2015 Events

The purpose of Information Awareness Month (IAM) is to increase public awareness of information and its place in all aspects of daily life. The following are the events will be hosted across Australia during the month of May 2015.

ACT Events
Monday May 4 2015	Information Awareness Month 2015 Launch
Wednesday May 6 2015	Business Analytics Community of Practice: How Big Data Helped Win America’s Cup 2013Where: Allan Barton Forum Australian National University, 26 Kingsley Street, Acton ACT 2601 Map: http://www.anu.edu.au/maps#show=11417 When: Wednesday, 6^th May 2015 Please arrive from 5:30pm onwards, for a 6:00pm start. We plan to finish by 7:30pm.Overview: When you start an Americas Cup team, you do so with a plan. Sometimes plans don’t work out and that is exactly what happened in October 2012 when Oracle TEAM USA capsized and destroyed their only boat. What seemed like a disaster at the time actually forced the team to innovate. Many tales have been told about how Oracle came from 8-1 down to win the Americas Cup. The truth lies in the numbers and years of trust combined with a calamitous event that pushed the team in the only direction they had…. Big Data Cost: $5.00 per person person to cover the cost of light refreshments to be paid at the door. RSVP By: COB Monday, 4th May 2015 Registration: Robert Goode T: 03 9536 3116 E: iim@iim.org.au Please register so that we can ensure adequate seating and catering
Wednesday May 13 2015	Industry Innovation Showcase – 13 May 2015 – National Archives of Australia Hyperinsight presents CoveoJoin us to hear about Coveo – an advanced enterprise search application, recognised as the Most Visionary Leader in Enterprise Search in Gartner’s 2014 Magic Quadrant report. Coveo provides unified search, dynamic 360-degree views of information, and uses powerful analytics to assist content management. MoreRefreshments, discussion and networking will follow. Venue: Menzies Room, National Archives of Australia Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes ACT 2600 Register
Wednesday May 13 2015	Converting to Digital Speaker: Dino Incampo, Digital Solutions Consultant Where: ANU – Great Hall University House Time: 12:00pm for 2:00pm start Flyer: Please click here to download the flyer Register: Click here
Thursday May 14, 2015	ALIA Freedom of Access to Information and Resources (FAIR) Campaign Speaker: Sue McKerracher, CEO of ALIA Where: Ferguson room, National Library of Australia Time: 12:15pm for 12:30pm start Cost: FREE Contact: Diana Richards diana.richards@alia.org.au Event URL: https://www.alia.org.au/events/10127/alia-freedom-access-information-and-resources-fair-campaign
Thursday May 21, 2015	Canberra GAIN forum – National Archives of Australia Join the National Archives for a special discussion forum during Information Awareness Month.Time: 3−5pm Venue: Menzies Room, National Archives of Australia Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes ACT 2600The forum will showcase the: NICTA’s Business Fitness Tool and how it can assist your agency − presentation by Simon Kaplan (NICTA) National Archives proposed end-to-end digital business system. The forum will also include an update on recent National Archives initiatives, a general discussion and Q&A. Who should attend? Staff from Australian Government agencies including: branch heads or senior managers with information and records management responsibilities information and records managers. Register
Tuesday May 26 2015	Information Awareness Month Forum Venue: National Archives of Australia, Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes Time: 1pm – 7pm Cost: National Archives of Australia Staff – Free, All other registrations – $15 More Information
Wednesday May 27 2015	2015’s Rapidly Emerging Digital Government Speaker: Michelle Narracott, FXA Centre for Digital Transformation Where: ANU – Great Hall University House Time: 12:00pm for 2:00pm start Flyer: Please click here to download the flyer Register: Click here
Wednesday May 27 2015	Digital information and records management capability matrix A presentation by guest speaker, Ian Fitzgerald – Chief Human Capital Officer, Australian Public Service Commission at the National Archives of Australia Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes ACT 2600 RSVP by 20 May via http://capabilitymatrix.eventbrite.com.au or agencytraining@naa.gov. More Information & Flyer
Wednesday May 27 2015	Business Analytics Community of Practice – Analysis-As-A-Service Time: 5pm – 7:30pm Venue: Menzies Room, National Archives of Australia Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes ACT 2600 Cost: $5 payable at the door.This event has been Cancelled.
Thursday May 28 2015	Analysis-As-A-Service: Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud ServiceWhere: Oracle House, Level 3, 243 North Melbourne Avenue Lyneham Overview: Organisations today need to innovate and demonstrate business agility in dynamic environments. Innovation requires a deep understanding of people, processes and technology. Organisations collect vast amounts of data – around 80% of the world’s data was created in the last two years. This data holds the key to new business insights. Analytics-as-a-Service allows business to focus on exploring and analysing data, a high-value activity, instead of waiting for expensive projects to set up infrastructure, load and model data before determining what value the data may (or may not) hold. Join us at this session where we will demonstrate how Oracle’s Business Intelligence Cloud Service will allow your user community to load data from a variety of sources, organise the data and quickly develop self-service analysis content. Add these analyses to dashboards for wider consumption, via browsers and also using your favourite mobile devices. In addition, we will provide a first look at Oracle Visual Analyzer, a new capability of Oracle Business Intelligence that is perfect for the situations where you think there may be some insights hidden in your datasets, but you are unsure where to look to find them! Finally we will provide an overview of the Oracle Budgeting, Forecasting and Management Reporting cloud solution, designed to assist the Finance team to spend less time on gathering data and more time on providing deeper analysis. More Info: Vladimir Videnovic, T: 02 6206 5033, E: vladimir.videnovic@oracle.com Coast: Free RSVP: COB Tuesday, 26 May 2015 Tabitha Taglietti T: 02 6206 5000 E: Tabitha.Taglietti@oracle.com Please register so that we can ensure adequate seating and catering
NSW Events
Thursday 7th May, 2015	IBM Connect 2015 Invitation to IBM Connect 2015, a flagship event IBM are running in May, focused on how data and analytics are transforming industries and professions with some incredibly tangible results. We have a great line up of executive speakers and hope you will gain value from attending. The event commences at 10.30am and concludes with networking drinks at 5.30pm. Please feel entirely free to attend as little or as much of the event as you wish according to your needs. The agenda is available at ibm.com/au/connect/agenda Where: Carriageworks Please see the attached invitation for further information and details on how you can register or visit ibm.com/au/connect which includes the same information.
Tuesday May 26, 2015	ALIA ACT Library and Information Week Breakfast ALIAURLS is hosting a LIW breakfast on Tuesday 26 May 2015 and all library people in the ACT are invited to attend. Place: Bookplate Cafe National Library of Australia Time: 7.45am – 8:30am RSVP: Rebecca Kemble rebecca.kemble@canberra.edu.au


