Attending the 2025 Auctioneers & Valuers Symposium Sydney offers a rare chance to hear directly from leaders shaping the sector’s future. Their insights on standards, technology, and consumer change will help attendees stay ahead and deepen professional knowledge.

Beyond learning, this Symposium is a valuable occasion to reconnect with colleagues and peers across the industry. These conversations foster collaboration, strengthen networks, and allow members to share practical experiences that enrich understanding of common challenges and opportunities in practice.

The Symposium also provides sponsorship opportunities for companies seeking to demonstrate their support for Australia’s auctioneering and valuation sectors. Sponsors benefit from meaningful visibility, direct engagement with professionals, and alignment with an event designed to strengthen the sector’s reputation and future readiness.

Program Highlights
2025 Auctioneers & Valuers Symposium Sydney

Auction & Valuation Industry Update —
The AVAA President will present an update on strategic priorities and key government policy reforms. This session will outline implications for members, highlight advocacy underway, and provide clarity on the Association’s forward direction to support a strong, professional, future-focused national auction and valuation industry sector.

AI Risks and Opportunities In Auctioneering And Valuation —
AI is reshaping auctioneering and valuation by improving data analysis, enhancing market insights and streamlining workflows. However, it also brings risks, including accuracy challenges, bias, and governance concerns. This panel discussion will review these opportunities and limitations and will consider how the sector can harness AI responsibly and maintain trust in its expertise.

Approaches To Valuation In Traditional And New Creative Arts —
This panel examines how valuation practices align and diverge between established creative sectors like fine art and fast-growing collectable markets such as trading cards. Experts will unpack trends, risk, authenticity, data sources, and market behaviour, offering insights into how valuers adapt credibility and methodology across emerging asset classes..

Protecting Auction & Valuation Professionals —
Protecting auction and valuation professionals requires understanding insurance obligations, sector-specific risks, and coverage gaps. This session outlines essential policies, real-world exposures, and practical strategies to safeguard businesses, protect clients, and strengthen compliance, trust, and professional standards across the industry..

Electric Vehicle Valuation Risks & Realities —
Valuing electric vehicles presents new challenges from rapid battery depreciation, limited resale benchmarks, evolving technology, and uncertain long-term performance. This presentation looks at issues valuers need to consider including battery health, software updates, manufacturer warranties, and market adoption rates, making traditional valuation models less reliable and requiring specialised knowledge of emerging EV trends and lifecycle costs

HR Solutions For The Auction And Valuation Sector —
This session will canvass workplace relations approaches for small business in the auction and and valuation sectors and how challenges including compliance risks, workforce shortages, inconsistent documentation, and complex employment issues can be effectively managed.  it will review solutions for managers looking to strengthen operations, reduce disputes, and ensure teams remain safe, capable and legally protected.

For stakeholders from government and the business community, participation offers perspective, connection, and credibility. Engaging in dialogue with auction and valuation professionals ensures that voices are heard, knowledge is exchanged, and the community of auctioneers and valuers continues to grow stronger together.

The event is convened by the Auctioneers and Valuers Association of Australia (AVAA), that since 1952 has been the peak body representing auctioneers and valuers of fine art, antiques, collectibles, goods, chattels, plant, and equipment.

The ticket price is $265 for AVAA members and $365 for non-members, and be sure to book your tickets today.

If you have any questions concerning this event, contact the AVAA Events Team via email at events@avaa.com.au or telephone 1300 928 165. Be sure to keep up to date via Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook.

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