In its tenth year, Spark Festival 2025 will again bring together thousands of people in the startup ecosystem for a week-long program of events, from 27 October to 2 November 2025.

As Australia’s largest startup event, Spark aims to drive engagement into and across the startup ecosystem. When started in 2015, there was a relative abundance of startup event activity to concentrate and coordinate. The necessary “spark” was engagement into and across these, which Spark Festival provided.

Today, ten years later, the landscape has changed, and Spark Festival must change too. The spark that is now needed is a spark to reignite event activity itself, and the next generation of ecosystem leaders who can convene gatherings worth attending in the emerging areas that are needed.

Events occur across Greater Sydney and regional NSW, with a focus on the Sydney CBD’s Tech Central precinct.

Spark has also run activitiesin other Australian states in the past. You canjoin many events online.