Agenda Day 2

DEFENCE SUMMIT DAY TWO
Friday 17th September 2010

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

8.30 Registration and coffee

8.50 Opening remarks from the Chair

9.00 Exploring cultural issues within Defence and the Defence Industry

• Challenges in transitioning into the Defence Industry culture
• Educating new employees (to the Industry) to maximise retention outcomes

Peter Bull, Vice President, National Security & C4I, Thales Australia

9.30 CASE STUDY: Examining the Parent/Subsidiary paradigm in an Australian context

• Does having a multi-national parent company create cultural issues for the Australian Defence Industry?
• Managing cultural differences
• Extracting positive influences and methodologies from a parent company to enhance capability

Mal Benfer, ARH Program Director, Australian Aerospace, A subsidiary of Eurocopter

10.00 CASE STUDY: Defence Teaming Centre - South Australian Defence Industry Workforce Action Plan

• Developing a clear implementation strategy and action plan
• Partnering with Industry, government agencies and higher education organisations
• Detailing the Skills Workforce Development Model
• Identifying 4 key areas for action

Chris Burns CSC, CEO, Defence Teaming Centre
Kerryn Smith, Director, Skills and Workforce, Defence Teaming Centre

10.30 Morning tea

10.50 A new approach to complex high end skills development in systems engineering and integration

• Creating new ways to tackle the skill development and training needs of engineers and technicians to undertake complex systems development and integration work
• Methods to developing highly skilled specialists
• A systems approach to capability planning

Peter Croser, CEO, Defence Systems Innovation Centre

11.20 UNSW@ADFA Presentation Topic to be advised

11.50 CASE STUDY: Nova's contribution to up-skilling Defence Industry

• Nova's internal Up-skilling and Professional Development Program
• Becoming a Registered Training Organisation
• Developing Novas accredited training courses
• Partnerships to deliver Tertiary Education
• The impact of formal accredited training on Nova and the wider Defence Industry

Kevin Giles, Training Manager, Nova Systems

12.20 Lunch

1.20 Effective utilisation of secondments between defence, government and industry

• Maximising opportunities to enhance innovation and capability development through RPDE
• Extracting benefits made across the RDPE program on defence and industry
• Future potential for program expansion
• Helping Industry and Defence understand each others needs, capacities and capabilities

David Welch, General Manager, Rapid Prototyping, Development and Evaluation (RPDE) Program

1.50 WA Department of Commerce - presentation topic to be advised
John O'Hare, Australian Marine Complex, Department of Commerce, WA
Representative, School Pathways Program, Department of Education, WA

2.20 CASE STUDY: School Based Career Pathways in Defence Industries

• The Advanced Technology Project outline
• Engaging students with defence-related industries
• Increasing participation in mathematics and science pathways

Steve O'Connor, Project Manager, Advanced Technology Project
Brenton Schulze, Advanced Technology Pathways Broker
Liz Mead, Principal, Aberfoyle Park High School, South Australia
Liz Schneyder, Principal, Henley High School, South Australia

2.35 Afternoon tea

2.50 PANEL DISCUSSION: Formulating a long term strategy to encourage the next generation to pursue advanced technology careers in the Defence sector

• Working with the Defence Industry to develop a national school curriculum with a maths, science and technical studies emphasis
• Best practice methodologies for higher education pathways and career development
• Developing enhanced teaching approaches to maths and science
• The need for better teacher training to aide student learning
• Methods to facilitate industry engagement

Dr. Ian Chessell, former Chief Defence Scientist and Chief Scientist for South Australia
Dr. Len Sciacca, Chief Operating Officer, DSTO
Liz Schneyder, Principal, Henley High School, South Australia

3.40 CASE STUDY: The Role of Universities in Defence Skilling

Australia's Universities play a critical role in the development of the next generation of professional Defence Industry personnel and in the up-skilling of the current generation. Professor Roddick will discuss examples of successful initiatives and will critique the various strategies for improving the capacity and skills of the workforce available to the Defence Industry.

Professor John Roddick, Dean, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Flinders University

4.10 Closing remarks from the Chair

4.20 Close of Conference