Innovation Festival

CIfA's autumn online conference

Our next Innovation Festival will be held 6-10 October 2025.

Registration

Registration for this year's festival is now open. An early bird discount of 20% will automatically be applied to all registrants before 15 September 2025.

Sessions

Our programme is not yet ready for publication, but this year's festival will include:

  • AI and its use in practice (with Information Management Group)
  • student paper session (with Early Careers Group)
  • post-excavation storytelling (with Finds and Community Archaeology Groups)
  • climate change
  • sampling strategies
  • science-based archaeology
  • drone work
  • hybrid working

We have closed our call for sessions, but if you a student and would like to submit a paper please complete our proposal form with a short outline of what you’d like to include – we’d love to hear from you!

Past festivals