Speaker presentations 2022

LIVEXchange 2022: From here to there together: strengthening our foundations and creating connections.

The full LIVEXchange 2022 Program can be viewed here. Video recordings of all the presentations, and slides where available, can be viewed below.

Strengthening our foundations

• Welcome from the Chair: Troy Setter, Chair, LiveCorp
• Thoughts on leadership:  Major General Stephen Day, Soldier
• What we’ve learnt from 2011 (panel):
  • Tracey Hayes, Live export class action (Moderator)
  • Peter Barnard, Oliver & Doam
  • Greg Pankhurst, Lampung Livestock
  • Donal Sullivan, Heli-Muster

Opportunities and challenges

• Ministerial address: Senator the Hon. Murray Watt, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
• Biosecurity threat outlook: 2022 in focus: Dr Beth Cookson, Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer (slides)
• Practicalities, challenges and gaps in biosecurity preparedness: Luke Bowen, Deputy CEO, Agriculture and Fisheries (slides)

International perspectives

• Key dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region: Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor, The Australian
• Discussions in international fora about Australian agriculture: Su McCluskey, Special Representative for Australian Agriculture (slides)
• An international perspective on Australia’s live trade and future opportunities (panel):
  • Su McCluskey, Non-executive Director, LiveCorp (moderator)
  • Neny Lumbantoruan, Forum AWO
  • Rodd Dyer, FocusGroupGo Asia Pacific
  • Dr Fars Al Rogibah, Amiral
  • Amanda Hodges, Meat & Livestock Australia

Focus on northern Australia

• Political address: Minister the Hon. Paul Kirby, Minister for Agribusiness and Fisheries
• NT – the pastoralists’ perspective: David Connolly, President, Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association
• Evolution of the NT buffalo industry (panel):
  • Tom Dawkins, NT Buffalo Industry Council (Moderator)
  • Adrian Phillips, NT Buffalo Industry Council
  • Byron O‘Keefe, O‘Keefe Pastoral Company

A global outlook

• Welcome from the Chair: David Galvin, Chair, Australian Livestock Exporters’ Council
• Market outlook for Australia and its global competition: Angus Gidley-Baird, Senior-Analyst – Animal Protein, Rabobank (slides)
• The OECD perspective: Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Animal welfare: Challenges for the meat and livestock sector – the European perspective: Carolina Cucurella, Senior Veterinary Advisor, European Livestock and Meat Trades Union (slides)

Tackling sustainbility, together

• Red meat: solving the climate challenge: Jason Strong, Managing Director, Meat & Livestock Australia (slides)
• Sustainability and ESG – trends and implications: Robyn Leeson, Vice-Chair – Global Sustainability Standards Board, Global Reporting Initiative (slides)
• Building social licence foundations – on the road to a sustainable supply chain: Garry Edwards, AAM Investment Group in conversation with Luke Bowen, NT Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade

From here to there, through innovation

• Regulation for the future (panel):
  • Wayne Collier, Chief Executive Officer, LiveCorp (Moderator)
  • Ross Carter, Inspector-General of Live Animal Exports
  • Grant Barnes, Chief Regulatory Officer, Natural Resources Access Regulator
• From precision livestock management to smart livestock farming: David Lamb, Chief Scientist, Food Agility CRC (slides)

Creating connections

• Growing community awareness and empowering the supply chain: Milly Nolan, Program Manager, The Livestock Collective (slides)
• Strengthening foundations and creating connections – how do we get ‘there’? (panel):
  • Prue Bondfield, Non-executive Director, LiveCorp (Moderator)
  • Camille Camp, Assistant Manager, Kalyeeda Station
  • Ollie Thorne, Vessel coordinator, AUSTREX
  • Ceny Hussie, Depot Manager, Roebuck Export Depot
  • Yudhistira Pratama S., Chief Supply Chain Officer, Halleen Australasian Livestock Traders