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Networking at Pause Fest 2020. Photographer: Priscilla Pho. The Victorian State Government is offering grants of up to $25,000 for business events held in Melbourne, in a bid to encourage interstate travel into the city and get cash running through the events supply chain again. Administered by the Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB), the National Business Event Program funding initiative is intended to help business organisers cover the costs of hosting an event, with 50% of the funds available upfront, before the event starts. The cash can be put towards venue hire, accommodation, transport a...

Attendees at Pause Fest 2019. A collective of tech and startup event organisers are demanding changes to the $50 million Business Events Grant Program, saying tight eligibility criteria means “very few events” will receive support. The call for extended support comes in an open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, penned by Pause Fest founder George Hedon and signed by 15 other event organisers. Signatories include Southstart founder Danielle Seymour, SingularityU co-chief Christina Gerakitkeys, Spark Festival’s Maxine Sherrin and the organisers of TEDx events in Sydney, Melbourne ...

Organisers of smaller corporate conferences and events say they have been excluded from a $50m grants program designed to help the struggling sector and need the rules changed urgently to ensure their survival. A group led by Pause Fest, a business innovation conference, last week wrote to the prime minister, Scott Morrison, urging him to loosen the rules of the business events grant program to allow them to participate. The program allows...

Pause Fest founder George Hedon. Source: supplied. The federal government’s Business Events Grant Scheme is causing confusion for Australian events organisers, with events being approved as eligible, only to find out later they shouldn’t have been. George Hedon, who heads up digital startup and innovation conference Pause Fest, tells SmartCompany he’s found the whole scheme difficult to navigate, ultimately calling it ineffective for the industry in the current environment. Pause Fest 2021 was initially approved as an event under the scheme. But, Hedon says he’s been passed between g...