Program

Day 1 – Thursday 22 September 2011

8.00

Registration (tea and coffee)

9.00

Welcome

9.15

Official opening

9.30

Facilitator address 

Jan Archer

9.45

Keynote address

Everybody belongs

Graeme Innes AM, Disability Discrimination Commissioner and Race Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission

10.15

Morning tea

10.45

Keynote address

My story — personal stories of people with a disability

Joshua Man

Carol O'Reilly

11.30

Move to concurrent sessions

11.45

Concurrent sessions 1

12.30

Lunch

1.30

Concurrent sessions 2

2.15

Move to plenary room

2.30

Keynote address

Acting on a social conscience

Susan Black, Development Manager, Social Ventures Australia

3.00

Afternoon tea

3.30

Panel discussion

Operation Queenslander

Wayne Coutts, Regional Director, Far Northern Region, Emergency Management Queensland

Michael Linnan, Regional Executive Director, Far North Queensland Region, Department of Communities

Chief Superintendent Mike Keating, Director, North Queensland Office, Queensland Reconstruction Authority

Julie Murphy, Director Community Services, Cassowary Coast Regional Council

Valmae Rose, State Manager, National Disability Services Queensland

4.15

Facilitated group discussion led by Jan Archer

4.50

Closing address

5.00

Networking

6.30

Conference dinner and Disability Action Week Awards presentation

Day 2 – Friday 23 September 2011

8.30

Arrival

9.00

Welcome

9.15

Keynote address

Disability 2020 — What’s in store for the next decade

Helen Ferguson, Executive Director, Policy and Performance, Disability and Community Care Services, Department of Communities

9.45

Q&A panel discussion

Positioning Queensland for a national disability insurance scheme
(chaired by Bernie Hobbs)

Debra Cottrell, CEO, Carers Queensland

John Della Bosca, National Campaign Director, NDIS

Michael Hogan, Deputy Director-General, Disability and Community Care Services and Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Department of Communities

Valmae Rose, State Manager, National Disability Services Queensland

Fran Vicary, Manager, Queenslanders with Disability Network Inc.

10.45

Morning tea

11.15

Keynote address

Emerging technology

Bernie Hobbs

Rod Farmer, Director, Research and Strategy, Mobile Experience

11.45

Move to concurrent sessions

12.00

Concurrent sessions 3

12.45

Lunch

1.45

Facilitated discussion led by Bernie Hobbs and Jan Archer

2.30

Closing remarks

3.00

Close and afternoon tea