2020 Program

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Business Analysis Professional Week

Our 2020 IIBA Business Analysis Professional Week program will deliver topics which are current, relevant and inspiring to your work in the field.
We will focus on what is affecting the industry now and how we move into the future together in these uncertain times.

You will be presented with opportunities to network with peers from around the world to exchange ideas and share best practices and lessons learned. 

Each day, the content will be delivered across four streams.
Grow Yourself, Connect,  Innovate,  Grow Your Teams Capabilities

 

All times are in Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Timezone (ie ACT, NSW, TAS, VIC). To check your timezone please click here.

1200-1345 OPENING SESSION
1200-1230 Social Networking

Take this opportunity to meet colleagues, sponsors and speakers through small group meetings. Delegates will be randomly allocated through a progression of four-person video group chats. You never know who you might meet!

1230-1345 Official Opening & Keynote Speaker

The Communication Looking Glass

Lindsay Tighe, Author, speaker and coach, Better Questions  (This session will not be recorded so please watch live)

1345-1430 SPONSORS EXHIBITION HALL & REFRESHMENT BREAK
  Stretch, stand up, grab your favourite brew from your Bean Alliance Group order, visit our sponsors in the Exhibition Lounge and get ready for the concurrent sessions…which one will you attend?
1430-1530 CONCURRENT SESSION ONE
Grow Yourself Stream 

1430-1530: The Success Stories of the Accidental BAs- meandering journeys full of twists, lessons learnt and unexpected turns

Briana Ertanin, BA and PM Practice Lead, Toyota Financial Services

Connect Stream

1430-1515: How to Build a Customer-Centric Culture

Nate Sturcke, Founder and Managing Director, Skills of the Modern Age

Innovate Stream

1430-1530: Is Product Owner the next title of a Business Analyst?

Tim Coventry, CEO, Business Analysts Pty Ltd

Grow Your Team Capabilities Stream

1430-1515: Digital Transformation – Do You Trust Your Data?

Paul Orfanos, Director, Mondelio Worldwide & Derek Smith, Chief Technology Officer, Naveego

 

1530-1800 PROGRAM BREAK
1800-2000 CONCURRENT SESSION TWO
Grow Yourself Stream 

1800-1845: The Forge: Choosing/creating the right technique

Mark Keith, Senior Business Analyst, New Zealand Transport Agency

1845-1915: Social Networking

Connect Stream

1800-1845: Working with Remote Teams: Connecting Through the Virtual Interface

Kristy Dean, Solution Design Specialist, BT

1845-1915: Social Networking

Innovate Stream

1800-1845: The image of a modern digital business analyst

Igor Arkhipov, Associate Business Analysis Director, Isobar Australia

1845-1915: Social Networking

Grow Your Team Capabilities Stream

1800-2000: Unleashing the Power of Visual Thinking (Workshop)*   – Fully Booked

Grant Wright, Principal Consultant, Scarlett Solutions Limited

 

2000 DAY 1 CONCLUDES
All times are in Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Timezone (ie ACT, NSW, TAS, VIC). To check your timezone please click here.

*Workshop attendee numbers will be limited. Registration for workshops will open to all those who have registered by the 12th of October.

1015-1215 CONCURRENT SESSION THREE
Grow Yourself Stream

1015-1115: Become and Act like a BA

Gabor Devenyi, Delivery Lead, Reboot Co

1115-1215: Stop Modeling. Start Managing

Roger Tregear, Principal Advisor, TregearBPM

Connect Stream

1115-1215: Communicate For Outcomes (starting with the humble email)

Naomi Pollock, Business Analyst, Latitude Financial Services

Innovate Stream

1115-1215: How to measure innovation

Andrew Lizzio, Managing Director, Wizup Pty Ltd

Grow Your Team Capabilities Stream

1115-1215: Futures Leader: A BA Superpower

Katy Cooper, Managing Director, DisruptiveCo Pty Ltd

 

1215-1300 SPONSORS EXHIBITION HALL & REFRESHMENT BREAK
Stretch, stand up, expand your community through the meeting hub, visit our sponsors in the Exhibition Lounge and get ready for our next keynote speaker.
1300-1430 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION & NETWORKING
 1300-1400 THE NEU ORGANISATION – How to build a human and adaptive business

