ACT Region
Welcome to the ACT Region Page
| ACT Regional Chair: | Robyn Hardy |
| ACT Regional Vice Chair: | Troy Watkins |
| Contact Email: | act@cipsa.com.au |
| Click here for ACT events | events@cipsa.com.au |
Latest News and Events
CIPS Australia/Capgemini Procurement Event
Buy two spots, get the third free!
30 October 2008 Canberra
The Gershon Report is complete. So, now what? How will you implement the findings and recommendations of the report to deliver the projected savings and efficiencies?
Experience an innovative environment to network with other procurement professionals and discuss the procurement issues that matter most to the Public Sector in this changing environment.
This event is designed to allow you to examine today’s most timely topics in government procurement with peers and experts, such as :
- How can government adopt an integrated approach to Procurement Transformation to maximise savings and efficiencies.
- Shared Services – can it work in the public sector?
- Performance Management: what should a procurement dashboard look like in 2008?
Attached are the full details for the event. We really hope that you can make it to share and network with other procurement professionals in the ACT.
Where: Capgemini Australia, Level 12, 14 Moore St, Canberra
When: Thursday 30 October
Time: 5.30pm for 6.00pm start.
Cost: $15 students, $20 CIPSA members, $30 non-members (Buy two spots, get the third spot free - free spot will be cheapest spot)
RSVP: Email events@cipsa.com.au by Monday 27 October, or call CIPS Australia on 1300 765 142.
Please see the full invite attached here.
Please see the booking form attached here.
A Seminar with a Difference: Fast Track Arbitration – New Date & Venue!
6th November 2008 - National Library - Parkes Place
Sir Laurence Street will host a very entertaining and informative presentation about arbitration in the fast lane, reviving the age old method of dispute resolution. Learn through realistic role plays, the peculiarities of fast track arbitration.
Hosted by the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia; Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors; Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply Australia and Master Builders Association ACT.
When: Thursday 6th November.
What time: Pre-seminar cocktails at 5.30 – 9pm
Where: National Library, Parkes Place
RSVP early (as seats are limited).To book or for more information call (02) 6282 2222 or email contact@aiqs.com.au (please do not RSVP to CIPSA).
Please see the invite and booking form attached.
End of year Christmas Dinner & Drinks for ACT – November 28
CIPSA members and their guests are invited to celebrate the end of another successful, with drinks and dinner at the Canberra Yacht Club.
The cost for dinner is only $36.50 per head to be paid on the night, plus an unwrapped donated toy to the Smith Family Christmas appeal. Come and join us on Friday November 28, for dinner and drinks (or just turn up for drinks if you like – patrons pay own way).
Date: Friday 28 November 2008
Time: 6.00 pm drinks and 7.30 pm for dinner
Venue: Canberra Yacht Club, Mariner Place, Yarralumla
Menu: Entree, Main and Dessert for $36.50 per head
Donation: One unwrapped toy for the Smith Family Christmas Appeal (to be placed under the CIPSA tree)
Lucky door prizes on the night.
Open Training 2008 - all ACT courses completed
Canberra, your training season has finished for 2008, thank you for your support this year. See what is still running in other cities this year, then jump online and book a cheap flight! To request expressions of interest for courses to be run in 2009, please send your requests to training@cipsa.com.au
Calendar of Events
Mark your diary now for these events coming up around Australia.
14-15 October - The 4th CIPS Australia Annual Conference (Melbourne)
24 October - Open Training - Effective Expediting (Brisbane)
29 October - CPO Agenda Masterclass - Fixing the links in the Supply Chain (Sydney)
30 October - Open Training - Supplier Relationship Management (Melbourne)
30 October - NSW Region Trivia Night at Lion Nathan (Sydney)
30 October - ACT Region - Capgemini Event (Canberra)
6 November - Fast Track Arbitration Event (Canberra)
7 November - Sustainable Procurement Presentation (Wellington)
12 November - CPO Agenda Masterclass - Fixing the links in the Supply Chain (Melbourne)
28 November - NSW end of year gala (Sydney)
28 November - ACT Region end of year dinner and drinks (Canberra)
Contribute to your local news
Always considered yourself a bit of a Clark Kent? Procurement Super Hero by day, sleuth journalist by night? Well we would love to see your talent, and even if you don’t have the talent, we would still love to hear the gossip from your region. Got any news on movers and shakers, big contracts awarded, something local to your region, or country? Send in your article, or link to an article on the web and if we think its newsworthy we will publish it in the monthly newsletter. Deadlines for each newsletter is the last week of each month, so get in your submissions now. Submissions will be by-lined by agreement. Email marketing@cipsa.com.au with the subject line <Your Region> Newsletter Submission.
Meet your Chair and Vice Chair.
ACT Chair: Robyn Hardy
Acting executive director, ACT Procurement Solutions (a division of ACT Treasury) Robyn has had a long and varied career in the public service, both in the Commonwealth and the ACT Governments. She is an economist, having studied for her undergraduate degree at James Cook University of North Queensland. She has also completed a Masters Degree in public policy at the Australian National University (ANU) and is currently studying for her Doctorate at ANU.
Email Robyn at act@cipsa.com.au
ACT Vice Chair: Troy Watkins
Senior manager, KPMG
Troy has 20 years of experience and expertise, including consulting and operational roles in both domestic and international environments. Prior to joining KPMG, Troy was senior manager with McGrathNicol+Partners in the corporate advisory group specialising in project management, strategic
procurement and business transformation; a senior strategic procurement adviser and business analyst for Airservices Australia; a manager in the financial risk management division of the Commonwealth Bank
of Australia; and a manager with Ernst & Young’s assurance and advisory division in Sydney, Australia.
Email Troy at act@cipsa.com.au
