Explore the topics that are panel of industry experts will be covering at Sea Otter Australia Summit 2025. Make sure your a part of shaping the industry!
The trends affecting the 10-year outlook for the industry
- AI Outdoors – How to best identify it, harness it and grow with it.
- Accessibility and Inclusivity – Better meeting the mindset and infrastructure needs.
- E-mobility – Understanding the shifting landscape of regulation, use, education and segment development.
- Trail network saturation – How to tackle the looming correction on oversupply of Trail based destinations.
- Talent attraction and skills development – Codifying the sector, the skills and the retention strategies.
- Taking it to the streets – Planning for the next wave of active transport demand (spoiler, it’s the U15 year olds).
Economic, Environmental and Social impact by the outdoor industry
- The power of place – Discovery and creativity unleashed through Stravart.
- Without Reward – Addressing the decline of volunteerism and measuring contribution better.
- No Blue, No green, (or brown) – Improving the sustainability of the outdoor industry.
- MTBeeronomics – A journey of undeniable entanglement and positive local economy impacts.
- The good cycle – Ensuring the multiplier effect for community, youth development and social enterprise.
- Recovery through sport and nature – Stories from para-athletes and emergency services workers that nearly lost it all.
- The emergence of Outdoor industry clusters- Founding, funding and realising the gains.
Excellence in land management and collaboration
- 2025 Land Managers Awards for excellence in Recreation (multiple categories).
- Land manager whispering 101 – The little used formula to ensure trails project success on-time, together.
- Building your integrated Outdoor Recreation and Outdoor Industry Roadmap – For Destination and Economic Development practitioners.
- Case Study – How to tell your economic story to government funders without hiring an economist.
Technology, Innovation and Sustainability
- Our next wave of Entrepreneurs, startups and challenger brands- How to identify and support them early.
- Brainy Biking – The growth in identifying and servicing the psychosocial element of riding bikes better.
- Integrating AI to your outdoor business growth strategy.
- The role of Sports diplomacy in sustaining your Outdoor economy.
- Paddle-Push-Flow – On-water tourism and activism.
Sustainable Trail Network and Destination Management
- Innovations in Trail construction for lower maintenance outcomes.
- Less than World class – Prioritising network construction that balances network design, construction and operation to local context.
- OPEX – Influencing the necessary policy shift in CAPEX and OPEX proportionally for sustainable projects.
- Rich data and Public prosperity- Smart approaches to economic impact recognition beyond the trailhead.
- Total Trail Stewardship – Models that could work for you.
Global trade and investment opportunities
- Grow your Exportise – Getting export ready and export savvy.
- Securing capital – Investment attraction, options and how to springboard your enterprise.
- Outdoor recreation infrastructure and industry cluster funding.
- Going Global – The power of partnerships and the ‘Combined Offer Stack’ bringing large enterprise buying access to small industry players.
- New and Emerging markets, are you ready to pivot…today?
