry. An action plan is being drafted from the session which will provide the foundation for future priorities for ASTN and key stakeholders in Perth.

The afternoon Investment Pitching Workshop provided a unique opportunity for seven Perth-based founders to pitch to some of Australia’s leading sportstech investors. After the pitching sessions the founders were able to engage directly with the investors to gain additional feedback on their pitches, their business opportunity and future investment prospects.

The day closed out with a fast-paced networking event at the City of Perth Library Auditorium, hosting around 80 delegates. Three panels were facilitated including one on venture capital markets and global sportstech trends by Stirling Mortlock and James Godfrey from XV Capital. Seven Perth-based founders also shared details of their sportstech businesses and their plans for the future.