Eduardo Nofuentes, Cofounder and Director, Neu21

1400-1430 Networking Session
1400-1615 PROGRAM BREAK
   
1615-1815 CONCURRENT SESSION FOUR
Grow Yourself Stream

1615-1715: Business Analyst to Business Architecture Perspective

Deirdre Caren, Director, Agora Insights Ltd

1715-1800: The Power of Prototyping

Adarsh Thakur, Business Analyst, Indue Ltd

Connect Stream

1615-1815: BA: Brand & Attract (Workshop)*

Georgiana Mannion, Director, Evolving BA

Innovate Stream

1630-1715: Paperless Process ≠ Improvement

Rob Li, Process Analyst, Swinburne University of Technology

1715-1815: Simplicity: The Art of Doing Less

Ryan Folster, Business Analysis Competency Lead, Dimension Data

Grow Your Team Capabilities Stream

1615-1815: Deep Dive into Collaboration (Workshop)*

Craig Brown, CEO, Everest Engineering

 

1845-1945 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION FORUM
1815-1915 Keynote Speaker

Blurring Edge of Jobs

Ashish Mehta, Founder, StartUp in Stealth Mode

 

1915-1945 Discussion Forum

Take this opportunity to network with your peers, whilst catching up on the day that was and the day that will be.

1945 DAY 2 CONCLUDES
All times are in Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Timezone (ie ACT, NSW, VIC, TAS). To check your timezone please click here.

Workshop attendee numbers will be limited. Registration for workshops will open to all those who have registered by the 12th of October.

1115-1245 NETWORKING & KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
1115-1145 Social Networking

Take this opportunity to meet colleagues, sponsors and speakers through small group meetings. Delegates will be randomly allocated through a progression of four-person video group chats. You never know who you might meet!

1145-1245 Keynote Speaker

State of Agile Analysis

Angela Wick, CEO, BA-Squared

1245-1330 SPONSORS EXHIBITION HALL & REFRESHMENT BREAK
  Stretch, stand up, visit our sponsors in the Exhibition Lounge and get ready for the next set of breakout sessions…which will you attend?

 

1330-1530 CONCURRENT SESSION FIVE
Grow Yourself Stream 

1330-1530: Undertaking Strategy Analysis – then executing to that strategy! (Workshop)*Fully Booked

Haydn Thomas, Chief Mindavator, Mindavation

Connect Stream

1330-1530: Developing a growth mindset as a business analyst (Workshop)*

Marina Pullin, Managing Director, MCBI – Learning and Development

Innovate Stream

1330-1430: Abstract thinking – How do we break it down to concrete thoughts

Paul Benn, Senior Business Analyst Consultant, Redvespa

1430-1530: Cybersecurity – separating the hype from the reality

Rajiv Shah, Managing Director, MDR Security

Grow Your Team Capabilities Stream

1330-1430: The Six Ws and One H of the value of collaborating with UX professionals

Ashlea McKay, Senior User Researcher / Manager, Synergy Group Australia

1430-1530: Leveraging Business Analysis For Emerging Leadership Roles

Malini Jayaganesh, Director Emeritus, Business Relationship Management Institute

 

1530-1800 PROGRAM BREAK
 
1800-1930 PLENARY SESSION
1800-1830 Social Networking

Join us for virtual happy hour as we catch up on what people are enjoying in their job right now.   

1830-1930 The business analysis profession in Australia – Challenges and opportunities – A Live Panel Discussion with Q&A

Hugh Peterken, CEO, Vireloup Pty Ltd

Briana Ertanin, Business Analyst Practice Lead, Toyota Financial Services

Damian Wilson, Business Analysis Practice Manager, Toll Group

1930 DAY 3 CONCLUDES
 
All times are in Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Timezone (ie ACT, NSW, TAS, VIC). To check your timezone please click here.

*Workshop attendee numbers will be limited. Registration for workshops will open to all those who have registered by the 12th of October.

