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Sunday 19 May
14:00-18:00 Registration
Evening Welcome Reception and Exhibition Opening
Monday 20 May
08:00-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Opening Ceremony
Mrs Dagmar Schmidmaier
Conference Chair
Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir, AC
Governor of New South Wales
  Setting the scene: The Economic and Social Context
09:30-10:30 Dr Terry Cutler
Former Chair, Australia Council
Making Australia a Knowledge Economy
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea
11:00-12:30 Mr Hugh Mackay
Psychologist, social commentator and writer
Australia at a turning point
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12:30-14:00 Lunch and online chat session (12:45-13:30)
  Research and Innovation
14:00-15:00 Dr Christopher Chia
Chief executive, National Library Board of Singapore
Transforming Library Services to Support Singapore's Information Agenda
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15:00-15:30 Afternoon Tea
15:30-17:00 Mr Tim Besley, AC AO AM
President, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Ideas to Dollars - Science, Technology and Innovation
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Professor Laurence Cram
Executive director, Physics, Chemistry and Geoscience, Australian Research Council
eResearch in Australia
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17:00-18:30 ALIA AGM and Awards Presentation
Dr Alan Bundy

Presidential Address
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Evening Conference Gala Dinner
Tuesday 21 May
08:30-09:30 Registration
  The Learning Enterprise
09:30-10:30 Dr Martyn Forrest
Chair, Australian Information and Communication Technology in Education Committee
Empowering educators: the e-issues
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10:30-11:00 Morning Tea
11:00-12:30 Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Bolton AO
Pro-chancellor, Murdoch University
The Tyranny of Ignorance

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Peter Crawley
Headmaster, Knox Grammar School
12:30-14:00 Lunch and online chat session (12.45- 1:30)
  Australian Communities
14:00-15:00 Archbishop Peter Carnley AO
Archbishop of Perth and Primate of the Anglican Church in Australia
The Librarian and the Management of Information Overload
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15:00-15:30 Afternoon Tea
15:30-17:00 Sue Middleton
Grassroots Development
Empowering Rural Australia Into the Future

Professor Ann Harding
Professor of Applied Economics and Social Policy, University of Canberra and director, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
Growing apart: inequalities in Australia today
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Wednesday 22 May
08:30-09:30 Registration
  Australian Business
09:30-10:30 Mr Phil Ruthven
Chairman, IBIS Information
Business Information Needs: 2002 and Beyond
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10:30-11:00 Morning Tea
11:00-12:30 Ms Pat Schroeder
President and CEO, American Publishing Association
High-quality Information - the On-ramp to a Bright Future
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Dr Marianne Broadbent
Group vice-president and head of Research Executive Programs Worldwide, Gartner
Business, knowledge and information: Where's the value proposition?
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12:30-14:00 Lunch and online chat session (12:45-13:30)
  Pulling the Threads Together
14:00-15:00 Professor Malcolm Gillies
Deputy vice-chancellor (Education), Australian National University
Information Futures
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15:00-15:30 Afternoon Tea
15:30-17:00 Mr Neil McLean
Conference program committee convener and pro vice-chancellor, eLearning and Information Services Division at Macquarie University
Information Futures: Professional Issues
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Professor Joyce Kirk
President, ALIA
Professor Kirk will present options for action in response to these challenges from the ALIA perspective
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17:00-18:00 Closing Reception and Farewell

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