With more than 30 speakers including education and corporate leaders, HE thought leaders, and marketing, communications and advancement practitioners,we are really excited about this year’s program for HE FEST.

Each year, the Future Campus team work to bring you the year’s best Australasian conference on HE strategy, marketing and comms, as well as fresh insights into the future. In one of the most turbulent years for the tertiary sector in decades, we look at opportunities and threats on the horizon, as well as lots of practical case studies of what has worked – and what hasn’t.

The HE FEST 26 conference, to be held at Macquarie University’s campus in Sydney on 22-23 September aims to be an event with a difference – we want every session to be one that you don’t want to miss. Of course there will be plenty of time to catch up with colleagues over coffee, but we are setting out to create conversations within each session that make HE FEST memorable.

We will be bringing mostly facilitated interviews, panel discussions and some straight presentations, giving you a chance to join the conversation at every turn.

Future Campus hosts Stephen Matchett and Tim Winkler will work to shape relevant, insightful discussions around each topic, extracting insights and key takeaways from speakers drawn from across the sector (and beyond).

We are really excited by the line up of speakers and will include some shortlisted finalists from the Future Campus 2026 Awards. There may still be one or two changes to the program, but this is pretty close to our dream speaker lineup in the schedule now. Download the latest program below.

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