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VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

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2020 TUESDAY 12TH MAY

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The Australian Network on Disability (AND) is a member-based national powerhouse of public, private and for-purpose organisations actively committed to inclusion of people with disability in business. We support our network to build their understanding and expertise, connect with others and check their progress on access and inclusion. Our services, programs and tools make it easier for our network to build confidence and capability to welcome people with disability as employees, customers and stakeholders.

AND’s annual national conference is the pre-eminent event in disability as it relates to business. Held each May, the event connects a powerful network of business leaders, diversity practitioners, human resources professionals, industry experts and influencers. At a time of unprecedented focus on inclusion of people with disability, our 2020 virtual conference provides an unparalleled opportunity to learn best practice examples from leading Australian organisations

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TUESDAY 12TH MAY

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

STRONGER TOGETHER

2020

9-11AM | 1-3PM

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ABOUT US

The Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) delivers programs and policies to maintain and improve Australia’s law and justice framework. Through the Australian Government Solicitor, legal services are provided to the Commonwealth, including legal advice and representation.

AGD is the central policy and coordinating element of the Attorney-General’s portfolio, for which the Attorney-General, the Hon Christian Porter MP, is responsible.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S PORTFOLIO

The department leads a portfolio comprising of 17 agencies. Responsibilities include courts and tribunals, promoting human rights, integrity oversight, prosecutions, privacy and freedom of information, government records management, law reform, legislative drafting, regulation and bankruptcy.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FOR 2018–22

1. Support the Attorney-General as First Law Officer, including by providing high-quality legal services to the Commonwealth.

2. Promote public-sector integrity and strong oversight of Commonwealth intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

3. Support a safe and secure Australia by delivering effective national security and criminal justice legislation.

4. Maintain an efficient and effective civil and criminal Commonwealth justice system, and work with international partners to strengthen cooperation and advance law and justice issues.

5. Enable a free society with balanced rights, freedoms and responsibilities.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S PEOPLE

The workforce includes specialists and practitioners in government law, security, justice and an experienced body of policy, program and administrative officers.

AGD has around 1500 staff members – most are located in the ACT, but there are staff in every other state and territory in Australia, as well as staff based overseas in Papua New Guinea.

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ABOUT US

The Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) delivers programs and policies to maintain and improve Australia’s law and justice framework. Through the Australian Government Solicitor, legal services are provided to the Commonwealth, including legal advice and representation.

AGD is the central policy and coordinating element of the Attorney-General’s portfolio, for which the Attorney-General, the Hon Christian Porter MP, is responsible.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S PORTFOLIO

The department leads a portfolio comprising of 17 agencies. Responsibilities include courts and tribunals, promoting human rights, integrity oversight, prosecutions, privacy and freedom of information, government records management, law reform, legislative drafting, regulation and bankruptcy.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FOR 2018–22

1. Support the Attorney-General as First Law Officer, including by providing high-quality legal services to the Commonwealth.

2. Promote public-sector integrity and strong oversight of Commonwealth intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

3. Support a safe and secure Australia by delivering effective national security and criminal justice legislation.

4. Maintain an efficient and effective civil and criminal Commonwealth justice system, and work with international partners to strengthen cooperation and advance law and justice issues.

5. Enable a free society with balanced rights, freedoms and responsibilities.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S PEOPLE

The workforce includes specialists and practitioners in government law, security, justice and an experienced body of policy, program and administrative officers.

AGD has around 1500 staff members – most are located in the ACT, but there are staff in every other state and territory in Australia, as well as staff based overseas in Papua New Guinea.

CONNECT WITH US

Attorney-GenerAl’s DepArtment– ABOUT US

Attorney-General’s Department Attorney-General’s Department Graduate Program

Attorney-General’s DepartmentAustralian Government Solicitor

Attorney-General’s DepartmentAustralian Government Solicitor

Attorney-General’s DepartmentAustralian Government Solicitor

Kurt is one of Australia’s most successful and respected athletes and advocates. His achievements as a Paralympic athlete, service to people with disability, and fundraising efforts when it comes to Indigenous athletics and charitable organisations earned him an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2018. In the same year he was named as NSW Australian of theYear and awarded an Honoury Doctorate from Griffith University.

