Keynote Speakers & Program

Philip Bullock
Mr Philip Bullock brings an impressive combination of high level leadership skills, a strong industry background and a commitment to education and training to the position of Chair of Skills Australia. Mr Bullock has more than 25 years experience working with IBM, culminating in his appointment as Vice President, Systems and Technology Group IBM Asia Pacific Region. Prior to this Mr Bullock was CEO of IBM Australia and New Zealand. He also served on the Board of the Australian Information Industry Association, the Business Council of Australia, where he also chaired their Skills and Innovation Taskforce, the Victorian Schools Innovation Commission and the Advisory Committee to the Australian Graduate School of Management. He is currently a non-executive of Perpetual Limited, a major provider of financial services and CSG Limited, which is one of Australia’s leading IT and print services companies. He was previously a non-executive director of Healthscope Limited a significant provider of private health services.

Morris Mielowski 
By the age of 22, when all of his contemporaries were still at university, Morris Miselowski had already built and sold his first business. Since then, he has accumulated 30 years’ experience in business and strategic future forecasting for a wide range of public and private organisations through the consulting firm he founded in 1981, Success Through Focus, his equity partnership firm Futurevation and his speaking business Eye on the Future. As a speaker, strategist, consultant and mentor, he provides prescient, practical advice to CEOs and decision-makers at organisations around Australia and the world. His clients have included small businesses and associations as well as blue-chip companies like nab, Mercedes Benz, HBA, UBS, Toll, RMIT, Ernst & Young, Danone, Phillips, Toshiba and IGA. He is also in demand as a media commentator with weekly radio shows on ABC Australia across Asia Pacific and 6PR in Perth, a podcast show on the world’s premium content network CBS Interactive, regular appearances on television, radio, print and online media, and a feature interview in the best-selling Australian business book Secrets of Small Business Owners Exposed. All of this, as well as his many years as a lecturer in marketing and management means he has the inside edge on how to captivate and educate an audience.

Gilly Salmon
Prof Gilly Salmon is Executive Director of the Australian Digital Futures Institute based in the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. The Australian Digital Futures Institute explores hindsight and insight and enables foresight for the learning, teaching, research, knowledge construction and creative expression. It acts as a harbinger for the University of Southern Queensland, and through its global futures network seeks to impact on viable and preferred futures for Queensland, Australia and international partners. In 2011 to 12, its broad mission is to advance knowledge and implementation of futures around the themes of Openness, Mobility and Digital Communities. Previously Gilly was Head of the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester in the UK, and before that at the British Open University Business School. She researches and publishes widely on the themes of innovation and change in Higher Education and the exploitation of new technologies of all kinds in the service of learning. Recent books include Podcasting for Learning in Universities. The third edition of her seminal book E-moderating is now out, see www.e-moderating.com

John Hassed
John Hassed has held senior executive positions in the Queensland public service including General Manager of Training Services and Workforce Services.  Prior to joining CDU he held the position of Deputy Chief Executive in the Northern Territory Department of Education and Training and was responsible for the training, Higher Education and Corporate Services portfolio. Mr Hassed has represented Queensland and the Northern Territory on the National Senior Officials Committee for VET for almost a decade.  He was also Chair of the National Training Statistics Committee and a Director on the Board of the National Centre for Vocational Education and Research. VET at CDU currently comprises more than two-thirds of total student numbers.

Stella Mbubaegbu
Stella Mbubaegbu took up her current position at Highbury College, Portsmouth in 2001.   She was the first ethnic minority woman to be appointed a further education college principal since the incorporation of colleges in the UK in 1993. Highbury College currently has 11,075 students and 595 staff. With a success rate of 92.2%, Highbury College Portsmouth tops the list of all 234 further education colleges in England on the 2011 Data Service National League tables. Ofsted, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate, published their report on 20 June 2011 confirming their judgment that Highbury College overall is GRADE 1 OUTSTANDING with:

Program

A preliminary program is now available, just click here to view it.

This year we have two pre conference workshops taking place on Wednesday, 12 October 2011.

PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS – CIT CAmpus WORKshops

Tour 1: Technology showcase for Metal Fabrication Trades

Date: Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Time: 1400 – 1630 hours
Itinerary:                               
1400 Meet at the Novotel Canberra to leave by bus to CIT Fyshwick Campus (bus will be organised)
1430 Workshop to take place
1600 Leave Fyshwick Campus

Facilitator name(s), centre(s) and campus:

• Steve McMahon, Fyshwick Trade Skills, CIT Fyshwick Campus

Who would be interested/ who should attend and why:

eLearn is a visually engaging resource and both managers and educational practitioners will be inspired by the technology on show. Technological advances including use of an interactive whiteboard in the workshop have fundamentally changed how the training is delivered in the metal fabrication trades area resulting in increased learner and employer engagement. Education managers will appreciate the demonstration of how the teaching goals can be accelerated. The technology can create passionate educational practitioners. From an audit perspective, the increase in online teaching improves documentation, compliance and maintenance of records and as the new technology isn’t paper-based, it is more sustainable.

Brief description of activity (what’s it about, what will they see, what will they find out about)

This is a very visual and engaging workshop that showcases e-Learn resources for the metal fabrication trade.  These include assessments, videos, instructions for prac activities, photos of student work, and a demonstration of an electronic roll-book system where all the records required are kept electronically. The implementation of this technology has lead to a reduction to the length of time some students spend at the RTO, allowing for more on-the-job experience. This technology also allows for an increased connection between what the learner is doing in the workplace and at the RTO.

To have a sneak peak at innovative and interesting applications of e-learning occurring in trades training, preview Steve McMahon on CIT TV http://cit.edu.au/future/cit_tv

Tour 2: Sustainable Hub Teaching Practice Workshop

Date: Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Time: 1400 – 1600 hours
Itinerary:                               
1400 Meet at the Novotel Canberra to leave by bus to CIT Bruce Campus (bus will be organised)
1415 Workshop to take place
1530 Leave Bruce Campus

Facilitator name(s), centre(s) and campus:

• Noel Hamey, Building and Environment Centre, CIT Bruce Campus
• Douglas Lang, Science, Forensic & Engineering Centre, CIT Bruce Campus
• Glenn Carter, Building and Environment Centre, CIT Bruce Campus

Who would be interested/ who should attend and why:

The new sustainable hub buildings at CIT’s Bruce campus are an example of how to effectively incorporate sustainability into building practices. Anyone interested in seeing how sustainable methods are used in the building and construction industries are encouraged to attend this session. The buildings themselves are the teaching resources boasting solar panels, recycled bricks and other building products, innovative building design causing less stress on the surrounding environment, water efficient measures, double glazed windows, and maximising cross flow ventilation. 

Brief description of activity (what’s it about, what will they see, what will they find out about)

A tour of the sustainable hub buildings will allow those interested to see how the use of sustainable practices can demonstrate to students, through its existence, how easy it is to apply best practice techniques.  Both the ‘sustainable house’ and the ‘sustainable building’ will be on show.  Demonstrations and discussions will cover practical aspects of the house and building and explain how a building can be used as a teaching resource used in teaching practice.

Pre-visit the CIT's brand new Sustainability Hub and see Douglas Lang on CIT TV at http://cit.edu.au/future/cit_tv/#sustain2