The Conference Program

Day 2

8.00am Registration - Arrival tea and coffee
9.00am -10.20am

Chair:  Pip Marlow, Public Sector Director, Microsoft Australia.

Keynote speakers panel:  International perspectives 

Prof Peter Aucoin FRSC CM, Eric Dennis Memorial Professor of Government and Political Science, Dalhousie University, Canada.

Alex Matheson, Consultant, New Zealand.

Prof Paul Posner, Director, Public Administration Program, George Mason University, Washington DC, and President-Elect, American Society for Public Administration (ASPA).

Facilitator: Dr Joanne Kelly, University of Sydney.
10.20am -10.45am Focus on Day Two: Primed.
10.45am -12.30pm

A. Organisational Capacity Building

Futures Forum 9: Performance management

Leanne Wallace, Deputy Director General, Public Sector Workforce Office, NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet.
Focus: Workforce planning and development in the NSW public sector.

               

Dr Brian Cook,
Director,  Professional Services, The Pacific Institute

Focus:Organisational cultural measurement tools and interventions.

(continuous morning tea)

B. Partnership

Futures Forum 10: Across the sector divide

Dr Roberta Ryan, Director, Urbis 

Jan Owen AM, Executive Director, Social Ventures Australia.
Focus: Engaging the NGO and private sectors in social  entrepreneurship.

(continuous morning tea)

C. Models of Service Delivery

Futures Forum 11: Client-focused delivery

Carmel McGregor, Deputy Secretary,  Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Focus: Modernising service delivery in immigration: moving from process to client-centric.

Professor John Alford, Professor of Public Sector Management, Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG).
Focus:  Rethinking client service in the public sector.

(continuous morning tea)

D. Communities

Futures Forum 12

SPECIAL PANEL

 

Liveable communities  

Yehudi Blacher, Secretary, Victorian Department of Planning and Community Development

Focus: Public policy and liveable communities: definition, models and case studies

 

Mike Allen, Director General, NSW Department of Housing

Ross Carter, First Assistant Secretary, Industry, Communities and Energy Division, Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

 

(continuous morning tea) 

12.30pm -1.30pm Lunch
1.30pm -3.15pm

A. Organisational Capacity Building

Futures Forum 13: Talent management and skills shortages

Paul Baker, Director, Public Sector Australia, Hudson
Focus: International labour market trends and skills competencies

Steve Vamos, Vice President, Microsoft Australia. Focus: The innovation imperative: leadership, culture and management 

Dr Robert Lang, CEO, Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority Focus: Becoming a Hewitt best employer

(continuous afternoon tea)

B. Partnership

Futures Forum 14: Partnering for financial sustainability

Chris Barrett, Chief of Staff, Federal Treasurer.
Focus: COAG financial relationships and new partnerships.

John Pierce, Secretary, NSW Treasury.
Focus: Federal-State financial relationships: a NSW perspective.

(continuous afternoon tea)

C. Models of Service Delivery

Futures Forum 15:

SPECIAL PANEL

 

Health interventions at a primary and local level

Janet Anderson, Director, Inter-Government & Funding Strategies, NSW Department of Health

 

Louise Cowper, Director, Sydney Area Health Service

 

Jennifer Williams, CEO, Bayside Health/Alfred Hospital, Melbourne

(continuous afternoon tea)

D. Communities

Futures Forum 16: Community engagement

Dr John Murphy, Director, Mornington Peninsula Community Connections
Focus: Hubris, ignorance and disrespect: contemporary definitions of community development in practice.

Gary Moore, Director, Community Services, Marrickville Council
Focus: Community building: state and local perspectives.

(continuous afternoon tea)
3.15pm -3.30pm Session feedback: Primed - Using the past to inform the future.
3.30pm -4.30pm

Plenary session
Hypothetical: The politicisation of the public sector: a round table

Chair:  Mark Standen, Partner, Minter Ellison

Panellists: Bruce Hawker, Managing Director, Hawker Britton and formerly Chief of Staff for NSW Premier Bob Carr; Dr Col Gellatly AO, formerly Director General, NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet; Hon Nick Greiner AC, Vice-Chairman Investment Bank, Citigroup and former Premier of NSW; Andrew Podger AO, National President, IPAA, Arthur Sinodinos AO, Senior Director, Goldman Sachs JBWere and formerly Chief of Staff to Prime Minister John Howard, Dr Anne Tiernan, Griffith University.  
4.30pm -4.45pm

Conference sum up  

Thanks to the organisers.  Proposer: John Lee, President, IPAA NSW, Director General, NSW Department of Commerce

Launch of 2009 IPAA National Conference – Ray Lane, National Secretary, IPAA and Vice President, IPAA Queensland; Dr Patty Renfrow, Vice President, IPAA 

4.50pm

Farewell to Conference delegates - Cocktails -  Crystal Ballroom