APMF 2026 — Concept E: Issue 11 Magazine

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11Issue Eleven

Inside this issue

Editorial: Architects of culture, in their own words
Featured: Two conversations worth crossing oceans for
Travelogue: Three days, three rooms, one blueprint
Lineup: Seventy-three names, alphabetical
Field notes: Bali, the pass, the archive, the credits

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Editorial

A note "The playbook is over" — the line that started this edition. Overheard in a coffee shop in Cikini.

Architects
of Culture.

The 2026 manifesto from the APMF marketing office, ahead of the eleventh edition.

In 2026 we are asking marketers to evolve and build marketing structure for the next decade — because structure is the only antidote to chaos. To blueprint the future, we must fuse and collaborate with technology, creativity, media and beyond.

The legacy we leave in 2026 won't be a famous viral campaign. It will be the operating system we built for the brand to survive. "Blueprint The Beyond" elevates the marketer's role in society.

We are not just selling products. We are Architects of Culture. The systems we build today — how we use algorithms, how we create new relevance, how we tell stories — will define how human beings interact with information for a generation.

We aren't just predicting the future. We are drafting the schematics for it, together.

Issue 11

Set in Anton & Plus Jakarta Sans. No serif. No system fonts. No defaults.

Manifesto — APMF 2026 Marketing Office · Issued for the 11th edition, Bali, Aug 2026

Blueprint The Beyond · Manifesto Artwork

02Featured Conversation · One of Two

The artist who turned
the polka dot into a worldview.

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

The artist who turned
presence into a discipline.

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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The travelogue.
Three days.

Knowledge, experience, connection — the only three things that move a marketing organisation forward. Read this as a travel itinerary, not a content schedule.

05 Aug · Knowledge

What we
actually know.

The opening day is for the data, the research, and the case studies that survive scrutiny. Not predictions. Not forecasts. Only what the evidence is forcing us to unlearn — and what we have stopped pretending we knew.

Mornings open with keynotes from people who actually built things. Afternoons move into working rooms where the speakers stay in the room. Evenings end at the welcome reception, in the room before the room.

06 Aug · Experience

What we
actually feel.

The middle day belongs to the practitioners — the people doing the work, telling the truth about what is breaking and what is holding. Workshop format. Hands on tables. Notebooks open. The format that scales worst, and matters most.

Office hours run all afternoon with the featured speakers. The annual roundtable closes the day, after sundown.

07 Aug · Connection

Who we
walk away with.

The closing day is the one that matters most a year later — the relationships, the introductions, the collaborations that started here. Curated breakfast tables. Open agenda sessions. The new collaborations room.

The closing keynote frames what comes next. The goodbye dinner happens at the venue beach.

The 2026
lineup.

Seventy-three names. Alphabetical. The full programme runs across both APMF Lab and the Conference floor — each name leads to a session, a workshop, or a room.

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APMF 2026 · Programme · 11th Edition Speakers · Alphabetical

Field notes.

Bali, the pass, the archive, the credits — everything you need to be in the room.

The Venue

Bali.

Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center — the room where APAC marketing actually shows up. The work requires distance from the office.

Kawasan Pariwisata Nusa Dua
Benoa, Kuta Selatan, Badung
Bali 80363, Indonesia 8°48′00″S 115°13′40″E

The Archive

Eleven editions.

From the beginning, every edition has been a moment the industry stopped to listen. This one is the next page in a longer story.

2024 · Make Your Mark · Bali
2023 · The Compounding Decade
2022 · Reset · Bali
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Blueprint the beyond.

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Programme

Curated by the APMF 2026 programme office. Editorial direction set in Jakarta and Bali, December 2025 — March 2026.

Identity

Cover artwork commissioned for this edition. Visual system extended to all communications across the 11th APMF cycle.

Type

Set in Anton for display and Plus Jakarta Sans for editorial body. Layout follows a single 12-column gutter discipline.

Contact

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Blueprint the Beyond.

Architects
of Culture.

The artist who turned
the polka dot into a worldview.

The artist who turned
presence into a discipline.

The travelogue.
Three days.

What we
actually know.

What we
actually feel.

Who we
walk away with.

The 2026
lineup.

Field notes.

Bali.

Eleven editions.

Programme

Identity

Type

Contact

Be in the room.

Architectsof Culture.

The artist who turnedthe polka dot into a worldview.

The artist who turnedpresence into a discipline.

The travelogue.Three days.

What weactually know.

What weactually feel.

Who wewalk away with.

The 2026lineup.

Field notes.

Bali.

Eleven editions.

Programme

Identity

Type

Contact

Be in the room.

Architects
of Culture.

The artist who turned
the polka dot into a worldview.

The artist who turned
presence into a discipline.

The travelogue.
Three days.

What we
actually know.

What we
actually feel.

Who we
walk away with.

The 2026
lineup.