The Australian Women’s Small Business Champion Awards returned to The Fullerton Hotel Sydney this weekend with a useful reminder: women-led enterprise is not one narrow sector, one founder archetype or one kind of growth story.
Spark Festival’s 2026 programme put founders across Sydney and regional New South Wales into a week of free sessions, workshops and community events. Among the more pointed items was UNSW Founders’ High Tea, High Conversations: Female Founders Mentor Exchange, a Parramatta gathering for women founders from Western Sydney to meet senior mentors across entrepreneurship, investment, technology, health and leadership.
Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks has been named Best New Founder at the Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards, giving Ovum another public marker in a year when the women’s health AI company has moved from early traction to a more serious infrastructure question.
Inspire + Succeed is coming to New Zealand for the first time, with an Auckland event pitched at entrepreneurs, business leaders and professionals looking for leadership, entrepreneurship and financial empowerment lessons. The published line-up includes familiar high-achiever names, but the women in the programme are the more interesting signal for readers tracking how business education is being packaged in Aotearoa.
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The Australian Women’s Small Business Champion Awards returned to The Fullerton Hotel Sydney this weekend with a useful reminder: women-led enterprise is not one narrow sector, one founder archetype or one kind of growth story.
Spark Festival’s 2026 programme put founders across Sydney and regional New South Wales into a week of free sessions, workshops and community events. Among the more pointed items was UNSW Founders’ High Tea, High Conversations: Female Founders Mentor Exchange, a Parramatta gathering for women founders from Western Sydney to meet senior mentors across entrepreneurship, investment, technology, health and leadership.
Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks has been named Best New Founder at the Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards, giving Ovum another public marker in a year when the women’s health AI company has moved from early traction to a more serious infrastructure question.
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The Australian Women’s Small Business Champion Awards returned to The Fullerton Hotel Sydney this weekend with a useful reminder: women-led enterprise is not one narrow sector, one founder archetype or one kind of growth story.
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