The 11th edition of Asia Pacific's longest-running marketing forum — Bali Nusa Dua, August 5–7, 2026.
Inside this issue
The 2026 manifesto from the APMF marketing office, ahead of the eleventh edition.
Stop chasing trends; start building the future. In 2026, our goal is to move past fleeting moments and focus on the foundational systems that ensure our brand thrives. This redefines our role: we are no longer just predicting the future—we are actively engineering it.
02Featured Conversation · One of Two
A conversation with Yayoi Kusama on day one. On obsession as method, repetition as language, and why a single mark, made for sixty years, becomes a system the world recognises before it understands.
Day One · Opening Keynote
Yayoi
Kusama.
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The only artist at this scale who has spent six decades repeating one gesture until it became the world's. The bet of the opening keynote is that marketers can learn from a discipline that does not move on, in a decade where everything else does.
The conversation will not be about the Infinity Mirror Rooms. It will be about repetition as the only honest way to build a recognisable system, about the difference between an icon and a logo, and about the patience required to make something the world cannot mistake for anything else.
Day one. Opening keynote. Sixty minutes. The only question off the table is the one every magazine cover asks first.
03Featured Conversation · Two of Two
A conversation with Marina Abramović on day three. On showing up, holding the gaze, and what marketing forgets the moment it stops looking the audience in the eye.
The artist who sat in a chair for seven hundred and thirty-six hours, looked strangers in the face, and made a generation of cultural workers reconsider what showing up means. We are not asking her about endurance. We are asking her what she saw across the table.
The conversation closes the 11th edition. We are framing it as an interview, on record, with the room held the same way she holds an audience. Bring questions you would ask if you were the only one in front of her.
Day three. Closing keynote. Seventy-five minutes. In conversation, on record. The chair will be in the room.
Day Three · Closing Keynote
Marina
Abramović.
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Engineering the future requires more than just foresight; it requires a new foundational system for growth. Join us from August 5–7 in Nusa Dua as we move beyond temporary trends to blueprint a framework for permanent impact and success.
05 Aug · The Deep Dive
The blueprint begins with precision. Day one is dedicated to Applied Intelligence Labs, where we strip away the noise to focus on the essential frameworks of our industry. Immersive, specialized sessions designed to turn complex theory into tactical action.
06 Aug · The Architecture
The Main Stage providing the cultural and structural direction needed to build for the long term. Framework-defining conversations to set the strategic foundation of our field, engineering the systems that ensure lasting resilience and impact.
07 Aug · The Masterplan
The final phase of the blueprint is about permanence. We conclude with framework-defining conversations that solidify our role as engineers of the future. Not just leaving a campaign behind; building the foundational system that ensures lasting impact for years to come.
Names dropped one by one. The room is being curated.
Speaker names are displayed in alphabetical order
Bali, the pass, the archive, the credits — everything you need to be in the room.
The Venue
Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center — the room where APAC marketing actually shows up. The work requires distance from the office.
The Archive
From the beginning, every edition has been a moment the industry stopped to listen. This one is the next page in a longer story.
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