Foresight Forum: Horizon Scan to 2030
17 & 23 July 2024
The Professional Standards Councils hosted two Foresight Forums in July 2024. The Forums engaged association leaders and experts on the key challenges and opportunities over the horizon to 2030 for professions and professional standards regulators.
The Forums were facilitated by Mr Paul Higgins of Emergent Futures, using a structured and systematic format to explore ideas about the future to anticipate and better prepare for change. Key focus areas included trust in professions, new organisational structures, artificial intelligence and regulatory strategies.
The in-person event in Sydney brought the Councils together with more than 40 stakeholders to identify lessons, issues and trends in professional standards regulation and in the future world of professional services work. The Forum featured three expert speakers:
- Professor Alex Robson, Commissioner & Deputy Chair, Productivity Commission
- Kerri-Anne Millard, Executive Director, Policy & Outreach, Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner
- Dr Simon Longstaff AO, Executive Director, The Ethics Centre.
The online event enabled participation of associations across the national system.
Insights gained from the foresight exercise will be collated in an outcomes report, to be released by the Councils in late 2024 to mark the 30-year anniversary of the commencement of professional standards legislation in Australia.