Tropical Innovation Festival

Welcome to #TIF2024

Join us in Cairns, where world-heritage listed rainforest meets a world-heritage listed reef for the fourth Tropical Innovation Festival this June 2024. Download this official app to see whats on, connect with other delegates and speakers and stay up to date throughout the festival.

This years festival theme is Resilience, Relationships, and Relativism. A framework for rich, thought-provoking conversations and collaborations both on and off the stage.

Sharing the magical power of resilience

Cairns and Far North Queenslanders faced a tough cyclone season, dealing with significant challenges. As we re-build, resilience, collaboration and innovation are key. #TIF2024 brings session celebrating hard work, inspiring perseverance and environmental protecting injecting some magic into our community and ecosystem.

Valuing relativism for practical solutions

Genuine authenticity and unreserved candour shine through discussions led by a mix of seasoned speakers and fresh voices in a super relaxed environment. This element of #TIF2024 emphasises context-dependent solutions, valuing diverse perspectives for unique, adaptable problem-solving and opportunity identification strategies.

In crafting the festival, we recognise diverse attendee goals. Our on-stage sessions are shorter than traditional conferences, allowing speakers to feature multiple times.

Fostering relationships for innovation success

The festival provides ample opportunity to cultivate strong relationships between individuals, organisations, government entities and ecosystems. Take advantage of the networking events at #TIF2024, featuring full catering with breakfast, lunch and canapes to support socialising and sharing between the amazing attendees and speakers.