Seeking Tomorrow: Navigating Futures 

Through Oceanic Knowing

• Be Part of Shaping Futures: The Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium offers you a unique opportunity to connect with leading minds and grassroots visionaries shaping the future of the Oceania Region.

• Gain Practical Insights: Experience hands-on workshops, meaningful dialogues, and actionable strategies that you can take back to your community or organisation.

• Expand Your Network: Build relationships with other Oceania Region based futurists, foresight practitioners, and change-makers passionate about sustainable and inclusive futures.

• Shape the Conversation: Engage in participant-driven discussions and contribute your voice to co-creating solutions for your region's most pressing challenges.

We acknowledge that the co-curation team live, work and create on unceded land of the Jagera, Yugura, Yugarpul, Turrabul, Quandamooka and Gubbi Gubbi peoples. We pay respect to elders past, present and emerging and the key role our ancestors play in still holding our past, present and future.

This event is driven by the futures community’s desire for collaboration and is organised by volunteers committed to fostering these important conversations.  This is a space for diverse voices, deep listening, practice-based insights, creative methods, and courageous ideas. Our 2026 theme, like the 2025 Symposium, aspires to honour Indigenous, Pacific and Oceanic ways of knowing. 

We are constantly reviewing our framing and governance with Indigenous partners to ensure it is culturally grounded, responsible and accessible. 

As this is a non-profit event and volunteer lead, with no formal corporate or institutional sponsor we kindly ask that you cover your own travel, accommodation, and conference fees. 

The conference fee covers healthy catering, venue costs and AV hire, and administration, ensuring the event remains accessible and sustainable. It is not affiliated with any professional association. 

If you would like to contribute further, additional donations are always welcome to offset attendees Please contact Dr Elissa Farrow drelissafarrow@gmail.com with other offers of assistance.

We are grateful to the Australian National University, School of Cybernetics for the sponsorship of three youth tickets for undergraduates to support accessibility and equity