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Welcome cocktail reception, Tuesday 18 September 6:00–8:00pm, open to all delegates! Venue: Penny Royal
 
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Mardi Trompf

MarVAL Consulting
Founder and consultant
Melbourne, Australia
International development monitoring, evaluation, learning, project management and procurement. Successes include consolidation of disparate programs to prioritise impact, outcome based monitoring, measuring and delivering value for money.
Wednesday, September 19
 

9:00am AEST

Opening plenary: Welcome to Country; Michael Quinn Patton "Getting Real about Transformational Change: The Blue Marble Evaluation Perspective" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Lyn Alderman • Aunty Nola Hooper • Kate McKegg • Michael Quinn Patton

11:00am AEST

The STrengthening Evaluation Practices and Strategies (STEPS) in Indigenous settings in Australia and New Zealand Project: Next "steps" in the journey. Chancellor 4Liz Smith • Margaret Cargo • Sharon Clarke • Lynley Cvitanovic • Jenni Judd • Gill Potaka Osborne • Lisa Warner

12:10pm AEST

Joining the dots: evaluation and strategy Chancellor 6Byron Pakula • Joanna Farmer

1:30pm AEST

Outcomes, dashboards and cupcakes Chancellor 5Eleanor Williams • Clare Davies • Jenny Riley

2:00pm AEST

Whose outcome is it anyway? Using matrices to serve many masters. Chancellor 6Stefan Kmit • Nolan Stephenson

2:30pm AEST

Synthesising Kirkpatrick's four-levels Chancellor 4Noore Alam • Francesca Demetriou

2:40pm AEST

Strengthening program impact on systems and building evaluation into systems Chancellor 3Delyth Lloyd • Jade Maloney • Katherine Rich

2:45pm AEST

Evaluating influence Chancellor 3Delyth Lloyd • Joanna Farmer

3:30pm AEST

Integrating evaluation and design roles: Innovations in recent NGO projects Chancellor 3Ian Patrick • Robert Drake • Vanessa Hood Buka Hatene - an innovative model promoting adaptive management for improved aid effectiveness in Timor-Leste Chancellor 5Helen McMahon • Louise Maher Is this strategy working?: The systems thinking approach to investing for impact Chancellor 6David Roberts • Lewis Atkinson
 
Thursday, September 20
 

8:00am AEST

Plenary two: Penny Hagen "Scaling up, out and deep: What we are learning about social innovation for transformation" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Penny Hagen

9:30am AEST

Transforming evaluation culture and systems within the Australian aid program: Embracing the power of evaluation to promote learning, transparency, and accountability. Chancellor 5Michael Shapland • Tracey McMartin

11:00am AEST

The Enhanced Commonwealth Performance Framework - the opportunity for the Australian evaluation community Chancellor 5John Stoney • Lyn Alderman • Brad Cook • David Morton • David Roberts • David Turvey

12:00pm AEST

Working with values in evaluation Chancellor 6Kelly Tapley • Keryn Hassall

2:00pm AEST

Evaluative Rubrics: A tool for making explicit evaluative judgements Chancellor 4Evylyn Brophy • Kate McKegg • Nan Wehipeihana

2:30pm AEST

In their own words: How we (the boring adults) worked with young people (the cool kids) in Papua New Guinea to develop a bilingual post-program survey, why we did it, and why it was a good idea Chancellor 3Christina Thornley • Junior Muke • Lauren Siegmann

3:00pm AEST

The promise and practice of partner-led evaluation: a policy research programme case study Chancellor 6Anthea McClintock • Jess Dart • Stuart Raetz

4:00pm AEST

Plenary three: Karol Olejniczak "Transforming evaluation practice with serious games" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Karol Olejniczak

5:30pm AEST

AES Annual General Meeting & 'What could the Romans actually do for us?' - an interactive Forum on the concept of an Evaluator-General and what it could mean for AES members Conference centreLyn Alderman
 
Friday, September 21
 

8:00am AEST

Plenary four: Sharon Gollan & Kathleen Stacey "Cultural accountability in evaluating Aboriginal initiatives and programs" Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Sharon Gollan • Kathleen Stacey

9:00am AEST

Evolving the evaluation deliverable Conference centreMatt Healey • Gerard Atkinson

10:00am AEST

Transforming evaluation to better address complexity Conference centreMatt Healey • Julie Elliott

10:05am AEST

When do we have enough evidence!!! Chancellor 3Charlie Tulloch • Zazie Tolmer

11:00am AEST

Total value measurement: Are we counting what actually counts? Chancellor 3Kitty te Riele • Les Trudzik

12:00pm AEST

Evaluation fatigue and the tragedy of the commons: Are we plundering our participants' finite resources of patience and trust? Chancellor 4Helen Watts • Adrian Field Why do well designed M&E systems seldom inform decision making? Chancellor 6Ruth McCausland • Byron Pakula • Damien Sweeney

1:30pm AEST

Umbrellas and rain drops: Evaluating systems change lessons and insights from Tasmania Chancellor 3Annette Madvig • Jess Dart • Galina Laurie • Anna Powell • Kitty te Riele • Jo Taylor • Ebeny Wood

2:30pm AEST

Closing plenary: It’s the AES18 Great Debate and it’s going to be huge! Conference centreDuncan Rintoul • Lyn Alderman • Penny Hagen • Kate McKegg • Karol Olejniczak • Gill Westhorp