Agenda

DEFENCE SKILLING SUMMIT DAY ONE
Monday 5th September 2011

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

8.00 Registration and coffee

8.45 Welcome and speed networking session

8.55 Opening remarks from the Chair
Gregor Ferguson, Editor - at - Large, Australian Defence Magazine

9:00 KEYNOTE MINISTERIAL ADDRESS
Maintaining a healthy skills supply to the Defence sector
The Hon. Jason Clare MP, Minister for Defence Materiel

STATE CONTRIBUTIONS TO DEFENCE SKILLING

9:30 Skilling Australia's Defence Industry (SADI) program

• Working with universities
• How to deal with talent, what needs to be taught?
• Coping with funding pressures

Terry Whelan, Head, Export Programs and Industry Engagement, Defence Materiel Organisation

10:00 Enhanced Negotiation Skills get you more Bang for your Buck

• Improve commercial outcomes for both parties
• Build stronger relationships
• Negotiate with confidence

Simon Kelland, Managing Partner, Scotwork Negotiating Skills

10:30 Networking and refreshment break

WOMEN IN DEFENCE & DEFENCE CULTURE

11:00 Women in Defence a key enabler to success

• How industry can attract and retain female talent into the Defence industry

Christine Zeitz, Corporate Affairs Director, BAE Systems

11:30 The importance of diversity in the workplace and the challenge this presents to the Defence Industry

Challenges around employing a diverse workforce in an industry that requires Australian Citizenship, and the challenge this also presents as we get further into a critical skills shortage in Australia

Kelly Byrt, Human Resources Manager, Corporate Services, General Dynamic Land Systems Australia

SUPPLYING THE KEY AREAS OF DEFENCE

– Land –

12:00 Vehicle projects skills requirement

• Land 121/Land 400 skill requirements

Brigadier Nagy Sorial, Director General Combined Arms Fighting Systems, Defence Materiel Organisation

12:30 Lunch and networking break

– Maritime –

1:30 Great Barrier Reef International Marine College

• Linking Defence maritime requirements with up to date, relevant, and necessary skilled personnel
• The importance of up-skilliing and continuous training

Kim Andersen, Manager, Great Barrier Reef International Marine College

– Aerospace –

2:00 Existing and future challenges of skilling within the aviation industry

• AA's role in the Aeroskills Program
• Linking aeroskills training with Defence’s requirements
• Tradestreams integration driven by technological change

Bill Horrocks, CEO, Aviation Australia

KEYNOTE MINISTERIAL ADDRESS
2:30 Skilling Queenslanders for the Defence Sector
The Hon. Stirling Hinchliffe MP, Minister for Employment, Skills, and Mining, Queensland State Government

3:10 Networking and refreshment break

3:40 A Toyota perspective on Skilling for Defence

• Developing Human Capability the Toyota Way
• Changing the way people think - changing the way people work
• Acquiring, embedding and retaining knowledge and capability
• Delivering Toyota style leadership, skills and human capability

Gary Stewart, Managing Director, Lean Design Australia

4:10 The role of Vocational, Education and Training (VET)
TAFE sector for Defence Skilling

• VET sector capacity, programs, pathways and methodologies
• Working in partnership with Industry and Defence - "CISTET - A Case Study"
• Government initiatives to support training
• Benefits of the VET sector to Defence

Maria Alibrando, Executive Director - Enterprise and Government Services, Box Hill TAFE

4:50 Closing remarks from the Chair

5:00 Networking drinks / End of day one

DEFENCE SKILLING SUMMIT DAY TWO
Tuesday 6th September 2011

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

8.30 Coffee and networking

9:00 Opening remarks from the Chair

9:10 Skilling Australian Defence Industry in a global economy: how can we benefit?

• Australia's defence manufacturing skilling challenge compared to the international situation
• Skilling opportunities arising from the GFC
• Ensuring domestic public policy can harness those opportunities

John O'Callaghan, Executive Officer, Ai Group Defence Council

9:40 Emerging Leaders within the South Australian Defence Industry

• The rise of leadership within SA through 'The Defence State'
• Engagement and collaboration between leaders
• Sustaining the industry - developing emerging/future leaders

Kerryn Smith, DCEO, Director Skills & Workforce, Defence Teaming Centre

PANEL
10:10 How SMEs can cope with sending staff on training courses
> Juggling up-skilling with day to day requirements
> Maintaining a competitive and niche advantage in face of spending cuts
> Increasing participation in mathematics and science pathways

10:50 Networking and refreshment break

11:20 Product services systems and their engineering

• Examine new trends in the servitisation of Defence products and approach to solutions
• Explore structures of product services systems and their dynamic boundaries to understand how they should be managed
• Complex product services systems have to focus on links, interactions and alignments which require system design and operation
• Explain what systems support engineering is and how it forms the knowledge threads for complex product services system development
• Discuss training requirements and educational opportunities

Prof John Mo, Discipline Head, Manufacturing and Materials Engineering, RMIT University
Prof Douglas Larden, Defence and Systems Institute, University of South Australia

MAJOR PROJECTS

11:50 Equipping and sustaining a 21st century Air Force

• Introducing new capability into service
• Transition from old platforms to new: the workforce and skills challenge
• Ensuring the emphasis on cost-consciousness is carried into new support contracts

Air-Vice Marshal Colin Thorne, Head Aerospace Systems Division, Defence Materiel Organisation

12:20 Lunch and networking break

1:20 Accessing the right skills and people to support program outcomes

• Implementing or developing initiatives such as:
• Graduate programs that pool Defence, DMO and industry grads together to overcome cultural issues early in the development of tomorrow’s leaders
• Overcoming perceived constraints and shortfalls including geography, accessibility, availability, cultural suitability and experience, amongst others
• Increasing the use of academia in our activities when industry availability is reduced
• Work from home and remote access to RPDE activities
• Job sharing, mentoring, and fostering a culture where the default answer is "yes" rather than "no"

Gordon Keefe, Analysis Capability Manager, The RPDE Program

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1:50 Linking capability development with science and technology partnering

• Industry / Research sector partnering: 1+1 =3
• How industry can assist with the scale and intensity of the challenge
• Key challenges for the research sector
• Some of the essential elements for Australia industrial capability

Dr Mark Hodge, CEO, DMTC

2:20 Networking and refreshment break

2:50 The role of universities in Defence skilling

• Strategies for improving the capacity and skills of the workforce available to the Defence industry
• Maintaining open lines of communication to ensure relevance of the skills being taught

Senior representative, Australian National University

INNOVATION AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT

3:20 Key skills development focus areas in the rapidly expanding and evolving Modelling &Simulation domain

• Driving user requirements for M&S in the ADF - what is defence looking for from M&S in mature application domains (such as Flight Simulation) and in newer/adjacent domains (such as in capability analysis, health-care, emergency/threat management)
• Local and Global constraints - the rapidly changing local and global environment and the challenges imposed on the application of M&S
• Optimising M&S solutions architectures and solutions - key focus areas for cross-skilling and up-skilling staff towards delivering optimum M&S solutions

Jawahar Bhalla, Manager, Systems Engineering, CAE Australia

3:50 Closing remarks from Chair

4:00 End of conference

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