Stone & Chalk, in partnership with AsiaRecon and Asia Society Australia are excited to host Mr Peter Davison, one of Australia's most successful next gen entrepreneurs in Asia. Peter will be in Sydney for one night only and will share his story of success, failure and persistence in a fireside chat with Mathew Benjamin, Co-­founder of AsiaRecon.

We’ll discuss some of Peter’s experiences as investor, entrepreneur and mentor in Australia, U.S.A and China. We’ll also talk about what it’s like to live in China, and what it takes to survive as an entrepreneur and investor in this market. The fireside chat will provide fuel for thought for your business, backed by real-life examples and an opportunity to ask Peter your questions.

We're delighted to be hosting this event in partnership with AsiaRecon, a platform that helps foster, develop, and build Australia’s engagement​ with Asia​ across the technology, innovation and entrepreneurial sector​ ​by promoting the transfer of people, ideas and capital.

Date: Wednesday 11th May, 2016
Time: 6:00 pm, for an 6:30 pm start
Venue: Stone & Chalk, Level 2, 50 Bridge St, Sydney, 2000

Register here.

Snacks and drinks will be served. Please book early as we expect this event will sell out.

For more information please contact [email protected]. 

About our speaker:

Peter Davison is a widely diversified venture investor, having Co-founded Godel Capital in 1998 a Silicon Valley based boutique venture firm that was an early investor in a little company called PayPal - a company that went on to exit for $1.5 Billion USD. Other notable exits that Godel participated in included Anonymizer, and Houston airport border patrol. After returning home to Australia, Peter then went on to start Ideogue Ventures in Canberra, bootstrapped the company to seven figure profits from his bedroom with virtualised team of 25 people.

In 2011 Peter co-founded Fishburners - Australia’s biggest co-working space, soon to be opening in Brisbane and Melbourne, with an expanding footprint in Sydney.

In 2014 Peter moved to Shanghai to explore new ideas. Having joined Shanghai based Chinaccelerator and Hanghzou based Plug and Play as active mentor, Pete continued his investing activities as an active angel investor. Before this Peter helped co-found juaicai.cn - a P2P company based out of Beijing that now turns 1 billion in RMB per month.

In 2016 Peter was the first foreigner judge to participate in The Next Unicorn - The first reality TV show about global startups and innovation themed off the TV show the Shark Tank. This program is run by Chinese-Australian Daniel Shi, a good friend and colleague of Peter, who also is also an active investor in early stage companies through his venture investing company - Seed23.

'Disruptive Asia' is a new series of events and thought-leadership initiatives by Asia Society Australia that examine Asia’s innovation and technological renaissance and its impact on Australia and the world.

It is a part of our Executive Briefings program - a curated series of meetings presented by diplomats, business leaders and subject matter experts from Asia and Australia. Designed to offer a deep dive into the critical issues of the day, to an audience of senior executives from the business, political, educational and cultural institutions that make up the Asia Society network.

Stone & Chalk is an independent, not-for-profit Fintech hub whose overarching objective is to help foster and accelerate the development of world-leading Fintech start-ups. It is a physical “centre of gravity” for the local Fintech eco-system.

AsiaRecon is a program set up to help foster, develop and build Australia’s engagement across the technology, innovation and entrepreneurial sector within Asia by promoting the transfer of people, capital and ideas.