DEFENCE SKILLING SUMMIT DAY ONE
Monday 5th September 2011
DAY ONE | DAY TWO
8.00 Registration and coffee
8.45 Welcome and speed networking session
8.55 Opening remarks from the Chair
Gregor Ferguson, Editor - at - Large, Australian Defence Magazine
9:00 KEYNOTE MINISTERIAL ADDRESS
Maintaining a healthy skills supply to the Defence sector
The Hon. Jason Clare MP, Minister for Defence Materiel
STATE CONTRIBUTIONS TO DEFENCE SKILLING
9:30 The Ultimate Dream Realised - An example of how Australian industry, by working with schools, can develop outliers capable of taking on the world
Matt is one of 550 people who work at Red Bull Racing and Red Bull Technology. He started off in an aerodynamic development team using wind tunnels and since then has moved on to using computational fluid dynamics to analyse the aerodynamics of the cars in a virtual environment. A typical day for Matt is spent simulating airflow over the race car using super computers, analysing the results and working with the aerodynamicists. After 7 years in the F1inSchools program Matt arrived at red bull racing with more practical engineering experience than the majority of the other students selected to working there. He is a true example of how Australian industry, by working with schools, can develop outliers capable of taking on the world. Matt will talk about his experiences at Red Bull and the benefits he gained coming through the F1inSchools process.
Matt Cruickshank, Industrial Placement Aerodynamist, Red Bull Racing
10:00 Enhanced Negotiation Skills get you more Bang for your Buck
- Improve commercial outcomes for both parties
- Build stronger relationships
- Negotiate with confidence
Simon Kelland, Managing Partner, Scotwork Negotiating Skills
10:30 Networking and refreshment break
WOMEN IN DEFENCE & DEFENCE CULTURE
11:00 Women in Defence a key enabler to success
- How industry can attract and retain female talent into the Defence industry
Christine Zeitz, Corporate Affairs Director, BAE Systems
11:30 Industry Programs
Major General Mick Fairweather AM, RFD, Head, Defence Export Unit, Defence Materiel Organisation
SUPPLYING THE KEY AREAS OF DEFENCE
– Land –
12:00 Vehicle projects skills requirement
- Land 121/Land 400 skill requirements
Brigadier Nagy Sorial, Director General Combined Arms Fighting Systems, Defence Materiel Organisation
12:30 Lunch and networking break
– Maritime –
1:30 Great Barrier Reef International Marine College
- Linking Defence maritime requirements with up to date, relevant, and necessary skilled personnel
- The importance of up-skilliing and continuous training
Kim Andersen, Manager, Great Barrier Reef International Marine College
– Aerospace –
2:00 Existing and future challenges of skilling within the aviation industry
- AA's role in the Aeroskills Program
- Linking aeroskills training with Defence’s requirements
- Tradestreams integration driven by technological change
Bill Horrocks, CEO, Aviation Australia
KEYNOTE MINISTERIAL ADDRESS
2:30 Skilling Queenslanders for the Defence Sector
The Hon. Stirling Hinchliffe MP, Minister for Employment, Skills, and Mining, Queensland State Government
3:10 Networking and refreshment break
3:40 A Toyota perspective on Skilling for Defence
- Developing Human Capability the Toyota Way
- Changing the way people think - changing the way people work
- Acquiring, embedding and retaining knowledge and capability
- Delivering Toyota style leadership, skills and human capability
Gary Stewart, Managing Director, Lean Design Australia
4:10 The role of Vocational, Education and Training (VET)
TAFE sector for Defence Skilling
- VET sector capacity, programs, pathways and methodologies
- Working in partnership with Industry and Defence - "CISTET - A Case Study"
- Government initiatives to support training
- Benefits of the VET sector to Defence
Maria Alibrando, Executive Director - Enterprise and Government Services, Box Hill TAFE
4:50 Closing remarks from the Chair
5:00 Networking drinks / End of day one
DEFENCE SKILLING SUMMIT DAY TWO
Tuesday 6th September 2011
DAY ONE | DAY TWO
8.30 Coffee and networking
9:00 Opening remarks from the Chair
Chris Grigsby, Head of Business Relationships, Defence Health Ltd
9:10 Skilling Australian Defence Industry in a global economy: how can we benefit?
