5.30pm to 7.00pm
Welcome Drinks - Mr Percivals, Howard Smith Wharves
An informal opportunity to relax, reconnect and make new friends before the forum official program kicks off on Wednesday 1 June at Cloudland.
6.30am - 7.30am
Guided walk around Brisbane
Breakout
Guided Meditation
7.30am
Registration and Coffee commences
8.15am
Take your seats
8.30am
Welcome to Country
with Maroochy Songwoman.
8.40am
Official Opening
The Honourable…... (we will tell you soon, promise)
8.50am
Opening Address
Romilly Madew AO, Infrastructure Australia - The Infrastructure Priority List and Community Engagement. What happens now?
9.20am
Keynote Address: Water Infrastructure NSW - Wilcannia Weir Replacement Project – Listen, Learn, Adapt, Deliver - Together
Hear from the Aboriginal Community about how they want and expect to be engaged. Meet the NSW government project team who delivered engagement that the Aboriginal community define as “the best they have seen and the benchmark for what all Aboriginal engagement should be like”. Hear from Wilcannia Community Leader Brendon Adams who will discuss how they were engaged and the outcomes they achieved for their community. They will be supported by key members of the Water Infrastructure NSW, Wilcannia Weir project team – Brendan O’Neill, Lead Project Manager and Felicity Rooney, Community Engagement Lead. They will also be joined by Donna Kennedy, Water Infrastructure NSW and Russell Hill, WaterNSW to share with the engagement sector the significant and transformative outcomes that can be achieved by working with Aboriginal communities in genuine collaboration.
10.00am - 10.40am
Professor Sara Bice (Director, the ANU Institute for Infrastructure in Society) and Kirsty O’Connell (Industry Director, the ANU Institute for Infrastructure in Society) will talk about what’s driving trust for Australian infrastructure projects - a community perspective
Join the team from the ANU Institute for Infrastructure in Society to learn what 3500 Australians and nine infrastructure intensive communities are thinking about the selection, planning, design and delivery of infrastructure and the way in which infrastructure projects engage.
10.40am - 11.00am
Morning Tea
11.00am - 11.40am
Michelle Cramer, GHD will discuss engaging with Constantly Disrupted Communities
How can we do better?
11.40am - 12.20pm
Hear from nationally recognised Carly Taylor from Carly Taylor Coaching about how to better relate, understand, consult and engage with our colleagues and the community.
This presentation will especially focus on managing interactions with disenfranchised and enraged people. Carly is qualified in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Japanese Psychology (Morita Therapy and Naikan), a University qualified Nutritionist, a certified Personal Trainer and a certified Health Coach (IIN).
12.20pm - 1.00pm
Our wellness session - hosted by Comacon
Hear from Paul Taylor from the Mind Body Brain Performance Institute. Paul is a Neuroscientist, Exercise Physiologist, Nutritionist and host of The MindBodyBrain Project podcast. Learn strategies to ensure you're in peak shape to do our demanding job to the best of your ability. Learn how to protect your energy, to perform better and get better outcomes.
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Comacon Wellness Luncheon
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Young and Emerging professionals panel chaired by Marion Short, IAP2
Panel will include: Courtney Webb (GHD), Alexandra King (Aurecon) and Sophie Perissinotto (Leisa Prowse Consulting).
3.00pm - 3.30pm
Construction Comms 101 with Jill Boag from Gamuda
Here from one of the nation’s leading Infrastructure Project Directors on what we do right, what we can do better and how we can influence project outcomes.
3.30pm - 4.00pm
Afternoon Tea
4.00pm- 4.45pm
Panel Discussion hosted by Kate Kernaghan from Factotum Communications
COVID CRISIS - what did we learn from the comms we did during COVID? What engagement worked during COVID? How can this be the new norm? Has the increase in accessibility we provided during COVID changed how we engage? Panellists: Tim Holmes (Gamuda), Debbie Low (Water NSW) and Rebecca Dean (Lendlease).
4.45pm - 5.15pm
Cobi Murphy, Cross River Rail
4.30pm - 5.00pm
Julie Castle and Debra Lancelot, Struber
How can you get to know your community and activate them in ways that make a difference?
Delivering major infrastructure with a difference.
5.15pm - 7.15pm
"Reflections: Looking into the future" Hosted by GHD
Cocktail Party at Cloudland, level 2
7.00am to 7.45am
Sunrise Yoga
Breakout
Guided Meditation
7.30am
Coffee served
8.00am - 9.00am
Siobhan Hamblin, Counsel House will talk about Government Relations unveiled
What really happens in the Ministers Office? How do we get our comms through? Hear from the head of one of Australia's leading Government Relations Consultancies.
9.00am - 9.20am
Hear from the Director-General of one of Australia's largest infrastructure and transport departments
Key note address by Neil Scales from the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads on 'The value of community and stakeholder engagement in the delivery of infrastructure’.
9.20am - 9.55am
Melbourne Water - hear from the Melbourne Water Community Engagement team, led by Manager Greg Bain and supported by Andrew Mellor, Team Leader Business Communications and Engagement
They will be detailing their award winning NextGen program. It's an organisational wide community engagement program, which ensures organisational buy in and commitment to Community Engagement. It is both innovative and effective and it works - especially in infrastructure delivery.
9.55am - 10.30am
Planning and community engagement
Who owns the process, what should the process be and what can we do to improve the planning process from a community engagement process.
10.30am - 11.00am
Morning Tea
11.00am - 11.30am
Jane MacMaster, Cheif Engineer, Engineers Australia
Engineers Australia - Comms and Engineers - the synergy?
11.30am - 12.10pm
Vanessa Pilla
RPS
11.30am - 12.10pm
Nicola Mitchell - ARTC Inland Rail - Engaging with the Country - A new perspective
Delivering a multi-billion dollar government-funded program comprising 13 individual projects spanning 1,700km through 36 local government areas across three states.
How can community engagement support the creation of social value in communities?
12.10pm - 12.45pm
Oliver Bates, Mysite
Hidden Benefits of Going Hybrid.
12.45pm - 1.45pm
Mysite Technology Lunch
1.45pm - 2.15pm
Anita Brown, Sydney Metro
Crisis Management on a major project.
2.15pm - 2.45pm
Leisa Prowse, Leisa Prowse Consulting - Mind your Qs and Qs
When it comes to engagement what’s better: quality or quantity?
2.45pm - 3.15pm
Becky Hirst - For the Love of Community Engagement
Insights from a personal expedition to inspire better public participation.
3.15pm - 3.30pm
Afternoon tea
3.30pm - 4.00pm
Angela Peace, AAP Consulting
3.30pm - 4.00pm
Sarah Barclay from Bridge Housing
Putting community engagement at the heart of social housing infrastructure.
Placing people and communities at the centre - the role of engagement in Social Impact Assessment for SSP.
4.00pm - 4.30pm
Ben Hughes, Hughes et al.
How to use collaborative contracting and employment strategies as part of your community engagement planning. Hear how these planning processes have resulted in exceptional community outcomes in regional communities.
4.30pm - 5.15pm
Sustainability and Community Engagement Panel chaired by Carolyn Gibbs, Infrastructure Sustainability Council (ISC)
Working together to support the Carbon Emissions target and drive cultural change in sustainability. Panel Members: Coral Reynolds (Comacon), Amanda Bromley (GHD) and Libby Mitchell (WSP).
5:15pm
Closing drinks and networking
This program is subject to change.