Innovation Insights - restructuring Innovation Festival

Friday, 31st July 2026
CIfA Innovation Festival logo

We are excited to announce a shift to our annual event programming. Our Innovation Festival has played an active role in our annual event calendar since its inception in 2021. While the content of the festival has been excellent year after year, audience engagement has not grown to best serve the wider membership. With the aim to improve member engagement, we have taken audience feedback to inform how to change the festival.

The Innovation Insights programme will feature the same accessible, high calibre CPD you loved in Innovation Festival, with a similarly affordable price point. Innovation Insights will be scattered throughout the year, while keeping the exclusively digital format. This will allow our members with stricter schedules a bit more flexibility to engage with as many sessions as they can, rather than needing to book a week out.

Innovation Insights will keep what works about Innovation Festival, while making it more accessible to a wider cohort of archaeologists. By breaking up the festival into standalone sessions, we will be able to better support each session, ensuring that members don’t miss out on the individual sessions that most interest them.

Call for content

Our Innovation Insight programme will feature innovative content driven by members and registered organisations. Does your work implement innovative techniques or methods of practice? Have you created a new framework to put existing tools to better use? Do you have some ideas for a wider discussion of innovation in archaeology? We’d love to hear from you! Please submit your proposal using the below Microsoft Form. 

Session proposals 2026-2027

For more information, visit our Innovation Festival page.