The Sunrise is a startup conference presented by founders, for founders. It brings together Australia’s most successful tech leaders to tell stories...

The Sunrise 2016: Australia's Most Successful Founders Tell Their Stories

Location:

Carriageworks
2015 NSW
Australia

sunrise 2016

Featuring

Melanie Perkins

Melanie Perkins

Founder & CEO, Canva

Melanie Perkins is the co-founder and CEO of online design platform Canva, one of Australia's fastest growing startups that now serves over 10 million users all over the world. She started working out of her Mum’s kitchen in suburban Perth and went on to attract investment from Silicon Valley heavyweights and even Hollywood actors Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson.

She’ll share her lessons on how to take on incumbent Goliaths and building a world-class team from Australia.

Mike Cannon Brookes

Mike Cannon Brookes

Co-founder/CEO of Atlassian

Mike Cannon-Brookes is the co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, a team collaboration software company that helps teams organize, collaborate and communicate around shared work.
 
More than 48,000 large and small organizations – including some of the biggest names in media, manufacturing and technology such as Citigroup, eBay, Coca-Cola, BMW and NASA – use Atlassian’s tracking, collaboration, communication, service management and development products to work smarter and deliver quality results on time.
 
Mike has received international recognition for his work, including the ‘Australian IT Professional of the Year’ award in 2004, and ‘Australian Entrepreneur Of The Year’ in 2006. He's also been honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2009 and is currently a member of The Forum of Young Global Leaders.
 
Outside Atlassian, Mike is an active angel investor and a non-executive director of Tyro, a technology-focused Australian bank. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales' School of Computer Science and Engineering.
Andre Eikmeier

Andre Eikmeier

Co-founder/CEO of Vinomofo

After years of poverty, stupidity, half an accounting degree, an acting career in four out of five of Australia's worst TV shows, a singing career that never transcended being lead singer in a one hit wonders covers band, founding Australia’s first professional theatre production company which produced one play that lost over $100,000, and a year-long kombi wine adventure travelling round the country...
 
... Andre finally launched online wine site Vinomofo with brother in law Justin in 2011, which has grown to one of Australia’s Startup success stories, growing in 4 years from 2 people in a garage in Adelaide to a team of 80, with over 300,000 members and annual revenue of over $40 million, Deloitte's Fastest Growing Australian Tech company in 2013, BRW’s Best Employer 2014 and Online Retailer of the Year at the 2015 Online Retail Industry Awards.
Chris Boshuizen

Chris Boshuizen

Chris Boshuizen is Co-Founder former CTO of Planet Labs. He is responsible for the system architecture and oversees the engineering teams.
 
Prior to Planet, Chris was a Space Mission Architect at NASA Ames Research, where he co-created the PhoneSat Project --- PhoneSat was the cheapest and fastest built spacecraft at NASA --- and lead multiple partnership projects between NASA and private space exploration companies.
 
Prior to NASA, Chris was appointed Interim executive Director of Singularity University, coordinated the founding of the University and raised over $2.5 million of initial funding from Silicon Valley sources.
 
In 2014 Chris was awarded the Advance Global Award as Expatriate Australian of the Year. Chris received his Ph.D. in Physics and Bachelors of Science with Honours from the University of Sydney. 
Craig Barratt

Craig Barratt

Senior Vice President, Access and Energy, at Google

Craig is an Australian technology executive who grew up in Sydney and has spent most of his career in Silicon Valley. He joined Google in 2013, and oversees its Access division, which includes Google Fiber, the gigabit-speed internet service, OnHub, Google’s smart Wi-Fi router, and Railtel, its project to provide Wi-Fi service at up to 400 railway stations across India.

The co-inventor of 34 US patents, Craig was previously President and CEO of Atheros, one of the semiconductor pioneers of Wi-Fi, where he led its public offering on NASDAQ in 2004 and sale to Qualcomm for US$3.6 billion in 2011. He is sometimes referred to in the industry as “the other Craig Barratt” to avoid confusion with former Chairman and CEO of Intel, Craig Barrett.

Craig holds PhD and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and B.Eng. and B.Sc. degrees from the University of Sydney.

He is the co-author of a book on Linear Controller Design and several open source projects.

Julie Stevanja

Julie Stevanja

Founder of Stylerunner

Julie Stevanja and her sister Sali quit their jobs and started working long 18 hours days on their startup e-commerce site Stylerunner.

It only took them three months to launch and now their company is worth of almost $10 million, growing 1736% in just 3 years.

Event Details

The Sunrise is a startup conference presented by founders, for founders. It brings together Australia’s most successful tech leaders to tell stories from their beginnings. They talk about the pivotal decisions, the big mistakes, the near misses and the a-ha moments. Their tales are embarrassing, exhilarating and inspiring.   

Learn firsthand what it takes to build a successful startup here in Australia, and get to hang out with a bunch of founders at all stages of their own journeys.

This year’s Sunrise speakers are a diverse group of people. They come from all walks of life but are all on the same mission to build the next generation’s most relevant technology companies.

Mike Cannon-Brookes is co-founder and CEO of Atlassian, which recently listed on NASDAQ. He began his journey out of university hoping to match the $48,000 starting salary the IT consulting firms were offering. Almost accidentally, he became a billionaire. Learn how he did it, and what comes next after world domination.

Melanie Perkins is the co-founder and CEO of online design platform Canva, one of Australia's fastest growing startups that now serves over 10 million users all over the world. She started working out of her mum’s kitchen in suburban Perth and went on to attract investment from Silicon Valley heavyweights and even Hollywood actors Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson. She’ll share her lessons on how to take on incumbent Goliaths like Adobe and building a world-class team from Australia.

Andre Eikmeier founded Vinomofo with his brother-in-law in 2011 as a ‘Facebook for Wine-lovers’, after a career that included half an accounting degree and an acting career in four out of five of Australia's worst TV shows. Vinomofo is now one of Australia’s fastest growing tech companies with over 300,000 members, over $40m in revenue and a grand vision to change the way people all over the world buy and drink wine.

Craig Barratt is head of Google Fiber where he’s helping to extend global internet access via fibre-optic lines, satellites and drones and essentially is building NBN-sized networks at Google-speed. Before Google, Craig was CEO of Atheros, one of the semiconductor pioneers of Wi-Fi.

Chris Boshuizen co-founded Planet Labs, whose mission is to image the entire Earth every day, and provide universal access to that data. He was also recently a Space Mission Architect at NASA Ames Research Centre.

Julie Stevanja and her sister Sali quit their jobs and started working long 18 hours days on their startup e-commerce site Stylerunner. It only took them three months to launch and now their company is worth of almost $10 million, growing 1736% in just 3 years.

With more speakers to be announced, The Sunrise is the best founders conference in Australia. By founders, for founders.

The Sunrise is presented by Blackbird Ventures and Startmate.

 

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