The program aims to look at what skills business trainers, mentors, facilitators, program administrators and managers, board members and not-for-profit sector members need and provide training and guest speakers to meet those needs. Focus is on practitioner skills development; networking and relationship building; resource enhancement; management; industry outcomes; the entrepreneurial environment; the role of innovation and training; communications; government involvement and the knowledge economy in which we are working.

Conference Timings for Travel Arrangements

For those wishing to book early bird flights, Twin Towns is located less than 10 minutes drive from the Coolangatta Airport. The program will commence with AGMs on Sunday afternoon, and conclude the formal portion of the conference by 5pm Tuesday 23rd October. Informal networking events and a trip to Byron Bay will then occur on Tuesday evening and Wednesday, with buses returning from Byron for a drop-off at Coolangatta Airport by 4.30pm Wednesday afternoon. We encourage you to attend, learn, network and then take the opportunity to stay a few more days in the area. Accommodation will be available onsite, with excellent conference prices both pre and post conference.

Overall the conference intends to achieve the following:

Improve practioner skills and regional skills bases
Improve community understanding of regional economies and the labour market and how these are changing
Increase the capacity of a local community to respond to structural and cyclical change
Improve understanding of business incubation and improvements that can be made
Increase the opportunity for development of small business

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