Welcome to Country
Refiti Tovi, Turrbal Community Member
Gold Sponsor: Powering Skills Organisation
Address by The Hon Andrew Giles MP, Minister for Skills and Training
Tertiary alignment is a key pillar of the Australian Government’s reform agenda. This panel will explore the progress made towards a more aligned tertiary education system along with the barriers and opportunities shaping the path ahead.
Facilitated by: Ellen Fanning
Panellists:
Gold Sponsor: Catapult & Aspire by Catapult
Professor Steven Dhondt, Researcher, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) & Professor, KU Leuven
In this plenary, Professor Steven Dhondt will explore the opportunities and challenges of Industry 5.0 for economies, industries, and individuals, and examine what this shift means for the future workforce and skills.
Industry 5.0 marks the next phase of manufacturing, where humans and advanced technologies collaborate to create economic value while supporting broader social well being. This panel will join Professor Steven Dohndt to explore how TAFE can play a pivotal role in equipping Australia’s workforce with the skills needed to thrive in this human centred, technology driven future.
Facilitated by: Ellen Fanning
Panellists:
Claire Field, Principal, Claire Field and Associates
AI is transforming education at speed—creating new opportunities while risking deeper inequities. In this plenary presentation, Claire Field explores how we can harness AI to support student equity, and to ensure every learner benefits from the technology shaping their future.
This panel conversation will dive more deeply into the opportunities and challenges of AI and learner equity, and how TAFEs can support the development of industry relevant digital skills while managing ethics, equity and integrity related risks.
Facilitated by: Claire Field
Panellists:
Diamond Sponsor Lunchtime Workshop:
Institutional Intelligence: How AI Can Capture and Scale the Best of TAFE
Chris Smith, Head of Innovation, ReadyTech
TAFEs are full of expertise.
The best trainers know how to engage learners. The best student support teams know how to intervene early. The best apprenticeship coordinators know how to keep employers and learners aligned. Yet much of this knowledge lives in individuals, teams or campuses and is difficult to scale consistently across the institution.
What if TAFE could capture that expertise and make it available everywhere?
This workshop explores the emerging concept of Institutional Intelligence, where AI systems observe how work happens across an organisation and help capture, codify and distribute best practice.
Participants will work through practical scenarios to identify where institutional knowledge currently sits, how it could be captured and how AI could help distribute it across teams, campuses and programs to help lift performance and consistency across their institution.
TDA Convention delegates have exclusive access to a private viewing of the Olafur Eliasson Exhibition at QAMONA prior to the networking function, we encourage you to attend.
Time: 5:45PM – 6:30PM (Exhibition Viewing) 6:30PM to 7:45PM (Networking Function)
Networking Event – Queensland Art Gallery: Gallery of Modern Art – Olafur Eliasson
Stanly Pl, South Brisbane, QLD 4101
Sponsor: TechnologyOne
Host: TAFE Queensland
Welcome by Tim Rawlings, CEO, TAFE Queensland & TDA Board Member
TAFE Staff Award #4: Power of TAFE to champion inclusion and equity
Gold Sponsor: TechnologyOne
Address by The Hon Ros Bates MP, Queensland Minister for Finance, Trade, Employment and Training