5pm Thank you and close

5.15pm Drinks and Social Networking

6pm Master Class with Laurel Papworth

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Wednesday May 15 2013

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BUSINESS

DAYOUTNOVOTELFOREST RESORTcreswick

8am – Registration9am – MC Brett Macdonald to welcome attendees9.10am – Opening address

9.30am – Avril Henry Generational Communication

Avril is a widely acclaimed keynote speaker, consultant, business and career coach, mentor and author, who is passionate about diversity, developing collaborative leaders and positive workplaces.

Avril is a Fellow of CPA Australia, a Senior Associate of the Australian Institute of Banking & Finance, an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Australian Human Resources Institute.

In 2012 Avril received the Coaching Leadership Award at the Global HR Excellence Awards in Mumbai, India. In April she was invited to attend a global Leadership Best Practices program at Harvard Business School in the USA, and was requested by her class mates to speak at the closing dinner. She has been honoured in the Australian Who’s Who of Women for the past 4 years, as an inspiring businesswoman, and has been nominated 7 times for the Telstra Businesswoman of the Year. In 2006, Avril won the prestigious Lifetime Achievement in HR Award at the Australian Human Resources Awards, and has been a finalist for Best HR Director.

Avril is regularly featured on radio and TV, and contributes articles to several industry publications and newspapers. For 2 years she had a weekly radio program with the ABC as their resident expert on workplace relations and HR, which was broadcast to 16 countries in Asia. She is the author and co-author of several books on leadership and the different generations at work, and in 2010 released her first children’s book. Her latest book, “Leadership Revelations II How Australians Lead in Crises” was released in May 2012, and in December it topped the Australian Financial Review BOSS magazine’s best brain food books of 2012.

11am – Morning Tea Break

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11.30am – Peter Williams Centre for the Edge – Innovation killers

Peter is a recognised thought leader and practitioner in innovation with a particular focus on digital innovation. Although his professional training was as a Chartered Accountant, Peter started working with internet technologies in 1993 while in the UK and on his return to Australia in 1996 founded an eBusiness Consulting group within Deloitte Australia. Peter was also the CEO of the Eclipse Group, a Deloitte subsidiary that was one of Australia’s largest web and mobile development firms, from 2003 to 2008 and then founded Deloitte Digital, a business pioneering the delivery of professional services online. Peter has been the Chairman of Deloitte’s Innovation Council since 2004 and been involved in numerous innovation projects for Deloitte and clients over the course of his career.

Peter is a sought after speaker and media commentator both locally and internationally and has worked with boards and senior executives of many companies helping them understand and adapt to the rapidly changing digital environment. Peter is the obvious person to lead the newly formed Australian chapter of the Centre for the Edge, a Silicon Valley Applied Research Centre chaired by two technology luminaries John Hagel III and John Seely Brown. The Centre’s mission is to identify and explore emerging opportunities related to big shifts that aren’t yet on the senior management agenda, but ought to be. While it is focused on long-term trends and opportunities, it is equally focused on implications for near-term action, the day-to-day environment of executives.

Peter is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT and a board member of Circus Oz.

12pm – Panel of regional business innovators facilitated by Peter Williams

Ian May – Unigrain Smeaton

Rod Kilborn – Ballarat Bearings

Panel Member TBC

Panel Member TBC

1pm – Lunch Break

2pm – Laurel Papworth Social Media for Business

Laurel Papworth is a dynamic, fun presenter who was named in 2012 by Forbes magazine in the Top 50 Social Media Influencers globally, and Marketing Magazine named her “Head of Industry, Social Media”. She has consulted globally including with Singapore Government and Middle East Broadcasting, and in Australia, with Westpac, Sony, local, State and Federal Government.

Laurel is the CEO of The Community Crew managing massive gaming and online communities including Facebook and forums for reality TV shows such as Junior Masterchef. Since 2005, Laurel has been teaching online community management at the University of Sydney, Australian Film and TV School, Metro Film School and she has been managing virtual communities since 1989.

