Program

Monday 19 August 2019
Pre-Conference Forums
9:30am - 4:30pm	Industry Forum
9:30pm - 4:30pm	Murray Darling Basin Forum
5:30pm - 7:30pm	Welcome Drinks

Tuesday 20 August 2019
Conference Day 1 - Activating your Potential
7:30am - 5:00pm	Registration Desk
PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Cassandra Hughes, Regional Manager, St John Ambulance, Great Southern & SEGRA National Steering Committee
8:30am - 8:35am	Welcome to Country
8:35am - 8:45am	Welcome to SEGRA Kate Charters, Director, Management Solutions (Qld) & Founding Member of *SEGRA*
8:45am - 9:15am	Strategic Foresight for Regional Australia: mega trends, scenarios and implications Dr Tom Measham, Research Group Leader, CSIRO
9:15am - 9:45am	Drivers and Constraints to Regional Economic Development Dr Daniel Terrill, Partner, Deloitte Access Economics Pty Ltd
9:45am - 10:15am	Delivering Place-Based Regional Development Prof Lee Pugalis, Professor of Urban Studies, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
10:15am - 10:30am	*SEGRA* Challenge Cassandra Hughes, Regional Manager, St John Ambulance, Great Southern & *SEGRA* National Steering Committee
10:30am - 11:00am	Morning Tea
PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Dr Jen Cleary, Chief Executive Officer, Centacare Port Augusta SA & SEGRA National Steering Committee
11:00am - 11:40am	Forming Dynamic and Vibrant Healthy Communities Facilitator: Dr Jen Cleary, Chief Executive Officer, Centacare Port Augusta SA & *SEGRA* National Steering Committee Cr John Beitzel, Acting Mayor, Moira Shire Council Cr Matthew Hannan, Mayor, Berrigan Shire Council Teona Cousin, Manager Economic Development and Tourism, Mackay Regional Council Cassandra Hughes, Regional Manager, St John Ambulance, Great Southern & *SEGRA* National Steering Committee
11:40am - 12:05pm	Lifelong Learning and Employment in Australia Jan Owen, Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Young Australians
12:05pm - 12:30pm	Releasing Opportunities at the Border Luke Wilson, Victoria’s Cross Border Commissioner James McTavish, New South Wales' Cross Border Commissioner
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
1:30pm - 3:30pm	Concurrent Session 1 - Forming Dynamic and Vibrant Healthy Communities: growing and sustaining regional Australia
1:30pm - 3:30pm	Concurrent Session 2 - Technology Embraced
1:30pm - 3:30pm	Concurrent Session 3 - Integrated Lifelong Learning and Employment in the Regions
1:30pm - 3:30pm	Concurrent Session 4 - Regional Economic Development: policy and practice
1:30pm - 3:30pm	Concurrent Session 5 - Advocating for your Region
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Afternoon Tea
PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Cassandra Hughes, Regional Manager, St John Ambulance, Great Southern & SEGRA National Steering Committee
4:00pm - 4:10pm	From Creating Bureaucracy to Battling it: a personal insight Paul Rosair, Principal, NAJA Business Consultancy Services
4:10pm - 4:20pm	Green Banana Community Laticia Gibson, Managing Director, Blue Clay Marketing and Video Creatives
4:20pm - 5:15pm	Delegate Challege Pitches
5:15pm - 6:15pm	Happy Hour
6:30pm - 9:30pm	Networking Dinner and Trivia Night

Wednesday 21 August 2019
Conference Day 2 - Local Solutions for Regional Development
7:30am - 5:00pm	Registration Desk
PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Edwina Hayes, Director of Regional Development, Regional Development Australia Murray
8:30am - 8:50am	Regional Australia and the National Agenda Keynote
8:50am - 9:20am	Place-Based Approaches to Regional Development Maxine Loynd, General Manager, Regional Policy, Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities
9:20am - 9:40am	Creating a Vibrant and Sustainable ECO Destination Rod Hillman, Chief Executive Officer, Ecotourism Australia
9:40am - 10:05am	The Social and Economic Value of Country-Based Community Service Organisations Dr Catherine Mackenzie, Research Fellow, University of South Australia
10:05am - 10:30am	Understanding your Regional Competitiveness Liz Ritchie, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Regional Australia Institute
10:30am - 11:00am	Morning Tea
PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Simon Boughey, Consultant, Boughey and Associates & SEGRA National Steering Committee
11:00am - 11:25am	Delivering Quality Freight, Logistics, Distribution Services and Connectivity Networks Kent Boyd, General Manager, Parkes Shire Council
11:25am - 11:50am	Leadership: inspiring and fostering our next generation of leaders is the key to successful regions Susan Benedyka, Chair, Regional Development Australia Hume
11:50am - 12:30pm	Managing Environmental Change in the Murray Darling Basin: implementing best practice landscape scale planning and management Facilitator: Ashley Bland, Director, Constructive Energy & *SEGRA* National Steering Committee Emma Bradbury, Chief Executive Officer, Murray Darling Association Peter Waterman, Adjunct Professor, Institute for Land, Water and Society (ILWS), Charles Sturt University Dr Chris Yeats, Executive Director, Geological Survey of NSW, Department of Planning and Environment, NSW Government
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
1:30pm - 3:30pm	Concurrent Session 6 - Local Solutions to Regional Development
1:30pm - 3:30pm	Concurrent Session 7 - Implementing Best Practice Landscape Scale Planning and Management
1:30pm - 3:30pm	Concurrent Session 8 - Tourism and Geotourism
1:30pm - 3:30pm	Concurrent Session 9 - Best Practice Sustainability
1:30pm - 3:30pm	Concurrent Session 10 - Infrastructure Planning
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Afternoon Tea
PLENARY SESSION
Chair: Cassandra Hughes, Regional Manager, St John Ambulance, Great Southern & SEGRA National Steering Committee
4:00pm - 4:45pm	Challenge Pitches
4:45pm - 5:00pm	Conference Summation
5:00pm - 5:05pm	Announcement of Challenge Winner Cassandra Hughes, Regional Manager, St John Ambulance, Great Southern & *SEGRA* National Steering Committee
5:05pm - 5:15pm	*Announcement of Host Region for SEGRA* 2020 and Close Kate Charters, Director, Management Solutions (Qld) and Founding Member and Convenor of SEGRA**
5:15pm - 6:15pm	Happy Hour
7:00pm - 11:00pm	Conference Dinner

Thursday 22 August 2019
Conference Day 3 - Study Tour - A Region for the Family, a Visitors Perspective
8:45am - 9:05am	Travel to Tocumwal
9:05am - 9:15am	Drive around Aero Park and World War II Relics
9:15am - 10:00am	Visit the Tocumwal Historic Aerodrome Museum
10:00am - 10:20am	Drive to Thompsons Beach
10:20am - 11:20am	Cruise the Murray River on the paddleboat “Cobba”. Morning Tea onboard and Tourism forum hosted by Murray Regional Tourism Board CEO Mark Francis
11:20am - 12:20pm	Drive to Corowa
12:20pm - 1:45pm	Visit the Corowa Whiskey and Chocolate Factory for Lunch
1:45pm - 2:15pm	Federation Museum
2:15pm - 3:15pm	Return to Barooga
3:15pm - 3:45pm	Afternoon Tea on arrival at Barooga Golf Club

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