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William McInnes - Actor & Author
William McInnes is one of the most accomplished and popular actors and authors on the Australian landscape today. In 2006 William was awarded the Sydney Morning Herald, Sun Herald and the Age Australian Star of The Year Award. Equally at home in theatre, film and television, comedy and drama, he has played countless lead and supporting roles in some of the most successful and memorable productions this country has had to offer and has multiple AFI and Logie nominations for this extensive body of work.
In television, William has shone in dramatic lead roles in The Shark Net, My Brother Jack, Blue Heelers, Stepfather of the Bride, Seachange and more recently in the critically acclaimed and ratings success ABC telemovie Curtin, about Australia’s wartime prime minister and in the hard hitting SBS television series East West 1-0-1
William’s work in Australian Cinema is also widely acknowledged, by both industry peers and audience alike. The feature film, Look Both Ways, saw William achieve a nomination for best lead actor by the Australian Film Institute and receive the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actor. He can be seen currently in the film Unfinished Sky and has just completed filming on Prime Mover.
His many lead roles on the stage only further highlight William’s remarkable career. His performances include Don Juan for Sydney Theatre Company, Macbeth and Ray’s Tempest for Melbourne Theatre Company and Darcy for both company’s landmark productions of Pride and Prejudice.
William is also the author of two best selling books. A Man’s Gotta Have a Hobby, winner of a 2006 Australian Book industry award and Cricket Kings which is a 2007 Australian book industry award nominee. His third book That’d Be Right has just been published.
Dr. Phillip Daffara
Principal, Futuresense
Dr. Phillip Daffara is an Architect and urban futurist with 18 years experience in place making, public participation and policy development for quality urbanism. Dr Daffara believe's in empowering people to be the architects of their own cities and futures. He has received numerous Awards for contributions towards exemplary: (1) urban design policy and town centre master planning; (2) collaborative community and stakeholder consultation and visioning for the creation of quality places; and (3) the design and project management of public spaces and urban improvement works. http://www.futuresense.com.au/
Dr Daffara will speak on the value and power of integrating foresight skills into everyday decision-making include being able to:
Robyn Pulman
Motivation Speaker
Robyn Pulman has extensive experience in national and international management and marketing and is a highly acclaimed public and motivational speaker in leadership. Gracious, charming, elegant, warm, funny, enlightening, empowering, yet so real and relatable, is how clients describe Robyn over and over.
Robyn’s message is clear, concise and irrefutable. Winning is a habit, so is losing – in whatever area of our life we look at – relationships, work, business, health. Daily our habits express our effectiveness or ineffectiveness and make a clear statement about our values and character.
So many of us think that ‘success’ is way out there, beyond our reach. Robyn is able to help us recognise that ‘yard by yard it is hard, inch by inch it is a cinch’. Her audiences are inspired to create winning habits in their lives and are introduced to the daily steps to make the changes simple and achievable.
She emphasises the need to do the ordinary in an extraordinary way every single day.
Cathy Pilgrim
Director, Australian Newspaper Digitisation program (ANDP)
National Library of Australia
Cathy Pilgrim is currently the Director of the Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program (http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/) at the National Library of Australia. This Program is digitising out of copyright Australian newspapers and provides a free online service, currently in beta phase, enabling full text searching of newspaper articles published in each Australian state and territory from the 1800’s to the mid 1950’s. In this role Cathy also works closely with the Australian state and territory libraries in order to further the objectives of newspaper collecting, preservation and access through the Australian Newspaper Plan (ANPlan) (http://www.nla.gov.au/anplan/)
Cathy has worked at the National Library for 15 years with a brief interlude at the Defence Library Service. During this period Cathy has worked in several core library areas including Acquisitions, Cataloguing, Legal Deposit and Information Services. Over the past five years Cathy has been focussed primarily on digitisation of the Library’s collections including pictures, maps, sheet music and manuscripts (http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/)
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William McInnes is one of the most accomplished and popular actors and authors on the Australian landscape today. In 2006 William was awarded the Sydney Morning Herald, Sun Herald and the Age Australian Star of The Year Award. Equally at home in theatre, film and television, comedy and drama, he has played countless lead and supporting roles in some of the most successful and memorable productions this country has had to offer and has multiple AFI and Logie nominations for this extensive body of work.
