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2024 International Governance Leadership Conference Program

Day one - Wednesday, 4 September 2024

Time Agenda and speakers
8:35am Welcome to Country
8:40am Chair’s opening

Pauline Vamos FGIA, President and Chair, Governance Institute of Australia

8:45am MC opening

Anjali Rao, Award-winning Broadcast Journalist

9:00am Opening address: The human condition

  • The trajectory of human progress
  • The obligations for leaders to help communities navigate the birth lottery
  • How governance enables or disables the human condition.
  • How global contexts and the human condition impact and are impacted by governance directions

Prof Daniel Halliday PhD, Author, Associate Professor, Philosophy. University of Melbourne

Chair: Anjali Rao, Award-winning Broadcast Journalist

9:45am

Panel discussion: Critical questions for modern boards

  • What will corporations value in 2030
  • The purpose of modern boards – within and beyond the organisation
  • The grounds for decision-making and strategy – ethical and cultural precepts
  • Assessing accountability and impact
  • Rooting governance and decision-making in how it impacts those that the decisions are made for

John Stanhope AM, Chancellor, Deakin University,  Chairman, Port of Melbourne

Helen Rowell FGIA, Non-executive Director, Qinsure, Australian Retirement Trust

Chair: Simon Berglund, Senior Vice President & General Manager, APAC, Diligent

10:30am Morning tea
11:00am Fireside chat: Sustainability

  • Principles-based regulation
  • Examining global and national frameworks and standards for reporting and disclosure
  • The corporate compact
  • The agency of leadership
  • Can capitalism align with the power of purpose?

David Simmonds, Chief Strategy, Sustainability and Governance Officer, CLP Holdings

Danielle Welsh-Rose, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer – Investments, Abrdn

Judy Slatyer, President, World Wild Life Fund Australia

Chair: Tim Nelson FGIA, Executive General Manager – Energy Markets, Iberdrola

11:45am

Panel discussion: Reimagining the purpose of technology and AI

  • The competitive edge for design is human development
  • How technology can enable the three factors of inclusive growth – education, work and wellbeing.
  • What do we see emerging and how will this change the way we live as a society?
  • Canvassing the transformational powers of technology and AI to enhance the value and societal impact of business

Michael Helmer FGIA, Company Secretary and Chief Risk Officer, NextDC

Tim Hogarth, Chief Technology Officer, ANZ Banking Group

Stela Solar, Director, National Artificial Intelligence Centre

Chair: Kieran Seed, Head of Content, Regulatory Compliance Global, LexisNexis

12:35pm Lunch
1:35pm CONCURRENT 1 – Measuring and improving board effectiveness

Please complete this 4-minute survey prior to the conference if you are going to Board Benchmarking’s session on board effectiveness or would like to be sent the survey results later.

Chair: Nicholas Barnett, Executive Chair, Board Benchmarking

CONCURRENT 2 – The dimensions for an unforeseen crisis response

Chair: Robert Cockerell, National Lead Partner, PKF

Kaitlynn Brady, Partner, PKF

Geoff Peck, Partner, PKF

Tony Corry, Director, Technology Assurance and Advisory, PKF

Nick Duggal, Partner, Moray and Agnew

2:45pm Afternoon tea
3:15pm Capabilities and skills of the modern professional

  • What are the capabilities that are critical to an agile and adaptive workplace? 
  • How do personal integrity, ethics, adaptive and critical thinking manifest 
  • How governance anchors culture, skills and purpose 

Marcus Bowles, Chair, Institute for Working Futures Pty Ltd

Beth Hall FCPHR, Director, Culture Edge 

Chair: Kenneth Weldin FGIA, Board Director, Governance Institute of Australia, Partner, PKF

3:55pm Workforce and productivity

  • How we work – are we as productive as we need to be with the contemporary work settings
  • Factors for employee disengagement
  • How do we re-engage

Chair: Pauline Vamos FGIA, President and Chair, Governance Institute of Australia

Peter Varghese AO, Chancellor, University of Queensland

David Robertson, Chief Economist, Head of Economic and Markets Research, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

4:35pm Fireside chat: The difficult conversations (Live cross from London)

  • Broadcaster Louis Theroux discusses the most challenging ideas and ways of living that he has come across in his years of travel. What is the value in conversations with extremes?

