Venue Host Partner
An invitation-only anchor partnership for business schools, universities, executive education facilities and premium CBD venues. You provide the room; we bring the program, the audience and the editorial credibility.
One exclusive host per summit. The venue is offset with a main stage address, an exhibition stand in the networking atrium, course promotion to enterprise budget-holders, official partner billing and eight student and faculty passes.
// How this works
No commitment until the room is confirmed
We do not ask for payment or a venue commitment until we have confirmed at least 100 attendees for the event. If the audience is not there, the partnership does not start.
Investment
By invitation, venue in kind
Inventory
1 exclusive host per summit
Main stage
100–120 tiered seats
Breakouts
2 seminar suites, 30–40 each
Offset
Keynote address, stand and passes
Cities
Brisbane and Sydney, 2027
Who is in the seats
Traditional conferences rely on large exhibition halls, vendor-heavy stages and passive audiences. Black Sky is an unscripted, practitioner-led convening capped at 100 to 120 senior delegates, with a strict 80% enterprise practitioner ratio to protect peer-to-peer dialogue.
// Attendee seniority
- Chief Risk Officers (CROs)
- Chief Operating Officers (COOs)
- Heads of Operational Resilience & Business Continuity
- Chief Information Security Officers & Technology Risk Directors
- General Counsel & Heads of Corporate Governance
// Target sectors
- Banking, superannuation & financial markets
- Critical national infrastructure, energy grids & utilities
- Government agencies, transport, aviation & healthcare systems
- Enterprise technology & sovereign infrastructure providers (strictly capped)
What runs in your building
A single day of case studies and working tabletop sessions. Session topics are indicative and firm up as the faculty is confirmed.
- 01
Morning case study
A real-world walkthrough of a major operational disruption, covering manual workarounds, telemetry failures and recovery triage, unpicked in front of the room.
- 02
Executive disruption tolerance panel
Cross-sector debate between CROs, COOs and regulatory leads on defining and defending impact thresholds.
- 03
Concurrent breakout streams
Three technical and governance deep-dives across systems architecture, operations and regulatory reporting.
- 04
Interactive tabletop crisis simulation
A facilitated simulation worked in real time across table teams using hardcopy incident dossiers.
- 05
Closed-door Chatham House working groups
Moderated problem-solving roundtables focused on specific operational bottlenecks.
- 06
Boardroom & governance session
Director liability, statutory notification windows and defensible decision-logging.
- 07
Networking drinks reception
An evening reception with craft beers, regional wines and grazing platters.
What each side brings
The left column is what lands on your side as host: exhibition presence, course promotion, stage time, billing and passes. The right is what the campus needs to deliver for the program to run the way delegates expect.
// You receive
On your side
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Dedicated on-site exhibition & engagement stand
A prominent stand in the central delegate networking atrium, live through morning arrivals, catered breaks, lunch and the drinks reception, a base for your admissions and executive education teams to engage 100+ enterprise decision-makers one-on-one.
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Targeted program & course promotion
A full-page feature profile inside the bound Tabletop Crisis Simulation Dossier handed to every delegate on arrival, plus digital profiling of your Executive MBA, postgraduate degrees and executive short courses on the summit website and pre-event briefing communications.
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Fifteen-minute main stage address
A dedicated 15-minute keynote address on the main stage during the morning executive session, a platform for a faculty dean, program director or lead researcher on leadership, resilience or corporate governance.
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Official venue partner billing & co-branding
Prominent billing as Official Venue & Academic Partner across marketing collateral, stage holding screens, website backdrops and delegate materials, positioning your institution publicly as a convener of senior industry and governance leadership.
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Eight complimentary student & faculty passes
Eight full-access delegate passes for current Executive MBA candidates, postgraduate researchers or faculty, with access to closed-door working groups, the live crisis simulation and senior executive networking.
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Full delegate directory
The complete opt-in delegate directory of names, titles, organisations and work emails, delivered after the summit.
// We need
On our side
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Primary auditorium / main stage theatre
100 to 120 tiered seats, with lectern microphone, four handheld wireless microphones, dual 16:9 display screens and a presenter confidence monitor.
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Breakout seminar suites
Two adjoining flat-floor seminar or classroom suites, 30 to 40 capacity each, for concurrent technical streams and working groups.
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Networking atrium / foyer
Foyer space immediately adjacent to the main room for delegate check-in, exhibition stands, lunch buffets and the evening drinks reception.
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Power for barista service
A dedicated single-phase power connection (10-amp or 15-amp) to support an all-day mobile specialty espresso cart.
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Neutral ground
Venue branding blends with Black Sky Events styling, so the room stays editorially neutral and practitioners speak freely.
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Access and compliance
Step-free access to all summit areas, plus standard building security and visitor management.
Access windows
We occupy the facilities for a single day, with a short bump-in the afternoon before.
Day prior, bump-in
16:00–18:00: AV line check, signage placement and badge desk setup.
Event day, access
06:30–19:00 building access for the Black Sky delivery team.
Delegate arrival
07:45 arrivals and registration; 08:30 program commencement.
Close
17:30 drinks reception close; 19:00 pack-down completion.
How we get there
Four steps from introduction to announcement, with the site review before anything is signed.
- 01
Introduction
A short call to confirm fit, city and target summit date.
- 02
Site review
We walk the space and review capacity, breakouts and AV against the program.
- 03
Terms
We agree exclusivity, branding treatment and your stage-time offset in writing.
- 04
Announcement
Registered delegates and confirmed partners are notified before any public release.
// Next Step
Discuss hosting a summit
Tell us your city and facility and we will send the host requirements sheet and the deliverables we put on your side of the ledger.