QLD Events
Tuesday May 12, 2015	QLD State ConferenceWhen: Tuesday May 12 2015 08:30 to 16:30 Venue: Hotel Jen, 159 Roma Street, BrisbaneTraditional organisations ‘did’ records management for governance and compliance. But it’s time to change this perception and focus on the business benefits that good record keeping enables.The RIM PA Queensland State Conference 2015 explores topics from analysis, business review and improvement, anticipating future needs, better service delivery, linking the organisation through shared information and ultimately shows you how moving from RM to IM can create business benefits way beyond governance and compliance.Networking drinks after the conference allow you to mix with your professional network and make new connections that may assist your organisation shift towards IM.This event is proudly sponsored by Blumark, Records Solutions, EzeScan, Grace, Objective, ACA Pacific and Kodak AlarisPlease click here to download the flyer Click here to register
Wednesday May 20 2015	Brisbane GAIN forum – National Archives of AustraliaJoin the National Archives for a special open discussion forum during Information Awareness Month.”TIME: 3:00pm−5:00pm Venue: National Archives of Australia 16 Corporate Drive, Cannon Hill QLD 4170Simon Kaplan (NICTA) will demonstrate and discuss: NICTA’s Business Fitness Tool how it can assist your agency. This open forum will be followed by an update on recent National Archives initiatives. Australian Government agency representatives are invited to stay for this update. Who should attend? Information management professionals or senior managers with information and records management responsibilities from: federal, state and local government agencies private-sector organisations. Register

SA Events
Wednesday May 20, 2015	The Benefits of Managing Information and Knowledge as a Business AssetDate: Wednesday, 20 May 2015 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (ACST) Register NOW Click HereVenue: Woods Bagot, 14/11 Waymouth Street Presenter: James Price, Managing Director – Exprerience MattersSummery: Information is the arterial system for organisations, supplying the nutrients for all business activities, process and decisions; without information no organisation can function. With the advent of mobility and the Cloud, IT is becoming a utility like electricity or water and we are witnessing the death of the traditional IT shop. Yet if information is so critical to an organisation’s survival and prosperity, and IT is being marginalised, who will be accountable for managing that vital business asset? Whilst Information Assets i.e. data, documents, content and knowledge are managed by every person in the organisation, in most organisations it is done badly and at significant risk and cost. Management simply doesn’t pay attention. One of the main reasons for this is that investing in information and knowledge management initiatives is difficult to justify. Organisations do not know how much it costs them to manage their Information Assets, they don’t know their value and they therefore don’t know the benefit to their organisations from improving their information and knowledge management practices.
Friday May 22, 2015	SA’s Digital EcosystemsDate: Friday 22nd May 2015 09:00 to 16:00 Venue: Adelaide Oval, King William Street Overview: To celebrate Information Awareness Month it is our pleasure to bring to you a wide variety of speakers to talk about the ‘Digital World in SA and its varied ecosystems’…the good, bad and the ugly, the current and the future! We are proud to present speakers from both the government and private sectors. Once we have final confirmations (very soon) we will release the full program.Please click here to download the flyerThis event is proudly sponsored by EzeScan Click here to register

