8:00am –   8:45 am

Registration desk open

8:45am - 9:30am

Session One – Setting the scene

• Conference opening and welcome: Doug Ducker, Chair of Woodco and Managing Director of Pan Pac Forest Products Ltd

• Intentions of a second term Key lead Government: Speaker to be confirmed.

9:30am - 10:15am

Morning Tea, Oceania Room

Sponsored by CentrePort Wellington

10:15am – 12:25pm

Session Two - Strategies for success
Chair: Tom Boon, President, PMA

• Economies and currencies: Doug Steel, Chief Economist, BNZ

• Global dynamics of the forest products industry 2012: Adjunct Professor of Forest Biomaterials, Dr Richard Phillips, North Carolina State University, USA

• Pan-industry strategic action plan: Lees Seymour, Managing Director, Nelson Forest Ltd and Chair of the Governance Group of Woodco over viewing the Strategic Action Plan

• NZ Wood changes up a gear: Jane Arnott, CEO, NZ Wood 

• MAF: Working with the forest and wood products sector to support growth: Paul Stocks, Deputy Director-General, Policy, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

12:25pm - 1:25pm

Lunch, Oceania Room

Sponsored by PPG Industries NZ Limited

1.25pm – 3.15pm

Session Three - Seismic shifts
Chair: Mark Hansen, President, WPA

• Canadian forest industry's four pillars to success: Andrew Goodison, FP Innovations, Canada

• Earthquakes around the globe and rebuild response learning’s: Stefano Pampanin, Associate Professor , University of Canterbury, Christchurch

• World-wide emerging engineered building technologies: Pierre Quenneville, Professor of Timber Design, University of Auckland

3:15pm - 3:45pm

Afternoon Tea, Oceania Room

Sponsored by Red Stag Timber Ltd

3:45pm – 4:55pm

Session Four - Game breaking changes
Chair: Bill McCallum, President, FOA

• Chinese plantation strategy and future wood fibre demand: Bruce Easton, Managing Director, Resource Management

• How to effect behavioural and cultural change to create go forward and success: Dave Hadfield, MindPlus; Kapiti Coast, Wellington

4:55pm – 5:00pm

Conference closing: Doug Ducker, Chair of Woodco and Managing Director of Pan Pac Forest Products Ltd

5:00pm

Cocktail Function
Oceania Room, Te Papa

7:15pm

Conference Dinner
Wellington Foyer, Te Papa

MC: Jacob Kajavala, President, FICA
After dinner speaker: Joe Bennett

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