2016 Business Innovation Summit
The Summit is a full day event, boasting talented and knowledgeable guest speakers who will lead you through a series of talks and interactive sessions. You will have the opportunity to ask questions of a panel and to learn about how you can take advantage of opportunities presented by the rollout out of the National Broadband Network, as well as going digital with your business; marketing excellence; generating business leads; growing your sales and revenue base and business strategy, all while taking an innovative approach.
Sponsored by the Bendigo Bank and held at the Warragul Country Club, this one day Summit is not to be missed. For more information, download the Conference Program in the Related Information section on this page, email the Economic Development team, or call 5624 2411. Bookings are essential and close on Tuesday 5 April. To book your place, go to Trybooking.
Speakers
Dr Peter Ellyard - The Futurist
Dr Peter Ellyard is Australia’s most prominent futurist. He is also a strategist, speaker and author. Peter is particularly known for his highly original, challenging and inspirational ideas on shaping the future, and for his motivational addresses on future-making.
Peter is a graduate of Sydney University and of Cornell University (Ph.D). He is currently Chairman of the Preferred Futures Institute, which he founded in 1991, where he assists individuals, families, organisations, communities and nations to chart and implement visions and strategies to ensure success in an emerging, twenty-first century integrated, interdependent, global society.
Peter has a distinguished record in public sector leadership and administration, including three years as Executive Director for the Australian Commission for the Future. He held CEO positions in a number of public sector organisations over 15 years, including two associated with environment and planning and one with industry and technology, and was also Chief of Staff of the Office of Environment Ministers in Canberra for three years. He is Adjunct Professor of Intergenerational Strategies at Curtin University, and is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators, the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand and the Australian Institute of Management. He has been a Senior Adviser to the United Nations system for more than 40 years, and was involved in the 1992 Earth Summit as a Senior Advisor on both the climate change and the biodiversity conventions. In his other work for the UN system he has been a senior consultant to the UNEP, UNDP and UNESCO.
Peter is the author of three books: Ideas for the New Millennium (1998, 2001), Designing 2050: Pathways to Sustainable Prosperity on Spaceship Earth (2008), and Destination 2050: A Concepts Bank and Toolkit for Future-makers (2013).
Paul McCarthy - Australia’s Rock Star Marketer
The founder of the Marketers Club Paul will deliver a number of high-energy presentations and give you an array of simple, practical and truly game changing marketing ideas that will enable you to positively impact your marketing results.
Paul will reveal how you can instantly magnetise your marketing and create what he calls a positive disruption.
He’ll also share what it really takes to become the top of mind choice in your field and the secrets to client attract in 2016. This session alone will be worth the price of admission.
Fergal Coleman
Director at Synphony3, Fergal Coleman has over 15 years experience in the digital communications space with a focus on digital strategies and social media. He has worked with clients in the public and private sector and is passionate about helping clients develop their digital capabilities in order to deliver better customer experiences.
Fergal is passionate about helping businesses to create successful digital strategies that ensure digital channels deliver better customer outcomes, build a single view of their customers, ensuring they can deliver customer centric services across all channels, online and offline. In addition, Fergal develops social media strategies that deliver business outcomes and drive organisational change. He provides businesses with the best thinking to ensure recommendations are implemented through the delivery of practical outcomes that deliver business benefits. Synphony3’s point of difference is their ability to deliver business outcomes through smart use of web technologies and data.
Leah Mether
Leah Mether is a former newspaper journalist and corporate communications manager, with extensive experience in the energy, water, health and education sectors in the Gippsland region.
Through her business, Methmac Communications, Leah provides communications services and advice to a wide variety of large corporate clients, small businesses, education providers, community groups and individuals. Leah also runs communications workshops, media training, and motivational seminars, and is an experienced MC and public speaker.
Tim Hide
To be a successful business owner you have to do what successful business owners are doing. The key is to have a system that allows you to attract and capture more leads, streamline your sales process and close more deals. The result? You can stop working in your business and start working on your business so you can enjoy your life more. Tim Hyde is helps entrepreneurs lay the foundation for their dreams through sound business systems.
Tim brings his passion and background of running a media company to the entrepreneurial world. He has the ability to cut through the chaos and lay out simple principles that revolutionises the way people run a business. If you are serious about growing a business and creating real leverage in your life then don’t miss this session.
Leanne Mitchell
Leanne Mitchell is a small business strategist with over 20 years experience. A qualified accountant, Leanne built a seven figure accounting practice employing 15 staff on the south coast of NSW.
Today Leanne spends her time mentoring and guiding a small group of extraordinary entrepreneurs with a combined wealth of over $100 million dollars as well as teaching her accelerator strategies for success to small business owners across Australia. Leanne is shining example of a CAN DO attitude and is an inspiration to all the small business owners she meets.
In this presentation Leanne reveals the strategies to drive higher profits and the critical numbers that will determine your success. Once you’ve heard what Leanne has to say you’ll realise she is no ordinary account, but rather a remarkable entrepreneur.