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    EVENT PROGRAM

  Riding the wave
   Transforming local government for the digital era

N A T I O N A L C O N F E R E N C E & AWA R D S F O R E X C E L L E N C E
 2 5 - 2 8 M A R C H 2 019 @ K A R D I N I A PA R K , G E E L O N G , V I C T O R I A
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Monday night:
Welcome Reception & Event Launch
@ The Pier Geelong
This is the perfect time to be in Geelong. The
weather is great, the company is better and the time
is right for an inspiring conference to discuss the role
of local government in a digital world.
Our Monday evening Welcome Reception will include dignitaries
from the Geelong region, the state of Victoria and guests from
around the world, including our keynote speakers and exhibitors. The
locally-sourced finger food and wines will be sensational, as will the
networking opportunities. We hope you are able to join us to kick off
this international event in style!

Monday, 25 March 2019
Welcome Reception brought to you by the City of Greater Geelong
 6.00pm      Drinks & finger food
 6.45pm      David Bartlett, Conference Co-Chair - Introduction
 6.50pm      Welcome to Country - Corrina Eccles, Wadawurrung woman with Norm Stanley on the didgeridoo
 7.00pm      The Hon Adem Somyurek MLC, Minister for Local Government - Welcome to Victoria
 7.05pm      Cr Bruce Harwood, Mayor, City of Greater Geelong - Welcome to Clever and Creative Geelong         The Pier
 7.10pm      [TBA], President, Municipal Association of Victoria - Supporting innovation in local government   Geelong
 7.15pm      [Keynote sponsor TBA] - Welcome & keynote overview
 7.20pm      David Bartlett & Lisa Bennetto - Event overview
 7.23pm      Food and drinks service continues
 8.30pm      CLOSE

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* Program is subject to change
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Tuesday, 26 March 2019
    Plenary Program brought to you by Salesforce – President's Rooms, GMHBA Stadium
    8.30am      Registration & Trade Exhibition – Coffee Sponsor Thomas Duryea Logicalis
    9.00am        Welcome to Country
                  [Details TBC]
    9.10am
                                                       Introduction
                                                       Jira Lulla Harvey, Conference Co-Chair and
                                                       Founder and Director of Kalinya Communications
                                                       David Bartlett, Conference Co-Chair and
                                                       former Premier of Tasmania

    9.30am
    (50 mins)                       Unleashed
                                    Driving the digital transformation of government and the role of local government in helping
                                    communities to thrive in the digital era.
                                    Malcolm Turnbull, 29th Prime Minister of Australia

                                    Keynote Speaker – Brought to you by [TBC]
    10.20am
    (20 mins)                       Transforming the MAV
                                    The MAV's first new CEO in 21 years shares her plans for driving both a culture shift and a
                                    technology shift at the MAV to better support local government interests, build the capacity
                                    of councils, protect the viability of councils and promote the role of local government.
                                    Kerry Thompson, CEO, Municipal Association of Victoria

    10.40am     Morning Tea & Trade Exhibition – Brought to you by Wideband
    11.20am
    (20 mins)                       Decolonising the digital: Technology as a cultural practice
                                    Creating the foundations for the social enterprise with Indigenous Knowledge Systems,
                                    Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
                                    Angie Abdilla, Founder and CEO of Old Ways, New.

    11.40pm
    (30 mins)                       Disrupting our doctors
                                    Challenging the establishment and using tech to deliver innovative, appropriate and quality
                                    health care to the right people in the right place at the right time.
                                    Dr Lance O'Sullivan, Co-Founder Navilluso Medical,
                                    TVNZ Maori of the Year 2013 and New Zealander of the Year 2014

    12.10pm
    (20 mins)
                                    Ground control – Developing Australia's first commercial spaceport
                                    Delivering innovative economic development outcomes in remote Northern Australia.
                                    Carley Scott, CEO at Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA)

