This is a unique opportunity to connect with founders and CEOs of high-growth companies, incubator leaders, industry partners and the U.S. Consulate community. You will hear from successful CEOs as they share their lessons learned expanding to the US market. Representatives from all industry sectors are welcome.

Speakers:
Steve Knode, Regional Senior Commercial Counselor, U.S. Commerical Service Australia
Jekaterina Viktorova, CEO and Co-Founder, Syenta
Will Crowe, Co-Founder and CEO, HEO Robotics
Blair Lucas, Group Commercial Director, Acclime
Georgina Harrowell, Commercial Specialist, U.S. Commercial Service Australia

Welcome to Grapevine, Texas – sister city of The Barossa, Australia. Making memories with loved ones is easy in Grapevine. Centrally located in Dallas-Fort Worth, Grapevine offers Texas-sized fun in a welcoming community with an authentic, relaxed atmosphere. Enjoy spectacular family resorts, kid-friendly attractions, a charming, walkable Main Street including 9 winery tasting rooms, lake activities and year-round festivals and events, all within a 3-mile radius.

Host city to DFW Airport, Grapevine is the ideal home base for exploring all the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex has to offer. But with so much to do in Grapevine, you might not want to leave.

Experience the unexpected tastes of America. Passholders can enjoy a free lunch! (Limited spaces)

As the world’s fourth leading wine producer boasting 153 official viticultural areas (AVAs), California truly is the Golden State when it comes to wine. From cool coastal areas in the northern part of the state where top quality Chardonnay and Pinot noir are grown, to warmer valleys where world-class Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot are made, much of California offers optimal growing conditions for fine wine grapes. At the California Wines Tasting Bar, you will be experiencing the diversity in our wines by sampling some of the 32 wines sent in by 22 wine producers across the state as presented by a wine educator.

Lee Griffin is a born and bred Australian singer/songwriter, who has devoted years to honing his craft on stages and in studios all over the world — including a five-year stint based in Music City, Nashville TN. His albums ‘Plums’ and ‘Luminance’ with his band The Triple B have seen local, national, and international airplay, and feature singles including ‘Ride On’ & ‘Bad Ideas’. More-recent releases include single ‘Hoping For Too Much’ and three-track one-take wonder ’Live at Recordworks’. Despite his studio output, Lee really lives for performing live. He prides himself on the fact no two shows are ever the same — blending spontaneous and captivating energy.

Watch the recording of the Song Confessional Podcast from USA House featuring performances from Walker Lukens and Buffalo Hunt.

Austin, TX-based songwriter Walker Lukens has become well known for embracing contradiction,”blending genres and techniques” (Billboard) into a sound that’s hard to pin down.NPR’s All Songs Considered described him as a “rhythmic sound effect master”who creates “curious, textured music,” while World Cafe called it “wonderfullyinventive.”“I’ve never wanted to be one of those songwriters who compartmentalizes whatpart of their lives comes out in their songs,” he says. “I wanted to deal with Trump,and Charlottesville, and the ‘Me Too’ movement alongside things like breaking upand falling in love.” Lukens took creative inspiration from work like Bob Dylan’sfamously wide-ranging double LP ‘Blonde on Blonde’ as well as Frank Ocean’s’Blonde’ while writing and recording ADULT.”That, to me, is the trick – making something personal and political that doesn’t tryto make sense of itself,” he says. ‘ADULT’ was produced by Spoon drummer JimEno, and features new tracks along with the previously released singles “Baby”and “Tear It Out My Heart.”