Lead up event speakers

Community Sector Events Speakers (16 & 17 August, 2010)

  • PROFESSOR JANET STANLEY – Monash Sustainability Institute
  • EMILY BALLANTYNE-BRODIE – Community practitioner
  • MICHAEL DRAPAC – Development and Community perspective
  • MARCUS WESTBURY – Community and cultural activist
  • GLEN OCHRE – Director of Groupwork Institute of Australia – one of Australia’s leading engagement experts.

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Finance Sector Event Speakers (27 July, 2010)

  • RUSSELL WALLEY, Vice President Property, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
  • SAUL ESLAKE, Program Director, Productivity Growth at the Grattan Institute (former Chief Economist of ANZ)
  • ADRIAN POZZO, Chief Executive Officer, Cbus Property

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Development Sector Event Speakers (25 May, 2010)

  • MALCOLM SNOW, Chief Executive Officer, Southbank, Brisbane
  • DAVID ROLLS, Chief Executive Officer, Lend Lease Developments, Sydney
  • KATE BRENNAN, Chief Executive Officer, Fed Square, Melbourne
  • MICHAEL RATCLIFFE, Former CEO, East Perth Redevelopment Authority

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Launch Event Speakers (20 April, 2010)

  • DANIEL GROLLO – Chief Executive Officer of Australia’s largest privately owned development and construction company, Grocon Pty Ltd. Board of the Green Building Council of Australia and is a non-executive Director of the Board of Bluescope Steel and recently elected National President of the Property Council of Australia.
  • KIM DOVEY – Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely on social issues in architecture, urban design and planning. Books include ‘Framing Places’ (Routledge, 2008), ‘Fluid City’ (UNSW Press 2005) and ‘Becoming Places’ (Routledge 2009). He currently leads ARC projects on urban intensification, urban character and creative cities.
  • SIMON HOLT – Award winning author and Senior Minister of the Collins Street Baptist Church. His community work has focussed on helping groups connect more deeply with their neighbourhoods. As a lover of the life and potential of Melbourne (and a loiterer in cafes and bookshops!), Simon is a deep thinker on the value of place. His teaching and study has focused on spirituality, ethics and pastoral theology, and being a trained chef, his current book is an exploration of the role eating plays in our quest for meaning and community.
  • PRU SANDERSON – CEO of VicUrban, the Victorian State Government’s sustainable urban development authority. Pru is an architect and property professional who specialises in creating new benchmarks in urban planning, sustainable developments and public infrastructure. She has held senior roles in the development of the Melbourne Museum and Melbourne’s Federation Square. Pru is a Director of the Zoological Parks and Gardens Board of Victoria, serves on the Board of the Committee for Melbourne, the National Advisory Board of Infrastructure Partnerships Australia (IPA) and is a member of the Federal Government’s Built Environment Industry Innovation Council (BEIIC).

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