West Tech Fest 2024 | West Tech Fest | 1 December 2024 | TBA, Perth, WA, Australia

This event exists to connect local startup founders and tech entrepreneurs with global thought leaders amongst Western Australia’s most stunning landscapes. The event annually attracts thousands of delegates from across WA, Australia, and the world to Perth in December each year for what is now Australia’s longest running tech and innovation festival.

Before being known, the festival was originally a showcase of technology and innovation through the WApp Awards, held in 2011 and 2012, which was a competition run to identify the best mobile app concept from staff, students and alumni of Western Australian universities.

From the success of the 2012 awards, the OzApp Awards (2013-2017) were developed to take the WApp Awards concept nation-wide. Hosted in Perth, the awards attracted an audience of world-leading investors and entrepreneurs, including a host of Silicon Valley venture capitalists specialising in technology and innovation.

Today as the event, with support from the Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation’s New Industries Fund, West Tech Fest welcomes visitors from all over WA, Australia and the world, showcasing the very best of Australia’s technology innovation community and highlighting the lessons that can be learned from creating a startup business in Western Australia.

Objectives:

• Raising awareness
Raise the public profile and awareness of Western Australia’s technology and innovation capabilities and support the positioning of Western Australia as an innovation hub.

• Celebrating WA
Champion West Australian startups and their successes.

• Building capability
Attract investment for West Australian startups and innovators.

• Building connections
Foster effective collaboration within the startup ecosystem between universities, government, and industry.