In the last few months Laurel has appeared on Finance Quarter, Lateline, 7:30 Report, Midday Report ABC, and in the Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Radio National and other media channels. AdAge named in the Top 150 Media Bloggers, and she is on Google’s Plus Recommended List.

Interestingly Laurel has a level 85 Fire Mage in World of Warcraft and can often be found there running screaming from monsters.

3.30pm – Afternoon Tea Break

4pm – Paul Bennett SapientNitro Australia Story of “The Best Job in the World“ Campaign

Paul Bennett is one of those rare people whose experience covers almost the entire gamut of marketing services. His experience spans FMCG, Healthcare, Service, Automotive, Corporate, Retail, Tourism and Financial Services. Paul has over 20 years’ experience in managing global brands, both in Australia and around the world, and has a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Newcastle University.

Paul is Vice President and National Managing Director of SapientNitro Australia, ensuring that the network’s globally-recognised brand communications, digital engagement, and omni-channel commerce offering is fully implemented in Australia.

SapientNitroSM, part of Sapient® (NASDAQ: SAPE), is a new breed of agency redefining storytelling for an always-on world, changing the way their clients engage today’s connected consumers by uniquely creating never-ending stories. They call it Storyscaping, where art and imagination meet the power and scale of systems thinking. They were recently acknowledged by Gartner Research as the leading Digital Marketing Agency among a field of 14 agencies.

SapientNitro partners globally with industry-leading clients such as Chrysler, Citi, The Coca-Cola Company, Lufthansa, Target, and Vodafone, in cities across The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. In Australia, their clients include BT Financial Group, Dreamworld, Footlocker, RACQ, Sanofi Aventis (Nature’s Own and Cenovis brands), Tourism Queensland and Unilever (ice cream division) through offices in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

SapientNitro Australia is responsible for “The Best Job in the World” campaign for Tourism Queensland, which on a minimal budget reached an estimated 3 billion people and was independently valued at AUD$257m.

5pm Thank you and close

5.15pm Drinks and Social Networking

6pm Master Class with Laurel Papworth

Members: $199 Non Members: $235

Register online at www.commerceballarat.com.au

Proudly Supported by

8am – Registration9am – MC Brett Macdonald to welcome attendees9.10am – Opening address

9.30am – Avril Henry Generational Communication

Avril is a widely acclaimed keynote speaker, consultant, business and career coach, mentor and author, who is passionate about diversity, developing collaborative leaders and positive workplaces.

Avril is a Fellow of CPA Australia, a Senior Associate of the Australian Institute of Banking & Finance, an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Australian Human Resources Institute.

In 2012 Avril received the Coaching Leadership Award at the Global HR Excellence Awards in Mumbai, India. In April she was invited to attend a global Leadership Best Practices program at Harvard Business School in the USA, and was requested by her class mates to speak at the closing dinner. She has been honoured in the Australian Who’s Who of Women for the past 4 years, as an inspiring businesswoman, and has been nominated 7 times for the Telstra Businesswoman of the Year. In 2006, Avril won the prestigious Lifetime Achievement in HR Award at the Australian Human Resources Awards, and has been a finalist for Best HR Director.

Avril is regularly featured on radio and TV, and contributes articles to several industry publications and newspapers. For 2 years she had a weekly radio program with the ABC as their resident expert on workplace relations and HR, which was broadcast to 16 countries in Asia. She is the author and co-author of several books on leadership and the different generations at work, and in 2010 released her first children’s book. Her latest book, “Leadership Revelations II How Australians Lead in Crises” was released in May 2012, and in December it topped the Australian Financial Review BOSS magazine’s best brain food books of 2012.