1130-1200 SOCIAL MORNING TEA/BRUNCH
Bring your coffee and cake (or brunch) along for a casual chat before the educational program commences.  You will be randomly allocated through a progression of four-person video group chats. Perhaps you could end up having a chat with the IIBA Australian Chapter President….
1200-1400 CONCURRENT SESSION SIX
Grow Yourself Stream

1200-1300: BA: Business Analyst or Business Advisor? How to be both.

Allan Baird, Strategic Information Technology Consultant, Strategic Information Technology Consultant

1300-1400: Business Process Modelling & Governance

Linda Field, Co-Founder and Capability Manager, Bailey Abbott

Connect Stream

1200-1230: Story Telling: A strategic approach to influencing business change

John Parshotamdas, Eureka Moment Consulting – Delivering Digital Programs for the Banyule City Council

1300-1400: High performance: culturally strategic or strategically cultural?

Phil Owens, Principal, The Bigger Game

Innovate Stream

1200-1300: Profit into Purpose: The future of business (analysis)

Carl Sudholz, Independent Business Analyst, AGContext Business Systems

1300-1400: Dealing with Uncertainty

Gina Brooks, Director & Principal Consultant, Training x Design

Grow Your Team Capabilities Stream

1200-1300: Strategizing with Data from Concept to Reality

Dr. Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst / Team Lead, NC Department of Health & Human Services

1300-1400: Building a Business Analysis Practice

Arvind Arcot, Business Analysis Practice Lead, Yarra Valley Water

 

1400-1430 SPONSORS EXHIBITION HALL & REFRESHMENT BREAK
Stretch, stand up, visit our sponsors in the Exhibition Lounge and get ready for the next set of breakout sessions…which one will you attend?
1430-1730 CONCURRENT SESSION SEVEN
Grow Yourself Stream

1430-1515: Analytical mindset shaping me as a Project Manager

John Petridis, Principal Consultant, intelia

1515-1600: Emotional Intelligence

Chitra Rajalakshmi Manoj, Senior Technical Business Analyst Independent Senior Technical Business Analyst

1630-1730: Attaining individual agility – the secret is in the wings

Edward Ngubane, Head of Business Analysis, DVT (Dynamic Visual Technologies)

Connect Stream

1430-1515: Live Q&A with Business Analysis

Tim Coventry, CEO,  Business Analysis

1515-1600: Isounity: building community in the Iso Age

Kelly Myles, Senior Business Analyst, Reserve Bank of Australia

Innovate Stream

1430-1515: Fast-Tracking Current State Analysis

Alistair Gibbons, Independent Business Analyst, Athena Solutions

1630-1730: Gamification: Fad or new reality

Oluwakorede Asuni, Secretary, International Institute of Business Analysis, South Africa Chapter, South Africa

Grow Your Team Capabilities Stream

1430-1630: Requirements Master Class (Workshop)*  Fully Booked

Damian Wilson, Business Analysis Practice Manager, Toll Group

 

1730 – 1930 PANEL & KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
1730-1830 International Panel featuring speakers from New Zealand and Australia

Georgiana Mannion, Vice President, IIBA Australia

Phillip Cregeen, President, IIBA New Zealand

Yvonne Bishop, Past President, IIBA New Zealand

1830-1930 Keynote Speaker 

European Update including how Business Analysis is supporting companies in this difficult time.

Michele Maritato, Partner, PMProgetti

1930 DAY 4 CONCLUDES
All times are in Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Timezone (ie ACT, NSW, TAS, VIC). To check your timezone please click here.

*Workshop attendee numbers will be limited. Registration for workshops will open to all those who have registered by the 12th of October.

1200-1430 CLOSING SESSION
1200-1300 Keynote Speaker 

Juliette Wright OAM, Director and Founder, GIVIT.org.au

1300-1330 Final opportunity to mingle with other attendees and sponsors.
1330-1415 Conference Close

Delvin Fletcher, President & CEO, IIBA & Keith Ellis, Chair, IIBA 
1415-1430 Prize Draw & Final Announcements
1430 DAY 5 CONCLUDES
All times are in Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Timezone (ACT, NSW, TAS, VIC). To check your timezone please click here.

For more information on Professional Development Hours please click here