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2050 2050 NEWS SEPTEMBER 2005 SPECIAL POINTS VOLUME 1 ISSUE 3 OF INTEREST: REGISTRATION Are you coming NOW OPEN!! to Brisbane? WOULD YOU LIKE TO PRESENT? With only 11 weeks to go it’s thing left to do is book your time to start registering for transport to Brisbane. Virgin Blue have some fantastic deals from Future Shock! each capital city during November so make sure you log on and THE GREAT The Queensland University of Technology has kindly agreed check out the deals! Yes that’s right NO speaker will DEBATE YOU to host the conference on be- be able to rely or present using DON'T WANT TO half of 2050. The group is now Along with 2 ½ days of brain- powerpoint! storming on a sustainable future MISS THIS ONE! working with the Continuing Professional Education Com- for Australia we have planned a We have a couple of other se- few events to help you all unwind crets in-store but you will only FEATURING— mittee from QUT on the final preparations for the Confer- and get to know your fellow fu- know what these are when you ence. ture leaders of the built environ- sign-up and head to FUTURE CHRIS O’DONNELL ment a little better. SHOCK! This edition of the newsletter MARIA ATKINSON details a little more about the On Friday night we will head Looking forward to having a drink program we have in store as down to St Arnou by the river for with you all in sunny Brisbane. AND well as our fantastic array of some food and drinks. We have speakers! So by the time you secured exclusively this popular Brisbane drinking spot and you ADAM HADDOW have read this edition you will be heading straight to can get a taste for it by visiting www.2050.org.au to sign-up! their website at www.st- arnou.com.au. And for Saturday With the online registration Night we have organised a “Dinner in the Park”. To join 2050 you can also book your accom- modation with some great simply email the deals QUT has secured with For those of you who are still not Michael Manikas group at the Ibis, Mecure and Hilton convinced about attending FU- Chair—2050 [email protected] Hotels in Brisbane. The only TURE SHOCK how about - Rule #1—NO POWERPOINT and you will be added to our mailing list! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Registration Fees don't miss Adam Spencer as our 2050 MEMBER $350.00 opening key-note on (Member of either RAIA, PIA, Friday Morning com- PCA, ALIA, AIB, EIANZ, AIQS) mencing at 11am! NON—MEMBER $450.00 STUDENTS $275.00 www.2050.org.au THE PROGRAM Why are we here? What do we know? What are we going to do? TIME FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 9:00 – 10:00am Peter Sheahan Session two SESSION SIX GREAT DEBATE Concurrent Sessions "Are we approaching Based on the Five 10:00 – Registration sustainability cor- Topics 11:00am rectly?” M/T 11:00 Opening Key Note M/T – 12:00 Adam Spencer “What would a guy SESSION three with a degree in pure Educating for a FULL DISCUSSION mathematics know Sustainable Future Setting and driving about Sustainability” - IS IT POSSIBLE? the agenda 12:00 – LUNCH with Adam 1:00pm LUNCH PETER SHEAHAN 1:00 – 2:00pm SETTING THE SCENE COMMITMENT SES- SION SESSION ONE FUTURE SHOCK SESSION FOUR PART ONE Sustainable Economic 2:00 - 3:00pm Growth Lunch at own cost Four Scenarios - IS ADOPTING Irish Murphy’s AUSTRALIA 2050 SUSTAINABLE INITIA- TIVES DETRIMENTAL TO THE ECONOMY? A/T A/T 3:00 – 4:00pm SESSION ONE SESSION FIVE FUTURE SHOCK Legislation vs. Inno- 4:00 – 5:00pm PART TWO vation ARE WE PROCESS OR OUTCOME DRIVEN? 5:00 – 6:00pm FREE TIME FREE TIME 6:00 – 7:00pm SOCIAL EVENT SOCIAL EVENT Dinner in the Park 7:00 onwards Opening Drinks St Arnou by the River Key note PAGE 3 Adam Spencer began his career in radio by winning the Triple J raw comedy championship in 1996. From there, Adam became a casual presenter, and eventually took over the coveted breakfast time slot, hosting from 1999 - 2004. A consummate learner, Adam holds a first class honors degree in Pure Mathematics and has an immense interest in science. These passions lead Adam to hosting the ABC program QUANTUM and FAQ from 1998 to 2001. Adam has been a regular guest on the Channel Ten’s GOOD NEWS WEEK Debate series, ABC's THE GLASSHOUSE and THE FAT. In 2003 Adam hosted HIT & RUN for the Foxtel’s Comedy Channel. Adam’s other outstanding achievements include being voted “Best Speaker in the World’ at the World University Debating Championships. Prior to this, Adam was captain of the Austra- lian Debating Team for 3 years. He was winner of the National Championships and Winner of the Australian University Championships. Adam was a regular performer at Belvoir Street Theatre’s ‘Theatresports’ and speaks regularly at science and Maths conferences Australia wide. At the end of 2004 Adam and