Maxine Sherrin
Former Festival Director, Spark Festival
“A relentless passion for identifying your customer and identifying their needs and serving those needs. That's the only way, basically.” Hear the conversation
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Spark Festival
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Latest conversation · Documentary: The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem
The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem - Part 1About Spark Festival
Spark Festival is a startup festival based in Sydney that has run every year since 2016; its eleventh edition ran from 21 to 27 September 2026. The organiser, Spark Festival Limited, is a not-for-profit and registered charity that now presents itself as the Spark Foundation, a grassroots group working on startup community, advocacy and investment. Harry Godber is its chief executive.
- Sector
- Startup festival / events
- Business model
- Non-profit
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquarters
- Sydney
- Offices
- Sydney
- Markets
- New South Wales, Australia
Sources: startupdaily.net, spark.org.au
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Documentary: The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem - Part 1
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Documentary: The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem - Part 4
With Maxine Sherrin
The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem - Interview Series Maxine Sherrin discusses the importance of building a community of innovators
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“I'm the founding CEO of Stone and Chalk and the co-founder of Spark Festival, both of which are not-for-profits.”
“one of the people suggested I go to some events at Strata Chalk. So I went to the Spark Festival events there and volunteered at StartCon in 2018 and was totally hooked”
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