Sponsors

CENTREPIECE

Purpose-built to be best-in-class for sustainable, flexible venue design, CENTREPIECE offers a range of versatile spaces for events at any scale. Surrounded by breathtaking city views, our spaces comfortably scale up or down, from intimate dinners to the most extravagant special events.

Melbourne Cricket Ground

At MCG Events we help bring your vision to life, starting with the right location – a space or place that sets the scene and provides the visual framework for your story to unfold. The MCG is more than just a sports stadium. We help you set the stage for some of life’s great moments.

D2L

D2L is on a mission to transform the way the world learns. Our learning management system – D2L Brightspace is used by millions of learners across the world. With Brightspace you can engage members and staff with the flexible, meaningful learning opportunities they crave and unlock new streams of revenue to maximise profitability and drive success. In Australia and New Zealand, a range of leading associations use Brightspace including the property, health and governance sectors. Our local presence is strong with an office located in Melbourne and a team of 40 passionate professionals ready to help associations transform learning.

Ready Membership

ReadyMembership is an all-in-one association management system built to enable your teams to easily look after every aspect of the membership offering, delivering outstanding, evolved experiences for your members. Created by Pixl8 from 20+ years of experience in the membership sector, ReadyMembership is intelligent, flexible, right-sized, and hyper-personalised. It is more advanced and easier to use than a traditional AMS platform with everything you need to run a membership association including CRM, website and CMS, marketing and reporting, events, ecommerce and finance. Our partnership with you is a critical part of our offering. We'll support you as you and your members' needs grow and change with client-centric product development across the platform. We know as an ambitious membership organisation you keep evolving, so do we.

Higher Logic

Higher Logic Thrive unites the three essential pillars of association technology - Community, Marketing, and Member Management - into one integrated, user-friendly platform. Designed with association professionals in mind, the platform enables insights into what members truly value, driving organisational growth and improving staff efficiency. With pre-built communities, associations can quickly boost member engagement and save time with out-of-the-box automated marketing solutions. Plus, with integrated member management, organisations can streamline their technology stack, moving away from costly, complex, and disconnected systems - making Higher Logic Thrive the ultimate solution for your association.

The Association Specialists

The Association Specialists (TAS) is a family owned company and are one of the largest providers in the Professional Conference Organiser space for Not-for-Profit organisations, in addition to being the largest service provider for Association Management services to the Not-for-Profit, For Purpose sector in the Australasian Region. With more than 30 years’ experience in the industry, providing association management services to over 80 Associations and delivering between 20-25 major conferences per year and over 200 smaller events, The Association Specialists is a true leader in its field. Managing awards dinner, webinars, virtual conferences, workshops, exhibitions and large scale conferences across a diverse range of industry sectors, TAS has the experience and ability to deliver exceptional results for its clients.

Moreton Hire

Founded in 1969, Moreton Hire has established an extensive collection of products and a wide range of services that enables our team to deliver exceptional exhibition and event solutions. With branches in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, Moreton Hire has the experience to bring your ideas to life. 

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

At MCEC, visionary ideas come to life, and the world's thought leaders gather. Our iconic venue is an outlet for Melbourne’s signature culture, hosting dynamic exhibitions, conferences, galas, and concerts. Our place will leave you buzzing with inspiration and excitement. Always thinking ahead of the game, we blend trendy eats, sustainability, and cutting-edge tech to create mind-blowing, globally recognised events.

Encore

Encore has been creating memorable event experiences that connect and inspire, and engage and transform organizations for decades. With a customer-first mindset and a hospitality focus, Encore has an unmatched breadth and depth of event production services to support customers through every step in the event planning and management process.

Ozaccom+

Ozaccom+ are committed conference and event management specialists, offering unique industry specific services and technology to support the needs of our customers. Widely recognised by clients and peers for our unique ‘world-first’ accommodation system, conference logistic services and modern technology. Ozaccom+ has applied the philosophy of combining superior systems, with dedicated personalised service, to earn the reputation as one of the most highly respected accommodation, registration and full conference management firms in the industry.

Pullman Melbourne on the Park

Perfectly located in the heart of the East Melbourne sports and entertainment district, Pullman Melbourne On The Park is the ideal destination for an unforgettable stay. It is convenient to all the most important spots, venues and attractions in Melbourne where you can be part of the thrilling activities that this city has to offer, all year round.

Melbourne Convention Bureau

Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) is a not-for-profit organisation with over 40 years' experience in securing international and national conferences, incentive travel reward programs and other business events for the state of Victoria by working with associations, corporate organisations and event planners from around the world.