EVENT SPONSORS


 ADT Security Pty Ltd www.adtsecurity.com.au
ADT is the world's largest and most experienced provider of electronic security solutions. ADT provide tailored security solutions to the residential, retail and commercial markets around the world 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Alcatel-Lucent Australia Pty Limited www.alcatel.com
Alcatel-Lucent provides communications solutions to telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees.

All-Clad www.all-clad.com.au
All-Clad is a leading American manufacturer of premium quality cookware widely admired and sought after by top restaurant Chefs and the serious home chefs. Using American-made metals, it is the premiere cookware brand in the USA and UK. Please visit our website all-clad.com.au for more details.

Amway of Australia www.amway.com.au
Amway offers a range of high quality products to consumers through 100,000 Amway Independent Business Owners in Australia and New Zealand. Amway is an $US8.2 billion company and employs more than 13,000 people.

Blake Dawson www.blakedawson.com
Law Firm providing full-service advice to major corporates, financial institutions and governments.

Carlson Wagonlit Travel www.carlsonwagonlit.com.au
Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) is a global leader specialising in business travel management. CWT is dedicated to helping companies of all sizes, as well as government institutions and non-governmental organizations, optimise their travel program and provide best-in-class service and assistance to travellers.

Chevron Australia Pty Ltd www.chevron.com
Chevron is one of the world's leading integrated energy companies and has been present in Australia for more than 50 years. Chevron Australia operates the Barrow and the Thevenard Island oil fields; leads the development of the Gorgon and Wheatstone natural gas projects; is a foundation participant in the North West Shelf Venture and the Browse LNG development; and is a significant investor in exploration.

Clough Limited www.clough.com.au
Clough is a leading engineering, construction and asset support contractor providing full project life cycle solutions primarily to the Upstream Oil and Gas industry throughout Australasia.

ConocoPhillips Australia Pty Ltd www.conocophillips.com.au
ConocoPhillips is engaged in these businesses:
petroleum exploration and production on a worldwide scale; natural gas gathering, processing and marketing; chemicals production and distribution in the US and worldwide.

CSC Australia Pty Ltd www.csc.com
CSC is a leading provider of information technology services.

Curtin University of Technology www.curtin.edu.au
Universal, undergraduate, postgraduate to doctorate degrees. Extensive research and development.

Deloitte www.deloitte.com.au
In Australia, Deloitte has 12 offices and over 4,500 people and provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services to public and private clients across the country. Known as an employer of choice for innovative human resources programs, we are committed to helping our clients and our people excel. Deloitte's professionals are dedicated to strengthening corporate responsibility, building public trust, and making a positive impact in their communities.

Delta Air Lines www.delta.com
Delta Air Lines is the world's largest airline, offering services to 368 destinations in 66 countries and carrying over 170 million passengers each year. Delta flies a brand new B777-200LR aircraft daily between Sydney and Los Angeles with connections to our main hub in Atlanta and all major USA cities.

Dept of Innovation, Industry and Regional Devpt www.diird.vic.gov.au
An agency of the Victorian State Government, Invest Victoria provides assistance and business solutions to companies looking to invest in Victoria.

EDGE Employment Solutions www.edge.org.au
With 25 years experience in WA industry more than 5000 jobs secured for people with disabilities, involvement with over a thousand employers and a register of several hundred motivated job seekers, EDGE Employment Solutions is the solution to your recruitment needs. EDGE can identify suitable jobs, match the right employees to the job and your company and deliver a customised on-the-job training at your workplace.

Ernst & Young www.ey.com.au
Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 130,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve potential.

ESV Group www.esvgroup.com.au
ESV Chartered Accountants has 9 partners and 75 staff. We offer a wide range of professional services, extending well beyond traditional accounting and taxation matters that includes; local and international tax advice, auditing, financial planning, asset protection, wealth creation, business structuring advice and due diligence to a diverse range of clients.

