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CONNECTIVITY KEY TO CONFERENCE
THE BCA/ BIC INAUGURAL AUSTRALASIAN CONFERENCE IS NEXT MONTH. WE HAVE PICKED FOUR OF THE SPEAKERS WE THINK WILL DELIVER PROVOCATIVE TALKS.
Yale Wong
Yale Wong is a doctoral candidate and research analyst at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) at the University of Sydney Business School. His present research market tests mobility as a service (MaaS) with respect to demand- ers and suppliers. Yale holds the Busways Group and University of Sydney Business School Postgraduate Scholarship on Public Transport Systems. Yale has completed projects for the Bus Industry Confederation and Sustainable Business Australia, and recently concluded a three-month study visit to South Africa. He has worked previ- ously in bus operations with experience in network planning and service development. His addresses to the conference will give an overview of the state of the bus and coach industry as well as an in-depth analysis of what MaaS really means for the industry.
Susan Harris is the Chief Executive O cer, ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) Australia. With a career focusing on
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transport strategy. Susan is ideally placed to translate the bene ts that transport technology can deliver to business and the Australian and New Zealand communities.
She is Convenor of the Austroads CAV Industry Reference Group, and a mem- ber of the Victorian Ministerial Freight Reference Group, the National Transport Commission Industry Advisory Group, the Space Cross Sectoral Interest Group, and the 2026 Spatial Agenda Leadership Group.
Her address will get into the nitty gritty of what people are really looking for in MaaS, and its role in the future of public transport.
Michael McGee is an experienced execu- tive who has held a variety of senior executive positions in the nancial ser- vices, venture capital, public transport and logistics sectors. Michael joined Transit Australia Group in December 2013, and currently sits on several boards including UITP (Australia/New Zealand). He holds
post-graduate business quali cations from a number of business schools, including Harvard University.
His address will look at the evolving world of electric autonomous vehicles and how they can be streamlined into existing public transport systems.
Probably one of the most interesting speak- ers at the conference is Claire Madden, whose research on Generation Z (people born from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s) is being acclaimed worldwide. Claire is the author of Hello Gen Z: Engaging the Generation of Post-Millennials. She has academic quali cations in communications and postgraduate studies in leadership and is on the Advisory Board of UTS Business School. Claire is also the founder and direc- tor of the research-based strategy and com- munications agency, Hello Clarity.
Claire’s address, Engaging Generation Z, will interpret social trends, demographics and the implications of generational change.
THE MAIN EVENTS
e main social events at this year’s conference are the Volvo Cocktail Party at Salt House Cairns, the Mercedes-Benz Dinner at the Cairns Convention Centre:, the Scania Dinner Party at the Tanks Art Centre and the IVECO ‘Big Arvo Out’ at the Cairns Cruise Liner Terminal. What makes these events unique are the venues they are being held in. For example, the Tanks Art Centre is actually a group
of former World War 2 concrete fuel
tanks. e tanks were built for the Royal Australian Navy in 1944, and carefully camou aged under the rainforest shroud of Mount Whit eld to protect them from enemy eyes.
e Australian Navy used the tanks for refuelling Australian, American and British ships right up until their decommissioning in 1987.
e Cairns City Council originally purchased the land on which the Tanks stand in 1991 with an intention to broaden
the footprint of the Botanic Gardens, but the Council instead secured a Federal Government grant in 1992 to allow initial re-development of the Tanks site to accommodate community arts.
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