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    12.30pm     Lunch & Trade Exhibition – Brought to you by Tesserent
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Trade Exhibition & Lunch
 2.00pm
 (20 mins)
                                    Digitising of society and democratisation of IoT
                                    Abstract to come.
                                    Catherine Caruana-McManus, Director Meshed IoT, Global Smart Cities Ambassador

 2.20pm
 (20 mins)                                              Melbourne Digital Enterprise
                                                        Abstract.
                                                        Daniela Mazzone, Principal Lead, IT Capability and Partnerships &
                                                        Colin Fairweather, CIO, City of Melbourne

 2.40pm
 (20 mins)
                                    Smart Regional Cities
                                    Abstract to come.
                                    Justine Linley, CEO, City of Ballarat

 3.00pm
 (20 mins)                          Blockchain: What is your role in the next revolution?
                                    Blockchain has the potential to automate, and disintermediate, the institutions and services
                                    that underpin our lives. It could change how we interact online, who controls our information,
                                    and shift the incentives that guide businesses and cooperative systems.
                                    Jason Potts, Director of Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT University

 3.20pm         Afternoon Tea & Trade Exhibition – Brought to you by Olikka
 4.00pm
 (20 mins)                          Smart Cities and Mega Infrastructure on the Sunshine Coast
                                    Abstract to come
                                    Dr Scott Bourke, Smart Cities Strategy and Major/mega infrastructure projects,
                                    Sunshine Coast Council

 4.20pm
 (20 mins)
                                    Growing Pains – A metro council case study
                                    Abstract to come.
                                    Rebecca McKenzie, CEO, City of Glen Eira

 4.40pm
 (40 mins)                          High performing teams and cultures
                                    How to treat people like adults and give them the necessary autonomy? How do we
                                    outperform our competition? How do we get the most from this ever-changing workforce?
                                    What is the future of work as millennial and centennials enter the market?
                                    Gus Balbontin, former Executive Director & CTO, Lonely Planet
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 5.20pm         Day one plenary & Expo closes (Awards for Excellence Dinner @ The Pier Geelong commences at 6.30pm)
* Program is subject to change
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Tuesday night:

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    Awards for Excellence Dinner
    Brought to you by Onel Consulting

    The MAV Technology Awards for Excellence recognise outstanding achievements by local
    government information and communications technology (ICT); geographic information (GIS)
    and records management (RM) practitioners to encourage innovation in local government
    service delivery for the people of Victoria, Australia and the world.

    WHEN      WHAT                                                                                   WHERE
    6.30pm    Pre-dinner drinks
    7.00pm    Seating & background music
    7.10pm    Entreé served
    7.30pm    Welcome song - Casey Bennetto
    7.35pm    Introduction & acknowledgements - David Bartlett
    7.40pm    Sponsor address -
    7.45pm    Nominees and Award presentations Casey Bennetto & David Bartlett
              with Tim Neal, Shannon Bourne, Vincenzo Ruberto & Nick Karasaviddis:
              Strategy & Planning Achievement of the Year                                         The Pier Geelong
              Collaboration or Partnership Achievement of the Year                                Cunningham Pier,
                                                                                                    10 Western
              Smart City Achievement of the Year
                                                                                                   Foreshore Rd,
              Customer Experience Achievement of the Year                                             Geelong
              The Victorian Award for Excellence
              The Australian Award for Excellence
              About the LOLA International Award for Excellence
    8.15pm    Dinner served
    8.45pm    Live band and dancing
    9.15pm    Dessert served
              Live band and dancing
    11.30pm   Close

