Day two of the 2018 Adelaide Festival of Ideas coincides with Entrepreneurs Week, and as such, we have focussed our Friday 13th July program on social enterprise and innovation. We start the day with Katrina Donaghy on Blockchain, and how exciting the future of this technology is going to be, followed by Tim Causer in conversation with Stephanie Johnston on the work of Jeremy Bentham, a radical innovator whose work underpinned the establishment of South Australia.  Julianne Parkinson, at a Behind Closed Doors networking lunch and learn session, will present on Ageing and Entrepreneurship ..read more

The Adelaide Festival of Ideas is an example of what can happen when passion is mobilised and shared. The 2018 AFoI is a rich offering of ideas and a testament to the generosity of spirit of so many speakers. Along with our many volunteers, we invite you to rug up, and be engaged and active citizens. In a world where opinions are in over-supply – and sound-bites abound. We are bombarded with tweets and brain-farts of ever-more reductive simplicity! the AFoI provides the curious citizen with a menu of more substantial content. Over three days and evenings, as an audience member you can choose y ..read more

Here at AFoI headquarters we’re sitting on an incredible treasure trove – recordings of AFoI sessions going all the way back to 1999. There are around 450 recordings all up. This is more than 95% of all the sessions we’ve hosted but only around 50 recordings have made it on to our website so far. For the last year we’ve been determined to rectify this and share our archive with the world but life, day jobs and the 2018 Adelaide Festival of Ideas have all got in the way. We need some help! There is so much valuable, insightful and simply marvellous content there, from thinkers including Naomi K ..read more

On July 13th 2017 Adelaide Festival of Ideas founder and chair Greg Mackie OAM presented the University of Adelaide 2017 Cultural Oration. Finding the Next Wave: Innovation and its Discontents Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I acknowledge that we meet here on the traditional lands of the Kaurna people and I pay respects to Kaurna and other First Nations Elders and acknowledge that their spiritual connection to this land is as strong to the living Kaurna communities today as it was to their ancestors. I extend special acknowledgment to Steven Marshall MP, to John Gardner MP and to Peter Louc ..read more

The Adelaide Festival of Ideas is making a leap in time and space, announcing that the much-loved event will be returning in 2018 – and to its original dates in July. “From 12-15 July 2018 great achievers and audiences new and old will be warming up in the West End of Adelaide with a 3-day ideas festival celebrating the life of the mind, thought leadership, the role of the public intellectual, and debating the most vexing issues of our times” says festival founder and chairman, former head of Arts SA, Greg Mackie OAM. “We will be moving our centre of gravity to Adelaide’s West End – where a cl ..read more

Three specialists explore the one unique territory from different perspectives. Join us for this special presentation featuring three world renowned local scientists and writers as they share their recent experiences travelling to the home of the blizzard. Booking and further information coming soon! Check the AFoI website for updates. Event:           Antarctica: Past, Present and Futures Featuring:    Palaeontologist, John Long .                    Director of RiAus, Paul Willis .         ..read more

During the AFoI2016, you may have attended sessions featuring international guest Michel Bauwens addressing issues concerning the sharing economy. These issues continue to raise serious questions in the public discourse concerning the future of labour markets and potential for both good and bad of a digital future. Green Industries SA are taking the conversation further and would like to invite AFoI friends and subscribers to the following event: Transforming Work: How co-operatively owned digital platforms create jobs Guest Speaker: Trebor Scholz, author of Uber-worked and Underpaid: How Work ..read more

Festival season is nearly upon us and perhaps you might be wondering if there will be news of a 2020 AFoI soon? Well – the news is that this year we intend to co-present a small number of special single events throughout the year while we work toward arrangements for a larger festival in 2021. We’ll keep you updated as plans evolve. Things may have seemed quiet at the AFoI in 2019 but work was going on behind the scenes. We’re proud to be launching a refreshed website today, the centrepiece of which is a near complete AFoI archive – over 500 session recordings going all the way back to our ..read more