Louis Theroux, Writer, filmmaker and broadcaster (UK)

Chair: Anjali Rao, Award-winning Broadcast Journalist

5:35pm

Networking drinks and entertainment

Eva Tarhini, Director of Account Management, Nasdaq

7:30pm VIP Dinner with Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE

Day two - Thursday, 5 September 2024

Time Agenda and speakers
8:50am Opening address – International keynote – Mind Change

  • The effect of modern technology and digitalisation on how future generations think and feel
  • Changes to human brain functions – the way we process information, engage, empathise and take risks
  • How will this impact the way we work?
  • Neuroscience and modern leadership

Baroness Susan Greenfield, World renowned neuroscientist, writer and broadcaster (UK)

Chair: Edward Santow, Industry Professor And Director, Policy And Governance Human Technology Institute

9:50am Fireside chat: Geopolitics and global risk

  • Deteriorating global risk outlook
  • How geopolitical tensions are driving global insecurity
  • Examining the ideological and economic polarisation of regions
  • From pessimism to optimism – is there a way?

The Hon Arthur Sinodinos, Asia Pacific Chair, Asia Group (Washington)

Deepa Wadhwa, Former Indian Ambassador to Sweden, Qatar and Japan & Non-executive Director, JK Cement, JK Paper, Sapphire Foods India Ltd and Mukund-Sumitomo Specialised Steels Ltd

Chair: Anjali Rao, Award-winning Broadcast Journalist

10:35am Morning tea
11:05am Public Sector Plenary – Rights-based approach to human development

  • Where it succeeds
  • How it is challenged and where it fails
  • How the public servant serves.

Cris Parker, Head of the Ethics Alliance, The Ethics Centre

11:50am Concurrent 1 – Influence of company secretaries on impactful governance

Warren Baillie FGIA FCG

Nicole Birman FGIA, General Counsel and Company Secretary, Car Group Ltd

Chair: Scott Hudson, Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, Georgeson

Concurrent 2 – Implementing cyber strategy pillars – what is the key work for the humans to implement

Nick Ellsmore, Partner – Cyber, Mantel Group

Katherine Robins,  Partner, Cyber Security Services, IBM

Chair: Lyn Nicholson FGIA FCG, General Counsel, Holding Redlich

12:50pm Lunch
2:05pm NFP plenary – What are we made of – exploring the social compact

  • Is poverty man-made?
  • How can we better manage shared prosperity?
  • The factors impacting equity, poverty and wellbeing – national and global views
  • The challenge for youth, ageing and homelessness

Doug Taylor, Chief Executive Officer, The Smith Family

2:50pm Sports Governance

Brooke Irvine, General Manager Integrity, Equestrian Australia

Darcy Moore, Captain, Collingwood Football Team

Chair: Diane Smith-Gander AO FGIA FCG, Chair, ZipCo and CEDA and Chancellor Elect, University of Western Australia

3:40pm Closing address: The Founder complex

  • How founders influence the pathway of modern organisations
  • The ethical dilemmas for founders and leaders of transformative technological organisations.
  • How they will affect the future of our world

Stephen Scheeler, former CEO for AU and NZ for Facebook and Instagram

Chair: Megan Motto FGIA FCG, CEO, Governance Institute of Australia

4:30pm End of conference

 

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Join us for an exclusive VIP Dinner

We are delighted to announce an exclusive VIP dinner, with Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE, at 7:00pm on 4 September 2024 on the sidelines of the International Governance Leadership Conference.

The dinner will feature a fireside chat with Baroness Susan Greenfield on her personal journey, as she gives us an insight into the pivotal moments in her renowned career as one of the world’s leading neuroscientists. You will have an opportunity to engage with her and other eminent invited guests.

Limited tickets are available for this exclusive event – registration is essential.

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