Register for AFTRS Digital Futures Summit 2025

Anticipate the future of the creative industries at Digital Futures Summit 2025, hosted by the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) on Thursday 26 June 2025. This year’s theme is Anticipation: Imagining the Screen and Audio Industry in 2030.

The Digital Futures Summit is an opportunity for leaders, educators and policymakers in the Australian and international screen and audio industries to anticipate, prepare for and help shape the future of the industry.

This fifth summit will bring together some of the brightest minds and those at the forefront of innovative practice and policy for a thought-provoking exercise in forward-thinking and collective imagining. Conversations will cover how we build capacity and infrastructure for sustainability and change and offer ideas for how we frame and build structures, spaces, relationships and learning environments for a better future.

Join screen and audio leaders, educators and experts for a thought-provoking exercise in forward-thinking and collective imagining.

Key speakers include: Doug Shapiro, author of The Mediator, independent advisor, strategist and media analyst; Lynette Wallworth, Australian artist and filmmaker;  Grainne Brunsdon, Chief Operating Officer, Screen Australia; Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO, Provost and Chief Academic Office, Standing Acting Vice Chancellor, University of South Australia; and Jakob Kirstein Høgel, Head of Education and Research, National Film School of Denmark.

Register now for this free, interactive online event on Thursday 26 June.