CURRENT WORKKurt is a passionate disability advocate and devotes himself to a number of national and Hunter-based charitable initiatives. He is a board member of the Sport Australia, Australian Paralympic Committee, Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation and member of the International Paralympic Committee’s Athlete Advisory Council.

PREVIOUS WORK

WHEELCHAIR RACING

Kurt Fearnley is a three-time Paralympic gold medallist (Athens, 2004 and Beijing, 2008) and two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist (Delhi, 2010 and Gold Coast, 2018).

He has won over 30 marathons, including 10 marathons in 2007 and three straight New York marathon titles, in a career spanning more than 20 years.

In total, Kurt has 13 Paralympic medals spanning across 5 games. He’s also a 6 times world champion from 800m to the marathon.

Kurt was able to finish a 20-year representative career with a dominant Gold Medal performance at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, whilst also receiving the honour of carrying the Australian Flag into the Closing Ceremony.

SAILING

In 2012 Kurt was an active member of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race winning crew aboard Investec Loyal.

FUNDRAISING

In 2009 Kurt spent two weeks in Papua New Guinea crawling the 96-kilometre Kokoda Track raising awareness and funding for men’s health charity Movember and beyond blue.

AUTHOR

Kurt published his autobiography, Pushing the Limits – life, marathons & Kokoda in 2016.

BOARD APPOINTMENTS

Kurt is a former board member of Australian Volunteers International and NSW Australia Day Council and was a founding member of the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s Advisory Council.

AWARDS

In 2009 Kurt was named NSW Young Australian of the Year and in 2018 became the first athlete with a disability to win the coveted ‘The Don’ Award as the Australian sports person most likely to inspire the nation.

@KurtFearnley www.kurtfearnley.com

KURT FEARNLEY AOMASTER OF CEREMONIES

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PETER WILSON AM FCPHR

Peter is Chair of the Australian Human Resource Institute Limited and CPA Australia Limited. He was appointed Chair of the Australian Network on Disability in May 2015.

He is immediate past Chair of Yarra Valley Water, of Vision Super, and the Immediate past President of the World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA).

Peter is currently a Director of BankFirst and also at Vision Super. He led the Business Council’s program to mentor senior executive women, and is Adjunct Professor in Management at the Monash Business School in Melbourne. He is also Chair of the Advisory Council of the Victorian Institute of Strategic Economic Studies at Victoria University, and an accredited PhD Supervisor at the Latrobe Business School, Latrobe University. He authored the book Make Mentoring Work in 2012 & 2015, and delivered the 2014 Kingsley Laffer Oration at Sydney University, and the inaugural Prescott Family Oration at Monash University in 2016.

Peter held senior executive appointments at ANZ, Amcor and the Federal Treasury, CEO of the Energy 21 Group, and also a range of senior board directorships.

SUZANNE COLBERT AMSuzanne is the founding Chief Executive of the Australian Network on Disability. Her goal in starting the organisation was to advance the inclusion of people with disability in all aspects of business by collaborating with Australia’s leading private and public-sector organisations.

Suzanne commenced her work in the disability sector in 1990, assisting people with significant disability into well-paid and sustainable jobs. She then became founding General Manager of a high-performing Disability Employment Service and founding Chair of the national peak body representing employment services for people with disability.

Suzanne’s significant experience, combined with her foresight to create systemic change, has resulted in her contributing to many Federal and State Government advisory committees.

In 2010, Suzanne was awarded an AM in the Australia Day Honours list. In 2013, she was inducted into Disability Employment Australia’s Hall of Fame and was included in the AFR/Westpac 100 Women of Influence in 2013. Suzanne is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Patron of Achilles Running Club in Australia.

