THE ECONOMIST'S AUSTRALIA'S ASIAN FUTURE SUMMIT
Innovation as Competition
Featuring The Hon. Mathias Cormann, Minister for Finance and Peter Coleman, CEO, Woodside Energy
Presented by The Economist Australia
Australia’s core industries face daunting competition from Asia’s resource-rich countries that have lower cost-structures. Can Australian companies compete, or are they destined to lose out? Can they use innovation to streamline processes, increase efficiency and boost competitiveness?
Join 'Innovation as Competition: Australia’s Asian Future Summit' on September 1st at the Four Seasons hotel in Sydney and hear Matthias Cormann, Australia's Finance Minister, and Peter Coleman, Chief Executive Officer of Woodside Energy, discuss the future of Australia's core industries in Asia.
'Innovation as Competition' will bring together policymakers, leaders in regional and Australian business, academics and pioneering entrepreneurs for a frank debate about the role Australia can play in boosting Asia’s capacity for innovation.
Over the next 20 years, machine learning, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, robotics and quantum computing will fundamentally change the way we work and do business. Driverless cars and smart cities will overhaul traditional industries. The speed at which countries can reskill existing workforces and educate new ones is a crucial factor in whether they will adapt successfully.
Given its sophisticated education system, robust infrastructure and long-term investment outlook, Australia should stand a chance at commercialising technology faster than its Asian counterparts —but will it? Asia had a burning appetite for Australia’s ores, but does it have the same appetite for its ideas?
Featured Topics:
• Australian innovation in a drawbridge-up world
• Technology and the transformation of Australia’s economy
• Australia v Asia: Finance disrupted
• Rotating exchange: Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
• “Austech” and the driving force of new industries like biotech, health tech and e-health
• Collaboration between the private sector and academia to commercialise new technologies
• Australia’s place in an innovative world: How can it compete?
Speakers:
• The Hon. Mathias Cormann, Minister for Finance
• Kelly O'Dwyer, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Revenue and Financial Services
• Larry Marshall, Chief Executive, CSIRO
• Peter Coleman, Managing Director and CEO, Woodside Energy
• Charlie Day, CEO, Office of Innovation and Science Australia
• Daniel Petre, Co-Founder, AirTree Ventures
• Joanna Batstone, Chief Technology Officer Australia & New Zealand, IBM
• Ruslan Kogan, Founder & CEO, Kogan.com
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Group Rates:
$1,260 per place, for 2 or more places. Use registration code 97R8
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Agenda:
8.00 am - Registration
8.30 am - Chairman's opening remarks
8.35 am - Keynote Interview: 'Australian Innovation in a Drawbridge-Up World' - Julie Bishop, Minister for Foreign Affairs
9.00 am - 'Australia's Asian Future: Bright or Bleak' - Larry Marshall, Chief Executive, CSIRO
9.15 am - 'Rotating Exchange: Fail to Prepare, Prepare to Fail' - Flavia Tata Nardini, CEO, Fleet Space Technologies; and Joanna Batstone, Chief Techonology Officer Australia & New Zealand, IBM
9.45 am - Fireside Chat: 'The Development of Australia's Future Industries' - The Hon. Mathais Cormann, Minister for Finance
10.05 am - Networking break
10.35 am - 'Insights from Australia' - Ruslan Kogan, Founder & CEO, Kogan.com
10.50 am - 'Breaking Through the Looking Glass' - Kate Morris, Founder & CEO, Adore Beauty; and Monica Meldrum, Founder, Whole Kids
11.35 am - 'In Conversation: Insights from Asia' - Girish Ramachandran, President Asia Pacific, Tata Consultancy Services
11.50 am - 'Australia vs. Asia: Finance Disrupted' - Kelly O'Dwyer, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Revenue and Financial Services; Greg Moshal, Founder & Joint CEO, Prospa; Simon Cant, Managing Director, Reinventure Group; and Gerard Florian, Group Executive - Technology; ANZ
12.40 pm - Networking lunch break
1.50 pm - 'To Biotech and Beyond' - Alan Mackay-Sim, Emeritus Professor, Griffith University, and 2017 Australian of the Year
2.20 pm - 'Australia's Future "Hayday"' - Wendy Umberger, Professor, Agricultural and Food Economics, The University of Adelaide; Mark Palmquist, Managing Director & Chief Executive, Graincorp; and Peter Nathan, Chief Executive Asia-Pacific; The a2 Milk Company
3.00 pm - Networking break
3.30 pm - 'Insights from Asia'
3.45 pm - Keynote Interview: 'Innovative to the Core' - Peter Coleman, Managing Director & CEO, Woodside Energy
3.50 pm - Panel Discussion: 'The Future of Australia's Innovation-Led Economy' - Daniel Petre, Co-Founder, AirTree Ventures; and Charlie Day, CEO, Office of Innovation and Science Australia
4.45 pm - Wrap-up and closing remarks