This weekend, Australia’s largest digital festival will come together in Melbourne across four jam-packed days. Pause Fest is Australia’s answer to SXSW, and our most progressive digital festival. It’s an event for thinkers, practitioners and entrepreneurs of digital culture, a place to trade ideas, debate opinions, conceive projects, celebrate work, tell tales and get lit up.

The third event to be held Melbourne, Pause Fest is a showcase for Australia’s brightest and best talents in the digital landscape, and we’re proud to be the technology partner for this year’s event.

A number of key companies are involved in both program and supporting roles, including 99designs, ARUP, Cornwell, DigitalBuzz, FatFish, Hassell, Helsinki Agency, inspire9, MadMan Entertainment, Pennant, PostPanic, Pozible, Rapid3D, REA Group, Reactive, RedAgency, TheLoop, Thirst Studio, This is BD and W3 to name a few.

The event will bring together a number of Australia’s cutting-edge industries, including motion graphics, web and interactive design, start-up culture, creative (advertising and digital), gaming and music.

In addition to the workshops, presentations and installations, a number of key individuals will also be spilling their thoughts with ticket holders, your can find out more here.

Crucial Cloud Hosting are proud to the official Tech Partners for this year’s Pause Fest, for a  run down of the program guide please see the following link:

Pause Fest 2014 – Short Program Guide

Myself and Crucial Cloud Hosting founder, Aaron Weller, will be attending a number of events across the weekend:

THURSDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2014

8PM – 9PM: OPENING NIGHT ACMI – CINEMA 2
9PM – 11:30PM: ACMI – OPTIC BAR OFFICIAL OPENING PARTY WITH HAHA INDUSTRIES

FRIDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2014

8PM – 9:36PM: ACMI – CINEMA 1 DOWNLOADED – A STORY OF NAPSTER
10PM – LATE: LOOP BAR – ROOFTOP ROOFTOP NETWORKING

SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2014

12PM – 3PM: ACMI – CINEMA 1 #CREATIVE STAGE: THE MASTERS OF THE INDUSTRY
10PM – LATE: LOOP BAR JOINT FORCES WITH PROGNOSIS

SUNDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2014

10AM – 1:30PM: FED SQUARE – DEAKIN EDGE #START-UP STAGE // CANVA, OPTUS INNOV8, INSPIRE9 AND MORE
7:30PM – 9PM: FED SQUARE – DEAKIN EDGE #WEB STAGE // THIRST STUDIO, TICK STUDIO AND MORE
10PM – LATE: LOOP BAR CLOSING PARTY WITH HAHA INDUSTRIES

We hope to see you there!