AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan and 10 coaches from around the league will meet at McLachlan's house in Melbourne to discuss some of the game's biggest talking points on Tuesday night.
Brisbane coach Chris Fagan is the only interstate coach that will make the trip over, while every Victorian coach bar Luke Beveridge will also be at the dinner.
"The agenda is deliberately unsaid because it goes in whatever direction the coaches take," AFL Coaches' Association chief executive Mark Brayshaw told AFL.com.au.
"What I like about the evening is ... all the coaches put aside their own club issues and seem to be leaning forward in the chair and getting an understanding of the bigger pictures issues in the game."
Football operations boss Simon Lethlean will also host the dinner, and he spoke to the AFL Exchange podcast about which topics could be on the agenda.
"We are trying to make umpiring as easy as possible, and if where we're at now with the two minutes of not displaying the shot clock is making umpiring more difficult and playing more difficult, we'll have a look at whether we just change that and make it consistent," Lethlean said regarding the shot clock.
"l'll have a discussion with the AFL coaches first about that tonight and see what they think."
Lethlean admitted the new AFLX idea would certainly be spoken about, with the league after support from players and coaches before moving ahead with the concept.
"It'll certainly be a topic tonight," Lethlean said.
"We'll look at it, we want to do it. We'll need the player and club support to get there with it."
He also said runners would be spoken about, and admitted they're more for the clubs than the AFL.
"The runners are there for the clubs, not for us, (I'd) be happy for them not to be there. But the sentiment across the years has been that clubs require them to instruct and inform their players," Lethean said.
"The main thing we have of concern is them being out there coaching and being out there too regularly."
