FutureFest Melbourne is Future Anything’s large-scale professional learning conference that will see 150+ primary and secondary educators come together in Melbourne to listen, learn, and network.

Brought to you in partnership with LCI Melbourne, and hosted at their creative hub in Collingwood, FutureFest will feature a host of high-energy speakers and practical, hands-on workshops enabling you to curate your day around the sessions that are most relevant to you.

Most importantly the event will be packed with practical tools and applied learning that you'll be able to implement in your classroom the very next day.

FutureFest Melbourne will also incorporate dedicated sessions open exclusively to teachers delivering The [X] Challenge program.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This is the event for educators who are interested in the latest in the Future of Work and the implications for education, 21st Century Skills (and how to build them), human-centred design thinking, entrepreneurial pedagogy, Project-Based Learning, and more.

All educators delivering The [X] Challenge are encouraged to attend this event (or one of our other in-person or online PD sessions).

Plus, there’ll be some lucky-door prizes up for grabs on the day too!

KEY INFO:

Full program will be announced soon!
Registration is from 8.30am with the event running from 8.45am - 3pm
Lunch and refreshments are included.
Participants will receive a certificate of attendance.
Attendance is FREE OF CHARGE for registered [X] Challenge 2026 teachers, with an incredible early bird rate available until 31 January to all other educators
Book soon, this event WILL sell out!

If your school is not yet registered for The [X] Challenge in 2026, there's still time! Click here to download the Program Overview.

Register for The [X] Challenge 2026 before Future Fest Melbourne, and get your conference ticket fees back!

In the (unlikely) circumstance that you need a little encouragement to attend in person, check out some testimonials from recent editions of Future Fest held in 2025:

“Genuinely one of the best PDs I’ve been to. Super practical and hands on. Shows the need for consistent and continuous growth and learning in education and helps educators to do this for our young people.” Teacher, Arethusa College

“The day with Future Anything was just what I needed to reenergise my thinking and approaches to engagement in the classroom. It was so good to meet and interact with like minded people to discuss what learning could, and should look like.” - Teacher, Redlands School

“Hand down one of the best PD days ever. A great mix of practical strategies, researched practice, fun networking and inspiration” - Teacher, Ferny Grove State High School

“This was a day that connected with so many of my core beliefs and opened my eyes to ways to help to finally make them a reality with our staff across our school.” - Teacher, Asquith Boys High School

“Had a great day at the FutureFest Professional Learning day. Going home having had a fun and engaging day, with lots of new and different ways of looking at things”- Teacher, Chertsey Primary School

“This is a great time to invoke a teacher with a future oriented mindset. Teaching should be about learning and the future of work is what we are preparing our students for.”- Teacher, Kingdom Culture Christian School

This event has been generously supported by: