2015 Skills and Workforce Development Conference
Investing in Growth
Monday, 25 and Tuesday, 26 May Wrest Point Conference Centre, Hobart
DRAFT PROGRAM
2015 Skills and Workforce Development Conference INVESTING IN GROWTH DAY ONE – MORNING Registration Desk opens at 9:00 a.m.
Pre-conference Activities
Time
Activity
Facilitator
9:00 – 10:00
Business Leaders' Forum
Ray McLean
Host: Michael Bailey, TCCI
Leading Teams
10:30 – 11:10
AVETMISS Reporting
Skills Tasmania
11:20 – 12:00
AVETMISS Reporting
Skills Tasmania
10:30 – 11:10
ASQA professional development
Australian Skills Quality Authority
11:20 – 12:00
ASQA professional development
Australian Skills Quality Authority
10:30 – 12:00
Aligning Work Health, Safety and Wellbeing -
WorkSafe Tasmania Health and Wellbeing Service
A systems-based approach
10:30 – 12:00
Integrating mental health and wellbeing into health, safety and wellbeing workplace plans Heads Up - Building mentally healthy workplaces
Beyondblue and the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
DAY ONE – AFTERNOON
Industry and Business Focus Creating the environment for investment and growth Time Session
Presenter
12.00
Lunch and visit Exhibitors
1.05
Welcome and Introduction
Kim Evans
1.15
Skills for growth - An industry and regional response
Patten Bridge
1:55
Industry Skills Fund
Jay Wilton (to be confirmed)
2.25
Explaining Tasmania’s Productivity Profile
Lisa Denny
2:55
Afternoon tea and visit Exhibitors
3.20
Competitive Manufacturing – two views
Secretary, Department of State Growth
Bridge Logic Consulting, Victoria
Department of Education & Training, ACT
Workforce Demographer, Tasmania
Lee Whiteley Southern Prospect Pty Ltd, Tasmania
Bob Cother Action Learning Institute, South Australia
3.50
Education and training responses to regional development Panel session introduced and hosted by Michael Bailey (TCCI) 4 x 5 min presentations + Q & A
Janelle Allison (tbc) University of Tasmania
Lee Whiteley Southern Prospect Pty Ltd
Rod Camm Australian Council for Private Education and Training (ACPET)
Stephen Conway TasTAFE
4.50
Prolific Productivity: The Secrets to Creating and Sustaining High-performance in your Business
Colin Boyd
5.15
Response to Day One – where to from here?
Bob Rutherford
5:30
Networking Drinks and visit Exhibitors
6:30
Conference Dinner, incorporating presentation of Employer of Choice Awards
Oxygen Coaching & Training, NSW Deputy Secretary, Department of State Growth
After dinner speaker: Colin Boyd - Dynamic Drive: The 5 Pillars to Lifting Engagement and Productivity in your Workplace
DAY TWO
Dual Registered Training Organisation and Business Focus Investing in skills, health, safety and wellbeing for a productive workforce Registration Desk opens at 8:00 am Time Session
Presenter
7:15
WorkSafe Tasmania Breakfast
TBA
8:50
Welcome and introduction to Day Two
Bob Rutherford
9.00
Investing for productivity and growth (working title only)
John Perry
9.30
Education and training as an industry
Rod Camm
Deputy Secretary, Department of State Growth
Co-ordinator General Department of State Growth, Tasmania
Chief Executive Officer, ACPET
10:00
10:25
Morning Tea and visit Exhibitors
DELEGATES MOVE to RTO Stream and
Workplace Health, Safety and Wellbeing Stream Delegates may select any activity across the two streams – you are not locked-in to attend one stream only
Workplace Health, Safety and Wellbeing Stream
Registered Training Organisation Stream Time Session
Presenter
Time Session
Presenter
10.30
Plenary
Wendy Perry
10.30
Plenary
Ray McLean
Keynote speaker
Workforce BluePrint, SA
Keynote speaker
Leading Teams, VIC
Plenary
Laurie Kelly
Plenary
Louise Rolland
Keynote speaker
Mindworks, NSW
Keynote speaker
Ernst & Young
11.00
11:30
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
11:00
11:30
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
Laurie Kelly (Mindworks)
Ray McLean (Leading Teams)
Wendy Perry/Jess Perry (Workforce
OzHelp Tasmania Foundation
BluePrint)
Andrew Hardiman (Ascent Training)
12:30
Lunch and visit Exhibitors
1:30
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
2:30 2:35
Three Case Studies
1:30
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
Laurie Kelly (Mindworks)
Louise Rolland (Ernst & Young}
Paul Kearney (Enterprising Education)
Pamela Lovell (Mindful Intent P/L)
Joy de Leo (ACPET)
Three Case Studies
DELEGATES MOVE BACK TO PLENARY HALL KEY CONFERENCE TAKEAWAYS!
Wendy Perry (tbc) Workforce BluePrint
Laurie Kelly (tbc) Investing in productive workforces
Mindworks
Ray McLean Leading Teams
Panel Session hosted by MC Tony Jewson
3:30
Conference Close and Afternoon tea
Louise Rolland Ernst & Young
