Future of Marketing Summit 2025
The Future of Marketing Summit returns for its twentieth anniversary as Australia’s premier gathering for marketing and brand leaders. Taking place from August 25th to 27th, 2025 at the luxurious Langham on Queensland’s iconic Gold Coast, this meticulously curated event brings together 100 top marketers and 100 technology solution providers for 2.5 days of intensive learning, strategic networking, and collaborative innovation.
Distinguished by its selective participation model, the summit maintains an exceptional caliber of discourse through careful screening of all applicants. This approach ensures that only Australia’s most forward thinking marketing leaders engage with leading technology providers in a format designed to foster meaningful connections and strategic partnerships.
Conference Overview
The Future of Marketing Summit delivers a comprehensive program of expert keynotes, breakout sessions, quickfires, debates, fireside chats, panels, and industry roundtables. The agenda explores critical topics including leadership through change, brand storytelling in the digital age, influencer marketing evolution, brand purpose development, search optimization, data strategy, and generative AI implementation.
What sets this summit apart is its balanced structure of formal learning, strategic networking, and shared experiences. The program begins with the dynamic Business Connect session featuring ten focused 10 minute meetings between marketers and technology providers, creating efficient pathways to discover potential partnerships and solutions.
Unique Experience Format
Beyond structured sessions, the summit creates numerous opportunities for meaningful connections through carefully planned networking functions. These include an official Welcome Dinner with keynote speaker, a Poolside Reception, and organized afternoon activities such as Sailing in Paradise, Pinot & Picasso, or Golf, providing shared experiences that strengthen professional relationships.
The Marketing Masterminds roundtable discussions offer participants the chance to tackle common challenges, exchange success stories, and explore cutting edge strategies in small group settings, facilitating deeper connections among peers facing similar marketing challenges.
Who Should Attend
The Future of Marketing Summit is specifically designed for senior marketing executives including Chief Officers, Managing Directors, and Heads of Marketing, Brand, Digital, Experience, Operations, Media, Performance, Growth, Audience, Customer, Insights, Data, and CRM.
The event creates particular value for executives seeking to navigate technological disruption, enhance team capabilities, optimize customer engagement, and implement emerging technologies within their marketing operations. The summit’s selective nature ensures participants engage with peers at similar professional levels, creating an environment of sophisticated discourse and relationship building among decision makers.
Speakers Include:
- Helena Stylman, Managing Director ANZ, iMedia
- Yvonne Adele, Event Host and Official MC
- Jessica Miles, Country Manager, Integral Ad Science
- Mark Byrne, Co Founder, AI Strategy & Innovation, Headspring
The Future of Marketing Summit 2025 represents an essential opportunity for Australia’s marketing leaders to gain strategic insights, discover innovative approaches, and build valuable connections in a carefully curated environment designed to drive meaningful business transformation and marketing excellence.