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Frankston & Mornington Peninsula Business Festival 2026
Future Frontiers: Navigating Growth and Opportunity Across Our Region.
Agile IT Solutions is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the region’s flagship business festival. We will be hosting a stand for the day, and our Managing Director, Linden Jackson, is speaking on AI, emerging technologies and business security.
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Thu 27 Aug
2026
8:30am to 5:30pm
Full-day program
Frankston Arts Centre
27-37 Davey St, Frankston
Gold Sponsor
Hosting a stand · speaking session
About the festival
A full day for the regional business community
The Frankston & Mornington Peninsula Business Festival is the region’s flagship gathering for business owners, managers and leaders. The 2026 program runs under the theme Future Frontiers: Navigating Growth and Opportunity Across Our Region, where ideas become economic impact.
It is a full day of speakers, sessions, exhibitors and connection, hosted by the Frankston Business Chamber in collaboration with the Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston City and Nichols Crowder.
For a business in our area, it is one of the best days of the year to learn something useful, meet the people behind other local businesses, and get a clear read on where the regional economy is heading.
The 2026 program is structured around a series of Future Frontiers Growth Precincts, each one a key sector shaping the region’s economy, with its own exhibitor zones, speakers and industry-led discussions:
- Property & Development
- Finance & Investment
- Tourism & Hospitality
- Health, Wellbeing & Workplace Safety
- Manufacturing & Industry
- Retail & Entrepreneurship
- Education & Emerging Opportunities
- Social & Community Infrastructure
8:30am to 5:30pm
Exhibitor stands and the Growth Precincts run right through the day.
9:00am to 4:30pm
The speaker program runs in the main theatre, including Linden’s session at 11:40am.
4:30pm to 5:30pm
A networking cocktail hour closes out the day.
Agile IT at the festival
Come and find us on the day
As a Gold Sponsor, we are part of the festival in two ways, a stand you can drop by, and a speaking session you can sit in on.
Visit our stand
The Agile IT team will be hosting a stand for the day. Come and say hello, ask us anything about managed IT, cyber security or AI, and pick up practical information you can take back to your business. No appointment, no pressure, just a friendly conversation with people who work with businesses across Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula every day.
Hear Linden speak
Our Managing Director, Linden Jackson, is presenting a session on what AI and emerging technology really mean for small and medium businesses, the practical opportunities, and the risks worth knowing about. Details are below.
Speaking session · 11:40am to 12:10pm
Innovation Frontiers: The Good, The Bad and The Bot
Making sense of AI, emerging technologies and business security.
Technology is changing fast, and AI is right in the middle of it. For a lot of business owners, it is exciting, a bit confusing, and probably already showing up in the workplace, whether there is a plan for it or not.
In this session, Linden Jackson from Agile IT Solutions will discuss what AI and smarter technologies really mean for small and medium-sized businesses. Not the hype, not the big end of town stuff, just the practical side of what is changing, where the opportunities are, and where businesses need to be careful.
From saving time with better tools and automation, to the risks around data, security and staff using AI tools without clear rules, Linden will share a straight-up view of what business owners and managers should be thinking about now.
Your speaker
Linden Jackson
Managing Director & Co-owner, Agile IT Solutions
Linden has spent more than 30 years in IT and founded Agile IT in 2007 to bring deliberate, business-focused technology management to Melbourne and Mornington Peninsula SMBs. He works with business owners every week on the real questions behind technology decisions, including how to adopt AI in a way that is useful, safe and actually under control.
Why we sponsor this festival
Agile IT is a 2026 Corporate member of the Frankston Business Chamber, and sponsoring the Business Festival is a natural extension of that. We are a local business that works with other local businesses, and the health of the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula business community matters to us.
Backing the festival is a straightforward way to support that community and to be useful in it, turning up, sharing what we know, and helping other owners make better-informed technology decisions.