Queensland Futures Summit 2018

QLD Futures Summit 2018

Date
Wednesday 29 August 2018

Time
7.30am - 2.00pm

 Registration closes 22 August 

Venue
Sofitel Brisbane, 249 Turbot Street

Cost
Member: $335 (Table of 10, $2,750)
Non Member: $435 (Table of 10, $3,750)
 

SUMMIT PROGRAMME
 

7.30am – 7.35am – WELCOME – QFI President, Julieanne Alroe, Chair, Infrastructure Australia
7.30am -  9.00am - BREAKFAST
7.35am-  OPENING by The Honourable Kate Jones MP, Minister for Innovation and Tourism Industry Development and Minister for the Commonwealth Games

7.50am – 9.00am -  ADVANCING QUEENSLAND'S EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Moderator – Dr Stefan Hajkowicz, Senior Principal Scientist, Data61, CSIRO
PANELLISTS
Professor Sandra Harding. Vice-Chancellor and President,  James Cook University
Myra Geddes, General Manager Early Learning and Social Impact, Goodstart Early Learning
Professor Greg Hill, Vice-Chancellor and President,  University of the Sunshine Coast
Professor Peter Høj, Vice-Chancellor and President, The University of Queensland
Professor Geraldine Mackenzie, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Southern Queensland
Joann Pyne, Interim Chief Academic Officer, TAFE Queensland
Professor Margaret Sheil, Vice-Chancellor and President, Queensland University of Technology

9.05am – 10.30am – DISCOVERING LIFE SCIENCES
Moderator  – Professor Peter Andrews AO. Chairman, Life Sciences Queensland
PANELLISTS
Professor Ian Frazer AC, Ambassador and Chair of the Translational Research Institute Board
Dr Kym Baker, General Manager, Patheon Biologics
Les Tillack, Managing Director, Luina Bio
Professor Ian O’Hara, Queensland’s Biofutures Industry Envoy
Professor Alan Rowan, Director, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland

10.30am – 11.00am –  COFFEE NETWORK BREAK

11.05am – 12.20pm – ENHANCING OUR TOURISM ASSETS 
Moderator  – Craig Zonca, Breakfast  Presenter, ABC Radio Brisbane
PANELLISTS
Elsa D’Alessio, Regional Manager Queensland, Qantas Airways
Bob East, Chair, Tourism Australia
Geoff Hogg, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, The Star Entertainment Group
Shirley Hollingsworth, General Manager, Tjapukai 
Anna Marsden, Managing Director, Great Barrier Reef Foundation 

12.30pm –2.00pm –  LUNCH

12.50pm – 1.50pm – QUEENSLAND’S JOURNEY INTO SPACE
Moderator – Professor Michael Smart, Chair of Hypersonic Propulsion, The University of Queensland
PANELLISTS
Michael De La Chapelle, Senior Technical Fellow, Boeing Defense, Space & Security
James Gilmour, Director, Gilmour Space Technologies
Dr Sarah Pearce, Deputy Director, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science 
Flavia Tata Nardini, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Fleet

2.00pm –  CLOSE

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