- Australia's defence manufacturing skilling challenge compared to the international situation
- Skilling opportunities arising from the GFC
- Ensuring domestic public policy can harness those opportunities
John O'Callaghan, Executive Officer, Ai Group Defence Council
9:40 Emerging Leaders within the South Australian Defence Industry
- The rise of leadership within SA through 'The Defence State'
- Engagement and collaboration between leaders
- Sustaining the industry - developing emerging/future leaders
Kerryn Smith, DCEO, Director Skills & Workforce, Defence Teaming Centre
PANEL
10:10 Continuous improvement and employee engagement as a route to attracting and retaining skilled staff in the Defence industry
Sam McNaughton, Business Advisor, SCIP Facilitator, Defence Industry Innovation Centre Enterprise Connect
Wendy Cooper, Commercial Director, Milspec Manufacturing Pty Ltd
Tony Jovcevski, Business Improvement Manager, Liquip International Pty Ltd
10:50 Networking and refreshment break
11:20 Product services systems and their engineering
- Examine new trends in the servitisation of Defence products and approach to solutions
- Explore structures of product services systems and their dynamic boundaries to understand how they should be managed
- Complex product services systems have to focus on links, interactions and alignments which require system design and operation
- Explain what systems support engineering is and how it forms the knowledge threads for complex product services system development
- Discuss training requirements and educational opportunities
Prof John Mo, Discipline Head, Manufacturing and Materials Engineering, RMIT University
Prof Douglas Larden, Defence and Systems Institute, University of South Australia
MAJOR PROJECTS
11:50 Equipping and sustaining a 21st century Air Force
- Introducing new capability into service
- Transition from old platforms to new: the workforce and skills challenge
- Ensuring the emphasis on cost-consciousness is carried into new support contracts
Air-Vice Marshal Colin Thorne, Head Aerospace Systems Division, Defence Materiel Organisation
12:20 Lunch and networking break
1:20 Accessing the right skills and people to support program outcomes
- Implementing or developing initiatives such as:
- Graduate programs that pool Defence, DMO and industry grads together to overcome cultural issues early in the development of tomorrow’s leaders
- Overcoming perceived constraints and shortfalls including geography, accessibility, availability, cultural suitability and experience, amongst others
- Increasing the use of academia in our activities when industry availability is reduced
- Work from home and remote access to RPDE activities
- Job sharing, mentoring, and fostering a culture where the default answer is "yes" rather than "no"
Gordon Keefe, Analysis Capability Manager, The RPDE Program
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
1:50 Linking capability development with science and technology partnering
- Industry / Research sector partnering: 1+1 =3
- How industry can assist with the scale and intensity of the challenge
- Key challenges for the research sector
- Some of the essential elements for Australia industrial capability
Dr Mark Hodge, CEO, DMTC
2:20 Networking and refreshment break
2:50 Your time matters ... work smart
This highly practical and entertaining conference session will help delegates increase productivity:
- Manage their workloads (operationally & projects) effectively
- Know exactly what to do next
- Become more pro-Active less re-Active
- Focus on the important whilst effectively managing interruptions
- Manage their inbox effectively
- Utilise their existing electronic or paper tools to help manage their time
Michael Janz, Director, Priority Management
INNOVATION AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT
3:20 Key skills development focus areas in the rapidly expanding and evolving Modelling & Simulation domain
- Driving user requirements for M&S in the ADF - what is defence looking for from M&S in mature application domains (such as Flight Simulation) and in newer/adjacent domains (such as in capability analysis, health-care, emergency/threat management)
- Local and Global constraints - the rapidly changing local and global environment and the challenges imposed on the application of M&S
- Optimising M&S solutions architectures and solutions - key focus areas for cross-skilling and up-skilling staff towards delivering optimum M&S solutions
Jawahar Bhalla, Manager, Systems Engineering, CAE Australia
3:50 Closing remarks from Chair
4:00 End of conference
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