ACS Victoria 2019 Diversity Breakfast: Insights into creating a diverse ICT team
Join us to hear unique insights from our expert panellists on how to accelerate your move to an equal opportunity workplace.
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About this event
At a time when Australia is facing a serious shortage of ICT professionals, women represent only 28% of ICT workforce in Australia compared to 43% in the wider professional workforce. This underutilization of human capital in ICT looms as a major constraint on Australia’s national growth.
In addition, ACS’s recent event ‘Achieving Diversity through Reskilling’, held in October 2018 identified the need for fundamental change in the way that we approach diversity, citing that workforce participation and pay equality will be achieved in 212 years if current strategies and approaches remain the same. ACS Victoria argues that a key element to this fundamental change is to approach diversity from a ‘whole of population’ point of view, that is, that a truly diverse workforce closely reflects the diversity of the broader population.
At this breakfast our expert panellists will discuss different approaches to diversity, and will identify real, tangible actions that organisations can take to create a positive impact in regards to diversity and inclusion within the workforce.
Panellists include:
- Helen Kapalos - Chairperson, Victorian Multicultural Commission
- Geoff Purcell - CTO, Melbourne Water
- Kelly Taylor - Head of Strategic Growth – Digital iD, Australia Post
- Gerard Holland - Co-Founder and CEO, Outcome.Life
Standard Registration
- ACS Members - $80.00 (inc. GST)
- Non-Members - $100.00 (inc. GST)
Corporate tables of 8
- ACS Members - $520.00 (inc. GST)
- Non-Members - $625.00 (inc. GST)
For corporate table bookings and sponsorship enquiries, please contact T'arne Whelan at Tarne.Whelan@acs.org.au.
This event is proudly sponsored by the Victorian Government.
Professional Year students please note: This event does not contribute to your Professional Year Program CPD. Please refer back to the ACS events calendar to register for an eligible event.
Speakers
I am a member of the Australian Computer Society's Professional Education Governance Committee and am passionate about rectifying the gender diversity imbalance in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathemetics (STEM). I maintain an active interest in the not-for-profit sector.I speak by invitation nationally in the areas of eCommerce, Technology Transformation and IT Leadership.
I hold a Masters in Business Administration [MBA Executive] from the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), I am Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, past Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a member of the AGSM Alumni.
With over 10 years’ experience, Kelly is a well-respected thought leader in the Australian and international Cybersecurity space. Her sphere of expertise covers many areas of security and information management from authentication and IAM, through to analytics and GRC. Kelly began her career with Gartner, moving subsequently to Cybertrust, Verizon and RSA, Thales eSecurity and now leading the go-to-market strategy for Digital iD™ at Australia Post. As a member of the Australian Women in Security Network (AWSN), and a previous director of the Australian Information Security Association (AISA), Kelly is a commercially astute and well respected leader in her field.
Kelly is a passionate advocate of the importance of networking, mentoring, and knowledge sharing. Having benefited throughout her career from the support and advice from her mentors, Kelly likes to “pay it forward”, and mentor and provide support to others around her.
Kelly lives on a beautiful farm in the Macedon Ranges with her son Sam, and the odd Black Angus cow. On the weekends she can be found running around a football oval as an Auskick coach.
Helen’s successful media career as an award-winning journalist has included working for all three Australian commercial television networks as well as the two public broadcasters. In 2015, prior to joining the Commission she directed and produced a feature-length documentary ‘A Life of Its Own’, on the Medicinal Cannabis debate which has aired on SBS Television and is one of a handful of Australian-produced documentaries acquired by Netflix.
Helen is also a Director with the Usman Khawaja Foundation which promotes the active participation of youth from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse communities.
Gerard founded Outcome.life in 2016 to solve the problem of employability for international students and also through other founded businesses, GADA technology, Pleased.Property and PCSS Gerard has employed over 30 internationals living in Melbourne.
Outcome.Life has received funding from LaunchVic, was a winner at the 2018 TechDiversity awards and equal second in the 2018 StartUpSmart Awards.
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