10 December 2025
This symposium of the Melbourne Economic Forum discussed the changing contributions of technology, demography, technology, and key institutions to our economic development and asked what could pave the way towards a renewed consensus on economics and public policy that is fit for the times and conditions we face in the 2020s and 2030s.
Our speakers:
- Tom Bentley (VP, Strategy and Community Impact, RMIT): A changing consensus: City-regions and innovation systems
- Professor Beth Webster (Director of the Melbourne Institute): Innovation capabilities and productivity
- Professor Peter Dawkins (former Vice-Chancellor and President of Victoria University): Building a lifelong learning system to support a high productivity, de-carbonising economy with artificial intelligence and an ageing population.
- Professor Janine Dixon (Director of the Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS) at Victoria University): The links between productivity and shared prosperity, and where AI might take us