Fragomen (Australia) Pty Ltd www.fragomen.com
Fragomen is the world’s leading global immigration services provider. Fragomen represents a broad range of companies, organisations and emerging businesses, including a large portion of the Fortune 500. Fragomen employ more than 1300 professionals and support staff located in over 30 offices around the world, including 5 offices within Australia.

Freehills
National corporate law firm with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth with specialised practice areas dealing with energy and resources, tax, property, mergers and acquisitions, major projects, government, intellectual property, banking and finance and commercial litigation.

GHD Pty Ltd www.ghd.com
GHD is an international network of professional and technical consultants serving clients in the global markets of water, energy and resources, environment, property and buildings, and transportation.

Gilbert + Tobin Lawyers www.gtlaw.com.au
Gilbert + Tobin is a leading corporate law firm and a key player in the Australian legal market. The firm works on transactions and cases that define and direct the market. Our reputation for expert advice extends across: mergers and acquisitions; private equity; capital markets; banking and finance; real estate and projects; tax; competition and regulation; communications and technology; intellectual property and litigation.

Griffith Hack www.griffithhack.com.au
Griffith Hack is Australia’s largest Intellectual Property (IP) firm for Australian applicants, comprising patent and trade marks attorneys, IP lawyers, information services and IP portfolio management. With 32 Partners and over 250 staff Australia-wide across offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Brisbane, Griffith Hack is a major IP force.

Hawker Britton www.hawkerbritton.com.au
Government relations, strategic communications, campaigns.

Hay Group www.haygroup.com.au
Hay Group is a global consulting firm that works with leaders to transform strategy into reality. We develop talent, organise people to be
more effective, and motivate them to perform at their best. Our focus is on making change happen and helping people and organisations realise their potential.

Horizon Power www.horizonpower.com.au
Horizon Power is the State owned energy company that meets the needs of residential and commercial customers and resource developments in regional Western Australia. The business serves 38000 customers and operates in 31 towns located in the Pilbara, Kimberley, Gascoyne, Midwest and Southern Goldfields regions, covering approximately 2.3 million sq kms.

Infosys Technologies Australia Pty Ltd www.infosys.com
Infosys defines, designs and delivers IT enabled business solutions, that help Global 2000 companies win in a flat world.

IntraLinks, Inc. www.intralinks.com
IntraLinks provides enterprise-class solutions, which facilitate the secure, compliant and auditable exchange of critical information, collaboration and workflow management inside and outside the enterprise. IntraLinks offers their Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to help clients organise, manage, share and track information. IntraLinks is headquartered in New York and operates offices worldwide.

Kenexa www.kenexa.com
Human resources management business, Kenexa is a leading provider of software, proprietary content services and process outsourcing that enable organizations to more effectively recruit and retain employees.

Kliger Partners www.kligers.com.au
Medium sized commercial law firm with a wide range of expertise including commerical, property, employment, entertainment, trusts/estates family law, building/construction and litigation. Two American lawyers work at Kliger Partners, David Weinberger, Esq. and Roger Rothfield, Esq. The firm is over 25 years old and enjoy an excellent reputation in Melbourne.

KPMG www.kpmg.com.au
KPMG is one of the world's leading professional services firms. We're proud of our firm's strong and established reputation, a reputation that is built on a long history of independence, integrity and objectivity.

Lamnalco www.lamnalco.com
With an owned fleet of over 100 modern Harbour Towage and Terminal Support Vessels, and nearly 50 years of global experience, the Lamnalco Group facilitates the export of more than 6 million barrels of oil equivalent every day, handling over 5,000 LNG and Crude Tanker movements each year, at 37 Ports, Terminals and Harbours around the world, comprising over 65 berths and accounting for over 1 billion DWT Shipping per annum.

Launch Recruitment Pty Ltd www.launchrecruitment.com.au
Launch is a recruitment and search firm that began operations in March 1997. With branches in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, Launch has a specialisation supplying into the Telecommunications, Utilities and Agribusiness sectors. Our consultants have an expertise in permanent, contract and temporary placements in Sales and Marketing, Public Relations and Communications, IT&T, Business Support and Administration, and Executive Search.

