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IMPORTANT: All participants have received a reconfirmation of their registration and program details. If you are registered and have not received this information, please contact us by email thecentre@accpa.com.au

ROUNDTABLE - THURSDAY 20 MARCH

For Heads of Function and Senior Practitioners  - this is your opportunity to be part of important, insightful conversations about where the function is heading and how it is being managed, and ensure you know what your peers know. Timely insights shared by industry leaders, prominent socio-political commentators, and leading journalists and commentators will benefit you, your team, and your organisation.

Discussions will focus on:

• Corporate Public Affairs Compensation: highlights from the Centre’s 2024 Salary Survey.
• Governing and doing business in the era of Presidents Xi and Trump 2.0; the geopolitical outlook.
• Campaign Always On: how and why large organisations and industry groups are calibrating to be constantly campaign ready.
• The corporate public affairs practitioner as the CEO’s Chief of Staff: the role, the rewards, and the risks.
• Power, Politics, and Policy in Australia in 2025.

Currently confirmed discussion leaders are:

• Darren Goodsir, Chief of Staff Office of the Vice-Chancellor and President, The University of Sydney
• Mathew Jones, General Manager Public Affairs, Insurance Council of Australia
• Samantha Maiden, Political Editor, news.com.au
• Nicole McKechnie, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, EnergyAustralia
• Jared Mondschein, Director of Research, United States Studies Centre
• Susannah Patton, Director Southeast Asia Program, Project Lead Asia Power Index, Lowy Institute
• Tim Salathiel, former Chief of Staff, Newcrest Mining

Further areas of focus and discussion leaders will be confirmed shortly. Meanwhile, save your place at this important meeting of peers by registering now.  (Registration includes participation in the Roundtable Dinner - details below).

DINNER – WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH

Our 2025 Annual Roundtable Dinner Speaker is Joe Aston, who helmed The Australian Financial Review's Rear Window column for 11 years and author of the book The Chairman’s Lounge.

In Conversation with Joe Aston: cautionary tales of corporate scandals and corporate affairs will be a lively, entertaining evening for corporate public affairs practitioners, including Q&A from the floor.

Timings: 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start.

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