Business Forum: Supply Chain, Transport & Logistics

AIIA is pleased to present this topical Business Forum featuring
Robert Heaton, Vice President of the Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia, and Management Consultant, Logica Melbourne and Caryn Anderson, Executive General Manager, Business and Planning, Port of Melbourne.

Guest Speaker: David O'Hagan, Assistant Director-General, Chief Information Officer, Information Technologies, Department of Education and Training.

The Smart Classrooms’ Strategy – delivering learning productivity through the integrated use of technology in today’s classrooms

You are invited to attend WCC2010 – the 21st IFIP World Computer Congress hosted by the Australian Computer Society.

This is a great opportunity for Melbourne’s ICT industry to show their community spirit and help seriously ill children.

Survivor Canberra: Tales of mergers and acquisitions in the local IT landscape

CollabIT ACT and the Lighthouse Business Innovation Centre invite members and guests to Survivor Canberra 2010.

Mergers and acquisitions in the information and communications industry sometimes play out like an episode of Survivor—full of drama, intrigue and suspense. Explore the unique perspectives our panel of ‘battle scarred’ experts, including those who have remained involved with companies they founded after acquisition and those who have moved on to new ventures.

David Mathews, MD, Crystal Approach, will facilitate the conversation. Learn how each panellist led their respective team through the various stages of the change of company control. What worked well? What went wrong? What lessons can be gleaned by company executives hoping to affect a merger or acquisition for their business?

The Panel:

Rod Hore, Principal, Corporate Advisory, IDC

Mickey Clark, Founder, The Learning Group

David Keightley, CEO ecoSpectral Pty Ltd; co-founder, Mediaware International

Stuart Beil, Executive Director, Funnelback Pty Ltd

CHIK Services annual Health-e-Nation forums bring together key international and national leaders to explore and progress the role of information and communication technology as enablers of health service reform.

This event has been postponed, further details to follow shortly.

Linus O’Brien from the Industry Capability Network (ICN) and Chris Pretorius from ProjectConnect will explain how the ICN and ProjectConnect provide project developers and their engineers with their own unique categorised electronic library of suppliers, linking buyers and suppliers with the click of a button.
Every week Australian projects, worth billions of dollars, are listed on ProjectConnect benefiting thousands of listed suppliers. Find out over lunch how the ICT industry can become more involved in such an innovative Western Australian tool while enjoying the chance to network with your peers.

Sustainability Reporting and the GRI: A comprehensive two-day GRI certified training program

The certified training program developed by the Amsterdam based Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) provides skills and knowledge on sustainability reporting including how to produce a best practice sustainability report. The program has been developed especially to help report makers to use the GRI Framework and GRI reports effectively. GRI is exclusively the most commonly adopted sustainability reporting framework globally.

CollabIT Follow On Event - Market Validation Program - Opportunities for Sourcing Government Projects

In 2009, the Victorian Government launched Round 1 of its Smart SMEs Market Validation Program (MVP) - a $28m program that aims to promote innovation in business and government by supporting a new model for R&D driven by 'real' technology needs.

Market Validation Program - Opportunities for Sourcing Government Projects