QUT 2017 - PROGRAM Sunday 17th September 12.00pm-1.00pm Registration Opens 1.00pm-1.30pm Opening Ceremony - Prof Uwe Dulleck, QUT - Prof Robina Xavier, Dean QUT Business School - Julia Kolodko, Warwick Business School 1.30pm-2.30pm BETA Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet Session - Prof Robert Slonim, Scientific Director BETA Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet - Allyson Essex, Department of Social Services - Heather Cotching, BETA Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet 2.30pm-2.45pm Afternoon Tea 2.45pm-4.00pm Team Building Session - NobuLali Dangazele, Warwick Business School 4.00pm-5.00pm Behavioural Change - Prof Daniel Read, Warwick Business School 5.30pm Welcome Event - Buffalo Bar: 169 Mary St. 1 Monday 18th September 8.30am-10.00am Volunteer Representative Presentations: - Christina Dunstan Potia, Givit - Collin Sivalingum, Red Cross Queensland - Indiana Coelho-King, Surf lifesaving Queensland 10.00am-10.30am Break: Tea/Coffee 10.30am-12.00pm Nudgeathon Session - Individual Session Rooms 12.00pm-1.00pm Lunch 1.00pm-3.00pm Nudgeathon Session - Individual Session Rooms 3.00pm-3.30pm Break: Tea/Coffee 3.30pm-5.00pm Nudgeathon Session - Individual Session Rooms 2 Tuesday 19th September 7.30am-8.00am Reception Tea/Coffee 8.00am-10.00am Nudgeathon Session - Individual Session Rooms 10.00am-12.30pm Team Presentations 12.30pm-2.00pm Lunch - Judging Panel Deliberation 2.00pm-2.30pm Winners Presentation - Prof Peter Coaldrake, Vice-Chancellor QUT 2.30pm-3.00pm Conference Concludes 3 LOCATION: QUT Graduate School of Business, Level 5 B block Gardens Point Campus Nudgeathon 2017 Invited Speakers Professor Uwe Dulleck – Queensland University of Technology Prof Dulleck obtained his PhD at Humboldt University Berlin in 1999. Before Uwe joined QUT he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Linz, Austria and an Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna. His publications can be found in such top quality journals as the ‘American Economic Review’, the ‘Journal of Economic Literature’, the ‘Economic Journal’, and the ‘Journal of Public Economics’. Uwe is the recipient of several ARC Linkage Grants and one ARC Discovery Grant. He is also co-investigator of two Austrian Research Council grants. In 2015 Uwe was the Chairman of the Programme Committee for Australia’s Conference of Economists, the leading and largest conference for research and applied economists in Australia. He is an active public speaker on Behavioural Economics and its applications to Public Policy, Business Decision Making and Regulation. Professor Robert Slonim – Scientific Director, BETA Professor Slonim came to Sydney in 2008 from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio. He holds a PhD from Duke University and MBA and BA degrees from the University of California Berkeley. Professor Slonim is best recognised as a pioneer in the area of experimental economics and has written extensively on learning, trust and the economics of charitable behaviour and blood donations. Professor Slonim has been very innovative in his use of experimental methods that have theoretical importance and have also represented important findings for matters of public policy. Professor David Butler – Murdoch University Prof Butler studied for his Bachelors and Masters degrees at the University of York, UK, and obtained his PhD from the University of Western Australia (UWA). He has previously taught at UWA and the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. His research interests are in experimental economics, decision theory and behavioural game theory. He is currently the Head of the Economics and Finance group, the Associate Dean of Research in MBS and President of the WA branch of the Australian Economic Society. 4 Heather Cotching - BETA Heather Cotching is the Senior Advisor of the Behavioural Science team in BETA (the Behavioural Economics Team of Australia). Her team is responsible for leading BETA’s diagnosis of behavioural biases across public policy issues and helping to design ‘nudges’ to prompt changes in human behaviour. Heather has a degree in economics and has worked across government for more than a decade, including in Treasury, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. Allyson Essex – Department of Social Services & BETA Allyson Essex is Branch Manager at the Department of Social Services, and Principal Advisor Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. She studied her undergraduate degree at University of Sydney and her Masters in Ethics and Legal Studies at Charles Sturt University. Professor Daniel Read – Warwick Business School Professor Daniel Read was educated in Canada, studying at University of British Columbia (where he studied under Daniel Kahneman) and then at University of Toronto, where he received his PhD. He is currently head of the Behavioural Science group at Warwick Business School, and co-leads the Behavioural Science “Global Research Priority” a major Warwick initiative to integrate behavioural science across a wide range of disciplines at the business school. Daniel has published in world-leading psychology and economics journals on many aspects of decision making and judgment. He is world renowned for his work on intertemporal choice, where he has made several fundamental contributions to our understanding of patience and future orientation. Daniel has taught and researched at many distinguished institutions, including London School of Economics and Political Science, INSEAD, the Yale School of Management and (currently) Warwick Business School. 5 Nobulali Dangazele – Warwick Business School NobuLali Dangazele is in the Organisation & Human Resource Management Group and Create Group at Warwick Business School. Her research explores the role of embodied interaction in top management teams, within the financial sector. She holds an MA in Dramatic Arts, following which she formed a social enterprise called ShakeXperience, which offers experiential learning, applied drama and theatre techniques, to facilitate learning in schools and organisational development in corporates clients. Lali has been awarded numerous scholarships, including the Mandela Rhodes Scholarship, Abe Baily Travel Bursary. Her doctoral research is funded by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust and Warwick Business School. Julia Kolodko – Warwick Business School Julia Kolodko is a Doctoral Researcher in the Behavioural Science Group at Warwick Business School. Her research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, conducted in collaboration with the Behavioural Insights Team and DEFRA, focuses on applying behavioural insights to environmental and health issues. For over a decade, Julia worked in telecommunications, banking and media sectors, overviewing marketing strategy, communication and consumer research. Julia holds an MA in Cross- Cultural Psychology and has lived and worked in five countries. She is a lecturer at Kozminski University in Poland and a marketing and behavioural change trainer and consultant. 6 .