About the Telework Congress

Monday 12 November 2012, the University of Melbourne

Basement Theatre, 198 Berkeley St, Carlton

The Australian National Telework Congress 2012 will be the opening event of Australian Telework Week which runs from 12-16 November 2012, and aims to highlight the benefits teleworking provides to employees, employers and the community.

The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES), Australian Industry Group (Ai Group), Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), Cisco ANZ and Telstra are partnering to support Telework Congress 2012

The Congress is aimed at increasing the awareness of telework within different industry verticals by promoting:

  • Productivity benefits of telework
  • Improved customer service outcomes of telework
  • Cost saving outcomes directly attributable to telework
  • Increased workforce participation enabled through flexible working arrangements and
  • The positive impact telework has on future cities, including sustainability, transport and addressing divides between inner urban, outer suburban and regional Australia.

The Telework Congress was webcast, access the proceedings here: http://tinyvio.com/Telework_Congress_2012

View images from the Congress at Flickr.

Join the telework conversation on Twltter via #NTWau

Program

8:30 Arrival and registration
Keynotes
9:00 Ms Anne Hurley, Master of Ceremonies
Introduction
9:05 Prof Glyn Davis, Vice-Chancellor, the University of Melbourne
Welcome
9:15 The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Prime Minister of Australia (via telepresence)
Launch of Telework Week
9:35 The Hon Bill Shorten MP, Minister for Employment & Workplace Relations, Financial Services & Superannuation
Workplace participation
9:55 The Hon Jeffrey Bleich, US Ambassador to Australia (via telepresence)
USA Experience
10:15 Morning Tea
Telework in the workplace
10:50 Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications & the Digital Economy
Telework and the NBN
11:05 Prof Rod Tucker, Director, Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society
Telework, productivity and wellbeing [presentation (pdf 441KB)]
11:25 Mr Philip Cronin, Chair, Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) and Director Of Sales & Business Development, Intel Asia
Lessons from Flexible Work environments and the Future of Work
11:45 Telework case study
11:50 Mr Innes Willox, Chief Executive, Australian Industry Group
CEO Survey and Workplace issues
12:10 Dr Ric Simes, Deloitte Access Economics
Mr Corey Fisher, CEO Colmar Brunton
Telework Research [presentation (pdf 6MB)]
12:30 Lunch
Telework in practice
Experience of people who currently telework, to explore how telework can assist organisations and create new business opportunities
13:30 Ms Jennifer Dudeck, Director, Global Employee Engagement, Cisco [presentation (pdf 1.7MB)]
13:55 Ms Ilona Charles, Group Executive, People & Culture, Medibank Private [presentation (pdf 205KB)]
14:15 Telework case study
14:20 Mr Chris Menadue, Acting Director Employee Performance, IP Australia [presentation (pdf 569KB)]
14:40 Mr Gordon Noble, Director of Advocacy and Policy Strategy, Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia
15:00 Afternoon Tea
Teleworking futures
Examining the impacts of telework and how it can support future challenges in transport, cities and geography
15:25 Telework case study
15:30

Moderated panel discussion
16:25

Ms Anne Hurley
Summary
16:30 Networking Drinks sponsored by Cisco