Adelaide airport is located 7km from Adelaide Convention Centre.
With a shuttle bus, Adelaide Metro bus, taxis and rental cars, travelling to and from Adelaide airport is easy.
For more information please visit the Adelaide Airport website -https://www.adelaideairport.com.au/parking-transport/transport-options/
Adelaide Convention Centre
North Terrace, Adelaide
SA 5000
If you have booked your accommodation when you registered, your credit card details have been transferred to the hotel you have selected – please confirm this on check in with your hotel.
The hotel will request payment on check in/out. If you have arrived 24 hours later than your indicated arrival day you may find that you have forfeited your deposit.
If you will not be paying with your own credit card, and need to arrange payment before you arrive in Perth, the best way is via a credit card authorisation form enabling the hotel to process a third party card.
To do so, please contact the hotel you selected and they will organise with you to receive a form for you to fill out and bring on arrival.
Casual Business attire is suitable for the conference
You must advise the conference managers of any special dietary requirements when you register for the conference. Caterers at each function will be informed of these. During the day there will be a buffet table offering food suitable for dietary requirements. If you are unsure, please don’t hesitate to ask staff at the registration desk.
IMPORTANT – If your dietary request relates to a life threatening allergy, please ensure that you advise the organisers as soon as possible.
Please bring your PowerPoint presentation with you when you register. All speakers should present themselves to the Speakers Preparation Desk at least one hour prior to their scheduled presentation time, to upload their presentation.
Speakers are also requested to assemble in their session room 5 minutes before the commencement of the session if possible, to meet with their session chair and to familiarise themselves with the room and the audio-visual equipment. A technician will be present in the room at all times. There will be facilities to test and modify your presentation if required.
The members of the Conference Organising Committee and Leishman Associates accept no liability for personal accident of loss or damage suffered by any participant, accompanying person, invited observer or any other person by whatever means. Nor do we accept liability for any equipment or software brought to the Conference by delegates, speakers, sponsors or any other party.
Please protect your personal property. Do not leave laptops, cameras, and other valuable items unsecured. Be conscious of individuals who appear out of place and do not wear a Conference name badge. Advise Leishman Associates staff if this does not occur.
Closer to the conference date, a further list of what we consider to be our most frequently asked questions will be available from this site. In the meantime if you have any questions please contact the Conference Managers, Leishman Associates on +61 3 6234 7844 or via email [email protected]
Katrina is a triple Gold Medal winning Paralympian who turned her disability into one of her greatest strengths. All who hears this Australian sporting legend’s story will be inspired and motivated, learning success isn’t always the easiest journey and there are often many hurdles along the way. As a professional speaker, Katrina has impressed audiences at an international level.
Mike Teece has been Policy Director (Academic) at Universities Australia since February 2016. Mike is responsible for higher education policy, including funding and regulation, and manages UA’s statistical and analytical work. Mike previously worked in a similar role at the Group of Eight and before that at the Commonwealth Education Department in higher education and international education policy roles.
Dr Alice Gorman is an internationally recognised leader in the field of space archaeology. Her research focuses on the archaeology and heritage of space exploration, including space junk, planetary landing sites, off-earth mining, rocket launch pads and antennas. She is a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University and a Director on the Board of the Space Industry Association of Australia. In 2017 she won the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing. Her book Dr Space Junk vs the Universe: Archaeology and the Future was published in April 2019. She tweets as @drspacejunk and blogs at Space Age Archaeology.
Jamie Fitzgerald has worked around the world in financial services, F&B, government and primary sectors. His business, Inspiring Performance, has helped hundreds of organisations around the world gain clarity and alignment on the value they create, future business models, their priorities, and how to maintain momentum along the way. His ability to translate strategic thinking into practical steps is very hard to beat.
One of Jamie favorite projects was to manage the training and culture of Rugby World Cup volunteers in 2011. This was a programme for 6000+ people tasked with delivering a ‘uniquely New Zealand’ customer experience.