In television, William has shone in dramatic lead roles in The Shark Net, My Brother Jack, Blue Heelers, Stepfather of the Bride, Seachange and more recently in the critically acclaimed and ratings success ABC telemovie Curtin, about Australia’s wartime prime minister and in the hard hitting SBS television series East West 1-0-1
William’s work in Australian Cinema is also widely acknowledged, by both industry peers and audience alike. The feature film, Look Both Ways, saw William achieve a nomination for best lead actor by the Australian Film Institute and receive the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Actor. He can be seen currently in the film Unfinished Sky and has just completed filming on Prime Mover.
His many lead roles on the stage only further highlight William’s remarkable career. His performances include Don Juan for Sydney Theatre Company, Macbeth and Ray’s Tempest for Melbourne Theatre Company and Darcy for both company’s landmark productions of Pride and Prejudice.
William is also the author of two best selling books. A Man’s Gotta Have a Hobby, winner of a 2006 Australian Book industry award and Cricket Kings which is a 2007 Australian book industry award nominee. His third book That’d Be Right has just been published.
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Principal, Futuresense
Dr. Phillip Daffara is an Architect and urban futurist with 18 years experience in place making, public participation and policy development for quality urbanism. Dr Daffara believe's in empowering people to be the architects of their own cities and futures. He has received numerous Awards for contributions towards exemplary: (1) urban design policy and town centre master planning; (2) collaborative community and stakeholder consultation and visioning for the creation of quality places; and (3) the design and project management of public spaces and urban improvement works. http://www.futuresense.com.au/
Dr Daffara will speak on the value and power of integrating foresight skills into everyday decision-making include being able to:
- Commit resources to create the kind of future we want, not the probable future – whether we want it or not;
- Understand the changing contexts of knowledge systems, organisations and societies that affect us the most;
- Minimise crisis management;
- Maximise opportunity management – being able to respond to opportunities;
- Improve long-term risk management – having the thinking in place to anticipate and manage future risks;
- Rebuild citizen trust by re-conceiving government processes, service delivery and how to: (a) construct relevant questions about your business future, and (b) understand future consumers/citizens.
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Motivation Speaker
Robyn Pulman has extensive experience in national and international management and marketing and is a highly acclaimed public and motivational speaker in leadership. Gracious, charming, elegant, warm, funny, enlightening, empowering, yet so real and relatable, is how clients describe Robyn over and over.
Robyn’s message is clear, concise and irrefutable. Winning is a habit, so is losing – in whatever area of our life we look at – relationships, work, business, health. Daily our habits express our effectiveness or ineffectiveness and make a clear statement about our values and character.
So many of us think that ‘success’ is way out there, beyond our reach. Robyn is able to help us recognise that ‘yard by yard it is hard, inch by inch it is a cinch’. Her audiences are inspired to create winning habits in their lives and are introduced to the daily steps to make the changes simple and achievable.
She emphasises the need to do the ordinary in an extraordinary way every single day.
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Cathy Pilgrim
Director, Australian Newspaper Digitisation program (ANDP)
National Library of Australia
Cathy Pilgrim is currently the Director of the Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program (http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/) at the National Library of Australia. This Program is digitising out of copyright Australian newspapers and provides a free online service, currently in beta phase, enabling full text searching of newspaper articles published in each Australian state and territory from the 1800’s to the mid 1950’s. In this role Cathy also works closely with the Australian state and territory libraries in order to further the objectives of newspaper collecting, preservation and access through the Australian Newspaper Plan (ANPlan) (http://www.nla.gov.au/anplan/)
Cathy has worked at the National Library for 15 years with a brief interlude at the Defence Library Service. During this period Cathy has worked in several core library areas including Acquisitions, Cataloguing, Legal Deposit and Information Services. Over the past five years Cathy has been focussed primarily on digitisation of the Library’s collections including pictures, maps, sheet music and manuscripts (http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/)
| Lynn Regan Manager Library & Information Services Baulkham Hills Council Dr Linda Griffith Linda Griffith Consultancy Dr Helen Partridge Senior Lecturer, Information Technology QUT Cate Richmond Assistant Director Public Libraries and Knowledge Centres Northern Territory Library Deborah Miles Acting Director, Arts Queensland Creative Communities Desley Renton Social Policy Advisor Local Government Association of Qld Shelley Webb Acting Director Public Library Services State Library of Queensland Jane Cowell Senior Consultant AEC Group Limted | Baulkham Hills Branch Library Linda Griffith Consultancy Faculty of Information Technology, QUT Northern Territory Public Libraries and Knowledge Centres Arts Queensland Creative Communities Local Government Association of Queensland Public Library Services State Library of Queensland AEC Group Limited |
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