StartupSmart<\/em> they expect StartCon to be held in Melbourne next year.<\/p>\n“The contractual negotiations to host StartCon in Melbourne are continuing and while the negotiations have not progressed as quickly as we would have liked we are committed to supporting the startup ecosystem, here and across Australia,” the spokesperson says.<\/p>\n
“For this reason we are comfortable with the conference being held at the Royal Randwick Racecourse this year – it’s better that the 2016 conference go ahead rather than be delayed and support no one.<\/p>\n
“We look forward to finalising details for StartCon to debut in Melbourne in 2017 and echo Freelancer CEO Matt Barrie’s sentiments that the move will be exciting and one that will help grow the conference to be bigger and better.”<\/p>\n
Freelancer CEO Matt Barrie says the conference has been running in Sydney since it was founded in 2009.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur roots are in Sydney and we cannot ignore that,\u201d Barrie says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to focus on giving Sydney and Australia an even better conference and look at doing more cities in 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s instalment saw 2000 people attend across two days and with a bigger venue, Mack says they\u2019re aiming for 3000 attendees this year.<\/p>\n
The lineup is yet to be revealed but early bird tickets to StartCon 2017 are already available.<\/p>\n
The first round of speakers will be announced in the coming weeks and Mack says these will include \u201ca lot of big names\u201d.<\/p>\n
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