State of the City 2025

Join us for a dynamic and forward-looking event hosted by the City of Hobart, where we’ll host guest speaker, Steve Tighe, and explore the city’s evolving economic landscape and its role in shaping Tasmania’s future.

🗓️ Date: 27 August 2025
📍 Location: Town Hall Ballroom, Hobart
🎟️ Cost: Free to attend
🎤 Guest Speaker: Steve Tighe

Steve Tighe is one of Australia’s leading advisors on the future, strategy, and innovation. The former National Foresight Manager at global brewer Foster's, Steve has spent over two decades helping organisations and their leaders to see the future more clearly and think more creatively about what lies ahead.

Steve is the author of Rethinking Strategy, a practical and award-winning guide on how to anticipate and prepare for future opportunities and threats before they emerge. Since publication in 2019, Rethinking Strategy has sold over 15,000 copies and received multiple international book awards.

Topics include:

• What the City of Hobart is doing to drive innovation and productivity over the next 12 months.

• How the city has grown and changed over the last decade—and what that says about our future.

This is a chance to hear from one of Australia's leading advisors on the future, strategy and innovation, as well as connect with local leaders, and be part of the conversation about Hobart’s next chapter.