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Some of the most formative moments of my career were spent in the original Second Home in London's "Tech City" - not least, it was sitting in that magnificent creative space that I decided to go all-in and start Platoon back in 2015. That's one of the reasons I'm so excited to be hosting a conversation with Rohan Silva (Co-Founder of Second Home, Chief Architect of Tech City & Former Tech advisor to the UK PM & Chancellor) and Paul Fletcher MP, (Shadow Minister for Science, Arts, Government Services and the Digital Economy) at SXSW Sydney. We'll be chatting about "Building Tech City - Down Under" and in particular we'll hear Ro's learnings from building out London's innovation infrastructure alongside David Cameron & George Osborne in the early 2010's and Paul's view on what effective tech policy looks like in Australia and what more we can and should be doing. If you're tech policy-curious and want to be a part of creating a world-beating tech & venture ecosystem in Australia - then come join us! Monday 14th October, 3-4pm at E3.7 ICC SXSW Sydney cc Side Stage Ventures
Sounds like an interesting topic! Does Silicon Valley = the southern peninsula...or a state of mind? 🤔
Cannot wait to listen in on this one. Building the future of tech from Australia is my favourite topic… this is going to be fab.
This will be fab, loved reading Rohan's insights over my years living in London!
Tagging Michael Hallam, who will be representing Always Carbon on a panel at SXSW Sydney, in case you get to meet him/say hi Ben Grabiner
Sounds great Ben Grabiner, love to ask your perspective one time soon on the importance of Place. Firm focus of mine moving fwd, have a few examples to reference too. See you next week 👋
Looking forward to this Ben
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