 Victoria has such a diverse range of festivals and events and it really makes this state great. Events like this are really important for small communities just to bring people in and hopefully return. My name is Bill Bade, I'm the director of the Marysel Music Weekend. We're a small little music festival up in Country Victoria about an hour and a half north-east of Melbourne. We were contacted earlier this year about the Business Victoria event planner and realised pretty quickly that it was something that was going to be super useful no matter what stage of the planning process that you're in and also access to stuff like grants that we may not have known about. So my name is Christian Buxton. I'm one of the founders of the community members of the Bob Lowe's Invitational. The Bob Lowe's Invitational is a retro team surfing event and it's to promote mental health awareness and also raise funds for mental health charities. We were a bunch of creators that started this event with no event planning experience previously so if the Business Victoria event planner had been available to save so many headaches and probably a lot of infighting in our committee the funding opportunities that the app gave us I was never aware of beforehand so you know if you're a person out there trying to run an event for the first time it's going to be incredibly useful. My name is Ha, I'm the current president for Victoria Street Business Association and we run the Victoria Street Nuller Fetival. In our Fetival it's a great opportunity for our trader to treat the community with a multi-culture day of performance. If the Business Victoria event planner tool is available we'd be very helpful for us because that way then we can consolidate a lot of past that included in the event planning. I'm Mel Jansen and I'm founder and festival director for the Yarra Valley Oktoberfest. It's an annual festival that brings together over 2,000 people from across Victoria. The Business Victoria event planner is like your mentor or your checklist and so it really maps out who you need to talk to and at what stage and it helped me so much just to give me the confidence to know that what I was doing was right and also just that guidance that you need when you're doing something new. Events and festivals are generally driven by local communities so it's not just about the patrons who have a great time it's about the businesses that they support by coming and buying food and staying in the hotel. It's about the whole community and it really boosts the local economy and gives them that pride of place that I have this amazing festival at my doorstep.