Conference 2007 - Leading and Learning
The ITF Annual Conference was a full two day event held in Wellington from 27 to 28 July 2007.
The ITF would like to thank all the presenters, sponsors and participants for a dynamic conference. It was great to have such strong support in the number of attendees and presenters at both the conference and the gala dinner.
Copies of the Conference keynote addresses and speakers' presentations are available on this page.
The conference programme is available here:
2007 Conference Programme (140KB)
Brief biographies for keynote speakers are available here:
2007 Keynote Biographies (257KB)
Hon Dr Michael Cullen
Presentation: Towards a Higher Skilled New Zealand (42KB)
Mr Jim Davidson
Presentation: Meeting Industry’s Skills needs: A... (120KB)
Hon Russell Marshall
Mr Owen Harvey
Presentation: Productivity: Making Skills Count (71KB)
Keynote Presentation
Kevin Bryant, CE, Agriculture ITO
Report on The Agriculture ITO Value Added Project (431KB)
Workshop 1: Speaking For Your industry: The role of ITOs as industry stakeholders in the new tertiary education environment
Barbara Tebbs, Director, Stakeholder Engagement and Investment Guidance, Tertiary Education Commission
Workshop 2: Key Steps Forwards for Workplace Literacy
Katherine Percy, CEO , Workbase &Jeremy Baker, Executive Director, Industry Training Federation
Workshop 3: The Skills Leadership Role of ITOs
Lesley Haines, Group Manager, Workforce Policy, Department of Labour, and Chair of the Upskilling Senior Officials Group.
Workshop 4: Better Tertiary and Trade Training Decision Making
Bernie Burrell, Project Manager, Career Services & Damien Banks, Project Advisor, Career Services
Workshop 5: ITO Leadership in Quality Assurance
Mike Willing, Deputy Chief Executive, Quality, New Zealand Qualifications Authority
Workshop 6: Māori Education Strategy
Apryll Parata, Deputy Secretary, Māori Education, Ministry of Education
Workshop 7: The Competitive Manufacturing Initiative
Ian Boyd, Chief Executive, FITEC & Bob Paton, Chief Executive, Manufacturing Industry Skills Council (Australia)
Workshop 8: Engaging Pasifika Trainees
Graham Flanagan & John Kotoisuva, Skills4Work