Join us for BI Connect 2025, BETA’s annual conference bringing together policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to explore how behavioural insights (BI) can make government policies and programs more effective.
The 2025 conference will focus on ‘Behavioural Insights in government: Applying behavioural insights from policy design to program delivery’.
Event details
Date: Thursday 6 November 2025
Time: 1:30pm – 5pm AEST
Format: online
This half-day online event will showcase the many ways behavioural insights can create better outcomes for Australians by bringing human behaviour to the centre of policy design and service delivery.
Whether you’re a policymaker or a BI practitioner, you’ll gain practical insights from real-world applications in Australia and overseas. You’ll hear from behavioural public policy experts on how behavioural insights are used across the policy cycle—from planning to program delivery and evaluation.
Presentations will focus on applied examples rather than technical detail, highlighting how behavioural science translates into impact.
With a series of insightful presentations and a panel discussion held across one afternoon, BI Connect is your opportunity to learn and be inspired.
Program highlights
- Opening remarks by Dr Steven Kennedy, Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
- BETA: How timely evidence can drive policy and regulatory change
- NSW Behavioural Insights Unit and NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: System wide regulatory and customer transformation. Sludge reduction with Heritage NSW.
- German Federal Chancellery: Leveraging behavioural insights to improve information about disaster preparedness.
- The Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Nudge Thyself - a blueprint for behavioural public administration.
- Panel discussion – Embedding evidence in policymaking: BETA, the Australian Centre for Evaluation (ACE), and the Office of Impact Analysis (OIA) will discuss the APS’s evidence architecture, embedding behavioural science and evidence at different parts of the policy cycle, and future opportunities to strengthen evidence-informed policy.
BI Connect 2025 is free to attend and open to all. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear how behavioural insights are shaping the future of government policy and program delivery.