VIC Events
Saturday May 2, 2015	Victorian Archives Centre Open Day: Dig the ArchivesPublic Record Office Victoria and the National Archives of Australia are opening our doors and inviting you to Dig the Archives at the Victorian Archives Centre Open Day. Come along on the 2nd of May to take a tour of our massive repository of almost 100km of archives, chat with the experts on hot history topics, listen to awesome speakers, and start your own research journey.It’s set to be a busy day so we highly recommend you register for your chosen talks, tours and presentations in advance to avoid disappointment.Register online at http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/whats-on When: 10.30am to 4.30pm, 2 May 2015 Where: Victorian Archives Centre, 99 Shiel Street North Melbourne Parking: The free carpark can be accessed via Macaulay Road Cost: This is a FREE community event.
Tuesday 12th May, 2015	IBM Connect 2015 Invitation to IBM Connect 2015, a flagship event IBM are running in May, focused on how data and analytics are transforming industries and professions with some incredibly tangible results. We have a great line up of executive speakers and hope you will gain value from attending. The event commences at 10.30am and concludes with networking drinks at 5.30pm. Please feel entirely free to attend as little or as much of the event as you wish according to your needs. The agenda is available at ibm.com/au/connect/agenda Where: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre Please see the attached invitation for further information and details on how you can register or visit ibm.com/au/connect which includes the same information.
Wednesday May 20, 2015	Digital Disruption: Improving Customer EngagementRetail industry marketing executives, regardless of how well-equipped, are aware of the customer revolution currently transforming the retail sector. The collision of the virtual and physical worlds is fundamentally changing consumers’ purchasing behaviours. Consumers are seeking an integrated Customer Experience (CX) across all channels and expect retailers to deliver this experience. Failure to deliver puts retailers at risk of being replaced by competitors delivering a better experience.Traditional retailers must find opportunities to seamlessly embed the digital world into their strategy by developing in-store and online technologies that allow them to create and maintain meaningful and sincere connections with customers across all channels.The immediate imperative for many retailers is what to do next and how to learn from the leaders. The Australian Marketing Institute and AIIA have partnered to develop an exceptional Retail CX forum which addresses these issues. This exciting ICT and Retail industry event will feature a keynote presentation from Tara Lordsmith, Group General Manager, Myer. Tara will be joined for an interactive panel session, featuring a number of key industry leaders.Date: Wednesday 20 May, 2015 Time: 7.00am – registrations & networking 7.20am – breakfast, keynote and panel session Venue: The RACV Club, 501 Bourke Street, Melbourne Cost: $90 + GST (Members); $140 + GST (Non-Members) RSVP: Friday 15 May, 4pmPlaces are limited, so please book now to secure your seat. No late bookings will be accepted. Register here For further enquiries please contact Kerryn Nelson (03) 9785 3050.
Friday May 22, 2015	Records Management Network ForumAs part of the Information Awareness Month, The Public Record Office Victoria will be participating by hosting a Records Management Network forum on the 22nd May.Venue: Theatrette Level 5, 121 Exhibition Street Melbourne When: Friday 22 May 2015 from 10:30am to 2:30pmMore Info & Registration



WA Events
Wednesday May 6, 2015	Information CelebrationInformation celebration Associate Professor Jenna Hartel, Ph. D, University of Toronto In the spirit of Information Awareness Month,Dr. Hartel will present “Information Celebration!” Her talk will provide a fresh, visual perspective on the concept of information, and should appeal to members of the records, archives, library, knowledge, information and data management communities. For the past four years, Dr. Hartel has spear-headed the innovative, international iSquare Research Program. In this arts-informed study people answer the question “What is information?” in the form of a compact line drawing, coined an “iSquare.” The session will contain a speech, Q&A and be interactive, featuring an opportunity for the audience to contribute to iSquare research now underway by Curtin University’s Dr. Pauline Joseph.Venue: Curtin HIVE, Building 200A, Entry via John Curtin Gallery, BentleyPlease click here to download the flyer Click here to register This event is proudly sponsored by Grace Information and Records Management and Curtin University
Tuesday May 19, 2015	“Information As A Service” SundownerSpeakers: Adrian Gallyot,Information System Developer at PTTEP Tony Ferrinda, Manager Information Management Services at Department of Transport Perth Bronny CoombesDate: Tuesday 19 May, 2015 Time: 4:30pm Venue: ANZAC House, 28 St Georges Terrace, Perth Register: Click Here
Thursday May 21, 2015	Recordkeeping Plan Compliance AuditsWhen: Thursday 21st May 2015 07:00 to 09:30 Venue: Kings Perth Hotel, 517 Hay Street PerthThe presentations will provide an insight into some of the issues currently facing organisations and staff.Please click here to download the flyerThis event is proudly sponsored by Compu-stor Click here to register