People - Our most Important Asset

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Date: Thursday 19 September - 9:00 am-5:00 pm

Location: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

The Professional Staff Conference is designed to bring together professional staff from across the University to highlight best practice, share ideas, and provide professional development and networking opportunities to our vibrant staff community.

This year’s theme of People our most important asset will be explored through the lenses of Harmony & Success, The Importance of Being Us, Future World and Career Evolution.

The conference is an opportunity to interact, share experiences and learnings, collaborate, showcase our achievements and celebrate the role of professional staff at the University of Melbourne.

Your ticket price includes admission to our Networking Event, which will take place immediately after the Conference at a near-by venue.

General registration NOW OPEN!

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The Professional Staff Conference is designed to bring together professional staff from across the University to highlight best practice, share ideas, and provide professional development and networking opportunities to our vibrant staff community.

This year’s theme of People our most important asset will be explored through the lenses of Harmony & Success, The Importance of Being Us, Future World and Career Evolution.

History

Established in 2014 and co-founded by three professional staff – The conference aims to encourage the exploration of best practice, reporting of project outcomes, sharing of new trends and opportunities, while engaging staff through motivational and creative practice.

Delivered within a project framework, the conference focuses on broadening networks and collaboration across the different campuses of the University, while contributing to the sustained excellence of services supporting learning, teaching, research and engagement at the University of Melbourne.

The Conference...

• Celebrates the contribution made by professional staff to the wider success of the University
• Acknowledges the expertise and passion of professional staff through presentations that share best practice and showcase innovation in higher education administration
• Provides participants and organisers mentoring and professional development opportunities and creates time for networking, collegiality and fun

Your Conference Committee members

The Professional Staff Conference is organised by professional staff for professional staff. Here is your 2019 Committee

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The 2019 Profession Staff Conference celebrates People: Our Most Important Asset

Sub-Themes

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The Professional Staff Conference is excited to announce our Keynote Speakers and introduce the members of our Panel Discussion on 'Career evolution and Leadership'.

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DR BRIDIE O'DONNELL

Morning Keynote

Dr Bridie O’Donnell is a medical doctor and world champion cyclist.

Dr Bridie O’Donnell graduated as Valedictorian from the University of Queensland Medical School and won the J R S Lahz Prize for Most Outstanding Intern in 1999. During her residency she was a rower and then an Ironman triathlete, and finished the Ironman Hawaii World Championships in 2006.

In 2007, she began road cycling and in 2008 after winning the National Time Trial title, she raced in the Australian National Team, and then Professional teams in Europe and the United States, representing Australia at three World Championships.

In November, 2017, Bridie was appointed the inaugural Head of the Office for Women in Sport and Recreation by the Victorian Government and in May, 2018 she published ‘Life and Death – a cycling memoir’ about her experiences as a professional cyclist in the international peloton.

Dr Bridie O’Donnell champions leadership for women in sport and challenges traditional stereotypes and structures, and explores new ways of ‘thinking’ and ‘doing’.

DYLAN ALCOTT - OAM

Afternoon Keynote

Dylan Alcott OAM wins Quad championship at Wimbledon!

Not many people can lay claim to being a Paralympic gold medallist and world champion whilst still being in their teenage years. Then again, there aren’t many people like Dylan Alcott.

Dylan, a dual sport athlete, has represented Australia on the international stage in both wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis since the age of 13.

Dylan created Dylan Alcott Foundation, is an entrepreneur, and is the cofounder of Get Skilled Access, a training provider educating corporates and governments on how to better understand and treat customers with disabilities.

Dylan is an alumnus of the Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Melbourne.

Register now for the 2019 Professional Staff Conference to hear Bridie O'Donnell and Dylan Alcott speak, and interact, collaborate and celebrate the role of professional staff at the University of Melbourne.

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2019 Professional Staff Conference is open to all professional staff of The University of Melbourne (and we also welcome any of our academic colleagues who would like to join us).

General registration NOW OPEN!

Please seek approval from your supervisor before registering for the 2019 Professional Staff Conference.

Registrations close 24 August 2019. We look forward to seeing you at the Conference!

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The Professional Staff Conference is excited to be featuring several new initiatives at the 2019 Conference, to enhance your Conference experience.

PSC Challenge

Extending on the theme of working in harmony, this year's Professional Staff Conference is excited to introduce the PSC Challenge. Want to form new, meaningful connections at the Professional Staff Conference? Play the PSC Challenge, meet new people and form connections you can take back into work (or beyond!).

Panel Discussion

The Conference will include a Panel Discussion on the the theme of Career Evolution and Leadership which will be moderated by Dr Shane Huntington and featuring incredible members of our university, including Professor Sandra Eades, Dr Victor Sojo Monzon and Sarah Fortuna, and Dennis Gentilin from Deloitte. Read more about the Panel members here. The panel will include an interactive Q&A session on the journey and challenges of panel members’ careers and leadership.

Wellness @ Work

We are happy to announce for the first time at a PSC we will have a Wellness @ Work Room.   We recognise the importance of all health and wellbeing to staff and this room is a celebrated addition. The Room will be an interactive place to be inspired, uplifted, educated and is full of ideas to take back to your workplace and implement. We also have some special guests who we assure will make you smile. More information surrounding this coming very soon.

App

This year we will be running a PSC Conference App. The App will be full of information on the speakers, program, venue, sponsors and more.