FIRE Conference 2025 - Sydney

Name: FIRE Conference 2025 - Sydney
Start: 2025-11-15T09:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-11-15T09:00:00+11:00
Location: Dooleys Regent St Pavilion

About

Join us for a full day of engaging and informative panel discussions featuring those who have successfully achieved Financial Independence and Retired Early (FIREd).

You'll hear their inspiring stories, gain insights from their experiences, and receive actionable advice to help you reach your own FIRE goals. Our panelists come from diverse backgrounds and will share the strategies that propelled them to success, whether through real estate, business ventures, or equity markets.

Discover the mindset and secrets that enabled them to retire at least a decade ahead of the standard retirement age. After the panel, you'll have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session to deepen your understanding and watch them debate controversial topics, followed by networking with like-minded FIRE enthusiasts. The event is fully catered, including lunch, snacks, coffee/tea, and non-alcoholic beverages. You never know you might even meet your next accountability partner or mentor to accelerate your FIRE journey. For the VIPs, you'll get to enjoy a nice dinner with the panelists plus an intimate roundtable where you get to ask specific questions/insight post the conference.

All profits from the event will be donated to a charity chosen by our panelists, which will be announced on the day.

Details:
Venue - Dooleys Regent St Pavilion
Address - 67 Regent St, Regents Park NSW 2143
Date - Saturday, 15th November
Time - 9am ~ 5pm
Cost:
- $120/person (Early Bird $100) - Includes drinks, snacks & lunch
- $280/person (Early Bird $250) - Additional dinner & roundtable
- $60/teenager (12yo+ teens must be accompanied by an adult)
- $10/child (6-11yo child must be accompanied by an adult)

Sample Agenda/Topics:

Why FAT FIRE conference?
Introduction to the Panelists
Definition of different types of FIRE(s)
Mindset/Skills Building Phase:
- What book/person was the most influential to your FIRE journey?
- Who had the most influence on you for your FIRE journey? What lesson did you learn from them?
- What would you say are some of the mental barriers that you were able to overcome to help you achieve FIRE?
- How much do you spend on personal development and skill building?
- What are some comfort zones you broke through to get to where you're today?
Saving/Grinding Phase:
- What did you study at uni and what was your first job?
- What habit(s) made the biggest difference in the saving phase of FIRE?
- How did you balance saving aggressively with enjoying life?
- Did you get any financial help with your FIRE journey?
- Was it difficult to shed your frugal/scarcity mindset?
Amplifying/Growing Phase:
- How do you get started on investing?
- What are some of the common myths about building wealth you can bust in your FIRE journey?
- What do you think is the biggest pitfall/downside of FIRE?
- How did you get from scarcity mindset to abundance mindset?
- When is ‘enough’ for you? Is it a number, a feeling or something else entirely?
Protecting/Diversify Phase:
- How do you position yourself (% in each asset class)?
- What’s the best way to protect your assets?
- How many income streams does one need to ensure a secure FIRE?
- How do you account for financial risks like market crashes, inflation, or unexpected life events?
- How much diversification is needed to ensure your FIRE security?
Living/Enjoyment Phase:
- What made you pull the trigger on retirement?
- Did you figure out your purpose in life before retiring?
- What's on your bucket list?
- Any tips on raising money-savvy kids?
- Do you have a big hairy audacious goal?
Direct Q&A with participants
Panel Discussion Game
- Superannuation is key to FIRE
- Cryptocurrency is the future of finance
- We are about to hit the biggest financial crisis in history
- I plan to leave all my inherence to my kids
- Money is the root of all evil
Networking & Socialising
VIPs
- Dinner
- Roundtable

Panelists:

Tung Nguyen

Tung is the Director of Strategy and Product for a global financial services firm, with a background as a management consultant specializing in strategy, macroeconomics, trends, and innovation. With over 15 years of corporate experience, Tung has a proven track record in building digitally disruptive businesses and leading elite product teams within large multinational corporations, pure-play digital enterprises, and lean start-up environments.

Having achieved Financial Independence (FI) in his 40s, Tung plans to fully embrace FIRE in 2025, once his youngest child completes high school, allowing him and his wife to spend six months of the year traveling. He is also the founder of Savvy Investor, a thriving Facebook community with nearly 18,000 members dedicated to helping individuals reach their first million. The community now boasts over 175 millionaires, and Tung continues to share his expertise as a personal finance coach.

Wally Chiang

Made in Taiwan, assembled in Australia, Wally fell into the common Asian misconception of equating good grades with success, resulting in him amassing more degrees than one cares to count. After gaining experience in the corporate IT sector, he embarked on an entrepreneurial journey by establishing his own digital marketing agency.

Having dedicated over 10,000 hours to studying macroeconomics and geopolitics over the last seven years or so, his current focus centres on wealth preservation and self-sufficiency. This involves diversifying into precious metals and cryptocurrency, alongside acquiring a 600+ acre hobby farm to learn new skills such as hunting, bushcraft, and permaculture.

With a disciplined approach to saving, investing in real estate during the booming years, and putting his business under management, Wally achieved FIRE at the age of 41. This grants him the freedom to devote his time to his family, particularly imparting his knowledge to his two young children. Moreover, Wally runs courses on his farm, catering to those embarking on their own journey towards self-sufficiency.

Kristina

Host:

Jun

Jun migrated to Australia at age of 15, adapting to a new country and culture while pursuing her studies. She has built a meaningful 27 years career in pharmacy and continues to work part-time in hospital as a clinical pharmacist.

Starting from humble beginnings after marriage, Jun and her husband committed to building financial security through property investment, leveraging equity to create long-term wealth. After 15 years, she expanded into the U.S. equity markets, where she discovered the FIRE movement in an options trading community. Since then, she has focused on Financial Independence, Retire Optional (FIRO) as a pathway to greater freedom and purpose.

A strong advocate for financial literacy, Jun is particularly passionate about raising the next generation to be money-wise. Her proudest achievement is seeing both her children already on their own FIRE journeys, actively investing in equities, ETFs, and private credit funds.

With plans to FIRE in 2026, Jun is preparing for a new chapter filled with travel, exploration, and intentional living. As host of this conference, she brings her personal story of resilience and growth, along with her commitment to empowering others to pursue financial freedom.