Accelerate 2026

Accelerate is the APAC Partnerships Ecosystem Summit produced by Hockey Stick Advisory, the leading partnerships advisory firm in the region. On 28 October 2026, Australia and New Zealand's most senior partnerships operators and the C-suite executives they report to will gather in Melbourne for one high-density day of keynotes, panels, workshops, and roundtables structured around the operator journey.

The conference is invitation-curated and deliberately intimate. Every attendee is actively building or buying a partnerships program. Sixty per cent of the room are partnerships practitioners and 40% are C-suite and VP-level executives.

Sessions cover why partnerships matter now, AI in the partnerships function, ecosystem-led GTM, realising partnership potential, and live strategy pressure-testing in practitioner roundtables. Industries represented span B2B SaaS, cloud and infrastructure, fintech and payments, HR and workforce technology, marketplace and platform businesses, and professional services tech.

Accelerate is built for the people doing the work.