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Day One: Tuesday 6th September 2011
| Day One | Day Two |
8:30
Registration and welcome tea
9:00
Speed networking

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

9:20
Opening remarks from the Chair
Professor Michael Regan, Head Infrastructure and Project Management, Bond University
9:30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Financing the nation’s future transport infrastructure
  • The role of PPPs in transport infrastructure projects
  • The national freight strategy
  • Redistributing the risk: Tax and regulatory incentives for less risk to the private sector
  • Learning from the mistakes of the past
Jim Murphy, Executive Director, Markets Group-The Treasury
OUTLOOK
10:10
Infrastructure outlook & financing
  • Infrastructure vs. PPP
  • Potential financing avenues / challenges
  • Bank vs. bond market, and debt refinancing
  • Outlook for infrastructure
Parvathy Iver, Director Infrastructure Ratings, Standards & Poor’s
10:50
Morning tea
INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDS: THE ROLE OF SUPERANUATION
11:20
Financing transport infrastructure through super funds
  • What are the obstacles to super fund investment in infrastructure?
  • What do super funds want?
  • Making it happen
Chris McArthur, Head of Asset Management, Australia, Colonial First State Global Asset Management

"Australia continues to have substantial infrastructure financing needs. But there is only so much more that governments can – and should – do. We do need the private sector to step up if we are to tackle the infrastructure backlog. There is no simple panacea for a long-term infrastructure backlog."
Federal Infrastructure Minister, Anthony Albanese AFR June 2011

PORTS
12:00
PORT ALLIANCE CASE STUDY
Embracing change - Scaling up to alliance contracting
  • Forgoing the perceived comfort of competitive pricing
  • Revising management systems to permit an alliance
  • Relinquishing control to a project alliance board
  • Treating a project differently and preferentially
  • Finding and training the right people to place in the team
Stephen Bradford, CEO, Port of Melbourne Corporation
12:40
Lunch
AIRPORT FOCUS SESSION
1:40
Brisbane Airport: Finance options to support growth
  • Project and development plans
  • Maintaining passenger growth: overcoming the challenges
Tim Rothwell, CFO, Brisbane Airport Corporation
ROAD & RAIL
2:20
ARTC: Financing current and future rail projects
  • New projects in the pipeline
  • Cost effective strategies for revolutionising the nation’s freight system
Simon Ormsby, General Manager Commercial, ARTC
3:00
Afternoon tea
3:30
Toll road finance and delivery
4:10
CASE STUDY
VicTrack and the Organisational Relationship Diagnostic Audit (ORDA®)
  • Measuring and benchmarking the relationships your organisation, alliance or project team hold with their stakeholders
  • Identifying where issues may arise and their root causes
  • How to foresee, measure and set performance measures for how stakeholders are engaged, whether they are regulators, contractors or the community
David Hawkins, Chairman, Socom
4:50
Closing remarks from the Chair
5:00
Close of day one
 
Day Two: Wednesday 7th September 2011
| Day One | Day Two |
8:30
Welcome tea and networking
9:10
Opening remarks from the Chair
PPPs
9:20
INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS
PPP opportunities in Asia
  • Lessons learned from the Asian financial crisis: why the theories of small government and PPP do not always go hand in hand
  • Strategies for international consortium partners operating within the Asian business sphere
  • Operating without the safety net: Examining the financial strengths of Asian consortium parties exposed to risk adverse pubic partners
Elaine Glennie, Senior Financial Analyst, Asian Development Bank
POLICY FACILITATING PRIVATE INVESTMENT
10:00
Evolution of PPPs in transport
  • Addressing patronage risk
  • Use of availability payments
  • Alternative forms of government contribution
  • New approaches: TIFs / Infrastructure bonds
Richard Lowe, Principal in the Infrastructure Advisory, PricewaterhouseCoopers
10:40
Morning tea
11:10
Government facilitation: Providing the platform for private sector funding
  • Project identification – public vs private ownership
  • Government as facilitator
  • Private sector project mandates
  • Equity and debt: accessibility in current markets
  • A State controlled asset wealth fund
John Corbett, Managing Principal - Queensland, Coffey Commercial Advisory
11:50
Lessons we can learn from the largest PPPs in Australia
  • The challenges for Economic and Social PPPs
  • Improving the PPP bidding and selection process
  • A look to some of Australia’s successful PPPs and what can be learned from these
  • The place for PPPs
Peter Hicks, Executive General Manager, Investment and Facility Management Division, Leighton Contractors
12:30
Lunch
1:30
CASE STUDY
Gold Coast Rapid Transit project: A closer look at successful procurement
  • A new framework for future projects?
ALLIANCE CONTRACTING
2:10
The growth of alliance contracting: Creating stronger collaborative contracting relationships
  • Developing effective mechanisms for project delivery through alliances
  • Overcoming alliance relationship challenges
2:50
PANEL DISCUSSION
Bringing back the private sector: How can State governments return to previous interest in investment from the private sector?
  • Will tax breaks be effective in drawing private sector interest?
  • Optimal private and public risk sharing strategies
  • How should private and public participation be shared?
Brett Skinner, Principal , Evans & Peck
Elaine Glennie, Senior Financial Analyst, Asian Development Bank
3:50
Closing remarks from the Chair
4:00
Close of conference
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