Seb Chan
Director, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Australia
Seb Chan, will be the keynote speaker for the theme, ‘Tomorrow’s Museum’. Director & CEO of ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) he has led the digital transformation of museums in the United States (Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum) and Australia (Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum and ACMI). His work has won international awards in the museum, design and media spheres.
Seb serves on the international advisory board Art Science Museum (Singapore) and is a board member of the non-profit Tessitura Network (USA). He has also been an advisor to the National Museum of Australia, the National Heritage Board of Singapore, the Mellon Foundation’s Artstor and was a member of the Australian Government’s Gov2.0 Taskforce. In 2024, he was awarded the University of NSW Alumni Award for Art & Culture. In addition to his role at ACMI, he is Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication, the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT.
