The largest student-led entrepreneurial event in Aotearoa. Three days bringing the most ambitious founders, operators, and builders in the country into one room.
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This Summit is our own dream, and we are building it to put New Zealand's next generation of founders and operators on the map.
Built by Startup Club New Zealand, the Summit is the room we wish existed when we walked onto campus for the first time. Across three days in Auckland, headline founders, operators, and investors share the stories that shape what is possible, through fireside conversations and hands-on workshops. This is a room for everyone with the drive to build, the founders starting companies and the operators who join them, scale them, and make them work.
Three days. One room.
Friday opens the Summit. The headline speakers and workshops run across the weekend.
Lift-off
Friday 14 August
The Summit lifts off. The community comes together, partners are welcomed, and the weekend ahead is set in motion.
Ignition
Saturday 15 August
Full power. Headline fireside conversations and hands-on workshops run back to back, with founders, operators, and investors on stage.
Landing
Sunday 16 August
The Summit comes in to land, sending every delegate off with the people, ideas, and momentum to go build.
Every headline slot runs 55 minutes, in a fireside chat and talkshow format. Workshops run in intimate rooms across the weekend.
Backed by the best
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The speakers
The founders, operators, and investors taking the stage across the weekend, here to show every builder in the room what is possible.
Sam Stubbs
Founder of Simplicity
Penelope Barton
Founder of Crimson Academy
Shane Liu
Founder of Sumthin Dumpling
Mike Hurn
CEO at Deloitte
Bowen Pan & Maya Pan
Founders of Growth NZ
Vignesh Kumar
Co-Managing Partner at GD1
James Palmer
Principal at Blackbird
Mason Bleakley
Principal at Icehouse Ventures
Jonathan Tan
Senior Investment Analyst at GD1
Panels and the full programme announced in the lead-up to August.
Hands-on sessions
Practical workshops run across the weekend, led by academics, university clubs, and companies.
Workshop hosts and topics are revealed in the lead-up to August.
SCNZ International
A segment running throughout the Summit weekend, reserved for the truly great entrepreneurs and influential figures who have shaped the world.
These are pre-recorded conversations with the people who changed the world. You submit your questions beforehand and we ask them on your behalf, then the conversation is shown across the Summit weekend. The room hears directly from the people who built what came before us.
Sir Stephen Tindall
Founder, The Warehouse Group
Sven A. Beiker
Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business
To be announced
Guest three
To be announced
Guest four
Four guests. Two confirmed so far.
The road to August
The Announcement
The Summit is revealed.
Tickets Live
Tickets go on sale.
The Build-Up
Speakers, panels, and workshops announced through the lead-up.
The Summit
Three days in Auckland. The room we have been building all year.
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