    Our Independent Judges for 2019
                Lorraine Tighe                                   Adam Beck       Susan Sly
6               Smart Cities                                     Executive       IT Leadership,
                Practitioner,                                    Director at     Innovation,
                Design Thinker,                                  Smart Cities    Digital,
                Innovator                                        Council ANZ     Business
                                                                                 Transformation
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Victorian Award categories
There are four team award categories for 2019:
  • Customer Experience Achievement of the Year
      Customer Experience has a number of variations and abbreviations. CX, UX, UI, customer centric, people at the
      centre – they all mean pretty much the same thing – Are we delivering something that people want and can use?
      A good digital customer experience requires a totally new approach to service delivery. It demands new business
      processes and cultural change within council. None of this is easy.
  • Collaboration or Partnership Achievement of the Year
      Working together to achieve better, faster, simpler and more cost effective outcomes for our communities.
      Collaboration or partnerships between council business areas; between councils; or between councils and external
      service providers, other levels of government, research organisations or community groups are all eligible.
  • Smart City Achievement of the Year
      Using information communication technologies and data to be more efficient, solve challenges, and provide new
      opportunities. Smart communities advocate for the integration of technology and data infrastructure, promote
      digital technologies to increase the capability of existing infrastructure and services, and champion citizen
      involvement and citizen-focused service delivery.
  • Strategy and Planning Achievement of the Year
      Without well-defined goals and a high-level plan to achieve them, it can be easy to be deliver unneeded output,
      rather than desired outcomes. Strategy and planning shapes and guides what the project is, who it serves, what
      it does, and why it does it. It also clarifies the actions needed to make progress, and includes clear measures to
      determine if it is successful.
Entries may be considered in multiple award categories.

Australian and International categories
The Victorian Achievement of the Year will be awarded to one of the four Victorian award category winners.
Interstate local government associations are invited to nominate a single local government achievement to represent their
state or territory in the Australian Achievement of the Year award.
The winner of the Australian Achievement of the Year will be Australia’s nomination in the 2019 LOLA International
Award for Excellence, competing with local government entries from New Zealand, Canada, Sweden, Netherlands, United         7
States, United Kingdom and Belgium. The winner will be announced in May 2019 at the LOLA Conference in Sweden.
Interstate and International award nominations will be assessed according to how well they demonstrate outstanding
innovation, effort and outcomes; advance the digital transformation of local government; support council business
objectives; and influence or assist other councils to improve service delivery.

Entries close on 28 February 2019
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Wednesday, 27 March 2019
    Plenary Program brought to you by Salesforce – Presidents Rooms, GMHBA Stadium
    8.30am      Registration & Trade Exhibition – Coffee Sponsor Thomas Duryea Logicalis
    9.00am        Jirra Lulla Harvey & David Bartlett, Conference Co-Chairs
    9.10am
    (30 mins)                       How to facilitate growth, transformation and adventure
                                    Abstract to come.
                                    Brent Valle, Founder, The Future Phase; CEO & program Director, Bells Surf Wax;
                                    Co-Founder NGage Technology Group

    9.40am
    (30 mins)                       Te Mata o te Tai – The edge of the tide
                                    Using drones for energy, agritech, telcos, farms, health and city services.
                                    Marae and Māori organisational digital transformation and connectivity projects.
                                    Robyn Kamira, CEO at Incredible Skies (Drone science and technology agency)

    10.10am
    (20 mins)                       Trailblazers
                                    How global and Australian Trailblazers are disrupting industries, shaping the future, and
                                    transforming the world around you.
                                    [Speaker TBC],
                                    Brought to you by Salesforce

    10.30am     Morning Tea & Trade Exhibition – Brought to you by Wideband
    11.00am
    (20 mins)
                                    Dancing in the dark – Government data governance
                                    Abstract to come.
                                    James Horton, Founder and CEO at Datanomics

    11.20am
    (40 mins)                                           A singular digital presence of government
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                                                        Kylie De Courteney, Chief Customer   Officer at Service NSW &
                                                        Jithma Beneragama, Executive Director at Innovation Victoria

    12.00pm
    (20 mins)
                                    Using data to drive decision making
                                    Abstract to come.
                                    Warren Dean, Senior Data Analyst, City of Casey

