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Cyber Summit 2025

The 2025 Financial Review Cyber Summit: Australia’s top minds dissect geopolitics, innovation, and defence to chart the path forward in our evolving digital frontier

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong.

AFR Asia Summit 2025

Join the Financial Review Asia Summit, it outlines powerful discussions shaping the future of Australia-Asia prosperity, and find out how can Australia navigate rising strategic turbulence while strengthening trade and investment ties across Asia.

Graeme Samuel, professor at Monash Business School, said the company director course run by AICD is about ticking a box.

Samuel: A fork in the eye is less painful than AICD director’s course

Former competition watchdog chief Graeme Samuel says executives would learn more about governance reading APRA’s report on CBA than doing the company directors course.

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Government Services Summit

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Higher Education Summit

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Presented by Cushman & Wakefield

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Housing Minister Clare O’Neil speaking at the AFR Property Summit.

AFR Property Summit 2025

The Summit uncovers the prospects for the property sector’s traditional asset types – offices, retail spaces and warehouses, and explores the appeal in fast-growing alternatives such as data centres, rental housing, and healthcare facilities.

Schneider’s Mike Cox says companies are no longer interested in the Climate Active program.

Corporates go cold on carbon neutral scheme

A top consultant says the government’s Climate Active program is no longer part of corporate decarbonisation plans.

AFR ESG SUMMIT 2025 Panel | Navigating sustainable growth: balancing governance and financial returns in ESG Speaking is Alice Bielawska, Director of Asia-Pacific Research, Glass, Lewis

Alice Bielawska, director of asia-pacific research advisory Glass Lewis said

Risk matters more than ESG label

How to balance good governance with financial return for shareholders remains a burning issue when it comes to ESG investing.

Higher Education Summit 2025

The new normal?

The Higher Education Summit will look at the big picture – the confluence of global and local factors that are at play in shaping a sector that is struggling to hold on to historical norms and assumptions while being shaken on its very foundations.

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn at the Financial Review AI Summit.

From ‘lucky country’ to ‘left-behind country’: Matt Comyn’s AI warning

Executives say Australia is in danger of falling behind as the rise of artificial intelligence creates a profound change in the way people and businesses work.

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Forget a government data centre strategy, just slash red tape: AirTrunk

Carly Wishart, an executive at the digital infrastructure giant, warns that there are many countries in the region jockeying to attract data centres.

Suncorp CIO Adam Bennett, right, at the AI Summit on Tuesday.

From mortgages to mining copper, here’s how big companies are using AI

Flood and cyclone victims are just some of the people the country’s biggest businesses are helping with the use of artificial intelligence.

Tim Ayres says unions need to be part of the conversation when companies are implementing AI.

Ayres signals a bigger role for unions over AI use at work

Industry Minister Tim Ayres says they should have a louder voice in how businesses adopt artificial intelligence, as concerns rise about huge job losses.

Qinghua Lu (left) and Liming Zhu who lead CSIRO’s Data61 Responsible AI team.

CSIRO is the adult in the room as the AI kids run wild

As the business and technology worlds race for artificial intelligence supremacy, the CSIRO’s Data61 is trying to show companies how to develop systems responsibly.

JJ Fiasson’s Leonardo AI has won The Australian Financial Review’s AI awards for 2025.

The winner of the AFR’s AI Trailblazer award talks life under Canva

Leonardo AI chief executive and co-founder JJ Fiasson has been honoured at the Financial Review AI Awards for 2025. Here’s how he got there.

Grant Wright, SEEK’s group executive for AI.

SEEK is transforming employment markets through ethical AI

The employment marketplace has been named a finalist in the Financial Review AI Awards in the Ethics and responsibility category for its Responsible AI Framework.

Scam Indicator can flag suspicious behaviour in real time to protect customers.

AI system shields Australians from scams – without them knowing

Scam Indicator, developed by Quantium Telstra, flags suspicious behaviour in real time, helping banks stop scams before they succeed.

Hanno Blankenstein, Unleash Group CEO.

AI drones make inspecting wind farms a breeze

Unleash live’s pioneering system covers vast areas traditionally monitored on foot, by car or with helicopters and planes.

Forever chemicals have been found in Australians’ tap water, but the risks remain unclear.

AI shortcuts climate threats to secure Australia’s drinking water

As extreme weather events become more common, UTS’s AI-based tool will be able to better predict raw water quality.

AI is everywhere – now we need to harness its superpowers

The Financial Review AI Awards showcases Australian innovators building practical AI solutions to boost local adoption.

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Barb Hyman, founder and CEO of Sapia.ai.

5 rules that show how to think about AI before it’s too late

Australia’s competitive future depends on businesses overcoming ‘paralysis by analysis’ and embracing a practical approach to AI implementation.

Government must step up its game on AI challenges

There is a growing sense that things are starting to get complicated as a growing number of companies start embracing AI as a driver of workforce productivity.

OpenAI, Meta, Amazon and other tech giants are busy acquiring, merging, ‘pivoting’ and cutting deals to also try and get first-mover advantage.

How Australia can fight the coming AI apocalypse

In the manic AI race, there are those with global tech businesses who want an unregulated environment, and the public, who worry about their jobs and rights.

BCA chief executive Bran Black said Australia needs a clear national AI policy.

Business Council says government must step up on big AI questions

Industry needs clear national AI goals, regulatory certainty and much faster approvals for new data centres, according to the peak industry group.

Professor Sharon Pickering, vice chancellor Monash University.

How a $60m computer called MAVERIC could change Australia’s AI future

A new supercomputer in Melbourne will give researchers the firepower to work on vast data sets in health, medicine and climate change.

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