Session Programme

7.30

Registration

• Coffee available

8.30

Mihi Whakatau

9.00

Welcome

Michael Wintringham
State Services Commissioner

9.05

New Zealand's involvement in world events

Rt. Hon Helen Clark
Prime Minister

9.15

A Kiwi abroad - a view back from the international community

• What's happening in the world? The changing paradigm and reflections on the role that New Zealand plays and where we are leading the way or making a contribution.
• How New Zealand affects other countries - including through policy ideas and people, with case studies from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Annette Dixon
Director, Regional Operations
Office of the Vice President
Europe and Central Asia Region
The World Bank

9.50

At the frontline - our Defence Force's contribution to New Zealand's role within the international community.

• Experiences from East Timor and New Zealand's current global security commitments, and their effect on national interests.

Major General Martyn Dunne
Commander, Joint Forces New Zealand

10.15

Morning tea

• Opportunity to view the display expo.

11.00

The social diversity challenges facing NZ

• An international perspective on the challenges arising from increasing social diversity.
• What impact does this have on community formation?

Professor Jenny Onyx
University of Technology Sydney

11.30

Kia ora, gidday, talofa, ni hao ma

• The changing faces of New Zealand - a personal insight into what's happening and its impact on our community - from a Pacific Island perspective.
• Why do Pacific Islanders look to NZ in much the same way as NZ looks to the world? What are they finding?

Judge Semi Epati
Manukau District Court

12.00

Responding to the environment - the future of the Public Service

• What the Australian and New Zealand Public Services need to do to succeed in the future, given the changing world environment.
• Common public sector management issues.

Professor Allan Fels
Australia and New Zealand School of Government

12.30

Lunch

• Opportunity to view the display expo.

14.00

Looking beyond pavlova and Number 8 fencing wire

• A personal perspective on New Zealand and identity.

Raybon Kan

14.15

Exploring questions of culture and identity

• 'Not the biggest, but the best' - the old identity and its collapse.
• 'Tangata whenua' - towards a new identity.

Dr Jock Phillips and
Dr Charles Royal
Ministry for Culture & Heritage

15.00

Afternoon tea

• Opportunity to view the display expo.

15.30

From across the ditch

• Personal perspectives from senior Australian executives working in New Zealand.
• Their views of the relationship between Australia and New Zealand - now and in the future.

Rosemary Howard
Telstra-Clear
&
Jane Diplock
Securities Commission

16.15

The state of the State

• The evolving nature of the New Zealand's State sector
• Developing our future leaders.

Hon Trevor Mallard
Minister of State Services

16.35

Conference Close

Michael Wintringham
State Services Commissioner

17.00

Drinks and nibbles