The Resilience Summit
Back Ourselves. Back Each Other.
The Resilience Summit
is an Australian first, focussing on enabling private capital to unleash the ambitions of Australia’s elite entrepreneurs, investors, and national leaders who are not waiting to be told what comes next, but are designing it collectively.
In the room will be over 300 of Australia’s most accomplished and consequential policy, defence and security leadership, fund managers, family offices and venture-backed founders – the people who drive decision-making, and provide the financing with precise execution to build the capability that defines what a resilient economy looks like.
The Resilience Summit is forward-facing, designed for those who recognise that our future is worth our absolute focus and commitment. We acknowledge the cost of complacency. Resilience is about harnessing critical technologies to protect Australia’s sovereignty and build our crucial industry. The Summit lays out the connective tissue between Australia’s private and public sectors. This is a national platform for strategic conviction: a room where we stop observing and start harnessing private capital to translate ambition into action.
Startups in once complex industries like defence, energy, and manufacturing, are today winning real commercial and government programs. Defence has drawn much attention in recent years, but national resilience is more than defence – It covers the full shift towards building a stronger whole-of-nation in physical AI, batteries, motors, chemicals, materials, mining – the full resilience stack!
We are here to identify change-makers and back the audacious. It is time to move beyond sentiment and toward substance. It is time to back ourselves, and back each other.
Three Chapters.
The day unfolds across three core chapters designed to evolve from high-level awareness to meaningful decision making and building practical forward momentum.
Analyse
Decoding the Shifting Landscape.
Awareness and Recalibration. We decode the shifting landscapes of global markets, emerging technology, and national policy. This is about sharpening awareness and identifying the change before others do.
- Context: In-depth situational awareness sessions on domestic and global posture.
- Focus: Identifying opportunity and critical capability gaps.
Determine
Judgement and Conviction.
Adapting without decisive action is drift. Bring focus to the transformational decisions required to drive meaningful action.
- Context: Strategy, capital allocation, backing people and commercialisable technology over ideas.
- Focus: Developing the judgement to know what to back, what to de-prioritise, and where to double down.
Build
Forward Motion.
Resilience is delivered as capability. The final act shifts from analysis to accelerating momentum, showcasing the entrepreneurship that must define the next decade.
- Context: Breakthroughs in deep science, national resilience, and pushing the limits of humanity.
- Focus: Turning strategic clarity into tangible action.
Full Program will be announced shortly
A Curated, High-Trust Room.
The Resilience Summit is for those operating at the sharp intersection of technology, policy and the national interest. To deliver the greatest impact for Australia, we have carefully curated those participating in the day as speakers and participants.
We welcome expressions of interest from audacious founders, capital providers and thought-leaders who wish to contribute to the conversation.
We have designed the day to be expansive in ambition and disciplined in execution — moving with great pace and purpose, in recognition that time is precious.
Brought to you by
Salus Ventures
The Resilience Summit is a flagship platform established by Salus Ventures, a leading Australian venture capital fund dedicated to joining forces with heroic founders building our future through the lens of technology. By convening the ecosystem’s most credible voices, Salus aims to build and cultivate a long-term community that serves the national interest.
Strategic Alignment. National Impact.
The day will showcase those partnerships with a great commitment to Australian innovation and entrepreneurship. We prioritise strategic alignment and a meaningful contribution to this whole-of-nation effort.
Back ourselves. Personal conviction and confidence under pressure.
Back each other. Community, ecosystem, leadership, capital, trust.
Get in Touch.
Whether you are interested in partnering, attending or learning more about the mission, please be part of this movement by completing the form below.