his co presenter on Triple J Wil Anderson toured the nation with THE LAST TIME TOUR, which sold out in every capital city and celebrated their time on Triple J. Adam has also toured for the last 3 years with Dr Karl Kruszelnicki in the SLEEK GEEK TOUR, which is held during Science Week and is an hilarious one hour show combin- ing ground breaking science with side breaking comedy. Adam has had extensive experience on various boards and authorities - he continues to serve on the Senate of the University of Sydney, the NSW Premier's Advisory Committee on Greenhouse and Global Warming and the NSW Health Department's Clinical Ethics Review Committee as well as being an ambassador for the Fred Hollows Foundation and helping out with numerous charities. This wide-ranging exposure provides many potential areas of discussion in keynote addresses, conference sessions making Adam a firm favourite on the corporate convention and after- dinner speakers’ circuit. Adam has worked for more than 300 clients including Pharmacy Guild, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Zurich Financial Services, KPMG, Spatial Sciences Insti- tute, Griffith Hack, TAFE NSW, CISCO Systems, Planning Institute of Australia, Queensland Resources Council, Grant Samuel Investment Bankers, Pearson Education, Australian Primary Principals Association, UBS Finance Academy, Time Magazine, Australian Financial Revue, Min- erals Council of Australia and Finance & Treasury Association to name a few. ADAM IS OPENING THE CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY AT 11AM SO MAKE SURE YOU DON’T MISS OUT! Facilitator Peter Sheahan is one of Australia’s leading talent development experts. Working primarily as a conference speaker and consultant he has inspired more than 160,000 people across Australia. His clients include corporate giants such as The Commonwealth Bank, Panasonic and Wool- worths Limited, as well as Government divisions including the Department of Education, Sci- ence and Training and the Queensland Department of Premier and Cabinet. He has also col- laborated with some of Australia’s most respected educational providers including TAFE Queensland, the University of Technology Sydney and Deakin University. Peter began his career in a large international accounting firm, only to find out very quickly that accounting was not for him. Much to the surprise of his friends and family he left his cor- porate post to clean toilets in a Pub. Within 18 months Peter was the General Manager of a multi million dollar Sydney Hotel, with over 30 staff. It was during this time that Peter discov- ered that many young employees were struggling to make a successful transition from educa- tion to work. Specifically, they were not able to effectively apply their skills and talents in a way that was profitable for the business. It was this that inspired Peter to start his own busi- Peter Sheahan’s zest for life ness developing the potential of tomorrow’s business leaders. is contagious. He inspires people of all ages” The success of Peter’s consulting business in those early years resulted in him being named the Channel 9’s A Current Affair MBN NSW Young Entrepreneur of the Year as well as winning the National Emerging Busi- ness of the Year award in 2003. The same year Ernst & Young nominated him in their Interna- tional Entrepreneur of the Year awards, clearly demonstrating that Peter knows what it takes “He leaves his audiences to be successful in the new business world. It is this experience as a young professional and fiercely determined to blitz entrepreneur that provide the basis for the strategies Peter teaches to audiences across Aus- the challenges that loom ahead.” tralia. The Australian Newspaper Peter’s youthful energy and the fact that he has delivered in excess of 1500 presentations, Peter Sheahan gets that gives him the ability to motivate even the toughest audiences. But it is the ability to create speaking is not just about lasting change in the mindsets of people that Peter’s clients find most valuable. motivation. It is about sub- stance and delivering practi- cal ideas that people can A best selling Author, Peter’s fourth commercially published book Generatin Y: Thriving (and use” Surviving) with Generation Y at Work was released in June 2005. This is the first Australian The Daily Telegraph published and written book on Generation Y, and the first in the world actually written by a member of the generation. It is a combination of Peter’s research and a series of Australian “Insightful, thought provoking best practice case studies, which will offer timely solutions for managers and HR professionals and inspiring.” to what is potentially a very challenging business issue.
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