Launceston Freelance Festival
- Start Date 06/05/2022
- Start Time 16:00
- End Date 06/07/2022
- End Time 17:00
- Location Launceston, Tasmania
Join us for three days of keynotes, networking and workshops including:
- business skills
- the know-how to manage multiple income streams
- tips on how to source work
- an understanding of contracts
- a willingness to learn about new technology and new ways of doing things
- the confidence to go out there and build your own freelance empire.
The Freelance Festival will teach you how to do all these things and more. You’ll also have ample opportunities to network with successful entrepreneurs, media professionals, designers, industry representatives and more. You’ll meet like-minded people while enjoying the serenity of Launceston and its delicious food and beautiful wineries.
| Topics | Speakers | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thriving in a Regional City |
|
4:00-4:30 | |
| Networking drinks with Delamere Vineyard & Red Brick Road Cider |
|
4:30-6:00 |
| Topics | Speakers | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keynote: Freelancing - The Future of Work |
|
09:00-09:45 | Room#1 |
| Keynote: Working as a freelancer: an editor's perspective |
|
09:50-10:30 | Room#1 |
| Morning Tea | 10:30 - 10:45 | Room#1 | |
| In Conversation: Katya Wachtel |
|
10:45 - 11:30 | Room#1 |
| Keynote: So you want to leave your day job? |
|
11:30 - 12:15 | Room#1 |
| Lunch | 12:15 - 1:15 | Room#1 | |
| Workshop: Digital Video tips and tricks |
|
1:15 - 2:15 | Room#2 |
| Workshop: Social Media 101 - Tips for targeting an audience |
|
1:15 - 2:15 | Room#1 |
| Panel: What are you worth? |
|
2:30 - 3:15 | Room#1 |
| Q&A: Freelancing in film |
|
3:15 - 3:50 | Room#1 |
| Building supportive communities |
|
3:50 - 4:50 | Room#1 |
| Monday Wrap up | 4:50 - 5:00 | Room#1 | |
| Network Gala Dinner | 6:30 - 10pm | Room#1 |
| Topics | Speakers | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keynote: It's a Jungal out there |
|
9:00 - 9:45 | Room#1 |
| Panel: Young Entrepreneurs in the creative sector – Plan B is Plan A |
|
10:00-11:00 | Room#1 |
| Morning Tea | 11:00 - 11:15 | Room#1 | |
| In Conversation: Rachel Smith |
|
11:15-11:50 | Room#1 |
| Storytelling that shapes the world |
|
11:50 - 12:30 | Room#1 |
| How freelancers can unlock media distribution budgets for incremental revenue streams |
|
12:30 - 1.00 | Room#1 |
| Lunch Break | 1:00-1:45 | Room#1 | |
| Panel: Turn your freelance skills into short courses |
|
1:50-2.50 | Room#4 |
| Workshop: Design your freelance brand assets |
|
1:50-2:50 | Room#2 |
| Workshop: Catchwords in digital publishing to get an editors attention |
|
1:50-2:50 | Room#2 |
| Superannuation for freelancers |
|
3:00-3:45 | Room#3 |
| Keynote: Cybersecurity for freelancers |
|
3:50-4:30 | Room#1 |
| Tuesday Wrap Up | 4:30 | Room#2 |