At UniBank, we believe in the contribution that universities make to our community and to the world.
We value knowledge and discovery and we believe in the power that higher learning has to change minds, to change how things are done.
That’s why we are determined to provide better, smarter financial solutions to the staff, students and graduates of Australian universities and their families.
Want to know more? Visit www.unibank.com.au or call 1800 864 864.
Our Education team has an exceptional track record of delivering major tertiary education projects throughout Australia and New Zealand for top-tier Universities. From the beginning to end of the project lifecycle, we’re passionate about creating more functional, flexible and innovative education and research facilities with lower long-term operational costs within modern tertiary campuses.
AssetFuture is a company focused on data. We’re more than just a platform. Our cloud-based technology leverages terabytes of data to categorise and model components, asset systems and drive decisions across the life cycle of assets large and small. Our team of consists of asset management specialists, technology experts and data scientists working together to deliver results.
Asset Intelligence is about analysis. It’s deep data on your assets throughout their lifecycle driving the decisions you need. Asset Intelligence leads to significant business benefits. Cost savings, decreases in risk, and an enhanced ability to make strategic decisions for the entire lifecycle.
Hames Sharley is a multi-award-winning practice specialising in architecture, interior design, urban design, planning and landscape design. Established in 1976, the practice has studios in Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney. Our portfolio of work is as diverse as it is innovative. With over 10 portfolios of recognised expertise, our ability to creatively address opportunities is limitless. Our single ownership structure and commitment in our own research, innovation and development allow us to reinvest into our own knowledge and people. Allowing us to operate truly as one practice, ensuring all our projects receives the best we have to offer regardless of location.
Smarter City Solutions (formerly known as CellOPark Australia) is Australia’s leading provider of integrated parking technologies that are future-proof, sustainable and customer-focused. We are revolutionising campus on-street and off-street parking by combining best-of-breed systems to create a customised “Smarter Parking” offering. From vPermit utilising Robotic Process Automation to modular infringement issuance and lifecycle management systems. All proven. All integrated. Established in 2008, we were the first to bring a tested and proven pay-by-phone/web/app parking system to Australia. Today we process millions of dollars in parking transactions and provide turnkey solutions. Proud recipients of numerous awards including the 2015 TEFMA award for innovation, Smarter City Solutions’ team have unrivalled knowledge and experience in applying low cost, contemporary, cloud based solutions to the challenge of parking management.
At Spotless, we’re a team of trained specialists that can work with your talented staff to deliver an outstanding environment that meets the needs of a word-class education facility. From over 1,000 primary, secondary and tertiary schools and campuses across Australia and New Zealand, we deliver bundled and individual services, including:
Onset Design integrates Meridian Enterprise, a versatile Engineering Information Management solution optimising business processes related to the creation, collaboration and distribution of engineering asset and project data.
Meridian manages the life cycle of engineering content including drawings, models and documents, supporting regulatory compliance, automated document rendition, email notification and viewing.
Education, utilities, resources, transportation, construction and manufacturing sectors benefit from our experience in implementing and supporting solutions to improve productivity, reduce costs and enhance quality.
Architectus is committed to building a smarter future through exemplary design of world-class education facilities. Our buildings integrate the latest learning technologies and pedagogical methods within engaging and beautiful environments designed to attract, support and retain students and staff. Our expertise is continually refreshed by working in close collaboration with educators, staff, students, technologists and facility managers in the pursuit of innovative design solutions that meet the growing aspirations of tertiary education.
Living Edge is a firm believer in the importance of investing in the future. Delivering a portfolio of world-class education products, it is our commitment to provide authentic, sustainable furniture to support the leaders of tomorrow today.
KFive + Kinnarps is built on a passion for quality, sustainable, and truly innovative designer furniture and products. Specialising in beautiful contract furniture and acoustic products which are manufactured in Scandinavia, Italy, and Australia. We have had a great deal of experience supplying furniture solutions to higher education projects all over Australia. Our major brand Kinnarps have invested a great deal of research into education sector and have developed furniture to support the ideals of learning.
Founded in Melbourne in 1991 by George Umow and Dominic Lai, Umow Lai has recently expanded its global reach by joining the Integral Group. With over 20 offices worldwide and over 800 staff, Umow Lai is proud to a member of this exclusive group.
The practice has a strong client focus on delivering high quality, cost effective, innovative and sustainable design solutions and applying the latest design technologies to deliver outstanding outcomes.
Focusing on the areas of Advisory, Projects, Service and Technical Management the A.G. Coombs Group is a leader in the provision of whole-of-life building services – from design, install and commission through to ongoing support advice, service, asset maintenance and operation – for all the systems that bring buildings to life, including air conditioning, ventilation, building controls, fire protection, electrical power supply and lighting.
