"forward" is sometimes used to mean sooner

Solution 1:

For me, the critical verb is "bring" (by the way I don't agree with Lexico in @GEdgar's answer)

If you send something or push/put something, you move it further away.

Let's push that meeting forward a couple of weeks.

If you bring something or pull something, you move it nearer.

Let's bring that meeting forward. Can you manage tomorrow?

Solution 2:

To bring forward is a phrasal verb:

to change the date or time of an event so that it happens earlier

The tennis match has been brought forward to 1:00 p.m.

They brought the date of the wedding forward so her cousins could attend.

So, in agreement with another answer, bring is critical; it’s not a question of whether forward appears most often in phrases about the future, but what forward means in bring forward.

Macmillan specifically describes to bring forward as a transitive phrasal verb, but it appears in other dictionaries as well.

Macmillan https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/bring-forward