Outside of his business career, Jamie has walked unaided to the South Pole, captained rowing crews versus Cambridge and Oxford Universities during his management degrees, holds the world record for rowing 5000km across the Atlantic Ocean, hosts various TV documentary series, and is a keen bee-keeper.
Selected from over 200,000 initial applicants, Josh Richards is currently one of 100 people short-listed for Mars One’s 2031 one-way mission to Mars. As a former Australian soldier, British Commando, explosives engineer, physicist, comedian, science-adviser to the richest living artist in history, and author of “Becoming Martian”, Josh’s natural talent as a storyteller makes for compelling and entertaining corporate keynotes and workshops on leadership, small-team dynamics, performance psychology, and the challenges of life in space that inspire every audience to discover the sky is not the limit.
Jane is an author, lecturer, mentor, social commentator, columnist, workshop facilitator. speaker, broadcaster and award winning advertising writer. Jane runs her own communications consultancy and lectures in Advertising Creative at The School of Humanities and Communication Arts at WSU, Jane also mentors young business people through McCarthy Mentoring.
Dianne is one of seven Australian shortlisted Mars One astronaut candidates in the remaining Mars 100. The Mars One mission seeks to establish the first permanent human settlement on Mars.
It is a one-way journey.
What makes Dianne a suitable astronaut candidate?
She is a leader, team player, project manager and creative problem solver. Her experience working in and managing teams in sales, marketing, emergency services and government provides her with a strong platform to work as a unit to deliver on outcomes.
Dianne’s sense of adventure, determination and fitness has seen her sail tall ships in the southern ocean, cycle extreme distances, jump from planes, and run marathons and an ultra-marathon.
Dianne believes nothing is insurmountable.
She has a special interest and growing expertise in sustainable food systems, something that will be critical in a completely new environment for human habitation.
Dianne is a proficient public speaker who delivers engaging and dynamic talks to a variety of audiences from school children to corporates to space scientists/enthusiasts.
Dianne’s work experience has provided her with strong expertise in project management, marketing and government organisations in her time with the Australian Energy Regulator, Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). While at GSK she won a global marketing award, and held numerous positions, including a global marketing position based in Europe where she was responsible for a $1billion (AUD) brand portfolio, and won a global marketing award.
Dianne leads a purposeful life that seeks to create better environmental outcomes. Towards this goal, she is currently the Director of the sustainability and business consultancy, Food for Thought Consulting Australia.
Passionate about sustainable food systems, she is also a Director on the boards of three not-for-profit organisations that operate in the food sustainability/community food space: Cultivating Community, 3000acres and the Open Food Network.
Simon is the Co-Founder and CEO of Who Gives A Crap, a profit-for-purpose toilet paper company that uses 50% of its profits to build toilets in the developing world. He is an outstanding entrepreneur and philanthropist who has built two social enterprises, generating donations of more than $1.9 million. His work has been covered by countless media outlets around the world, including The Huffington Post, MTV and The Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Jana Wendt is a journalist and writer.
Her feature writing has appeared in publications including The Monthly, The Spectator, The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald.
In broadcast journalism she has worked for every Australian television network as a senior reporter and presenter on programmes including 60 Minutes, A Current Affair, Dateline and Sunday, and as a contributing correspondent for the American CBS Network’s 60 Minutes.
Wendt has interviewed many key newsmakers including Mikhail Gorbachev, Muammar Gaddafi, Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, Conrad Black, Benazir Bhutto, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Yasser Arafat. She has interviewed widely in the arts where her subjects have included pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim; opera star Cecilia Bartoli; conductor Riccardo Muti and jazz diva Cleo Laine.
Jana Wendt’s book A Matter of Principle, based on conversations with notable individuals about their values was published in 2007, and her second, Nice Work, about the world of work in April 2010. She is currently working on a book of short fiction.