Dress: Business attire

Conference Registration & Breakfast

Session 1: Trans–ACTION (Members & Suppliers)

Connect 2012 opens with Trans-ACTION a practical and informative session focussing on building successful business relationships, finding business opportunities, and achieving commercial outcomes.

Morning tea

Breakout Session 1 - Culture Vs Culture

Member session: A cultural awareness and cultural exchange session designed to enhance an understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, and diversity within the workplace. 

Supplier session:  The “How to Kit” to the Corporate World. A session focussing on Business culture, the Australian business and Government environment and how Indigenous business can engage and prosper within it.

Breakout Session 2 - Back to Business Basics

Member session: 'Practical strategies for embedding supplier diversity in the supply chain'

• Achieving broader buy in from across the company
• Mentoring and coaching SME's
• From Policy to Procurement – Transacting for change

Breakout Session 2 - The X Factor for Business

Supplier session: The X Factor for Business is a coaching session focussed on providing members and Indigenous business suppliers with new information and skills which enable them to do business differently.

• "Pitching to corporate to gain business' – The corporate sales kit"
• "Listening for business – Building successful client relationships"
• "Strategically marketing me"

Breakout Session 3 - Trans-ACTIONS for Change

Member session: Tackling programme challenges: 3 AIMSC members provide short presentations about their biggest supplier diversity challenge and how they are tackling it.

• Building engagement downstairs
• Internal reporting mechanisms
• Extending our reach to the second tier
• Procurement processes

Supplier session: Building sustainable business practices

SME's face various business and operational challenges throughout the business lifecycle. In this session SME's learn to build sustainable business practices and 'Business Know How' for success

• Managing growth – taking your business to next phase
• Operational techniques
• Legal Clinics – Risk and Commercial Negotiation

Dress: Business attire

Registrations open

The Pitching Hub

The pitching hubs aim to provide Indigenous business suppliers an opportunity to gain experience in pitching ideas and concepts of possible projects to potential clients.

Pitching hubs are set up for AIMSC members and Certified Indigenous business suppliers that register to participate as a panel or to sell or and pitch to Members.

Panel members bring real business opportunities such as projects, tenders, or contracts to the table for AIMSC Certified Indigenous business suppliers to pitch, or present. AIMSC Certified Indigenous business suppliers gain direct pitching experience, and or commercial outcomes by building relationships and sales leads.

Business Opportunity Fair/Tradeshow continues

Dress: Black tie

Sponsor reception

Guests seated - Opening performance

Keynote address

Indigenous business awards presentation