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Agenda

Day One: Thursday 25th February 2010
| Day One | Day Two |
8:30
Registration and welcome tea
9:00
Speed networking

Get to know your peers right from the start in this relaxed and informal speed networking session. Bring your business cards!

9:20
Opening remarks from the Chair
KEYNOTE SESSION - PLANNING THE WORKFORCE FOR FUTURE PROJECTS
9:30
Current and emerging skills needs in transport and logistics
  • Developing the transport and logistics workforce
  • Addressing skills shortages
  • Creating a highly skilled workforce
Robin Shreeve, CEO, Skills Australia
INDUSTRY OUTLOOK
10:05
Industry and Governments responsibility in responding to transport workforce issues
  • National report on the transport workforce: having the right people with the right skills to build the nations future infrastructure
  • How industry is responding to transport skilling issues
  • What industry is doing in attraction and retention
Hal Morris, CEO, CILTA
10:40
Morning tea
11:10
Who is going to build it?
  • Building industry capability
  • Addressing the skills crisis
Chris Walton, Chief Executive, APESMA
ATTRACTING NEW EMPLOYEES
11:45
The motivational drivers of children's career decision choices, how to influence them & why we are genetically wired to respond to apprenticeships The keys to resolving ongoing labour shortages include:
  • The importance of industry interacting directly with school students
  • Simplifying the way we communicate with youth.
Michael Myers, Managing Director, Re-engineering Australia Foundation
12:20
Lunch
1:20
CASE STUDY World-first postgrad program Master of Engineering (Railway Infrastructure)
  • Providing high-level professional and technical development for rail engineers
  • Addressing industry needs
Dr Martin Murray, Senior Lecturer-Civil Engineering, Queensland University of Technology
IMMIGRATION
1:55
Migration: Looking to the international market to improve the workforce
  • Looking to the international market: filling skilled vacancies that cant be sourced locally
  • Recruiting candidates to complement existing capabilities
  • Breaking into emerging markets
Peter Papadopoulos, Solicitor & Registered Migration Agent, Migration Practice Essentials
MINORITY GROUPS AND WOMEN IN TRANSPORT CAREERS
2:30
The indigenous community and the transport workforce
  • Encouraging aborigines to consider transport careers
  • Human resource management for the aboriginal community
Dennis Appo, Programme Leader: Indigenous Employment and Career Advancement, Department of Management, Monash University
3:05
PANEL DISCUSSION Encouraging minority groups and women into transport careers
Tony Sheldon, Secretary, Transport Workers Union
Maureen Frank, Managing Director, Emberin
Dennis Appo, Programme Leader: Indigenous Employment and Career Advancement, Department of Management, Monash University
4:05
Closing remarks from the Chair
4:15
Close of day one
Day Two: Friday 26th February 2010
| Day One | Day Two |
8:30
Registration and welcome tea
9:00
Opening remarks from the Chair
Hal Morris, CEO, CILTA
OVERCOMING THE SKILLS SHORTAGE AND IMPROVING THE WORKFORCE
9:10
Competing for talent when skills are limited across the board
  • How different industries are affected by the skills shortage
  • Career advancement, professional development and retention
Mark Petale, Group General Manager, Human Resources, Downer EDI
9:45
Analysing and overcoming the seafarer shortage
  • Confronting the shortage
  • The importance of training
Teresa Hatch, Executive Director, Australian Shipowners Association (ASA)
10:20
Morning tea
INDUSTRY FOCUS SESSION
10:50
PANEL DISCUSSION The importance of increasing the workforce for fundamental future transport projects
  • What industry needs from government
  • Creating a workforce for critical projects
Bryan Nye, CEO, Australasian Railway Association (ARA)
Paddy Crumlin, National Secretary, Maritime Union of Australia
Stuart St Clair, CEO, Australian Trucking Association (ATA)
INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES
11:50
CASE STUDY Creating a skilled workforce
Jenny McAuliffe, Manager, Human Resources, ARTC
12:25
Lunch
1:25
CASE STUDY The Road Ahead-How the trucking industry is improving its image and attracting new employees
Stuart St Clair, CEO, Australian Trucking Association
2:00
CASE STUDY The Logistics Information Navigation Centre website: Increasing accessibility to career information for the transport and logistics industry
Senior representative, South Australian Freight Council
2:35
Afternoon tea
2:55
CASE STUDY Portcareers.com.au
  • Assisting the port community to meet recruitment needs
  • A toolkit for secondary and tertiary-level students to research job pathways and careers in port-related industries
  • A one stop shop for potential job seekers
Rosie Field, Manager Corporate Relations, Port of Brisbane Corporation
3:30
MINING CASE STUDY What the mining industry is doing to attract and retain employees
Chris Fraser, Director of Education, Minerals Council of Australia
4:05
AGRICULTURE CASE STUDY Strategies for attracting and maintaining skilled workers
  • Challenges faced in the agriculture industry in improving the workforce
  • Addressing the skills shortage
Arthur Blewitt, Chief Executive, AgriFood Skills
4:40
Closing remarks from the Chair
4:45
Close of conference
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