Day Two Agenda
Wednesday 23rd February, 2011

8:30
Welcome, coffee & networking
8:50
Chair's opening remarks & re-cap of day one
Driving local empowerment & collaboration
9:00
CASE STUDY
Evocities: A collaborative model for regional
development

  • Working across regions to develop business strategies
  • Governance of Evocities
  • Bringing together traditionally competing groups
Tracey Squire
Director, Economic Development and Tourism
Albury City and
Committee Member
Evocities
9:40
The importance of partnerships & community
engagement in driving better solutions

  • Accessing and propagating new links and partnerships
  • Identifying community skills and ensuring local buy-in
  • Maintaining and nurturing effective relationships
Hayley Cail
Chair
RDA Hume
10:20
Mapping & utilising community assets to unlock
regional potential

  • Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD): Identifying
    assets rather than limitations
  • Examples of ABCD in use
  • Maintaining balance between ABCD and other methods
Dr Phil Connors
Lecturer and Course Director, International and
Community Development
Deakin University
11:00
Morning tea & networking
Developing broadband-based service delivery &
strong digital economies
11:30
Preparing to quickly & effectively utilise the national
broadband network

  • Building applications to prepare for a broadband-enabled
    regional Australia
  • Strategies to build a vibrant digital economy
Kate Cornick
Executive Director
Institute for Broadband Enabled Society (IBES)
12:10
Understanding digital productivity

  • Regional research and case studies from the Department
    of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Philip Smurthwaite
Manager, Regional Telecommunications Policy
Regional and Indigenous Communications Branch,
Department of Broadband, Communications and the
Digital Economy
12:50
Networking lunch
1:50
CASE STUDY
Enabling real relationships & interactions across
distances

  • Building a video conferencing system for state-wide use
  • Facilitating high quality interactions
  • Removing barriers for users
Vicki Kempton
School Education Director
Department of Education and Training, NSW
Stronger regional communities
2:30
Championing diversity & social inclusion in regional
areas

  • Assisting people with disadvantages to find meaningful
    employment
  • Building partnerships with other agencies and economic
    development groups
  • Challenges for regional service delivery vs. metro services
Ross Lewis
Managing Director
Break Thru People Solutions
3:10
CASE STUDY
Community engagement & youth development in the
Murdi Paaki region

  • Establishing strategic interventions and ensuring
    coordinated investment and action
  • Empowering young Indigenous people
  • Encouraging community participation and re-engagement
    in education, training and employment
Janelle Whitehead, CEO and
Prue Crichton, Youth Community Development Officer
Murdi Paaki Regional Enterprise Corporation
3:50
Afternoon tea & networking
4:20
PANEL DISCUSSION
Strategies to build stronger regional communities for
improved community resilience

  • How do we increase community connectedness?
  • Building community capacity for resilience
  • Promoting community contribution
  • Targeting services locally and enabling service delivery by
    local people
Colin Slater, Founder and National Director
Sing Australia

Justine Summers, Acting CEO
Intereach NSW

Craig Hart, Program Coordinator, Rural Adversity Mental
Health Program (RAMHP)
Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health
University of Newcastle
Making the most of renewed interest in regional
Australia
5:00
Closing remarks & spotlight session

  • How do we make the most of current opportunities?
  • How do we build regional economies?
  • How do we maintain momentum and regional focus?
5:10
Close of conference

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