Program

Sunday 19th October 2008

14:30 - 17:00 Conference Trade Exhibition - Public  Open Entry $10.00
18:00

Registration and Welcome Cocktails - Passes must be worn

18:00

    to

20:00

Welcome to Qualcon 2008

Cocktail party is sponsored by

 

Monday 20th October 2008

08:45

Chair – Craig Ottaway – Delegates welcome and brief

09:00

Conference Opening and Keynote Address

Mr Martin Hamilton-Smith - Leader of the Opposition

09:20

Plenary 1 – Mr Craig Bates - CEO JLB & Associates

Title for Plenary presentation:
‘IS AUDITING ADDING VALUE TO CERTIFICATION?’

10:20

Morning Tea

 

Stream 1
Measurement, Analysis and Improvement
Chair –
Margaret Killen

Stream 2
Business Excellence
Chair -
Shan Ruprai

Stream 3
Perspectives on Quality
Chair -
Ian Pettinger

10:50

Bob Welldon
What is the State of your Process

Raf Dua
Business Excellence Implementing Project Management and Reporting into a Project Alliance

Russell Veitch
Getting down to Tin Tacks

11:30

Ron Chapman
IMS or IBOS? Achieving the best management system for you

Magdalena Hadji
Process Implementation & Innovation to achieve a wining edge

Ken Saman
Guest Speaker
Constraints Theory

12:10

Janice Gill
Has your cholesterol really changed or is it just the measuring equipment? – Quality in the Pathology Environment.

Raf Dua
Best Practice  in Comparison of Scheduling Techniques in Project Management Software

William Fenner
My Life so far with TQM Quality & Productivity

12:50

Lunch

 

Stream 4
Quality Management Systems
Chair -
Nigel Grigg

Stream 5
Conference Workshops
Chair -
Daryl Martin
 

Stream 6
Software
Chair -
Bob Weldon

 

13:30

Magdalena Hadji
Innovation & Performance Management

Mike McLean


"Sustaining Organization Learning: What other Industries can learn from the ASEAN and Australian Automotive Industries Best Practices".

Dr Martin Strange &
Dr Matthew Sorell

The Mesh—a parallel world to the Web for driving global software innovation

14:10

Alan Beacham
Artist meets Inspector

Kiril Uzunov & Thong Nguyen
An approach to software dependability evaluation

14:50

Magdalena Hadji
Innovative methods for business succession planning

Trevor Harrison & Thong Nguyen
Determining System Quality Attributes from the Architectural Decision Making Process

15:30

Afternoon Tea

16:00

Networking, Trade Exhibition and personal administration

AOQ(SA) Inc AGM 16:00-17:15  

17:00

Trade Exhibition Close

18:30

DINNER – 40th Birthday Celebrations for AOQ Inc
1968-2008

Pre dinner cocktails
Dinner passes must be worn by all guests

19:00

 

 

 

23:00

Dinner Speaker –  CEO DFEEST Mr Ray Garrand
speaks on

"Quality and Education - a two way street"
 

       The Juran Legacy - College of Juran Medallists
       Remembrance of friends passed

       Presentation of the AOQ National Juran Medal; Foley and Shilkin Awards
       Qualcon 2009
- Western Australia Launch

 

 

Tuesday 21st October 2008

08:45

Chair - Craig Ottaway – Delegates welcome and brief

09:00

Keynote Address – Mr Greg Tunny – Managing Director ASC PTY. LTD
ASC Major Sponsor.

09:20

Plenary 3 – JAS-ANZ , Major Sponsor, will present two half hour plenary discussions.

Dr James Galloway  - Chief Executive, JAS-ANZ

Title for Plenary presentation:
'JAS-ANZ Accreditation – Helping Markets Work Better'

Brett Abraham - Manager Business Development and Technical Services, JAS-ANZ

Title for Plenary presentation:
'Greenhouse Gas Validation and Verification'

10:20

Morning Tea

 

Stream 1
Defence
Chair -
John Wilson-Smith

Stream 2
Training and Education
Chair -
Peter Knapp

Stream 3
Health & Community
Chair –
Shan Ruprai

10:50

Cyril Wetherill
Guest Presenter
Defence SA – Architecture for the future.

Nigel Grigg
Making a career of it: pathways to professional recognition and advancement in quality.

