WORLD ENTREPRENEUR DAY:

The Founder's Dinner

Celebrating ambition, connection & the women building businesses.

Proudly marking 10 years of Fusion.

THIS FRIDAY 21st AUGUST 2026 | 5pm - 9pm | Vin & Flower, Northbridge

No one celebrates entrepreneurs enough. Not the sleepless nights. Not the risks. Not the invisible work that turns an idea into a business.

So this World Entrepreneur Day, we’re celebrating YOU.

For one night, we’re putting the emails away, stepping out from behind our laptops, and celebrating the women who had the courage to back themselves.

Whether you’ve been in business for 6 months or 16 years, whether you’re a team of one or lead a team of fifty, this night is for you.

This is 10 years

in the making

Ten years of women backing women.

Ten years of ideas becoming businesses, strangers becoming collaborators, and rooms full of people who actually get it.

Ten years of proving that when ambitious women come together with intention, something extraordinary happens.

This World Entrepreneur Day, we are throwing open the doors and inviting every woman in Perth who has ever built something, risked something, or believed in something bigger than herself to come and celebrate it.

Because being an entrepreneur deserves celebration. Loudly. Beautifully. Together.

Your Evening Includes

A signature welcome cocktail
Arrive and toast to a decade well built. A bespoke drink in hand, the room already buzzing — this is where the night begins.

Curated connection experiences
Our signature facilitated networking — the thing Fusion is known for. No stiff intros, no awkward hovering by the canapés. Just real conversations with women who actually get it.

Live DJ, styling, and that unmistakable Fusion energy
Great music, beautiful details, a room designed to be felt. The kind of energy that keeps you talking long after you meant to leave.

Live pizza & paella cooking stations
Watch it made fresh right in front of you — wood-fired pizza and steaming paella, all-you-can-eat so you can keep your social battery toped up

A special address from Fusion Founder, Ashley Matković
The real story behind ten years — the wins, the wobbles, the lessons, and what's coming next. Unfiltered, and worth hearing.

A night ten years in the making
This isn't just a party — it's a milestone. Come to reminisce, come to make your first Fusion connection, come to celebrate the women brave enough to build on their own terms. Either way, you need to be in this room.

You walk through the door, and something settles in your chest. You are home. You instantly get introduced to someone new and the conversation just flows - they're genuinely interested in you and what you're building.

Familiar faces you have known for years. New faces you are meeting for the very first time.

All of them are here for the same reason, to celebrate entrepreneurship, and the connections that Fusion has created over the last decade.

The energy in the room is something you have to feel to understand.

Warm. Electric. Full.

And somewhere in between the laughter, the tears, and the conversations that stretch long into the evening, you will look around and think: this is what community looks like. And it is beautiful

the founder who made it happen

Ashley Matkovic

What started as a single social dinner has since grown into one of Perth’s most celebrated women in business communities and a movement that has shaped the trajectories of thousands of women along the way.

Ten years on, the mission has never changed. Create rooms worth being in. Build a community worth belonging to. And never stop believing that women are better together.

This celebration is for every woman who has ever been part of that mission and every woman who is about to be.