Macquarie Telecom www.macquarietelecom.com
Macquarie offers corporate Australia a total solution to its telecommunications requirement in the deregulated industry.
Clients benefit from substantial reductions on all call costs and particularly on long distance calls. No capital expenditure is required from the customers which include large manufacturers, international banks, stockbrokers, insurance companies and major hotels. Telecommunications consultancy services are also available.

Mallesons Stephen Jaques www.mallesons.com
Mallesons Stephen Jaques is Australia's most successful commercial law firm and has a significant regional presence. We advise major corporations and financial institutions throughout Australia and Asia, resourced by approximately 1900 employees, including nearly 1000 legal staff.

Palladium Group www.thepalladiumgroup.com
The Palladium Group is the global leader in strategy execution consulting, training and strategy execution software. In a world that is increasingly challenged and globalised, The Palladium Group believes that organisations need a new way to manage in order to succeed. According to recent global management surveys, the number of issues facing executives worldwide is their ability to execute their strategies.

Polycom Australia Pty Ltd www.polycom.com.au
The industry leader in unified collaboration solutions. Companies choose Polycom for solutions that enable their geographically dispersed workforces to communicate and collaborate more effectively and productively over distances. Using Polycom telepresence, video, and voice solutions and services, people connect and collaborate from their desktops, meeting rooms, class rooms, and mobile settings.

Polytechnic West polytechnic.wa.edu.au
Polytechnic West is Western Australians largest training provider delivering more than 300 training qualifications to more 35,000 students. Polytechnic West recently took delivery of a boeing 737 for our areospace training and Polytechnic West Platimun is the leader in customized training and training consultancy that aligns with our clients needs.

RogenSi www.rogensi.com
Sales and Leadership Performance Consultants.

Salesforce.com www.salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as a-Service (PaaS). The company's portfolio of SaaS applications, including its award-winning CRM application, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products, has revolutionised the ways that customers manage and share business information over the Internet. The company's Force.com PaaS enables customers, developers and partners to build powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits of multi-tenancy across the enterprise. Applications built on the Force.com platform, available at http://www.force.com, can be easily shared, exchanged and installed with a few simple clicks via salesforce.com's AppExchange marketplace available at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange. Please visit us at: www.salesforce.com/au

Selectus Pty Ltd www.selectus.com.au
Selectus is an Employee Benefit company, providing outsourced Salary Packaging services to major clients.

Symantec (Australia) Pty Ltd www.symantec.com
Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help our customers secure and manage their information against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently than any other company. Symantec’s portfolio of software and services protects completely, in ways that can be managed easily and with controls that can be enforced automatically – enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. Our company’s unique focus is to eliminate risks to information, technology and processes independent of the device, platform, interaction or location.

The Right Group www.therightgroup.com.au
The Right Group is a leader in brand strategy, research and organisational development in Australia, having worked with many blue chip companies since being established in 1995. We assist in transforming our clients' businesses, resulting in enhanced brand reputation and an engaged and productive workforce.

Thiess Pty Ltd www.thiess.com.au
Thiess is one of Australia's largest construction, mining and services companies with an annual turnover in excess of (Aust) $4.6 billion. Employing in excess of 19000 people. Thiess specialises in building, civil engineering, mining, process, environmental services, utilities services and facilities operation and maintenance. Commencing operations in the 1930s, Thiess operates throughout Australia and has had continuous operations in Indonesia since 1988. Thiess's sphere of influence is Australia, Asia and the near Pacific.

UGL www.unitedgroupltd.com
United Group Limited (UGL) is a diversified business operating in the US, Asia and Australia. The core business are UGL Infrastructure that designs, operates and maintains water and waste water treatment plant, power generation and distribution and transport systems; UGL Rail that builds and maintains passenger rail cars, locomotives and wagons; UGL Resources that designs constructs and maintains mineral and chemical processing plants and UGL Services which provides services for government and commercial property.