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The Credit Suisse Australian Tech Forum will bring together unlisted and listed tech companies, industry experts and investors to discuss the outlook, challenges and opportunities for Australia’s homegrown tech landscape.
Disruption down under: Homegrown tech opportunities
At the forum, speakers will discuss topics on how to value tech; AI, the future of work and the gig economy; the growing pains of global expansion; the democratisation of data; the hype versus the reality of 5G; the view from the boardroom of incumbents and a closer look at the high valuations of SaaS business models, plus much more.
Agenda: Friday, April 5, 2019
| 08:45 – 09:00 | Light breakfast & conference registration |
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Welcome address
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| 09:10 – 09:50 | How to value tech Should I use TAM, CAC, LTV, MAUs or ARR? Investors consistently grapple with how to accurately value tech companies that don’t conform to traditional valuation models. What should you look for and what questions do you need to ask? How do you build an effective and sustainable valuation model that can be applied broadly across a portfolio? Discussion with:
Moderator: Luk Janssens, Global Technology Specialist Sales, Credit Suisse |
| 09:50 – 10:30 | The future of work & AI Will technology transform human capital management - liberating both workers and companies? Big data and AI are increasingly finding applications across the workforce. On the one hand, AI and automation have the potential to disrupt traditional notions of a career and displace a range of workforce functions. On the other hand, big data applications are ushering a new era of human capital management, with the potential to facilitate more engaged workforces, more sustainable cultures and better safety performance. This will inevitably create risks and opportunities for companies as organized labour, wage negotiations, re-skilling and education all respond to the evolving landscape. Discussion with:
Moderator: Phineas Glover, ESG analyst, Credit Suisse |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Coffee / smoothies / chat |
| 10:50 – 11:30 | TaaS – The rise of the human cloud & the impact of the gig economy This panel probes into the depths of the 'Human Cloud' - the freelancing, crowdsourcing, shift-shifting workforce which is enabled by the websites/marketplaces and digital platforms transforming work across Australia . We dive deeper into each busines model: is B2B better than B2C? Do they deserve internet tech valuations, or are talent supplier multiples more appropriate? What are the barriers to entry? How important is the network effect and how is that measured? Are the B2B players just for SMEs, or can they tap the Enterprise market? Discussion with:
Moderator: Sophie Robertson, Equity Sales, Credit Suisse |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Fireside chat with Seek: How are they positioning themselves for the changing landscape of work
Moderator: Entcho Raykovski, Online Media analyst, Credit Suisse |
| 12:00 – 12:40 | Growing beyond Australia - Global ambitions & scaling Technology enables companies to scale globally like never before but what are the challenges of rapid expansion across multiple geographies and how difficult is it in practice? This panel explores the real life challenges companies have faced when expanding offshore and provides insights for investors when assessing which companies are more likely to succeed when going global. Discussion with:
Moderator: Niki Scevak, Co-Founder, Blackbird Ventures |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | Re-fuel |
| 13:00 – 13:40 | Thoughts from the boardroom AI, Big Data, Technological disruption, and Robotics are just as much topics for debate in the boardrooms of Australia’s largest companies as they are in tech startups. Australia’s boardrooms are very knowledgeable about the challenges facing traditional businesses from disruptive technologies. This panel gives a view from the incumbent’s position – the challenge of transforming an underlying business while retaining employee, shareholder and customer engagement.
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| 13:40 – 14:10 | Fireside chat with Blackberry: Lessons from the disrupted
Moderator: James Disney, Co-Head of Investment Banking, Credit Suisse |
| 14:10 – 14:50 | Fireside chat with Telstra: How will 5G enhance connectivity? The telco industry globally is in the midst of rolling out 5G networks, the next generation of mobile technology, which presents longer term opportunities for increased connectivity. The aim of this sessions will be to (1) outline the timing of the expected 5G rollout, (2) present areas where 5G will result in improved connectivity (for example, in the number of connected devices) and (3) discuss potential use cases for 5G technology.
Moderator: Entcho Raykovski, Telcos analyst, Credit Suisse |
| 14:50 – 15:20 | Consumer data & trends – Power to the people Speed. Convenience. Deals and the Democratization of Data. These are just some of the factors increasingly driving consumer behaviour, and companies are grappling with the opportunities and challenges of servicing customers in the new consumer world. Harnessing and harvesting data, investing in technology and building key partnerships are just some of the ways companies are competing. This panel explores how Australian companies are selling or helping companies sell in this new environment, and how some of the key changes in consumer behaviour and expectations are shaping the consumer landscape of tomorrow. Discussion with:
Moderator: Quinn Pierson, Small Cap analyst, Credit Suisse |
| 15:20 – 16:00 | SaaS - The holy grail? High client retention, recurring revenues, scalable business models that are receiving increasingly high valuation multiples - is the SaaS business model everything it has been made out to be? The panel looks under the hood to better understand the competitive dynamics among SaaS companies, which are at times disrupting incumbents yet at other times strengthening their market position. While SaaS businesses attract high multiples for these characteristics, they also often benefit from attractive customer dynamics, be it a global scale opportunity, growing end demand or growing customer complexity providing opportunity for product adjacencies. But in what are often winner take most categories, and with highly operationally leveraged business models, the stakes can be high Discussion with:
Moderator: Quinn Pierson, Small Cap analyst, Credit Suisse |
| 16:00 – 16:40 | The future of mobility is here – From mining to electric, autonomous vehicles Discussion with:
Moderator: Kara Frederick, MD, Tiger Financial Group |
| 16:40 | Happy hour |