Sports Without Borders Conference to address innovation in community sport

Aiming to be the essential conference for every grassroots sporting group, sports administrator, and community leader in local communities and local government, the third annual Sports Without Borders (SWB) national conference is to be held at the Moonee Valley Racing Club, Melbourne on Friday 3rd May 2013.

The conference will involve a practical exploration of the following issues

• In the digital age, how do you recruit and retain you volunteers?
• In a spectator-led age, how do you develop systems to engage members?
• What has to change before under-represented groups - women, people with disabilities, people from culturall and linguistically diverse communities, gay and lesbian people and indigenous Australians - see your club as relevant to their lives?
• What partnerships are becoming possible with emerging stakeholders?

The conference will feature an exciting line-up of speakers from media, politics, grassroots sport and government.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Federal Minister for Sport and Multicultural Affairs, Senator The Hon Kate Lundy;
• James Demetriou - co-founder (with his son Tom) and Chair of Sports Without Borders;
• Paul Kennedy, Host, ABC Contact Sport and ABC News Broadcast;
• Steve Horvat retired footballers and graduate of the Australian Institute of Sport;
• Paul Kennedy - former state league AFL footballer and ABC television sports journalist;
• Kristina Keneally - Chief Executive of Basketball Australia and former Premier of NSW;
• Francis Leach broadcaster and part of ABC Grandstand's live sports commentary team;
• Rita Panahi - social commentator;
• Patrick Skene - Director of Sport and Media for consultancy Red Elephant Projects;
• Ron Murray - cultural educator, storyteller, wood sculptor and didgeridoo maker;
• Brett de Hoedt - media trainer, facilitator and the founder and self-proclaimed Mayor of Hootville Communications;
• Steve Tighe - one of Australia's most compelling speakers on the future and innovation;
• Josh Vanderloo - Head of Community Participation at the Australian Football League;
• Richard Ings - the inaugural Chief Executive and Chair of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Drug Authority and current Managing Director of Web Technology Company ReadSpeaker Pty Ltd.

For more information or to register contact, service@ourcommunity.com.au, www.ourcommunity.com.au/swb2013

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