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Partner with FWD›››FEST 25

Partner with FWD›››FEST 25

Register your interest

Unlock the power of connection, innovation, and opportunity by partnering with FWD›››FEST 25, the ultimate entrepreneurial and innovation festival. As a sponsor, you’ll showcase your brand, engage with a dynamic audience, and gain access to invaluable networks that drive tangible business outcomes.

Why partner with FWD›››FEST?

Benefits

Build brand awareness

Generate unique revenue opportunities for your company by becoming Forward Fest partner.

  • Unmatched Exposure: Position your brand as a leader in the entrepreneurial ecosystem with premium branding opportunities across festival activities.
  • Exclusive Access: Connect with innovators, investors, policymakers, and entrepreneurs through keynote events, VIP dinners, and curated networking sessions.
  • Tailored Engagement: Choose sponsorship packages aligned to your strategic goals, including naming rights, speaking opportunities, and exclusive hosting roles.
  • Drive Impact: Support a thriving innovation community while demonstrating your commitment to entrepreneurship, sustainability, and collaboration.
Sunshine Coast the entrepreneurship capital of Australia, based on the proportion of the workforce who owned their own business
Bernard Salt, Australia's leading social commentator

Sponsorship Opportunities

FWD›››FEST 25

Choose a package that best suits your business

MEGA Partner

$80,000* per annum

the driving force behind FWD›››FEST 25

Branding and promotion

  • Predominant brand attached to FWD›››FEST 25
  • Inclusion in printed Program and App
  • 1-page advert in the program
  • Website and social media presence
  • Feature in FWD NEWS throughout the lead-up
  • Showcase double site in a prominent position

Event Participation and Access

  • Speaking opportunity
  • Host of FWD›CELEBRATION Dinner
  • 2 invitations to both VIP AQ & Partners dinners (6th & 7th)
  • Table of 10 at FWD›KEYNOTE Breakfast and FWD›CELEBRATION Dinner
  • 10 x DAY ONE passes
  • 4 x DAY TWO passes
  • 4 x DAY THREE passes
  • Additional tickets at continuous Early Bird rates

Networking and Exclusive Engagements

  • Inclusion on FWD FORCE
  • Invitations to quarterly FWD›››25 Event Program
  • Invitations to private events throughout 2025
  • Invitations to the End-of-Year Celebration (25th Nov 2025)

Extended Opportunities

  • Acknowledgement across the entire FWD›››25 program of events and initiatives
  • Opportunity to provide a speaker for FWD›››25
  • Inclusion in SCI Delegations to major events (e.g., Tropical Innovation Festival, Something Fest, SxSW, Captech)

Customised Benefits

  • Tailored sponsorship benefits aligned to your strategy
  • Video interview to spotlight your brand and contributions
Register your interest

Strategic Partners

$60,000*

Government and private organisations utilising FWD›››FEST for stability, growth and certainty in the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem over the long-term

Branding and Promotion

  • Dominant branding attached to FWD›››FEST 25
  • Inclusion in printed Program and App
  • 1-page advert in the program
  • Website and social media presence
  • Feature in FWD NEWS throughout the lead-up
  • Showcase site in a prominent position

Event Participation and Access

  • Ability to provide speakers and inclusions for Streams
  • Host of the Showcase, including Innovation, Youth, Partners, and LEAP participants
  • 2 invitations to both VIP AQ & Partners dinners (6th & 7th)
  • Table of 10 at FWD›KEYNOTE Breakfast and FWD›CELEBRATION Dinner
  • 10 x DAY ONE tickets
  • 2 x DAY TWO and DAY THREE passes
  • Additional tickets at continuous Early Bird rates

Networking and Exclusive Engagements

  • Inclusion on FWD FORCE
  • Invitations to quarterly FWD Event Program
  • Invitations to private events throughout 2025
  • Invitations to the End-of-Year Celebration (25th Nov 2025)

Extended Opportunities

  • Acknowledgement across the entire FWD›››25 program of events and initiatives
  • Inclusion in SCI Delegations to major events (e.g., Tropical Innovation Festival, Something Fest, SxSW, Captech)

Customised Benefits

  • Tailored sponsorship agreement aligned to your strategy
  • Video interview to highlight your brand and engagement
Register your interest

Core Partners

$25,500*

Serious about long term support and success for innovators and entrepreneurs and wish to develop a multi-year, long-term engagement with FWD

Branding and Promotion

  • Brand attached to FWD›››FEST 25
  • Inclusion in printed Program and App
  • 1/2-page advert in the program
  • Website and social media presence
  • Feature in FWD NEWS throughout the lead-up
  • Showcase site in a prominent position

