11:00am – 12:00pm AEST
Preparing for what we can’t prepare for

Speakers
Professor Merlin Crossley
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic & Student Life, UNSW Sydney

Dr Anita Goh
Clinical Researcher, Science & Technology Australia

Professor Caroline McMillen AO
Chief Scientist for South Australia

Distinguished Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research), Queensland University of Technology (QUT)​

Arianna Oddo
PhD Candidate, Monash University | Consultant, Consulting and Implementation Service (CIS)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm AEST
International Collaboration: Opportunities and challenges

Speakers
Dr Matthew Brown
Deputy Chief Executive, Group of Eight

Tim Cahill
Managing Director, Research Strategies Australia

Cath Latham
Director of International Affairs, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE)

Professor Sarah Medland
Interim Program Director, Mental Health and Neuroscience, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

11:00am – 12:00pm AEST
Research Commercialisation: Have we got the model

Speakers
Dr Amanda-Jane George
Senior Lecturer, CQUniversity

Dr Tony Peacock
Chairman, Wintermute Biomedical

Luke Sheehy
Executive Director, Australian Technology Network (ATN)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm AEST
What’s next for pure research?

Speakers​
Dr John Byron
Principal Policy Adviser, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

Professor Catharine Coleborne
Professor and Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, The University of Newcastle

Distinguished Professor Chennupati Jagadish AC
President, Australian Academy of Science, Australian National University (ANU)

11:00am – 12:00pm AEST
Making publicly funded research freely available to all

Speakers
Bob Gerrity
University Librarian, Monash University & Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL)

Professor Lucy Montgomery
Professor of Knowledge Innovation, Curtin University

Dr Danny Kingsley
Director of Library Services, University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm AEST
Cancer trumps COVID, but what about the other 95% of university research?

Speakers
Professor Emma Johnston AO FAA FTSE
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney

Edward O’Daly
Director, Communications and Engagement, Australian National University (ANU)

Shez Cairney
Chief Executive Officer, The Interplay Project