Day 3: The Capacity

Conference Outcomes

This conference concluded successfully on the 21st April 2010.

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Keynote Speakers

Presentations and Audios:

19th April Day 1: The Research
20th April Day 2: The Workforce
21st April Day 3: The Capacity

Audio only:

Sustaining Rural Communities Podcasts and Audio

Blogger link sustainingruralcommunities.blogspot.com/

Conference interviews (ABC Rural)

Conference MP3 CD Order

Contact: Kate Schwager 02 67992477

kate.schwager@cottoncrc.org.au

Sponsorship and Sponsors

Day 3 - The Capacity

Session 9 Developing business and human capacity in rural communities.

Session Chair: Di Bentley, Assistant Commissioner, Natural Resources Commission of NSW, Director Cotton Catchment Communities
CRC

Session Sponsor - Westpac

Time	Speaker	Topic
8.30	Sylvia Admans CEO, Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal	Building human capacity in regional communities Audio 25 Min 6 MB
9.00	Georgie Somerset Rural Communications Consultant President of QWRN	Sustaining the people who sustain our communities. Audio 28 Min 6.7 MB
9.30	John Walkom Chair, Gowest , Chair Regional Development of Australia, Orana Division	Building businesses to sustain rural communities. Audio 25 Min 6.2 MB
10.00 – 10.30	Morning tea

Session 10 Developing Businesses - My business

Session Chair- Mike Logan, Chair, Cotton Research and Developmenrt Corporation

Time	Speaker	Topic
10.30	Rohan Boehm (Intro by Mike Logan) Manager Communication and Human Capacity Investment Cotton Research and Development Corporation. Audio 5 Min 1.4 MB Tom McCue Manager., Extension and Grower Programs , Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). Audio 11 Min 2.7MB Su McClusky CEO Council of Rural Research and Development Corporation. Audio 6 Min 1.5 MB	Human capacity development in rural industries. Questions to Panel Audio 26 Min MB
11.00	My Business Stephen Dalton Director Agvantage Commodities	6 case studies of small business - developing staff capacity in small business
12.00 – 1.00	University of New England Lunch

Session 11 Plenary Session

Session Chairs – Dr Paula Jones, Program Director, Cotton CRC and Rohan Boehm Manager Communication
and Human Capacity Investment Cotton Research and Development Corporation

Time

Speaker

Topic

1.00

Jo Eadie

Director, Rural Scope
Wrap Up

Bringing it all together. How to make rural communities sustainable. Defining the future.
Individuals and their organisations actions to transform regional Australia.

3.00pm Conference Close

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