AMTIL will be exhibiting at Stand 3426 at National Manufacturing Week (NMW) 2018, in Sydney on 9-11 May, setting the scene for a busy Events program over the coming year.
Having a stand enables AMTIL to show our support for members visiting or exhibiting at NMW, while also providing the opportunity to engage with Australian manufacturing businesses more generally and discuss the ways it can help them. For our members, there’ll also be ‘Happy Hour’ drinks at the stand from 4.00pm on the Wednesday and Thursday of the show (9 and 10 May). So any members at the show should drop by Stand 3426 for refreshments and a chat.
AMTIL’s presence at NMW will also serve as a curtain-raiser for an extensive program of events that we have planned between now and May of next year. Most notable among these will be the 2018 AMTIL National Conference, which will be held at Leonda by the Yarra in Hawthorn, Melbourne, on 22 August. The one-day event follows on from last year’s highly successful inaugural Conference, held at the same venue.
Conference plans taking shape
This year the theme for the AMTIL National Conference will be ‘Strategies for Manufacturing Resilience and Growth’. While details of the Conference are still being finalised, AMTIL has already confirmed Dr Jens Goennemann, Managing Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC), to deliver the keynote address.
Dr Goennenmann joined the AMGC in 2016, with an extensive background managing large manufacturing operations in Australia and Europe. He served as Managing Director of Airbus Group Australia Pacific and Airbus Helicopters, having previously spent six years in Germany with the former European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), today known as Airbus Group, and two years in Greece, where he established and managed the Eurofighter Office of DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, one of the three founding EADS partner companies. He began his career with Daimler-Benz in January 1996. Dr Goennenmann’s keynote address will explore the topic ‘Building Resilience in Australian Manufacturing’.
Also confirmed for the speaker program will be Claire Madden, the founder and director of strategy and communications agency Hello Clarity, and a leading voice on Generation Z. As an expert in interpreting social trends, demographics and generational change, Madden has been commissioned by leading companies and brands to interpret the changing landscape and communicate the implications for business and society. She is the author of ‘Hello Gen Z: Engaging the Generation of Post-Millennials’, and is regularly interviewed on television and radio and in print media. Madden will be speaking on ‘Creating an Engaging Culture: Inspiring the Next Generation of Staff and Teams’.
An eventful time
The AMTIL National Conference is just one of the highlights in a packed schedule of Events going forward. These will include Christmas social gatherings around the country in early December, as well as a number of CEO meetings for AMTIL members in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, and several workshops and seminars organised in conjunction with the Federal Government’s Entrepreneurs’ Programme (in which AMTIL is a partner organisation).
Our annual Corporate Golf Day will take place on 8 February of next year. Always a key fixture in the AMTIL calendar, the 2017 Golf Day was postponed in December when extreme rain swept across Melbourne and Victoria. Eventually held in February of this year, the timing for the rescheduled event proved highly popular among AMTIL members, so the move has now been made permanent.
Last, but definitely not least, the Austech advanced manufacturing and machine tool exhibition will return to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in May 2019. Co-located once again with National Manufacturing Week, Austech 2019 promises to be a landmark event for the advanced manufacturing industry in Australia.
“It’s certainly looking like a busy year, right through to Austech next May,” says Infanti. “Everything AMTIL does is intended to promote the manufacturing industry in Australia, and our Events program is a big part of that. We’re looking forward to seeing lots of our members – both existing and new ones – at these event.”
For more information about any of AMTIL’s upcoming events, please call 03 9800 3666, or email Events Manager Kim Banks on kbanks@amtil.com.au.