8   12.20pm
    (20 mins)   Panel discussion – Delivering outcomes from Hacks & Jams
                What are the challenges of hacks and jams in local government and how can we achieve greater outcomes?
                Lorraine Tighe, Title; Lisa Bennetto, MAV Technology; Cormach Evans, Strong Brother Strong Sister;
                Matt Swards, City of Ballarat; Glenn Pomeroy, City of Greater Bendigo; Jade Miller, Indigenous
                National Technology & Telecom Network
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12.40pm     Lunch & Trade Exhibition – Brought to you by Tesserent
1.40pm                          A Genie for local government?
(20 mins)
                                Deakin has been recognised as a global digital leader for the second year running, with the
                                Deakin Genie digital personal assistant tool for students receiving a 2018 Digital Edge 50 award.
                                Can this tool be leveraged to deliver council services to people in Victoria?
                                Matthew Benson, Senior Analyst & Genie Partner Engagement Manager,
                                Deakin University
2.00pm
(20 mins)                       Moving to a user-centred approach in the NSW Government
                                Learn how the NSW Government is taking a holistic approach to place users at the centre
                                when we design and deliver digital services.
                                Katherine Sharah, Senior Policy Officer, Digital Transformation,
                                Department of Finance, Services and Innovation, NSW Government

2.20pm
(20 mins)
                                Enabling innovation in councils
                                Abstract to come.
                                Chris O'Connor, Service Designer, Bayside City Council

2.40pm
(20 mins)   Panel discussion – Innovation & Procurement
            What are the procurement barriers to innovation in local government and how can we solve them?
            Alison Hawkins, MAV Procurement; Stephanie Zieno, AWS Amazon; Adam Smith, Microsoft;
            Daniela Mazzone, City of Melbourne; Matthew Szymczak, City of Greater Geelong;
            Jaynaya Winmar, Indigenous National Technology & Telecom Network

3.00pm      Afternoon Tea & Trade Exhibition – Brought to you by Olikka
3.40pm
(20 mins)
                                Smart People. Smart Places. Smart Partnerships. VITED
                                Abstract to come                             IN
                                Peter Auhl, Principal at EQi Consulting & CIO at Central Coast Council

4.00pm
                                Built environment, information technology and design innovation
(20 mins)
                                How MInD is exploring the potential of IT, intelligent data, computation and digital media to
                                create more agile and adaptive solutions for socially, environmentally, and economically viable
                                built environment.
                                Professor Tuba Kocaturk, Director, Mediated Intelligence in Design (MInD) Lab,
                                Deakin University
4.20pm
(20 mins)                       Smart Cities need Smart Councils
                                How local government can help to address complex urban and regional challenges, by
                                harnessing digital technology, establishing partnerships and applying intelligent design.
                                Adam Beck, Executive Director at Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand

4.50pm
(30 mins)                                           Emotionally responsive artificial humans                                        9
                                                    AI researchers, neuroscientists, psychologists, artists and innovative
                                                    thinkers; re-imagining how we connect with machines.
                                                    Ben Hanna, Director Business Development ANZ,
                                                    Soul Machines & "Ava"

5.20pm        Closing remarks
(10 mins)     Jirra Lulla Harvey & David Bartlett, Conference Co-Chairs
5.30pm      Plenary & Trade Exhibition closes (Networking Evening @ Little Creatures Brewery commences @ 6.00pm)
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Wednesday night:
     Networking Evening @
     Little Creatures Brewery
     Brought to you by 8x8

     A true brewery village experience, with a bustling Canteen and the colourful Mystery Lane. A
     great opportunity to network in a casual setting and talk about what you've seen and heard at
     the conference. You can grab a fresh beer and a bite to eat, and watch the brewers racing around
     doing their thing. And we'll have Tripod on hand to provide some laughs and great music.

