Experience the digital future of the modern business worldFriday 2 December 2016, Geelong, Victoria

Pivot Summit is a world class event with impact and brings Australian and international thought leaders together to share insights on the future of digital and its impact on how we work, live and think.

Pivot Summit 2015 engaged over 300 creative and digital professionals with speakers, networking and collaboration. The event trended No 2 in Australia on Twitter for six hours and attracted significant commercial sponsorship and government funding.

Pivot Summit 2016 will be held on Friday 2 December in Geelong, Victoria. It expected that it will attract participation from over 600 attendees and more than 2,000 unique online streams.

What is Pivot Summit?

The response from attendees and local stakeholders was extremely positive with a post-event survey yielding the following results:

95% agreed or strongly agreed

the event

provided a good overview of digital

business and innovation

98% agreed or strongly

agreed the

presenters had a strong knowledge

of the topics presented

80% of survey respondents

either agreed

or strongly agreed the event provided

them with information they can apply

to their business

94% said they would be interested in

attending again

For more information and access to videos from Pivot Summit 2015

– please visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAmWocUdbib1A8qa6sdKREg

Part of the ongoing impact of Pivot Summit was the quantum and qualityof information sharing via social media from presenters and attendees.

Stories from Pivot Summit 2015

Silicon Valley Comes To Silicon BayAn interview by Brian Solis conducted with fellow presenter Robert Scoble (both with significant social media audiences) was shared and viewed over 6,000 times across the world. This short video supported the promotion of Pivot Summit via two respected leaders from Silicon Valley as well as profiling Geelong as a destination.

Kickstarter campaign – AirBoltRobert Scoble interviewed an attendee about his Kickstarter (crowd funding) campaign that was going to be launched that night. Robert Scoble has over 660,000 followers on Facebook. The product is a Bluetooth travel/luggage lock that you unlock with your phone so you don’t need to worry about keys and the lock can’t be picked.

Robert posted the interview on Facebook prior to the crowd funding launch. As a result of the exposure on social media the Kickstarter campaign reached its $50,000 target within a few days. The campaign ended up raising $150,000.

Pivot Summit was first held in 2015 as a single day event and is planned to grow into a multi-day, multi-site event incorporating digital and interactive film, music and exhibitions, entrepreneurial innovation, idea generation and creative collaboration over the years. It aims to be Australia’s answer to the South by Southwest (SXSW) www.sxsw.com/about

What is the vision for Pivot Summit?

Pivot Summit wants to inspire, motivate and educate its audience of digital and creative people and equip them with ideas and insights to innovate within their own organisations and generate economic and social benefits.

In 2016, Pivot Summit is developing a program of activities and events along the following themes:

Digital Inclusion

Emerging technologies

Jobs of the Future

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Held annually in Geelong, Pivot Summit has the potential to:

Facilitate local and national innovation

Not only develop, but significantly drive Geelong digital and creative industries

Generate awareness of jobs in the knowledge economy

Act as a catalyst for networking local digital and creative professionals with global digital and creative leaders and influencers

Bring international attention to the investment and lifestyle opportunities in Geelong

What is the purpose of the Pivot Summit?

Who is behind Pivot Summit?Pivot Summit was conceived as the brainchild of Geelong-based digital marketer Leighton Wells (Digitalsmith) and is supported by Telstra as a major partner. A committee has been formed under a not for profit association structure.

The committee includes a group of Geelong entrepreneurs and creative industries professionals with a belief in the global economic potential of digital and creative industries in Australia’s future and the opportunity for Geelong to be a key player.

Leighton Wells PresidentDigitalsmith

(Director, Strategy)

Aamir Qutub SecretaryEnterprise Monkey (CEO)

Jennifer Cromarty Committee MembertandemVox (Director)

Mike Beck TreasurerFluid (Managing Director)

Martha O’Sullivan Committee MemberTarget (IT Management)

Toby Durden Committee MemberDeakin University (eCapabilities Manager)

Pivot Summit Inc Committee

Pivot Summit is supported via Testra Digital and links to Telstra’s Digital Summit held in Sydney each year. Monty Hamilton leads digital operations for Telstra – Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, and is a strong supporter of Pivot Summit. Telstra Digital is a proud commercial partner of Pivot Summit and supports the short, medium and long term objectives of the event.

Commercial partner – Telstra Digital

Pivot Summit 2015 sponsors and partnersPivot Summit was well supported in 2015 through the following sponsors and partners:

Pivot Summit has clear linkages to future job creation and growth of the knowledge economy and creative industries. As an industry sector, the growth and awareness of creative industries as a key lever to driving knowledge economy growth is not currently a part of the everyday economic narrative. This needs to change

What are the knowledge economy and creative industries?

Creative industries include activities associated with software and interactive content, film, TV and radio, publishing, architecture, visual arts and design, advertising, public relations and marketing, and music and the performing arts.

For more information visit: www.creativegeelong.com.au

Geelong is transitioning from a traditional manufacturing economy to a knowledge economy.

Pivot Summit is a local, industry-led event that was created to tell stories of our collective ‘digital future.’

Key speakers

Pivot Summit 2016

Chief Innovation Officer, Australia Post - Greg’s current role at Australia Post positions him on the bleeding edge of emerging tech and enables Australia Post to continue to reinvent themselves and ensure their market offerings remain current, relevant and focussed…. To read more visit http://pivotsummit.com.au/

Greg SutherlandChief Innovation, Officer, Australia Post

Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Upload VR - working for one of the coolest, hippest companies in the burgeoning VR space, Californian-based Robert returns to Geelong for his 2nd Pivot Summit ready to challenge the status quo and our thinking on…. To read more visit http://pivotsummit.com.au/

Robert ScobleEntrepreneur Upload VR

Kate Morris is the Founder and CEO of Adorebeauty.com.au, Australia’s first online beauty store. She launched the business from her garage in 1999 at the age of 21, while still an undergraduate student. In 2015, after 15 years of bootstrapping, Adorebeauty.com.au announced an investment by retail giant Woolworths Limited. Kate was awarded the Business Innovation Award for Victoria at the Telstra Business Women’s Awards in 2014, and was inducted into the Australian Businesswomen’s Network Hall of Fame in 2015.

