Conference 2012

BLUEPRINTS for CHANGE:  Business Transformation

Annual PHA Conference 14-16th March 2012 at The Menzies Hotel, Sydney

         

Conference Agenda - 20th February 2012 (205 KB)

Agenda and Topics at the next Annual Conference in 2012 will include Plenary Sessions and Breakout Sessions covering the following:

 

 Australian Guest Speakers and Facilitators

 

                    

Heather Gilmore               Tony Gilmour                     Vivienne Milligan                Dr. Tim Williams              Roger Jameson

                   

Ian Winter                         Julie Garland-McLean        Rob Henderson              Owen Donald                    Sue Ellen McCaffrey

         

Sean Innis                         Mike Allen                           Jodiann Hobson

Plenary Sessions:

Hypothetical: 2020 VISIONS: Dr. Tim Williams will lead a panel to explore the impact of possible and probable social, political and financial events to create a vision of housing in Australia in 8 years time. Panel members will include Dr Owen Donald, Chair National Housing Supply Council,Sean Innis, Group Manager Housing, Homelessness and Money Management, FaHCSIA and Mike Allen,Director-General of Housing NSW and PowerHousing CEO's Ken Marchingo and Jan Berriman.

Breakout Sessions:

Finance:

• If Risk is analogous to Opportunity, how much does Risk Mitigation planning stifle entrepreneurial activity? 
• Global and National Economic Update. 
• Benchmarking Project Update. 
• IT Selection & Implementation of New Systems: the Financial Implications. 
• Mergers & Acquisitions - Growing at What Cost? 
• Purchasing: doing things differently to save money through Out-Sourcing and Aggregated Buying.

Governance:

• Critical Governance issues to prepare for the future. 
• Issues Management and Reputation & The Media. Change, Engagement & Retention Workshop. 
• Good practice in a changing regulatory environment: National Regulation and Governance.

Operations:

• IT Procurement in the Community Housing Sector; the impact on whole of organisation. 
• Stock Transfers - the Risks and Issues. 
• Perspective on Aboriginal homelessness in rural, remote and urban Australia. 
• NRAS:  Where are we at?  And where could we be?  Maximising NRAS Opportunities. 
• Community Development:  Tenant Participation.