CONFERENCE SPEAKERSCONFERENCE SPEAKERS

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AMY WHALLEYAmy is Deputy CEO at the Australian Network on Disability (AND). She joined the organisation as a Relationship Manager in 2012.

Prior to joining AND, Amy worked for the Westminster Society for People with Learning Disabilities in the UK, where she led a housing and support care project for people with intellectual disabilities.

When Amy moved to Australia in 2007, she joined Special Olympics Australia where she managed a leadership and mentoring program for athletes with disability and developed participation opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities.

TONY ABRAHAMSTony is Co-founder and CEO of Access Innovation Media (Ai-Media).

Founded in Australia in 2003 to improve the quality of life for people with a disability, Ai-Media is a for-purpose business, dedicated to using technology and social innovation to improve content accessibility.

Its internet captioning service, Ai-Live, is used at universities, colleges, schools, workplaces and conferences, providing real-time speech-to-text delivered remotely to any connected device.

Transforming the professional and educational experience of deaf and hard-of-hearing people by providing immediate access to the spoken word, it is a flexible, scalable solution for learners with communications barriers including autism, deafness, learning difficulties, and for students for whom English is an additional language.

Ai-Media has evolved to be a global technology business and now employs over 250 people worldwide including Canada, USA, UK and Norway.

Tony has served as a non-executive director of Northcott Disability Services and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. As a Rhodes Scholar, Tony received an MBA (2001) and MPhil in Economics (2000) from the University of Oxford. He received an LLB (1998), BCom (Hons I) (1996) from the University of New South Wales. In 2013 Tony was appointed a Young Global Leader.

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Recognised as the Top Performers in access and inclusion of people with disability, representatives from RMIT, Australian Taxation Office and Medibank will share first hand insights and practices that led to their success.

ACCESS AND INCLUSION 2019-20 TOP PERFORMERS

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How are organisations harnessing their internal energy to drive systemic change?

In this session, you’ll learn how NSW Department of Communities and Justice sustained a culture of inclusion, especially through a time of ever-changing business priorities. Hear how the department enlisted the support of 50 engaged Champions and created empathy and understanding across the Senior Executive team.

CHAMPIONING INCLUSION

PAUL O’REILLYNSW Department of Communities and Justice

Executive Director responsible for the Youth Justice system in NSW

More than 25 years experience in welfare and Government services

Experience in public housing, homelessness, child protection, disability services and strategic policy

Executive Sponsor for disability employment in the NSW Department of Communities and Justice

Support the DEN to manage their workplan and develop leaders within the DEN

Develop and support a network of executive champions across the Department who are leading good practice in their divisions.

MICHAEL PATTERSONNSW Department of Communities and Justice

Michael has worked with his current employer, now the NSW Department Communities and Justice, in its various forms, since December 2001. For the most time he has been in roles dealing with some aspect of disability. In April 2008 he contracted Guillain Barre Syndrome, a neurological condition that left him paralysed and on a respirator for 3 months. He returned to full time work in September 2009.

His return work experience motivated him to join his Department’s newly established Disability Employee Network (DEN) in mid 2010. In early 2015 Michael became deputy chair of the DEN. In late 2016 he stepped into the chairman’s role, which he held until March 2020.

Michael has been in his current role of Senior Project Officer, Disability Inclusion since 15 January 2019. His current major project is his department’s Disability Inclusion Action Plan.

STEIN HELGEBYDepartment of Finance

Dr Stein Helgeby was appointed Deputy Secretary of Governance and Resource Management in October 2015. Dr Helgeby joined the Finance Department in February 2010 as the Deputy Secretary of the former Financial Management Group. Prior to this, Stein enjoyed a lengthy period in the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance where he was responsible for budget and financial management, long-term policy research, taxation, business tax reform and intergovernmental relations.

CASSIE ALEXANDERDepartment of Finance

Cassie is Head of HR at Department of Finance. In this role and in previous roles in Commonwealth government departments she has achieved a track record of transforming HR to better support and drive business outcomes. Cassie started her career at Department of Finance and has held senior HR roles in Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sports, the Attorney-General’s Department and then returning to Finance.

