7.30 am

Registration opens
Pick up your conference compendium and name badge.

8.00 am

Official Opening and Welcome

8.30 am

KEYNOTE SPEAKER—Brad Ness OAM, 5 time Para-Olympian, Assistant Coach, Gold medal winner and flag bearer
Anything's possible

9.30 am

Candy Choo, CEO, Local Government Professionals WA
My cautiously optimistic view about the future of local government

10.00–11.00 am

Extended Morning tea
Visit our Exhibitors

11.00 am

Rebecca Singleton, Vitality Works
Safe Spine and the fuzz effect on your muscles

11.30 am

Nick Fox, National AOD Operations Manager, Alcolizer Technology
Alcolizer Technology

11.40 am

Helen Passmore, Executive Director, LO-GO Appointments WA, Qld, and NSW
Health and wellbeing for temporary personnel

11.50 am

Maurice Berger, Business Development Manager, MetroCount
The new RoadPod VT4 4-tube classifier

12.00 pm

Tim Richards, Operations Manager, Richgro Garden Products
Bringing life to the ancient soils that we have in this country

12.30 –2.00 pm

Extended Lunch Break
Plenty of time to visit our Exhibitors.

2.00 pm

Gretchen Lumsden, Institute of Weight and Life Management
What happens to the body if you live with prolonged stress

3.00 pm

External Exhibitor visits
Spruiker—drinks and nibbles supplied outside

7.30 pm

Casino Royale Gambling Evening
Canapés and Drinks throughout the evening.
Dress to impress for our Casino Royale evening.
The one with the most chips at the end of the evening wins a weekend for two at the beautiful Joondalup Resort, courtesy of Joondalup Resort.

7.30 am

Registration opens

8.00 am

Annual General Meeting—A working breakfast will be served in the Conference room for those attending the AGM.

8.45 am

Darren Hodge, Caterpillar Product Application Specialist – Motor Graders, WesTrac
Using technology as an enabler on graders

9.00 am

KEYNOTE SPEAKER—Sue McDougall, Horticulturist/ABC TV Presenter
P.L.A.N.D—Be the change you want to see

10.00–11.00am

Extended Morning Tea in the Exhibition Area
Visit our Exhibitors.

11.00 am

Renee Wockner, LGIS
Developing workers to look after themselves in four different ways in order to thrive at work

11.30 am

Rodney Thornton, Road Safety Advisor, Wheatbelt South
Is speed the only factor—Road fatalities and serious injuries

12.00 pm

Siva Thillainath and Danny Coleman, Western Stabilisers and Main Roads Great Southern
Stabilising, compaction and sealing techniques

12.30–2.00pm

Extended Lunch Break
Plenty of time to visit our Exhibitors.

2.00pm

Russell Woolf, ABC Radio
My adventures in America and what America taught me

3.00 pm

Q & A
A roving microphone will give you the opportunity to ask questions regarding your role within Local Government. Let your peers guide you and offer their advise on any issues you may have, that they might have already had and handled.

3.30 pm

Closing remarks
Arthur Cousins, President, LGSA WA Inc