Our Vision
The ultimate FESTIVAL for the entrepreneurial journey
FWD›››FEST is more than just an event - it’s a movement! From May 7 – 9 2025, the Sunshine Coast will become the epicenter of entrepreneurship, innovation, and collaboration. Designed for entrepreneurs and innovators at every stage, the festival provides tools, connections, and inspiration to navigate challenges and seize opportunities.
Founded in 2022 FWD›››FEST is an annual festival that brings entrepreneurs, innovators, and supporters together in a unique platform for collaboration, mentorship, and networking, enabling participants to share ideas, connect, and create opportunities for growth and success.
Being an entrepreneur and/or innovator can be a lonely game as few understand your drive and aptitude for risk. Immerse yourself in a community that 1000% ‘gets’ you. Surround yourself with people and organisations solely focused on helping and supporting you!
FWD›››FEST is masterfully designed to encourage collaborative collisions that lead to new business opportunities, funding pathways, mentorship and connections that will drive your vision forward. The program brings together entrepreneurs and innovators at all stages - from idea creation to proven success.
We understand that you are driven to make a difference in the world. FWD›››FEST brings together our unique community of problem solvers to attack some of the world’s most wicked problems. Become a part of immersive and interactive experiences that will shape the future of the world.
FWD›››FEST is designed for entrepreneurs of all stages of the journey from idea formation to global success. FWD›››FEST provides a genuine gathering of the like-minded for validation, growth and support.
Bringing together students, teachers and mentors, FWD›››FEST provides incredible opportunities for students of entrepreneurship to engage in practical application of their learnings.
FWD›››FEST is a showcase of entrepreneurial innovation perfect for VC’s looking for their next investment, an incubator looking for innovators or policy makers wanting to understand the needs of the ecosystem.
Whether government or private industry, if you provide a service or support mechanism to Australia’s entrepreneurs and innovators - FWD›››FEST is for you! Opportunities exist to exhibit and promote your product or services to FWD›››FEST delegates.
7 - 9 MAY 2025 Sunshine Coast
Silicon Coast and partners pays our deepest respect to the Traditional Custodians of this country; the Kabi Kabi and Jinibara peoples of the coastal plains and hinterlands of the Sunshine Coast, as we honor them as the original storytellers, innovators, and custodians of this land, embracing their wisdom to innovate while respecting the sacred ground on which it takes place.
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