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The Adult Industry Forum is the professional conference and networking platform of the Pornfilmfestival Berlin. Its aim is to foster dialogue on equal footing \u2013 between independent filmmakers, established industry players, and an engaged audience.<\/p>\n
The event will take place on October 20 and October 21, 2026.<\/p>\n
Main Floor<\/strong><\/td>\n| Workshop Room<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 11:30 – 12:00 Open Doors \/ Registration<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 12:00 – 12:50 Networking Breakfast<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 13:00 – 14:00 Panel<\/p>\n | Some Like It Porn: From Art to Representation Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s 2026, and many people still think porn all looks the same. And yet we might be in a post-post-porn era, with many studios showing sex in all its diversity: not just in sexual preferences and practices, but in bodies, identities, genders, desires and forms of sexual expression. Companies and projects have put strict consent protocols in place, they host conversations and make space for performers to express themselves. Independent filmmakers are pushing the boundaries of art and explicit representation to capture their own sexual realities and to imagine new dimensions and futuristic, dystopian worlds. We talk to the people at the forefront of expanding what porn can be.<\/p>\n Moderator: Lina Bembe<\/p>\n Speakers: Get your S***t together As independent creators we juggle all the things. We want sexy content and solid bucks. Then BUREAUCRACY enters the chat. How do you stay on top AND sane?<\/p>\n We’ll look at free tools and apps to make life easier. Bring your laptop or phone. What’s the things you hate but have to do over and over again?<\/p>\n I’m Lady Velvet Steel, owner of BDSM Studio LUX and LUXurious Sins. I hate repetitive work, so I optimize, automate and delegate. And so can you.<\/p>\n Note: We’ll cover free apps and services, including Google and\u00a0 and other companies with questionable reputations, including AI.<\/p>\n Host: Lady Velvet Steel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Content Creation 2.0: The Good, the Bad and the Spectacular<\/strong><\/p>\n Porn content creation has reached a level of mainstream visibility like never before. Between press stunts \u00e0 la Bonnie Blue and Euphoria’s take on the industry, OnlyFans is now a platform even your mum knows about. But what’s the reality for porn creators today? How does this visibility affect us, and what are the consequences? How are creators dealing with the challenges that haven’t gone away: social media censorship, stigma, the lack of work safety protocols? Is navigating different platforms and opportunities a blessing or a curse? Where are the wins, what’s going well, and what’s worth celebrating? This all-star panel, with speakers from different backgrounds, will talk through these questions and share their insights.<\/p>\n Moderator: Salima Sawani<\/p>\n Speakers: Spicy Art Lab: Draw Your Own Porn<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the challenges faced by directors is conveying the original idea to others. Especially when it comes to visualising bodies in a state of arousal. In this workshop we will learn how to translate artistic visions into two-dimensional drawings that make our visual porn language more tangible. From sketching different bodies during physical intercourse to creating a little storyboard, we will learn how to include drawing into our work.<\/p>\n Host: Valerie Plaisir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Mens Sana in Corpore Sano: Mental and Physical Health in the Adult Industry<\/strong><\/p>\n “It’s not like any other job.” Sex workers hear this all the time, and there’s truth in it, though not for the reasons people assume. Working with sex means working with your body and mind in ways that can be stressful and draining. It also happens under stigma and limited labor protections, and those shape our health as much as the work does. Moderator: Paulita Pappel<\/p>\n Speakers: Unveiling Desire: What 1,200+ Fantasies Teach Us About Sex, Kink & Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n Nine years, 1,261 voices, 256 categories. Unveiling Desires presents the largest known community-generated dataset on BIPOC kink and fetish preferences. Learn how desire in these communities has shifted, why mainstream media’s race-first framing misses the mark, and what the data means for educators, clinicians, and content creators.<\/p>\n Host: King Noire & Jet Setting Jasmine (Royal Fetish Films)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Sponsored by STREAMATE<\/strong><\/p>\n Join us for a relaxed networking get-together – a chance to meet fellow guests, exchange ideas, and spark new collaborations. A special highlight: our moderated speed-dating area for content creators, designed to connect you quickly with other filmmakers, performers, and producers. Whether you\u2019re looking to plan your next collab or project, share experiences, or simply mingle, this session is the perfect place to start.