{"id":2156,"date":"2026-04-30T11:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/2156\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:02:43","slug":"craig-swan-tells-itwire-about-adelaides-southstart-festival-and-australias-startup-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/2156\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Swan Tells iTWire About Adelaide&#8217;s Southstart Festival And Australia&#8217;s Startup Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-k2-modal=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/itwire.com\/media\/k2\/items\/cache\/9209cbf0f2d1fbed2f4de90f3a91e464_XL.jpg\" title=\"Click to preview image\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9209cbf0f2d1fbed2f4de90f3a91e464_M.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Swan Tells iTWire About Adelaide's Southstart Festival And Australia's Startup Scene\" style=\"width:375px; height:auto;\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>iTWire TV: Oldtimers will know that Australian start-up events can promise much and deliver little. Adelaide&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southstart.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Southstart<\/a> is different and here&#8217;s why&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Southstart&#8217;s &#8216;human first approach&#8217; gives it a very different feel compared to what&#8217;s come before it. It coincides with the Adelaide Fringe Festival which gives the city the sort of great festival vibe that you&#8217;d expect in Dublin, (old-school) Hong Kong and SXSW USA.<\/p>\n<p>We also learn more about how start-ups are using AI, how they need to avoid\u00a0enshittification and how Southstart can help with funding and navigating government regulations. We also ask about the current state of the Australian start-up landscape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lenovoau.hmqldu.net\/OenrQZ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/highperformancelaptops.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/300x250_lengen.webp\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" data-alt=\"Lenovo Laptop Sale\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        Please join our community here and become a VIP.<br \/>\n        Subscribe to ITWIRE UPDATE Newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/itwire.com\/subscribe-now\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>  <br \/>\n        JOIN our iTWireTV our YouTube Community <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/iTWireTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>  <br \/>\n          BACK TO LATEST NEWS <a href=\"https:\/\/itwire.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>  <br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/itwire.com\/contact-us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lead-Machine_pink_600x260.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maximising Cloud Efficiency &#8211; LUMEN WEBINAR 23 April 2025<br \/>\nAccording to KPMG, companies typically spend 35% more on cloud than is required to deliver business objectives<\/p>\n<p>The rush to the cloud has led to insufficient oversight, with many organisations struggling to balance the value of cloud agility and innovation against the need for guardrails to control costs.<\/p>\n<p>Join us for an exclusive webinar on\u202fCloud Optimisation.<\/p>\n<p>In this event, the team from Lumen will explain how you can maximise cloud efficiency while reducing cost.<\/p>\n<p>The session will reveal how to implement key steps for effective cloud optimisation.<\/p>\n<p>Register for the event now!<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/8717439058101\/WN_vEwfJeSwSG6mdwesL_ixPQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">REGISTER!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PROMOTE YOUR WEBINAR ON ITWIRE<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all about Webinars.<\/p>\n<p>Marketing budgets are now focused on Webinars combined with Lead Generation.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to promote a Webinar we recommend at least a 3 to 4 week campaign prior to your event.<\/p>\n<p>The iTWire campaign will include extensive adverts on our News Site itwire.com and prominent Newsletter promotion https:\/\/itwire.com\/itwire-update.html and Promotional News &amp; Editorial. 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He covers all things business and technology including IoT, cybersecurity, UC and the professional Audio\/Visual space: from consumer to B2B and Enterprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; iTWire TV: Oldtimers will know that Australian start-up events can promise much and deliver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[395,3280,992,3277,3281,3279,3278,3275,3276],"class_list":{"0":"post-2156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adelaide","8":"tag-adelaide","9":"tag-adelaide-fringe","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-craig-swan","12":"tag-enshittification","13":"tag-founder","14":"tag-southstart","15":"tag-startup","16":"tag-startups"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}