     WHEN          WHAT                                                                                                  WHERE
     6.00pm        Drinks and food service commences
     7.00pm        Optional brewery tour
     8.00pm        Welcome & introductions - Michael Smyth, Chair, MAV Technology                                    Little Creatures
     8.05pm        Sponsor's address                                                                                     Brewery
     8.10pm        Tripod                                                                                            221 Swanston St,
     8.40pm        Networking                                                                                            Geelong
     10.30pm       Close

       Tripod
       Since their earliest shows Tripod have made a habit of juggling
       comedy, music and narrative in endless exhilarating combinations.
       They started out in the Melbourne pub scene, before becoming
       regulars of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and of
       national radio on Triple J. TV followed, including four seasons on
       Skithouse – the album of which, Middleborough Road, won them
       an ARIA – as well as a year as regulars on Sideshow on the ABC.
       They have created numerous musicals including the magical Tripod
       Versus the Dragon and Perfect Tripod: Australian Songs with Eddie
       Perfect. Perfect Tripod also appeared on Network Ten’s Oxfam Gala,
       released a single with Gotye for Save Live Australian Music and sung with Missy Higgins on ABCTV’s Crackup.
       Tripod continue to bring an insane level of craft in both comedy and music and combine them in a rich and satisfying way –
       an ability that has cemented them as a much loved cultural fixture in Australia.

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Thursday, 28 March 2019
Tour or Master Class
Choose from the Clever & Creative Geelong Tour or our facilitated Master Class:

CLEVER & CREATIVE GEELONG TOUR

                               Deakin Innovation Precinct – 2019!
                               Hop on our coach and head out to Deakin’s Innovation Precinct at Waurn
                               Ponds campus where we’ll visit 3 world-class facilities – the Centre for
                               Advanced Design in Engineering Training (CADET), Carbon Nexus and the
                               Institute for Intelligent Systems Research (IISRI).
  • CADET: Home of 21st Century engineering, the focus of CADET is on digital manufacturing, rapid
    prototyping, 3D modelling and visualisation technologies. Its purpose-built, interactive laboratory
    and workshop learning spaces enable students to project the creativity, imagination and research
    required to solve modern engineering issues.
  • Carbon Nexus: For more than a decade, Deakin University researchers have been developing new
    and improved fibres and carbon composites. This new facility significantly enhances the capacity
    to deliver real outcomes for industry to capture the enormous market potential of carbon fibre
    and related composites. Carbon Nexus is an integral part of the $103m Australian Future Fibres
    Research and Innovation Centre at Deakin.
  • IISRI is dedicated to advancing the global knowledge base of intelligent systems research. We focus
    on five main areas – defence systems integration and robotics, haptics research, motion simulation,
    micro/nano system modelling and manipulation, and process modelling and analysis.
  Departure: 9.00am from Deakin Waterfront Campus bus-stop, Brougham St.
  Return: 12.20pm. (Max 45 people)

MASTER CLASS – FROM 9.30AM @ NOVOTEL GEELONG

 Master Class by Deloitte Digital & Hewlett Packard Enterprise:
 How to map council business processes to enable application efficiency
 Deloitte Digital will discuss working with Monash City Council to map all their council business
 processes on a page as the first step in optimising application efficiency across council. The framework
 and learnings developed at Monash could be implemented by any council interested in streamlining
 business processes and improving customer experience.                       G
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 - 2.5 hours brought to you by Deloitte Digital & HPE             PEN
 Facilitated by [TBC]

MASTER CLASS – FROM 9.30AM @ NOVOTEL GEELONG

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 Smart Cities
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 Abstract to come.                                                PEN
 - 2.5 hours brought to you by Deloitte Digital & HPE
 Facilitated by [TBC]
Conference Chairs & Keynote

     David Bartlett   Jirra Lulla Harvey   Malcom Turnbull
     Title            Title                Title
     bio.             bio.                 bio.

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The Trade Exhibition
Hosted at the brand new stand at GMHBA Stadium, our all new Trade Exhibition will feature
interactive displays, information resources, expertise and merchandise from exhibitors
specialising in security, Internet of Things, Smart City initiatives, apps, UX, data sharing,
telecommunications, wifi, and more.