CONFERENCE SPEAKERSWINNING WAYSHear about the strategies that have won awards over the last year. Stein Helgeby, Cassie Alexander and Josephine Julian from the Department of Finance will talk about how they won the AHRI Graeme Innes Disability Employment Award, Life Without Barriers’ Fiona Davies on winning AHRI’s Diversity Champion Award, and ANZ’s Darren Baird on Australian Access Awards corporate app of the year in 2019.

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FIONA DAVIESLife Without Barriers

Fiona Davies is results focused and experienced in developing and executing on Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) initiatives across complex organisations. Fiona has broad D&I subject matter expertise and is adept at applying a commercial lens to D&I as well as using data to tell a story. She demonstrates leadership to influence stakeholders at every level to deliver cultural change. Fiona was the winner of AHRI’s 2019 ‘HR Diversity Champion Award’ and inaugural ‘Sandra Cormack Practicing Certification Scholarship’.

DARREN BAIRDANZ

Darren leads the Digital Banking Portfolio with responsibility for ANZ’s digital channels, serving over 5 million customers everyday across the bank’s Retail and Commercial business. The portfolio also includes anz.com, ATM’s and Cash Solutions, and the tools that ANZ’s bankers use to serve our customers.

Prior to his current position, Darren has held a number of roles during his time at ANZ, leading teams in Technology Experience, Innovation Design and most recently, Digital Customer Experience.

During 2006 to 2018 Darren was the Chairperson of the ANZ Abilities Network, leading a group of 250+ volunteers to help raise awareness and solve issues for both customers and staff with a disability. Today he drives the accessibility agenda through digital delivery.

JOSEPHINE JULIANDepartment of Finance

Josephine Julian is a graphic and web designer in the Corporate Engagement branch at the Department of Finance and a passionate advocate for people with disabilities and carers. She was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in 2017 and uses her experiences to help others. As the chair of the Ability Network, she uses her passion for advocacy to reduce stigma in the department by creating a community through monthly meetings, working with senior staff and hosting events. It’s time to be seen is the Ability Network’s theme for this year and Josephine connects with this strongly and hopes to continue the great work that previous chairs of the network have done before her.

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Kim Congram is a passionate advocate for disability inclusion in the Public Service. She has held multiple roles within the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department, working primarily in national security.

Over the past five years Kim has been an instrumental leader and advocate for the department’s Celebrating Ability Network. Kim is a graduate of the Disability Leadership Institute’s Future Shapers program.

KIM CONGRAM SPONSOR PRESENTATION

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SUPPORTING NETWORKS AND THEIR MEMBERS THROUGHOUT THE COVID-19 CRISISKurt will facilitate a thought-provoking conversation with leaders from public, private and for-purpose organisations on keeping inclusion of people with disability on your organisation’s agenda.

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

TIME SESSION SPEAKERS

9.00am Welcome from the Australian Network on Disability

Peter Wilson AM FCPHR, AND

9.05am Why now is the time to ensure we don’t leave anyone behind

Suzanne Colbert AM, AND

9.15am Stronger Together Kurt Fearnley AO

9.25am How COVID-19 provides opportunities to improve accessibility and inclusion in the workplace

Tony Abrahams, Ai-Media

9.45am Staying the course with the Access and Inclusion Index

Top 3 Index performers Amy Whalley, AND

10.30am Championing Inclusion Paul O’Reilly and Michael Patterson, NSW Department of Communities and Justice

11AM CLOSE FIRST SESSION

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TIME SESSION SPEAKERS

1.05pm Winning Ways Stein Helgeby, Cassie Alexander and Josephine Julian, Department of Finance

Fiona Davies, Life Without Barriers

Darren Baird, ANZ

1.50pm Sponsorship Presentation Kim Congram, Attorney-General’s Department

2.05pm Supporting networks and their members throughout the COVID-19 crisis

Leaders from public, private and for-purpose organisations

2.45pm Thank you and close Suzanne Colbert AM, AND

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