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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
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.