11am – Morning Tea Break

Register online at www.commerceballarat.com.au

11.30am – Peter Williams Centre for the Edge – Innovation killers

Peter is a recognised thought leader and practitioner in innovation with a particular focus on digital innovation. Although his professional training was as a Chartered Accountant, Peter started working with internet technologies in 1993 while in the UK and on his return to Australia in 1996 founded an eBusiness Consulting group within Deloitte Australia. Peter was also the CEO of the Eclipse Group, a Deloitte subsidiary that was one of Australia’s largest web and mobile development firms, from 2003 to 2008 and then founded Deloitte Digital, a business pioneering the delivery of professional services online. Peter has been the Chairman of Deloitte’s Innovation Council since 2004 and been involved in numerous innovation projects for Deloitte and clients over the course of his career.

Peter is a sought after speaker and media commentator both locally and internationally and has worked with boards and senior executives of many companies helping them understand and adapt to the rapidly changing digital environment. Peter is the obvious person to lead the newly formed Australian chapter of the Centre for the Edge, a Silicon Valley Applied Research Centre chaired by two technology luminaries John Hagel III and John Seely Brown. The Centre’s mission is to identify and explore emerging opportunities related to big shifts that aren’t yet on the senior management agenda, but ought to be. While it is focused on long-term trends and opportunities, it is equally focused on implications for near-term action, the day-to-day environment of executives.

Peter is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT and a board member of Circus Oz.

12pm – Panel of regional business innovators facilitated by Peter Williams

Ian May – Unigrain Smeaton

Rod Kilborn – Ballarat Bearings

Panel Member TBC

Panel Member TBC

1pm – Lunch Break

2pm – Laurel Papworth Social Media for Business

Laurel Papworth is a dynamic, fun presenter who was named in 2012 by Forbes magazine in the Top 50 Social Media Influencers globally, and Marketing Magazine named her “Head of Industry, Social Media”. She has consulted globally including with Singapore Government and Middle East Broadcasting, and in Australia, with Westpac, Sony, local, State and Federal Government.

Laurel is the CEO of The Community Crew managing massive gaming and online communities including Facebook and forums for reality TV shows such as Junior Masterchef. Since 2005, Laurel has been teaching online community management at the University of Sydney, Australian Film and TV School, Metro Film School and she has been managing virtual communities since 1989.

In the last few months Laurel has appeared on Finance Quarter, Lateline, 7:30 Report, Midday Report ABC, and in the Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Radio National and other media channels. AdAge named in the Top 150 Media Bloggers, and she is on Google’s Plus Recommended List.

Interestingly Laurel has a level 85 Fire Mage in World of Warcraft and can often be found there running screaming from monsters.

3.30pm – Afternoon Tea Break

4pm – Paul Bennett SapientNitro Australia Story of “The Best Job in the World“ Campaign

Paul Bennett is one of those rare people whose experience covers almost the entire gamut of marketing services. His experience spans FMCG, Healthcare, Service, Automotive, Corporate, Retail, Tourism and Financial Services. Paul has over 20 years’ experience in managing global brands, both in Australia and around the world, and has a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Newcastle University.

Paul is Vice President and National Managing Director of SapientNitro Australia, ensuring that the network’s globally-recognised brand communications, digital engagement, and omni-channel commerce offering is fully implemented in Australia.

SapientNitroSM, part of Sapient® (NASDAQ: SAPE), is a new breed of agency redefining storytelling for an always-on world, changing the way their clients engage today’s connected consumers by uniquely creating never-ending stories. They call it Storyscaping, where art and imagination meet the power and scale of systems thinking. They were recently acknowledged by Gartner Research as the leading Digital Marketing Agency among a field of 14 agencies.

SapientNitro partners globally with industry-leading clients such as Chrysler, Citi, The Coca-Cola Company, Lufthansa, Target, and Vodafone, in cities across The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. In Australia, their clients include BT Financial Group, Dreamworld, Footlocker, RACQ, Sanofi Aventis (Nature’s Own and Cenovis brands), Tourism Queensland and Unilever (ice cream division) through offices in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

SapientNitro Australia is responsible for “The Best Job in the World” campaign for Tourism Queensland, which on a minimal budget reached an estimated 3 billion people and was independently valued at AUD$257m.