Pitch night · Kent Town Hotel · Adelaide
Great ideashappen overa pint.Prove it.
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- See the night
- Where
- Kent Town HotelAdelaide
- Door
- Free to attendPitch or watch. Decide at the form
What this is
No suits, no ties, just cold drinks and bright ideas on the rise.
Pitches N Pints is where great ideas meet cold drinks and sharp minds. We are stripping away the boring corporate slide decks, the endless jargon and the rigid formalities. Instead we are bringing founders, creators and innovators together in a relaxed local venue to share what they are building over a pint.
Adelaide ·
The bill · five stages · one night
How the night runs
Whether you are validating a brand new concept or looking for immediate feedback from industry veterans, the night gives you the stage to test your vision live.
60 seconds to spark an industry. 3 minutes to seal the deal.
1championannounced live
The winner
The champion is crowned, prizes are handed out and the networking continues at the bar.
The Panel · Multiple Perspectives · One Verdict
Who’s judging
Meet our pool of judges. Between them, they have built businesses, backed founders, sent athletes to the Olympics and moved ideas out of the lab and into the market. 60 seconds to impress. You could be pitching to some, all or a few. Probably 4 but maybe 6!
Josh Garratt
Founding Partner · Eastend Ventures
Co-founded the Southern Angels investor network in 2018, then Eastend Ventures, which backs B2B founders across South Australia, Western Australia and Queensland. Spent three years before that steering startups through federal commercialisation grants.
Dana Bell
Director, South Australia · AUScelerate
Connects founders, researchers and investors across South Australia's health and life sciences ecosystem, and runs the programs that get local ideas in front of global markets.
Melanie Flintoft
Co-Owner & Creative Director · Silver Fleece
Bought a 75-year-old Australian knitting mill in 2024 and rebuilt the brand, the team and the B2B pipeline into a working Bowden factory employing 28 people.
Dermot O'Mahony
Founder · O'Mahony AgencyEx-Aramco Executive
Twenty years and 250+ senior searches across four continents, placing technical and executive leaders into R&D-led businesses in energy, mining and advanced manufacturing.
Julie Lawrie
CEO & Co-founder · Amplifyo
Co-founded Amplifyo to put agency-grade marketing within reach of companies that could never afford an agency, moving it from headcount to SaaS economics. Former board chair, and a non-executive director several times over.
Sally NevilleOAM
Director · SNeville ConsultingNED, Australia Day Council SA
Ran hospitality and tourism policy from the inside as adviser to the Premier of South Australia, then led AmCham Australia. Chairs and sits on boards across tourism, skills and the arts.
Justin Coombs
Chief Executive Officer · AusHealth
Leads AusHealth and CureCell, founded Carina Biotech and ran the Marine Bioproducts CRC. Two decades spent turning laboratory science into companies that reach a market.
Sam Davies
Managing Director · KWP+PartnersHost, Humans Aren't Robots
Founded Digital Noir in 2011, grew it to a team of 20 and merged it into KWP+Partners, where he now runs the agency. Six seasons into a podcast about creativity and what automation does to human thinking.
Van Tang
Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific · GHD
Twenty years at GHD, from leading its global airports practice to running South Australia, then New Zealand and the Pacific. Now heads the engineering and advisory firm across Asia Pacific.
Shevaun Bruland
President · Australian Sailing
Leads the national body for the sport, on its board since 2019 and president of Yachting South Australia before that. Australian Sailing is what selects and backs the crews who go to the Olympics.
Zoe Detmold
CEO · Detmold VenturesAdvisory Board, Detmold Group
Heads the venture arm of the Detmold Group, the Adelaide family packaging manufacturer now employing 2,500 people across seven countries, and has sat on its advisory board for eighteen years.
Ricardo Conti
General Manager, Fuel Network Performance · Viva Energy Retail
Ran a national network of 800 fuel and convenience sites turning over $5 billion as CEO Fuels at Peregrine, then led agribusiness Mitolo Family Farms. Now works on retail network performance at Viva Energy.
Kirk Drage
Co-founder · LeapSheep
Co-founded LeapSheep in 2016 to help technology founders validate market demand, strengthen business models and build commercially viable businesses. Brings 20 years of experience building and investing in startups, including in Silicon Valley and leading Microsoft's startup initiatives across Asia Pacific. LeapSheep's work spans more than 400 founder engagements.
Founders · crowd · backers
Why come
Pitches N Pints isn't just a competition, it is a community builder. For founders it is a low-risk, high-energy environment to test messaging and connect with local talent. For investors and mentors it is a front-row seat to grassroots innovation, without the filtering of traditional channels.
Zero friction
Simple online registration gets you in the room and in the running. No application forms, no pitch decks, no gatekeeping.
Immediate feedback
Real-time critique from a panel of seasoned experts who have built, funded and sold businesses in this city.
Genuine connections
Mingle with founders, builders and investors in a setting where nobody is reading from a script.
Free to attend · slots are limited
Pitch or pint.
Registration is the whole entry process. Fill this in and you are in the room. If you want it, you are in the running order too.
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- Networking from 6:00pm, pitches from 6:30pm
- Where
- Kent Town Hotel76 Rundle St, Kent Town SA 5067