Brisbane’s Something Fest launches for 2022
Queensland’s Digital, Innovation and Technology Festival to happen this October
24 February 2022 – For immediate release
Something Fest., October’s week-long festival bringing together Queensland’s digital, innovation and technology communities, was launched at Brisbane’s Princess Theatre last night.
The festival, a collaboration between Something Digital, River City Labs and Proptech BNE, will showcase Queensland’s leading digital, Innovation and technology with a range of events spanning from workshops, networking events and forums to the annual RiverPitch startup event across five days between October 24 and 28.
The week will kick off with Something Digital which will bring together the entire digital innovation ecosystem - from startups and small business to large corporations, government and educational institutions. Over 4 days, Something Digital will feature: Roundtables, a 2-day flagship Conference, Open Studios and The Something School.
Half-way through the week the festival will unite with a celebration of networking and collision as the Something Tech kicks off. Something Tech will focus on the Queensland technology and startup sectors demonstrating Technology solving industry problems, with tech showcases on the innovation out of Qld, supported by expert insights and panels.
Running under the Something Tech umbrella, Proptech BNE. will deliver our first industry deep dive, a half-day Founders' Conference for the Australian property technology economy. The finale of the week on Friday culminates in the 2022 RiverPitch which will see up to ten of the state’s star business founders pitch to a room of investors and the best of Australia’s startup ecosystem.
River City Labs general manager, Pauline Fetaui, said at the Something Fest launch: “We’re thrilled to be involved in the week’s events which will bring together our most exciting technology startups, industry Customers, Investors and community to showcase Queensland and the nation’s Technology Innovations. We anticipate this will be a catalyst of new relationships, greater insight to Australia's high growth technology solving real world problems.”
Something Digital Co-Founder Nadine Zrinzo added: “Digital is the electricity that powers us all. It helps our businesses thrive, builds networks across the globe and maintains our sanity when we need it most. Digital is the piece that converts technology into human centred platforms which can be used, sold and marketed.
“All business is digital. Which is why Something Digital has been strengthening Queensland’s digital economy for the past four years.
“As we celebrate our 5th edition, we’re excited to be expanding into the Something Fest., bringing in startups, investors, and members of the proptech community to create Australia’s largest innovation festival for 2022”
Proptech BNE. Founder, Isaac Coonan added he is eager to align the core objectives and deliverables for Proptech BNE. with the broader Something Fest. agenda. “As an industry representative we believe this is what we need to do to, create a holistic community of vendors, innovators, government and startups by delivering tangible collaboration," Isaac said.
For a full schedule of the week’s events go to https://somethingfest.com.au/. Partner and sponsorship slots are still available.
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Director of Corporate Affairs and Public Policy
River City Labs is an incubator for Queensland's tech start up ecosystem. Now on its 10th year, River City Labs is focused on driving innovation by providing resources to empower, support and connect tech entrepreneurs, startup and scaleup businesses.
Since 2012 over 700 entrepreneurs have called RCL home. Through events and programs RCL has welcomed more than 29,000 guests into our community by hosting well over 1000 events aimed at supporting founders on their entrepreneurship journey.
Acquired by the Australian Computer Society in 2019, River City Labs powers a range of programs, events and engagement opportunities, enabling corporate partners to innovate differently and embed their teams within the start-up community.
About Something Digital
Whilst technology is key to solving complex problems, it is the digital piece that transforms tech into human centred platforms that can be used, marketed and sold. Digital innovation is the bridge between technology and humanity.
Designed around 3 key pillars, Something Digital:
· Strengthens digital capabilities within our offices, communities, schools and society
· Enables organisations from across industries to collaborate
· Showcases the great innovations happening right here, in our backyard
We achieve this by bringing together Queensland’s digital community throughout the year, culminating in the Something Digital festival in October.
About PropTech BNE.
PropTech BNE. focuses on supporting all aspects of the property technology sector from Residential Real Estate to Construction and everything in between by being a centralised platform for promotional activitiesfor the sector, facilitating industry connections, and regular events.
PropTech BNE. aims to work with all parties looking to support this growing sector and does not
exist to promote the individual agendas of government, corporates or VC's rather it highlights opportunities for the PropTech community.
ACS is the professional association for Australia's technology sector. ACS members work across business, education, government and the community securing the nation’s digital future.
ACS exists to create the environment and provide the opportunities for members and partners to succeed. ACS strives for technology professionals to be recognised as drivers of innovation in our society, relevant across all sectors, and to promote the formulation of effective policies on technology and related matters. Visit www.acs.org.au for more information.