  1    MAVHACK                                               2    Dell Boomi

  3    Ansible                                               4    Interleave Australia (Lunch)

  5    eCloud Business Services (Master Class)               6    Kaon Security

  7    Microsoft (Master Class)                              8    Pelican Corp

  9    SAM for Compliance                                    10   Interactive

  11   Bing Technologies                                     12   VERNET

  13   Oracle Australia                                      14   Thomas Duryea Logicalis (Coffee / Awards)

  15   Thomas Duryea Logicalis (Coffee / Awards)             16   VMWare (Awards for Excellence Dinner)

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  17   VMWare (Awards for Excellence Dinner)
                                                         ATE 18   Learning with Technologies

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  19   Olikka (Morning Tea sponsor)              BE          20   Mimecast (Little Creatures Networking)
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  21   Project X IT                                          22   Easyweb Digital

  23   Redman Solutions                                      24   Wave1

  25   Wideband Networks (Afternoon Tea)                     26   ManageEngine

  27   Blue Connections                                      28   Open Office

  29   SAF Australia                                         30   Content Security

  31   ATI Australia                                         32   Pitney Bowes (Master Class)

  33   Perfekt                                               34   City of Greater Geelong (Welcome Reception)

  35   Predikkta (Conference app)                            36   Whispir
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  37   Telstra (Principal sponsor & Master Class)            38   Telstra (Principal sponsor & Master Class)

  39   Ruckus Networks (Master Class)                        40   NTT Data

  41   Kaspersky Lab / Tesserent                             42   City of Greater Geelong (Welcome Reception)
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     NATIONAL CONFERENCE &
     AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE

                                                                     Riding the wave
                                                                      Transforming local government for the digital era

