HE FEST 2025
Australasia's Premier Marketing, Recruitment and Advancement Conference for the HE sector
17-19 Sept 2025
Melbourne
A Future Campus conference | Hosted by Deakin University
Speakers
Deakin University
Monash University
University of New England
Macquarie University
PREVIOUS EVENTS
HE FEST 2024
Hosted at University of South Adelaide’s City West Campus, HE FEST 2024 explored key insights, ideas and best practices in Higher Education.
HE FEST returns, bigger and bolder than ever – celebrating ideas and best practice in Higher Education marketing, recruitment, advancement and strategy.
Developed by the team at Future Campus and hosted by Deakin University’s Downtown venue, 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 and strategy.
HE FEST 25 offers a compelling mix of content:
- Keynote speakers who are nationally-recognised thought leaders
- Award entrants who are shortlisted for Future Campus 2025 awards presenting case studies of best practice approaches in short, practical sessions
- Moderated panel discussions
The conference will appeal to marketing, recruitment, advancement, alumni, and Faculty staff, as well as HE planning, policy and AI thought leaders.
Future Campus HE FEST 25 Awards
In recognition of key achievements by university staff in Australia and New Zealand, the Future Campus HE FEST 25 Awards will recognise the nation’s leading work in marketing, recruitment 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 17 September 2025.
We believe these areas are critical to the future perceptions, efficiency, effectiveness and success of higher education and are also under-recognised as enablers of change.
Future Campus, the news source produced by and for Australasian HE, is proud to work with staff across the country to judge and present these awards.
Entries will open on 1 June 2025.