Dr Devi Ranasinghe Continuous Improvement and Culture Change

11:30

Dr Neil Davidson
Integrated Teaming in Alliance Type Contracting in the Australian Defence Environment

Andrew Boorman
Achieving quality through outcomes based standards and auditing - “Outcomes based standards and auditing in vocational education and training; Holy Grail or mission accomplished?” 

Janet Haydon
Quality in the NGO community service sector.

12:10

Moses Kauye &
Dr Elena Sitnikova

Achieving Effective Technical Control in the Acquisition of Logistics Information Systems

Ron Mazzachi
Streamlining Regulation. Improving Regulation Delivery through Third party certification of auditors - Lessons from other Service Industries

Shaojian Cao
Process Audit Triangle

12:50

Lunch

 

Stream 4
Risk Management
Chair –
Ian Pettinger

Stream 5
Contemporary Improvement  Management
Chair –
David Cordoba

Stream 6
Trade Exhibition
Product presentations
Chair - Ron Mazzachi
 

13:30

Ian Abrahams
Putting Risk Management On Steroids

Mitta Rout
Enhancing Productivity through Six Sigma & Lean

iOctane

David Thomas

14:10

Shan Ruprai
Performance Audit strategy to reduce risk in your business and succeed. ISO9001:2008?

Craig Ottaway
Literature Survey & Critique on Lean and comparative Operational Excellence Techniques

KM&T

Alan Beacham

14:50

Mike Allison &
Jeff Ryall

Risk Management as Your System Design Framework

Mike McLean
Using ISO9001 Process Model to sustain organisation learning

Massey University

Nigel Grigg

15:30

Afternoon Tea

16:00

Chair - Shan Ruprai

Plenary 4 – Mr
Mike Mclean
Title for Plenary presentation:
'Australian Quality - 40 years enabling business performance and export'

17:00

Day Close

18:30

Dinner Meeting - AOQ National and AOQ States Councillors with College of Juran Medallists

Sponsored by JLB 

 

Speaker from Enterprise Connect

21:30

Close proceedings

 

Wednesday 22nd October 2008

08:45

Chair - Craig Ottaway – Delegates welcome and brief

09:00

Plenary 5 – Mr Alan Beacham - CEO KM&T

Title for Plenary presentation:
Sustaining improvements - Learning from those who have learnt the hard way!

10:00

Morning Tea

10:20

Environmental Project Presentation - Anne Marie Hall and Christ the King School Warradale Year 5s

Eliminating our Carbon Footprint

 

Stream 1
Innovation and Adaptability
Chair -
Margaret Killen

Stream 2
Environment
Chair -
David Cordoba
Stream 3
Product presentations
Chair -
Ron Mazzachi

10:55

Bruce Riley
The Practical Problem of the journey from innovation to sustained change

Dr Jane Goodyear & Claus Grote
An Innovatitive Eco-Design application: Its ability to balance environmental and economic design issues

Tony Pilli

Estoqual Enterprises

11:30

Sia Evans
Adapting after a disaster

Robert LLoyd
Guest Speaker
Lean in Environment

Deanne Emerson

Quality Award Partners

12:10

Sam Koulianos
Benchmarking / Best Practice "Our Journey to Date"

Colin John Pitman
Guest Speaker
Stormwater a Precious Resource
 

Ian Erskine

ACI Global

12:50

Lunch

13:30 Panel Discussion

Moderator - Margaret Killen

Proposed Subject: Quality Management in its purest form is now seen as a way of life and no longer deserves a place on a pedestal as a specialist industry; what is needed now is management quality.

QUESTIONS WILL BE TAKEN FROM THE FLOOR. THE MODERATOR MAY ASK QUESTIONS.

Proposed Panel – Bob Weldon, Craig Ottaway, Peter Knapp, Jeff Ryall, Mike Mclean,
John Caldecott & David Cordoba

14:50

Chair - Peter Knapp

Plenary 6 – Mr Jeff Ryall - CEO Quality Award Partners

Title for Plenary presentation:
"Working to Other Peoples' Rules: Managing Process, Innovation and Adaptability in a Compliance World"

15:50

Afternoon Tea

16:10

Chair - Craig Ottaway

Plenary 7 – Prof John Dalrymple – Closing summary of Qualcon 2008

17:00

Conference Close

*Please Note – This programme may be changed at the discretion of the Qualcon Organising Committee without notice to align presentations and to fit with travel arrangements of international speakers and changing circumstances that may be outside the control of the Qualcon Organising Committee.

Last Updated by Craig Ottaway, 16 October 2008