Australia’s HE FEST
Marketing, Recruitment, Advancement and AI in Higher Education Conference 11-13 Sept 2024 Adelaide
A Future Campus conference Hosted by UniSA
The new forum for HE thought leaders
HE FEST is a new festival of Higher Education – celebrating ideas and best practice in Higher Education Marketing, Recruitment, Advancement and AI.
Developed by the team at Future Campus, and hosted on the UniSA campus, the conference will create a forum for new conversations and the opportunity to develop new networks, with a strong focus on practical solutions and best practice benchmarks.
Sessions will be focused on testing current policy and practice and showcasing best practice approaches across marketing, comms, recruitment, alumni, engagement, philanthropy. The conference will also have an AI stream, looking at best-practice AI implementation across the country in education, research, assessment, and operations.
HE FEST 24 offers a compelling mix of content:
- Keynote speakers who are nationally-recognised thought leaders
- Award entrants who are shortlisted for Future Campus 2024 awards presenting case studies of best practice approaches in short, practical sessions
- Moderated panel discussions
- Hands-on demonstrations of technology including AI
The conference will appeal to marketing, recruitment, advancement, alumni, and Faculty staff, as well as HE planning, policy and AI thought leaders.
Speakers
Partners
Future Campus HE FEST 24 Awards
In recognition of key achievements by university staff in Australia and New Zealand, the Future Campus HE FEST 24 Awards will recognise the nation’s leading work in AI and Advancement over the past year.
The awards, to be judged by an eminent panel of sector experts, will be presented at the HE FEST conference dinner on 12 September 2024.
We have chosen to bring together awards which recognise excellence in all aspects of generative AI use, expanding the frontiers of student experience, knowledge generation and efficiency and also work in Advancement, encompassing marketing, fundraising, communications and recruitment. Achievements in both of these areas requires input from multiple disciplines, and participation and contributions by both professional and academic staff.
We believe these two areas of AI and Advancement are critical to the future perceptions, efficiency, effectiveness and success of higher education and are also both under-recognised as enablers of change.
Future Campus, the news source produced by and for Australasian HE, intends to make these awards an annual event.