International author, speaker and social commentator - also hailing from California, this is Shel’s first bill at Pivot Summit where he will be launching his latest book, co-authored with Robert Scoble. Immersed in the emerging tech scene and…. To read more visit http://pivotsummit.com.au/

Shel IsraelInternational Author and Speaker

Kate MorrisFounder and CEO of Adore Beauty

Vice-President of Linux Australia and open source technology specialist. Kathy is an independent digital and technology consultant with a broad and deep experience in many areas of technology including applications and web programming, video conferencing, digital signage and devops. She loves strategy, maturity models and documentation and is deeply interested in technology’s influence on the future of society and humanity. To read more visit http://pivotsummit.com.au/

Georgia is the CEO of Start Up Victoria, the largest entrepreneurship group in Victoria. As CEO, Georgia has been charged with the responsibility “to make Victoria the number one tech destination in the Asia Pacific”. Georgia is a successful, global entrepreneur & a pioneer of the single-serve wine industry. Georgia founded Single Serve Packaging in 2010. Her Lupé brand was recognised by BRW as ‘Top 10 Startup 2012’. To read more visit http://pivotsummit.com.au/

Kathy ReidVice President, Linux Australia

Georgia BeattieCEO, Startup Victoria

An industry veteran, CTO, Director of Engineering and Solutions at Samsung Electronics. Ian is tasked to leverage the company’s success in consumer electronics to break new ground for its Enterprise and SMB (Small & Medium Business) businesses. His vision is to develop new ways of using Samsung technologies to bring about business transformation. To read more visit http://pivotsummit.com.au/

Alisa Bowen is the Chief Technology Officer for News Corp Australia. Alisa has a decorated digital career, spanning organisations that include Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones (publisher of The Wall Street Journal) and Newscorp. She is an experienced digital product and consumer technology executive with 18 years’ global experience in media and business information industries. To read more visit http://pivotsummit.com.au/

Ian AitkenChief Technology Officer, Samsung Australia

Alisa BowenCTO, Group Director, News Corp

Sponsorship Package Options

Pivot Summit 2016

Gold Sponsorship Package – $50,000Includes: 6 x 3 booth space included

(value $4,500)

3 tickets to Pivot Summit VIP dinner (value $900) – also your company referred to as a VIP dinner sponsor

15 tickets to Pivot Summit 2016 (value $4,500)

Logos on all print and digital collateral (banners, posters, flyers, and advertising websites)

Promotion as a sponsor through all social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+)

Opportunity to have a speaker presented by your company eg. company name proudly presents speakername

Silver Sponsorship Package – $30,000Includes: 3 x 3 booth space included

(value $2,500)

2 tickets to Pivot Summit VIP dinner (value $600)

10 tickets to Pivot Summit 2016 (value $3,000)

Logos on all print and digital collateral (banners, posters, flyers, and advertising, websites)

Promotion as a sponsor through all social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+)

Bronze Sponsorship Package – $15,000Includes: 1 ticket to Pivot Summit VIP dinner

(value $300)

5 tickets to Pivot Summit 2016 (value $1,500)

Logos on Pivot Summit 2016 website

Promotion as a sponsor through all social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+)

No booth space included

Workshop Sponsor – $10,000Includes: Workshop sponsored by your company e.g. company name proudly presents workshop name

2 x pull up banners + brochures in the workshop area

3 tickets to Pivot Summit 2016 (value $900)

Logos on Pivot Summit 2016 website

Promotion as a sponsor through all social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+)

Pivot Pitch Sponsor – $20,000Includes: Pivot Pitch sponsored by your company e.g. company name proudly presents Pivot Pitch

Opportunity to present prizes at the conclusion of Pivot Pitch

Special mention on the Pivot Pitch section of the Pivot Summit website

2 x pull up banners + brochures in the Pivot Pitch area

+ all the benefits of the Bronze Sponsorship package

Lanyard Sponsor - $10,000Includes: Lanyard co-branded with Pivot Summit

3 tickets to Pivot Summit 2016 (value $900)

Logos on Pivot Summit 2016 website

Promotion as a sponsor through all social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+)

Bag Sponsor - $10,000Includes: Event bag co-branded with Pivot Summit

Opportunity to place a key promotional item into the bag

3 tickets to Pivot Summit 2016 (value $900)

Logos on Pivot Summit 2016 website

Promotion as a sponsor through all social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google+)

Vip Dinner Sponsor - $20,000Includes: VIP Dinner sponsored by your

company e.g. company name proudly presents the Pivot Summit VIP Dinner

Opportunity to present a 10min presentation at the VIP Dinner

3 tickets to Pivot Summit VIP dinner (value $300)

+ all the benefits of the Bronze Sponsorship package

Ticket Pricing

Pivot Summit 2016

Early Bird Tickets(Available until October 2nd)

Buy a ticket before October 2nd and get $50 off the standard ticket price.

$300

General Ticket

Attend Pivot Summit 2016 on December 2nd at The Arena.

$350

Early Bird Group Tickets(Available until October 2nd)

Buy more than 10 tickets before October 2nd and get $75 off the standard ticket price.

$2,750

Group Tickets(10+ Tickets)

Buy more than 10 tickets and get $25 off the standard ticket price.

$3,250

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