Welcome to Melbourne Forum
Welcome to the beating heart of Melbourne’s intellectual and cultural life! At Melbourne Forum, we’re more than just a member’s organisation — we’re the place where the brightest and most passionate minds converge to shape the future of our city and beyond. Whether you’re a thought leader, a changemaker, or someone who thrives on deep discussions, we’d love to welcome you.
What Is Melbourne Forum?
Founded on diversity, we are an engaged group of people who come together to share ideas and perspectives on a range of local, national and global issues in a supportive and friendly environment.
We organise bespoke opportunities for robust and interactive conversations. We invite eminent experts in different fields to lead a conversation, to inform us and invite us to think about, discuss and involve ourselves in social, economic, cultural, scientific, political and public policy issues of relevance to Melbourne.
Melbourne Forum offers an opportunity to expand our thinking, hear different perspectives and identify ways we can contribute to important issues relevant to our City and us.
Dangerous Dinner - Merit, Money, or Meaning: What Should Drive Arts Funding
Today, 06:30PM
Dangerous Dinner
How are publishers addressing Knowledge Theft through AI and who is winning?
Tomorrow, 05:30PM
Candid Conversations with Lisa Watts
Building a mandate for reform in an age of policrastination
Tue, Jul 21, 05:30PM
Candid Conversations with Clare Beaton-Wells
What would Victoria be without the Education State: Challenges and Opportunities
Wed, Jul 29, 05:30PM
Candid Conversations with Tony Bates
Open Door Series - A return to WEHI
Tue, Aug 04, 05:30PM
Private Tour of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) with Professor Ken Sm...
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Melbourne Forum creates an inclusive and stimulating environment for members to engage with pressing issues of the day. Members enjoy hearing eminent leaders speak in intimate environments that encourage robust discussion and conversation with both them and other members.