              25-28 MARCH 2019 @ KARDINIA PARK, GEELONG, VICTORIA

      The Municipal Association of Victoria is a not-for-profit association for local government
      that’s been around since 1907. Its members are the councils of Victoria. The MAV provides
      advocacy, support and guidance for its members – and as such, has a critical role to play in
      helping metropolitan, regional and rural councils and communities thrive in the digital era.
      MAV Technology “Riding the wave” National Conference & Awards for Excellence will be
      held in Geelong on 25-28 March 2019.
      It’s deliberately located an hour from Melbourne, close to the surf coast beaches and the
      Great Ocean Road to bring the conversation to the regional Victoria, encourage delegates
      to stay for the full program and also make it more attractive for our invited international
      speakers. March is a sensational time of year here!
      The primary focus of the conference is how we are transforming local government to serve
      and support communities in the digital era. Topics will include emerging technologies, AI, data
      ethics, business transformation, data governance, customer experience, smart cities, new
      and collaborative ways of working, digital access, equity and diversity – and navigating the
      massive cultural change that all this will bring. It will include rural, regional and metropolitan
      council case studies from across Australia.
      Our secondary theme will explore how indigenous cultures might help shape our collective
      future in the digital era, using some inspiring Māori & Aboriginal people and case studies
      to illustrate different ways of finding purpose and self-worth in challenging times. Our
      conference chair, David Bartlett (former Premier of Tasmania) is excited to be returning in
      2019 and will co-chair with Jirra Lulla Harvey, founder of Kalinya Communications and an
      inspiring and tech-savvy Yorta Yorta / Wiradjuri woman.
      We usually attract an audience of about 300 people from around Victoria, interstate and
      overseas. It is a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Our program is not streamed so everyone
      has the same experience of inspiration, education and conversation fuelled by great food,
      wine, music, culture and company.
      The event will begin with a welcome reception at a Geelong landmark, attended by
      dignitaries including our keynote speakers, mayors, councillors, sponsors, partners and
      delegates. The conference itself will be held at Kardinia Park in the President's Stand of
      GMHBA Stadium which overlooks the football ground. It is an interesting and unusual venue,
      where the Geelong Cats will be in action preparing for the 2019 footy season. It features
26    state-of-the-art audio visual facilities, comfortable seating (at tables), fabulous catering
      and an expansive trade expo space allowing for innovative and exciting new displays from
      our exhibitors.
We’ll be welcoming an outstanding group of keynote speakers who we will confirm soon.
To give you an indication of what you can expect, last year's speakers included Thomas Frey
(Google’s top rated futurist speaker), Larry Irving (one of the world’s leading thinkers on
technology for social good), Peter Auhl (CEO Magazine's CIO of the Year 2017 and CIO at City
of Adelaide), Sam Hannah-Rankin (Director Public Sector Innovation, Victorian Government),
Claudia Lajeunesse (Head of Digital iD™, Australia Post), Martin Ferguson (Director of
Policy & Research at Socitm, UK), Kelly Grigsby (CEO City of Wyndham), Scott Thomson
(Customer Solutions & Innovation, Google Cloud APAC, Google) and Harry Turnbull (CIO at
City of Windsor, Ontario, Canada). Previous special guests have included Judith Lucy, Charlie
Pickering, Todd Sampson, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and Peter Helliar.
On night one of the conference, we host the MAV Technology Awards for Excellence Dinner.
It will be held at the spectacular The Pier Geelong and will be a formal affair celebrating
innovation in local government ICT in Victoria, across Australia and around the world. We’ll
have Casey Bennetto (Keating! the Musical) and the band on board to announce the awards
in their musical and entertaining way.
On night two of the conference we offer an informal dinner get-together at Little Creatures
Brewery, with special guests, Tripod. The music, food and conversations are sure to
be sensational.
On day three there is an optional half-day site tour that includes special access to Deakin
University’s world-leading innovation centre and the City of Greater Geelong’s impressive
technology assets, OR you can choose to attend a masterclass.
The region also provides access to recreational options like golfing at Angelsea amongst the
kangaroos, catching a wave at Torquay, or walking your way through the famous Geelong
Botanic Gardens, the iconic Baywalk Bollards and the spectacular Geelong Waterfront.
The Riding the Wave conference will be held from Monday 25 March – Thursday 28 March
2019. The weather should be wonderful and there are accommodation options to suit every
budget. MAV Technology member councils will enjoy heavily subsidized registration prices
at less than half the cost of a standard registration. Special rates are also available for our
interstate local government ICT association colleagues.                                           27
This conference is made by local government, for local government. See you there!
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   MAV TECH NATIONAL CONFERENCE & AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE
 Registration options:                                                                        MAV Tech   Other Govt   Corporate /
                                                                                              members      / NFP       Business

  Full Conference Package:
  • Welcome reception
    Finger food and drinks at Novotel Geelong
  • Conference program & Trade Exhibition (2 days)
  • Awards for Excellence
    Formal Dinner at The Pier Geelong
  • Networking Evening
    Casual dinner and drinks with entertainment from Tripod
    at Little Creatures Brewery                                                                $990       $1,980       $3,960
  • Clever & Creative Geelong Tour
    Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering Training
    Institute for Intelligent Systems Research Innovation
    Carbon Nexus Carbon Fibre Research Centre
    OR
    Master Class
    By Deloitte Digital & Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  No single day tickets, but registrations are transferable by request

                                                                      OR

  Awards for Excellence Dinner only
  Formal dinner at The Pier Geelong with Awards for Excellence ceremony
                                                                                                $150       $300          $600

     Purchase tickets and view discounted accommodation options (subject to availability) at:
                                www.conference.mav.technology
                                            (Prices include GST and are subject to change)

    MONDAY 25 MARCH                                                         WEDNESDAY 27 MARCH
    •    Welcome reception                                                  •      Plenary program
                                                                            •      Trade Exhibition
    TUESDAY 26 MARCH                                                        •      Networking evening
    •    Plenary program
    •    Trade Exhibition                                                   THURSDAY 28 MARCH
    •    Awards for Excellence Dinner                                       •      Site tour & Master classes

        R E G I S T E R @ C O N F E R E N C E . M AV.T E C H N O L O G Y
2 5 - 2 8 M A R C H 2 019 @ K A R D I N I A PA R K , G E E L O N G , V I C T O R I A
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