Time to, register, collect your badge, settle in and start Splash!

Format

• Networking

Built for

• Scaling Companies

• Solution Providers

• Career Builders

Join us as we start the program. We will kick off attendee bingo and have time for facilitated networking - get to know the room, without pressure.

Format

• Kick off

• Networking

Built for

• Scaling Companies

• Solution Providers

• Career Builders

Join us for a panel conversation tackling topics like:

• What does it take to lead

• How do careers and scaling companies align?

• What are some lessons learnt from growing companies and teams?

• What are some upcoming operational and cultural trends?

We will have a discussion and time for the room to ask questions

Purpose:

Start the day bringing together bringing the needs of companies and people in to the same conversation.

Knowledge on how to build a company that people actually want to be at.

The opportunity to get involved without having to take the stage.

Showcase your knowledge by asking a though provoking question

Ask the

Format

• Panel

• Q&A

Built for

• Scaling Companies - direction for what it takes to build a company to last that people want to work at

• Career Builders - how your career fits in to different companies

Join 10 minute mini-round table workshops collaborating on a discussion topic like:

• How to design lean teams in 2025

• When do you need a tool, to outsource or to hire

• Whats most important when designing team culture

Groups will gather round a table, strategize, collaborate, document thoughts and insights on that tables hot topic for 10 minutes. The timer goes off, new groups form and we start again.

Purpose:

The opportunity to connect with a purpose and a theme. Bringing together minds from different experience, departments, ages etc together to solve common headaches.

After the 4 rounds we will have data rich insights for people to review for the day.

Format

• World Café

• Hot Topic Tables

Built for

• Scaling Companies - learn from a room filled with experts or have people solve your scaling headache with you

• Career Builders - learn from the room, enjoy facilitated networking and showcase your skills and knowledge in real time

• Solution Providers - Connect with builders in a fun and non sales-y way

Do you have the perfect prompt to get people asking questions and finding solutions? Host a round table as an event partner, reach out here

10 minute panel conversations highlighting the growing pains between key team sizes. What shifts and changes, culturally and operationally from teams of 5, 15, 50 and 100 people.

The Hot Seat - are you an expert on one of these scaling phases? Jump on stage to join the conversation, let the room learn from you too

Format

• Panel

• Hot seat opportunity

Built for

• Scaling Companies - Learn the operational and cultural weak points when scaling a team

• Career Builders - learn more about how your career can match with different scaling points in a team

• Solution Providers - learn how your solutions can solve real problems that teams are currently facing

An interactive segment where you get to look at where you are now, your ideal future-self and building a roadmap to get you there. 

Using visualisation techniques, we’ll focus on how you can picture how you want to show up as your most empowered self. 

Purpose:

The opportunity to take everything from the day and put it in to an action plan.

Find and understand your readiness level for that next step

Review what you actually want to be doing

Format

• Workshop

• Guided writing exercise

Built for

• Scaling Companies - how do you, as an individual, fit in with where the company is heading

• Career Builders - Clarify your professional goals

Its back again! After such a huge success in Splash Fall 2025, Talent and Tech Pitching has returned.

3 minute pitches to get the conversations happening off stage

As a scaling company - tell the room what its like to work at your company and some of the roles you might have coming up over the next 6-12 months

As a solution provider - this is no ordinary pitch! You’re telling the room why you’ve built what you’re building, who your dream customers are and why you’re the best at what you do.

Purpose:

Ahead of the afterwork, understand who is in the room, what they are building and why.

Format

• Reverse Pitching

• Pitching

Built for

• Scaling Companies - your employer branding opportunity as well as an opportunity to find new tools and services

• Career Builders - hear from companies that might be in a growth phase or help you with your professional / personal development

• Solution Partners - Tell the room how you make problems go away, elevate companies or connect people

Apply to pitch on the Splash stage as partner, nominate your company out here

(You can also nominate someone else’s company who you think should be on this stage)

Starting with the announcement of Attendee Bingo winners, we move in to the social time of Splash.

The expo room remains open with partner booths.

Enjoy the 1:1 zone, network with attendees, connect with partners