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National Infrastructure Summit

Following the success of last year’s event, the Australian Financial Review’s National Infrastructure Summit returns, bigger and better, in 2017. This year, the focus is on driving growth through smarter, more efficient cities – and we are lining up the best of the best from Australia and abroad to work through the various planning, funding and delivery issues that are holding our cities back.

Over 300 of Australia’s top investors, planners, contractors, advisers and policy-makers at what is the nation’s premier infrastructure event.

Higher Education Summit

With the Turnbull government recently returned with only a wafer-thin majority, and the promise of a volatile and potentially hostile senate, the higher education reform agenda seems very much in doubt. So where to now for higher education?

Is deregulation dead in the water? What of the demand-driven system, critics of which are growing increasingly bold? How employable are our graduates – and what outcomes can they show for their investment in higher education? How will we solve the research funding conundrum? Can we maintain our position in the international education market? And how will our universities have to transform themselves, both internally and in their relationships with the outside world, in order to flourish over the next decade?

With the incisive, independent style it is known for, the AFR Higher Education Summit 2016 will once again interrogate prevailing Higher Education policies and practices, and showcase true, transformational innovation from Australia and abroad – all with an eye to uncovering the critical forces that will shape the competitive Higher Education landscape in the years ahead.

National Innovation Summit

There is no doubt that innovation is having a ‘moment’ in Australian political and business discourse. But if we are to successfully transition Australia’s economy for the future, we need more than a moment, and more than a buzzword.

Optimising Australia’s R&D landscape; reforming our approach to risk and entrepreneurship; transforming our scientific, digital and technological capabilities; and growing the industries of the future – these are all complex, weighty challenges, demanding not just significant investment, but genuine structural change. At the individual business level, too, innovation is increasingly essential for survival, but notoriously difficult to drive, measure and direct.

With this in mind, the Australian Financial Review is pleased to announce the return of its annual Innovation Summit.

The Innovation Summit’s objective is to go beyond buzzwords and platitudes, to really interrogate what needs to be done to create the capabilities, industries and mentalities Australia needs for the future.

 

Dates & location to be confirmed.
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