A.G. Coombs for safe, efficient and effective buildings.
DesignInc is more than an architectural practice. Our approach places people at the centre of design.
Our teams in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth work together to create environments that promote learning, healing, discovery and technical innovation. We strive to make a positive difference to the health and happiness of people’s lives through every environment we create.
DesginInc is proud to sponsor the 2019 TEMC Conference.
Ensure students, staff and visitors on your campus are safe, comfortable, and productive. Grosvenor are a leading technical services provider, regularly maintaining air-conditioning, fire and electrical assets in commercial buildings, across 16,800 sites nationwide.
Proactive maintenance of a buildings technical assets helps eliminate or spot any potential problems before breakdowns. Regular servicing can also ensure that your educational facility is sustainable. We can design, service and operate assets for optimal performance and energy efficiency.
At Grosvenor, we have 25 years’ experience servicing the Australian market. Our skilled technicians can help keep your campus compliant and operational, so it’s business as usual on campus.
Warren and Mahoney is a multi-award winning practice of 300 strategists and designers who work as one integrated studio across seven Australasian locations. Our process takes us to the heart of what matters to our clients and their student communities to design experiences that enhance student engagement and vividly express campus identity. With our support, our clients are redefining the exemplar campus experience and building their reputations as globally significant learning and research destinations.
As experienced university architects and master planners, MGS Architects approach the university campus as an ecological, economic, cultural and social organism, rather than relying on form-making alone. Our work for major institutions such as Monash University, UNSW, University of Wollongong, La Trobe University and Victoria University has been recognised in major awards, culminating in the ‘From Plan to Place’ National Award in 2017 from the Planning Institute of Australia, for the realised Monash Clayton Masterplan.
Donald Cant Watts Corke (DCWC) is one of Australia’s largest, privately owned providers of quantity surveying, project management and advisory services. For over 50 years, we have been committed to developing strong relationships and working collaboratively with clients to achieve outstanding results.
UniSuper is Australia’s superannuation fund for people working in the higher education and research sector. With more than 400,000 members and over $70 billion in net assets under management, we’re one of Australia’s largest super funds.
UniSuper is also one of Australia’s most awarded super funds, reflecting our ongoing commitment to deliver greater retirement outcomes for our members, by providing them with the best products and services, along with strong investment returns and value for money.
Quayclean is a national provider of cleaning, specialty and sustainability management services. Our team deliver services to major public and educational facilities throughout Australia including iconic venues such as the Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Oval, the GABBA, NSW Office of Sport (recreational centres), Melbourne Racing Club and major educational facilities including the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (SHORE), Peninsula Grammar, Trinity College Perth, the Southport School and St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill. We’d also love to help you!
Operational Intelligence (OI) are smart spaces consultants who simplify the building experience through solutions that make buildings more effective, businesses more efficient and employees more engaged. Our expert consultants advise and deliver the best available solution to help our clients achieve their goals. Using technology as an enabler, we transform how buildings are designed, built, managed and used, in order to create a friction free user-experience and provide a more positive outcome for all stakeholders.
Rentokil Initial is a world class services company, leaders in innovation with focus on enhancing well-being. Our brands offer a range of solutions, improving indoor environments.
Ambius is an indoor plantscape specialist, transforming indoor spaces and introducing
numerous health benefits plants provide. Our design team ensures the right plants and containers are selected while our service team ensures a sustainable environment where customers and brand image benefit. Initial Hygiene offer a vast range of robust products and services to successfully manage all washroom solutions, with a strong focus on workplace hygiene and educating customers on the benefits when appropriately maintained.
Bourke and Bouteloup Architects have a collective experience of more than thirty years in the design of campus projects. The practice has expertise in the briefing, design and delivery of specialist Teaching, Learning, Research and Support environments.
We believe that development of the brief is integral to any architectural process. Our detailed and collaborative interactions with stakeholders ensures a thorough understanding which yields innovative design solutions. Sustainability, flexibility, technology and life-cycle are fundamental in our thinking to maximise the potential of any campus investment.
Prime Build is a dynamic, energetic and enthusiastic national commercial construction company specialising in Live Environment property maintenance, fit out, refurbishment and construction.
At Prime Build we treat your staff and students as our own, carefully managing their safety, ensuring disruption is carefully mitigated whilst delivering complex projects in stages, to short term and critical time frames.
Open communication is paramount in all that we do, with every last detail, down to the presentation of our staff, our subcontractors and even our hoardings a focus as we work toward delivering in full, on time safely with our nothing is a hassle mantra.
We are Australia’s Live Environment Specialist.
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.