Mr Moshe Shahaf, Executive Director and co-founder of Prescient Venture Capital, was invited by the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association to be a Keynote speaker at the Melbourne International Venture Capital Conference being held in Melbourne on January 30th 2008 at the Sofitel Hotel.

AusIndustry (on behalf of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) administer the Innovation Investment Fund (IIF) Licence program on behalf of the Commonwealth Government of Australia. In January 2007, applications closed for round three of this program – with round two of the program awarded in 2001/2.