Event Participation and Access

  • Ability to provide speakers and inclusions for Streams
  • Co-host of DAY THREE, including FWD›ACTIVITY and FWD›LEADERS Lunch
  • Host of the Business Matching service (new to 2025)
  • 2 invitations to both VIP AQ & Partners dinners (6th & 7th)
  • 2 invitations to FWD›KEYNOTE Breakfast and FWD›CELEBRATION Dinner
  • 6 x DAY ONE passes
  • 2 x DAY TWO and DAY THREE passes
  • Additional tickets at continuous Early Bird rates

Networking and Exclusive Engagements

  • Inclusion on FWD FORCE
  • Invitations to quarterly FWD Event Program
  • Invitations to private events throughout 2025
  • Invitations to the End-of-Year Celebration (25th Nov 2025)

Extended Opportunities

  • Acknowledgement across the entire FWD›››25 program of events and initiatives
  • Inclusion in SCI Delegations to major events (e.g., Tropical Innovation Festival, Something Fest, SxSW, Captech)

Customised Benefits

  • Tailored sponsorship benefits aligned to your strategy
  • Video interview to spotlight your brand and contributions
Register your interest

Event Partners

$10,000

Specific to FWD›››FEST 25, event partners enable the delivery of a world class innovation and entrepreneurial festival

Branding and Promotion

  • Naming partner on a chosen activity:
  • FWD›KEYNOTE Breakfast Speaker (DAY ONE or DAY TWO)
  • FWD›LUNCH & LEARN Speaker (DAY ONE)
  • FWD›CONNECTOR (SOLD) - DAY ONE
  • FWD›KEYNOTE Closing Speaker - DAY TWO
  • Naming partner at a chosen VIP Dinner:
  • VIP AQ Welcome Dinner (SOLD) - Tue 6 May
  • VIP Partners Dinner - Wed 7 May
  • Inclusion in printed Program and App
  • 1/4-page advert in the program
  • Website and social media presence
  • Feature in FWD NEWS throughout the lead-up
  • Showcase site

Event Participation and Access

  • 2 invitations to VIP Partners Dinner (Wed 7 May)
  • 2 invitations to FWD›KEYNOTE Breakfast and FWD›››CELEBRATION Dinner
  • 2 x DAY ONE passes
  • 1 x DAY TWO and DAY THREE pass
  • Additional tickets at continuous Early Bird rates

Networking and Exclusive Engagements

  • Inclusion on FWD FORCE

Customised Benefits

  • Video interview to spotlight your brand and contributions
Register your interest

Legacy Partners

$5,000 per event

Educators, ecosystem enablers, industry groups, chambers and organisations who wish to accelerate the success of the groups they represent. Perfect for those focused on unrepresented groups and those with a membership model.

Branding and Promotion

  • Brand exposure across FWD›››FEST 25
  • Inclusion in printed Program and App
  • 1/4-page advert in the program
  • Website and social media presence
  • Feature in FWD NEWS throughout the lead-up
  • Showcase site

Event Participation and Access

  • 1 invitation to VIP Partners Dinner (Wed 7 May)
  • 1 invitation to FWD›KEYNOTE Breakfast and FWD›CELEBRATION Dinner
  • 1 x DAY ONE and DAY TWO passes
  • Additional tickets at continuous Early Bird rates

Networking and Exclusive Engagements

  • Inclusion on FWD FORCE

Customised Benefits

  • Video interview to spotlight your brand and contributions
Register your interest

Delivery Partners

Responsible for delivery of FWD›››FEST 25

  • Customised agreements
Register your interest

Delegation Partners

Perfect for those who wish to bring a representative group to FWD›››FEST 25

Register your interest

PAY IT FORWARD Partner

from $1,800 (10 x day pass)

Support the ecosystem by purchasing packs of 10 of any ticket type and gift them to students or start-up entrepreneurs

Branding and Promotion

  • Website acknowledgement
  • PAY IT FORWARD social tile provided for your use Your brand included on the gift certificate to the ticket recipient so they know who has enabled their attendance

Conditions

  • A minimum of 10 tickets purchased & gifted to other recipients
Register your interest

Become a FWD›FEST Sponsor

Register your interest

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7 - 9 MAY 2025 Sunshine Coast

Contact

07 5444 1736
[email protected]
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Acknowledgement of Country

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.

Thank you for your support

Strategic Partners

Silicon Coast
Advance Queensland
Sunshine Coast Council

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