Media

Spark Festival on film and in the press

Session recordings, festival highlights and coverage of Spark Festival since 2023. For media enquiries, interviews or high-resolution photography, email hello@spark.org.au.

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Video

Spark Festival 2025 — highlights
Highlights of the tenth Spark Festival, including the opening session with the Hon. Malcolm Turnbull AC and James Windon, co-founder of Flare.

Spark Festival 2025 — the closing panel
Spark Festival CEO Harry Godber was joined by Kristy McSweeney, Alexandra Hall, Paul Wallbank and Nicholas Chilton to discuss the takeaways from the tenth Spark Festival, and best-practice guidance for founders communicating with corporates, government, investors and media.

Spark AI Breakfast 2025 — wrap-up with Decidr on Instagram

Spark AI Breakfast 2025 — wrap-up with Decidr
Spark Festival CEO Harry Godber was joined by Decidr Executive Chair David Brudenell for a wrap-up of the event.

Spark Festival Housing Affordability Lunch 2025 on Instagram

Spark Festival Housing Affordability Lunch 2025
From the Spark Festival Housing Affordability Lunch, hosted by Lendlease at Barangaroo.

Spark Festival 2024 — on the Spark Festival channel
A clip from Spark Festival 2024, published on the Spark Festival YouTube channel.

Spark Festival 2024 — a second clip from the channel
A further clip from Spark Festival 2024, published on the Spark Festival YouTube channel.

Spark Festival 2024 — festival week reel on Instagram

Spark Festival 2024 — festival week reel
A short from Spark Festival 2024, posted to the Spark Festival Instagram during festival week.

Spark Festival 2024 — a second festival week reel on Instagram

Spark Festival 2024 — a second festival week reel
A further short from Spark Festival 2024, posted to the Spark Festival Instagram during festival week.

Everything else

Our channels

The full back catalogue of Spark Festival video – session recordings, panels, founder interviews and festival wrap-ups from 2023 onwards – lives on these channels.

LinkedIn

Announcements, speakers and the year-round program.

Instagram

Reels and wrap-ups from festival week.

Facebook

Event video and photography.

YouTube

Full sessions, panels and highlight reels.

The UTS Startups Friday sessions

Three Fridays @ UTS conversations about Spark and about raising, recorded with UTS Startups.

Anatomy of a Term Sheet: how to set yourself up for a successful capital raise
A Fridays @ UTS session on reading a term sheet and preparing for a raise.

UTS Startups Friday Confessions: Spark Festival with Harry Godber and Matthew Downing
Harry Godber and Matthew Downing on what Spark Festival is for.

UTS Confessions: Spark Fest with Dave LT and Harry Godber
Dave Lillo-Trynes and Harry Godber on running the festival.

Coverage

Spark Festival in the press

Startup Daily · 2 September 2026 · by Paul Wallbank Startup festival, Spark, is back this month with free events across NSW Spark Festival returns for its eleventh year on 21 September with more than thirty events already announced and more to come, reaching beyond inner Sydney to Newcastle, Parramatta, Western Sydney and the Illawarra. The piece also covers the launch of the Spark Foundation as a registered charity, and why every event stays free.
We are here to help the startups who can’t — and shouldn’t have to — afford to buy access through political donations or memberships of expensive industry bodies.Harry Godber, Chief Executive Officer, Spark Foundation
Read it on Startup Daily →

Earlier coverage

More Spark Festival coverage is collected on Startup Daily.

Press photography

Harry Godber, Chief Executive Officer of the Spark Foundation, the Australian registered charity behind Spark Festival
Harry Godber, Chief Executive Officer, Spark Foundation. Free to use with credit to Spark Foundation.

Media enquiries

Spark Foundation is an independent Australian registered charity (ABN 94 607 502 170) and the organisation behind Spark Festival, which has been the largest startup event in Australia since 2016. For interviews with CEO Harry Godber, high-resolution photography or further information, email hello@spark.org.au.

Using our material

Photography and video

Spark Festival photography and video is © Spark Foundation. Journalists and event partners are welcome to use it to report on Spark Festival, credited to the Spark Foundation. For high-resolution files, or for any other use, email hello@spark.org.au and we will almost always say yes.