<\/td>\n Regulated Digital Space: The Age Verification Era<\/strong><\/p>\n Age verification for online porn is now a legal requirement in the UK, across Europe and in the US. Platforms have had to decide how to meet it. Some have introduced age verification technologies, others have withdrawn from whole regions, and VPN use has gone up.<\/p>\n This panel looks at where implementation stands, starting with the regulators. They’ll present their objectives, how they enforce the rules, and what platforms and creators need to do to comply. We’ll also discuss what has changed in practice and what it means for civil liberties, digital rights and security.<\/td>\n The Money Is in the Extras: Diversifying Your Income on Clips4Sale<\/strong><\/p>\n Clips get you started, but the real growth often comes from everything around them. This workshop explores how to maximize your earnings on Clips4Sale by using tools like chat, customs, C4S+, webcams, and referrals more strategically. Instead of treating these features as add-ons, we\u2019ll look at how they can work together to support a more consistent, diversified income stream.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll break down how creators are turning conversations into sales, repurposing content across formats, and building multiple revenue streams without doubling their workload. This session is designed to be practical and actionable, with clear takeaways you can apply right away.<\/p>\n Host: Christy, VP of Creator Success<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Kink Under Scrutiny: Consent, Craft and Censorship<\/strong><\/p>\n Kink has long been where porn works out consent. Negotiation, safewords and aftercare came out of kink communities well before they reached mainstream sets. Yet kink is often the first content to be flagged, demonetised or banned, by payment processors, platforms and new laws that treat rope, impact play or breath play as harm by default.<\/span><\/p>\n This panel puts the numbers next to the rules. What do people actually search for, watch and pay for? Who gets to define “extreme”? How do creators and performers work safely when the rules are written by people who don’t know the practices? And what can the rest of the industry learn from kink culture?<\/p>\n Host: Salima Sawani<\/p>\n Speakers: Script Creation for Postporn Invocations<\/strong><\/p>\n This workshop proposes writing from the body as a living archive: a post-porn scriptwriting lab where imagination stems from memory, desire, and resistance; where memories, thoughts, emotions, and sensations are transformed into scenes, gestures, and silences.<\/p>\n We will work with memory as a sensitive archive, desire as an impulse pushing from within, and erotics as a language of its own – at times whispered, at times urgent. Through a post-porn lens, fissures will be opened in dominant discourses to let the intimate in: thoughts, images, and drives that become narrative material, scenes that breathe from one\u2019s own lived experience.<\/p>\n The construction of the script will follow a ritual structure – not as a rigid formula, but as a symbolic map to navigate the experience. Thinking of the script as a rite allows space for every gesture: to open, to invoke, to move through, and to close. This framework not only structures the narrative, but also holds what stirs within, offering containment and meaning. Along this path, the spiritual emerges not as dogma, but as a dimension of deep connection with oneself. Thus, each scene becomes a small act of transformation: a transition where the intimate finds form, presence, and the possibility of being shared.<\/p>\n The workshop integrates practices of care, consent, and boundaries rooted in an intersectional transfeminist ethic, with an emphasis on avoiding the appropriation of elements from other cultures. No prior experience is required. It is an invitation to narrative oneself beyond the margins and to turn one\u2019s own story into language.<\/p>\n Host: Malicia Sabina<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Who Owns the Future: New Technologies and the Politics of Porn<\/strong><\/p>\n New technologies keep changing what porn is and who gets to make it. AI can build bodies that never existed, or create a replica of a real person in five minutes. People are having intimacy through a screen now, whether that’s VR or a cam show. And representation, who gets seen, who gets paid, who gets left out, is still an open question. Speakers: Double Life: Bringing Kink Into Your Existing Performer Persona<\/strong><\/p>\n Description: What happens when you want to explore a new kinky side of your content, but you already have an established performer persona and audience? Host: Anna Lynx<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Join us for a relaxed networking get-together – a chance to meet fellow guests, exchange ideas, and spark new collaborations. A special highlight: our moderated speed-dating area for content creators, designed to connect you quickly with other filmmakers, performers, and producers. Whether you\u2019re looking to plan your next collab or project, share experiences, or simply mingle, this session is the perfect place to start.<\/td>\n |