**Early Bird Tickets Close 1st December**

One of the best Victorian AOD events on the calendar, it gives us great pleasure to invite you to our 2025 Biennial Conference!

Grand Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne, Thursday 13 – Friday 14 February 2025

From Challenges to Solutions: Responding to a Changing World

About the theme:
As the world rapidly changes, the AOD sector faces new challenges: budget constraints and rising debt, vaping, climate change, gaming addiction, misinformation, artificial intelligence (AI), novel synthetic drugs, geopolitical instability, and post-COVID shifts in how we live and work. These forces challenge the very foundations on which AOD services and the broader social and community services sector operate.

Does the AOD sector need to pivot or drastically innovate to keep up with a rapidly changing future, or does the “AOD toolbox” already have what it needs? Are we prepared for what’s to come?

2025’s Conference will peer into the future and explore what’s on the horizon for the sector.

Get your tickets now before they sell out!

To access discounted tickets, click here to find out if your organisation is a VAADA Member.

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Below is some useful information that you need to know before purchasing tickets:

Refunds

No refunds will be issued until after the conference.
Full refunds can be made outside of 14 days before the conference.
Cancellations made within 14 days of the conference will be refunded at 80% of the cost price per person.
Refunds will not be given for non-attendance at the conference.

Ticket Transfers

Transferring tickets between participants is not permitted.

Ticket Purchases via Invoice

Please note that if you have opted to purchase your ticket via invoice, you will receive an invoice via Humanitix, upon which payment should be made.

Tickets purchased via invoice must be paid within 30 days of the booking date. If you don’t meet this term, the ticket may be cancelled.

Tickets purchased via invoice 30 days or less before the conference must be paid by COB on Monday 3rd February 2023. Tickets purchased via invoice that do not meet this term will be cancelled.

To receive our early bird specials, both registration AND payment must be received before 1st December 2024. Any registration money received after this date will be used to contribute to the price of regular tickets.

General Principles

VAADA is a not-for-profit organisation. To enable us to organise events such as our conference, it is essential we receive prompt payment for conference registration. We also ask registrants who can’t make the conference to notify us as soon as possible to ensure that others don’t miss out on being able to attend the conference.

Humanitix Booking Fees

Humanitix is committed to closing the education gap around the world so 100% of their booking fee profits go to education projects. Their project partners are evidence-based and work to make long-lasting systemic change, utilising both international and local delivery partners.

No tickets will be sold at the door.

Ticket sharing is not permitted.

For our full ticketing policy refer to General information.