The Australian sextech industry and advocacy group Sextech Pioneers has announced details of its 2026 conference, Planet Taboo, set to take place on March 30, 2026 in Melbourne.
The one-day conference will be held at Melbourne’s Collingwood Yards venue. It will be a hybrid in-person and online event, with tickets to virtually attend the main talks and panels available as well as standard ‘in-person’ tickets.
Virtual tickets cost AUS $10 (US $7) while in-person tickets cost AUS $30 (US $21). There are further charges to attend extra morning sessions at the conference, before the main afternoon sessions.
The full title of this year’s conference is Planet Taboo 2026: Unconventional Connections, and a variety of sextech and sextech-adjacent company founders are set to speak and attend. One of the Sextech Pioneers founders is Robert Duff-Silsby (pictured above), who is also one of the founders of the Pcock sex toy firm.
One of the main sessions will be titled Turning Taboo into Talked About, and will focus on industry censorship, building a sextech brand, and marketing products some still consider in some way taboo. Speakers for this session will include Ally McGrath, founder of the ‘spicy’ (not food-related) Electric Feel consultancy firm, and James Sneddon, co-founder of online health clinic group Hyphen Health.
Another session will be titled Inclusive Design in Practice, and will focus on how to build inclusivity into sextech products’ design rather than just marketing. Speakers for this session are yet to be announced.
Also during the main afternoon session, people involved in sextech will be able to give short talks to showcase their products and innovations. Those working in fields including AI, pleasure products, digital rights and safety, e-commerce and sex work advocacy will be able to apply for a speaker slot via the Sextech Pioneers site.
Planet Taboo looks set to be a relatively small niche event, but by opening up attendance virtually it has potential to work as a global connector beyond the Australian sextech industry scene. Tickets are being sold now, via Humanitix.
Leave a Reply