Deck Program 2024 Schedule

TUESDAY 15th OCTOBER

11:30AM

Registration Opens

12:00PM

Lunch & Welcome

12:30PM

Industry core business: preserving security over resource access

Russell Barnett

Partner, Australian Venture Consultants & Chair, WRL

1:15PM

Emerging Technologies and the Power of Data

Kyaw Kyaw Soe Hlaing

General Manager ICT & Digitalisation, FRDC

2:00PM

BREAK

2:15PM

Cash is King: Understanding the importance of cash flow in business

Jen Hanrahan

Business Adviser, SBDC Regional

3:00PM

Succession Planning

Jen Hanrahan

Business Adviser, SBDC Regional

3:45PM

BREAK

4:00PM

A deep dive into the China trade ban and Australia’s response

Matt Taylor

CEO, WRL

6:30PM

DINNER AT Laian Restaurant

WEDNESDAY 16th OCTOBER

8:00AM

Breakfast

8:30AM

Disentangling a whale of a challenge through novel gear modifications

Kristin Hoel

Project Manager, OceanWatch Australia

9:00AM

Climate change and the environment’s impact on the western rock lobster resource 

Simon de Lestang

Principal Research Scientist, DPIRD

10:00AM

BREAK

10:15AM

Creating a Culture of Safety

Mel Edwards and Steve Mc Mahon

WA State Coordinators, Stay Afloat

11:00AM

Using WRL benchmark data to improve your profitability

Daniel Fels

Economist, WRL

11:45AM

break

12:00pM

Insights from Seafood Directions & the Marine Hybrid & Electric Expo  

Matt Ottersen

WRL Fisherman

12:30pM

CLOSING REMARKS & LIGHT LUNCH

1:30pM

Optional Field Activity: Visit to Dongara Marine –

Exclusive Tour of Bruce Cockman’s New Boat

Bruce Cockman

WRL Fisherman & deputy Deputy Chair, WRL

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