AHEIA Conference 2026 | Program Day Two
8:40am - 9:20am
Professor Nicola Phillips
Vice Chancellor and President, Adelaide University
Keynote | Adelaide University Vice Chancellor and President
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Grand Ballroom
9:20am - 10:00am
Moderator | Craig Laughton
Executive Director, AHEIA
Panel | Governance
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Panel includes:
- Professor Alex Zelinsky, AO, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Newcastle
- Luke Sheehy, CEO, Universities Australia
Grand Ballroom
10:00am - 10:20am
Morning Tea and Networking
Please join us in the foyer to network with your colleagues and enjoy morning tea.
Grand Ballroom Foyer
10:20am - 11:00am
Brendan Pearce & Nicholas Hyde
Southern Cross University
Rewriting the EB Rulebook - AHEIA Award Winner
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Grand Ballroom 1-3
10:20am - 11:00am
Melinda Simpson, Curtin
Olga Klimczack, HSF Kramer
Navigating Psychosocial Risk Assessments: A Practical Approach
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Grand Ballroom 4
10:20am - 11:00am
Sallyann Shearer
Flinders University
Taboos, Tensions and Talent: Menopause as the Next IR Priority
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Grand Ballroom 5
11:00am - 11:40am
Josh Forrest
KPMG
From Heroics to Architecture: Designing How Universities Carry People Risk and Complexity
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Grand Ballroom 1-3
11:00am - 11:40am
Martyn Campbell
Adelaide University
Psychosocial - Adelaide University
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Grand Ballroom 4
11:00am - 11:40am
Tara Waller and Mat Lewis
RMIT
From Barriers to Belonging: Rethinking Workplace Adjustments in Higher Education
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Grand Ballroom 5
11:40am - 12.20pm
Fletcher Trowse
KPMG
From Constant Change to Confident Change
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Grand Ballroom 4
11:40am - 12.20pm
Shaun Brown & Sophie Andrews
Southern Cross University
Turning Theory into Practice: Implementing a Critical Risk Framework in Higher Education
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Grand Ballroom 5
12:20pm - 1:20pm
Lunch and Networking
Please join us to network with your colleagues and enjoy lunch.
The Promenade Restaurant (Ground Floor)
2:00pm - 2:40pm
Deakin University
Leadership Team
Panel | Beyond the Box: A Job Framework Story
How a tool to support change at scale has evolved to enable strategic workforce design.
Session highlights:
- See how a job framework brings your people processes together and shapes how work is designed.
- Understand how it sits within the broader People Strategy, connecting related frameworks into a coherent whole.
- Explore how this creates clarity, fairness and alignment to capability in practice.
- Hear what it takes to bring it to life at scale, and what we’ve learned along the way.
Grand Ballroom
2:40pm - 3:20pm
John Dewar, AO
Partner, KordaMentha
Keynote | Closing Address
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Grand Ballroom
Disclaimer: This conference program is confirmed at the date of marketing. However, AHEIA reserves the right to make changes to this program at any time as circumstances dictate. Speakers and topics were confirmed at the time of publishing; however, circumstances beyond the control of organisers may necessitate substitution, alternation, or cancellations of the speakers and/or topic. Every effort will be made to ensure any unavoidable changes provide a program of equivalent standard and value.