The MAV Technology Awards for Excellence recognise outstanding achievements by local government information and communications technology (ICT); geographic information (GIS) and records management (RM) practitioners to encourage innovation in local government service delivery for the people of Victoria, Australia and the world.

6.30pm	Pre-dinner drinks
7.00pm	Seating & background music
7.10pm	Entreé served
7.30pm	Welcome song -  Casey Bennetto
7.35pm	Introduction & acknowledgements - David Bartlett
7.40pm	Sponsor address -
7.45pm	Nominees and Award presentations Casey Bennetto & David Bartlett with Tim Neal, Shannon Bourne, Vincenzo Ruberto, Nick Karasaviddis, Gideon Brazil & Mal Webb: Strategy & Planning Achievement of the YearCollaboration or Partnership Achievement of the YearSmart City Achievement of the Year Customer Experience Achievement of the Year The Victorian Award for Excellence The Australian Award for Excellence About the LOLA International Award for Excellence
8.15pm	Dinner served
8.45pm	Live band and dancing
9.15pm	Desert Served Live band and dancing
11.30pm	Close

Registration & Trade Exhibition - Coffee Sponsor Thomas Duryea Logicalis

When your business or team seems stuck, then adventure is the answer. Discover your team's true identity, overcome limiting beliefs and let fear be the catalyst for change.

1) "Mitimiti on the Grid” – bringing fibre and high speed telecommunications to an isolated Maori community. 2) "Incredible Skies" - drone R&D for medicines and emergency services where they're most needed. 3) “Te Reo AI” - a machine learning and AI project to extract insights and value from New Zealand's indigenous language.

How global and Australian Trailblazers are disrupting industries, shaping the future, and transforming the world around you.

Morning Tea & Trade Exhibition – Brought to you by Wideband

Warren will showcase 15 analytics projects worked on by the City of Casey’s Data Analytics Function. His aim is to help you understand the huge potential you have in local government to leverage your data to enable data-driven results.

So who's accountable for data governance? (hint: it's not IT).

Learn how the NSW Government is placing users at the centre when we design and deliver digital services.

The Deakin Genie smart digital personal assistant for students has won a swag of international awards. Deakin are now sharing Genie with like-minded organisations. Could this award winning assistant be leveraged to deliver council services to people in Victoria?

What are the challenges of hacks and jams in local government and how can we achieve greater outcomes?

Lunch & Trade Exhibition – Brought to you by Tesserent

Blockchain has the potential to automate, and disintermediate, the institutions and services that underpin our lives. It could change how we interact online, who controls our information, and shift the incentives that guide businesses and cooperative systems.

The former head of the Digital Marketplace for the Australian Government's Digital Transformation Agency explores why and how local government must transform.

As our customer needs evolve we must balance our limited resources between sustaining innovation and transformative innovation. But how do we deliver transformation from within, without spending millions?

What are the procurement barriers to innovation in local government and how can we solve them?

Afternoon Tea & Trade Exhibition – Brought to you by Olikka

Mobilising partnerships and embracing diversity to enable co-investment and co-creation in regional and metropolitan local government areas.

Showcasing projects that explore the potential of ICT, intelligent data, computation and digital media to create more agile, user-centred and adaptive solutions for the Built Environment.

How local government can help to address complex urban and regional challenges, by harnessing digital technology, establishing partnerships and applying intelligent design.

Soul Machines is building a HumanOS for Artificial Intelligence so we can communicate, connect and relate to AI in ways that make it accessible, contextual and trusted.

Jirra Lulla Harvey & David Bartlett, Conference Co-Chairs

Plenary & Trade Exhibition closes (Networking Evening @ Little Creatures Brewery commences @ 6.00pm)

A true brewery village experience, with a bustling Canteen and the colourful Mystery Lane. A great opportunity to network in a casual setting and talk about what you've seen and heard at the conference. You can grab a fresh beer and a bite to eat, and watch the brewers racing around doing their thing. And we'll have Tripod on hand to provide some laughs and great music.

When	What	Where
6.00pm	Drinks and food service commences
		Little Creatures Brewery 221 Swanston St, Geelong
8.00pm	Welcome & introductions - Lisa Bennetto, MAV Technology
8.05pm	Sponsor's address
8.10pm	Tripod
8.40pm	Networking
10.30pm	Close

  Tripod Since their earliest shows Tripod have made a habit of juggling comedy, music and narrative in endless exhilarating combinations. They started out in the Melbourne pub scene, before becoming regulars of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and of national radio on Triple J. TV followed, including four seasons on Skithouse – the album of which, Middleborough Road, won them an ARIA – as well as a year as regulars on Sideshow on the ABC. They have created numerous musicals including the magical Tripod Versus the Dragon and Perfect Tripod: Australian Songs with Eddie Perfect. Perfect Tripod also appeared on Network Ten’s Oxfam Gala, released a single with Gotye for Save Live Australian Music and sung with Missy Higgins on ABCTV’s Crackup. Tripod continue to bring an insane level of craft in both comedy and music and combine them in a rich and satisfying way – an ability that has cemented them as a much loved cultural fixture in Australia.  

Hop on our coach and head out to Deakin’s Innovation Precinct at Waurn Ponds campus where we’ll visit 3 world-class facilities – the Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering Training (CADET), Carbon Nexus and the Institute for Intelligent Systems Research (IISRI).

·        CADET:  Home of 21st Century engineering, the focus of CADET is on digital manufacturing, rapid prototyping, 3D modelling and visualisation technologies. Its purpose-built, interactive laboratory and workshop learning spaces enable students to project the creativity, imagination and research required to solve modern engineering issues.

·        Carbon Nexus: For more than a decade, Deakin University researchers have been developing new and improved fibres and carbon composites. This new facility significantly enhances the capacity to deliver real outcomes for industry to capture the enormous market potential of carbon fibre and related composites. Carbon Nexus is an integral part of the $103m Australian Future Fibres Research and Innovation Centre at Deakin.

·        IISRI is dedicated to advancing the global knowledge base of intelligent systems research. We focus on five main areas – defence systems integration and robotics, haptics research, motion simulation, micro/nano system modelling and manipulation, and process modelling and analysis.

Departure: 9.00am from Deakin Waterfront Campus bus-stop, Brougham St. Return: 12.20pm  (Max 45 people)

Join Deloitte for an exciting showcase where Deloitte will highlight key industry technology trends for 2019 and beyond and how they will shape the council of the future. Dive into challenges facing modern councils and how Deloitte can tailor solutions to further streamline business processes, drive IT efficiency and improve the customer experience. Learn about Deloitte’s expansive cloud capability across private, hybrid and public cloud platforms and Deloitte’s end to end vendor agnostic services ranging from advisory, strategy, design and implementation through to automation and on-going environment management.

Splunk and their guests will lead a conversation around how progressive councils and other leading organisations are harnessing their machine data to provide valuable insights supporting citizen services. Examples will be shared of how these insights are helping to ensure the health of critical applications, security of key council assets and supporting smart cities.

To keep up with ever-increasing citizen and stakeholder expectations, local councils recognise the need to digitally transform their organisations. Most councils have started the journey to successfully transition to a citizen-centric digital local government. However, challenges including reduced levels of funding and staffing, cost of resourcing, resistance to change, limited technical capability and infrastructure can make this journey difficult for most councils. In the session Microsoft will connect the challenges Local Councils face with solutions that can support their digital transformation journey including: • Customer centricity, service delivery & stakeholder expectations • Employee productivity, collaboration & mobilisation • Data, security management & ethics • Digital innovation such as IoT, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.