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Riverina Murray | The Future for Business Summit


  • Charles Sturt University 386 Elizabeth Mitchell Drive Thurgoona, NSW, 2640 Australia (map)

Business NSW Riverina Murray 'The Future for Business' Summit is not your ordinary summit. In collaboration with major event partner AusIndustry, this event will bring together Executive business leaders from across the region to discuss the opportunities and challenges we face as a region.

Addressing key topics, the 2 day summit will inform and educate attendees and is designed to be thought provoking, solutions focused and interactive.

  • The Local Economic Environment with Dr Sherman Chan, Chief Economist, Business NSW

  • Workforce - A Changing Environment with Southern Cross Austereo’s Chief People & Culture Officer, Rebecca Ackland and Executive General Manager ‑ NSW & ACT, Tracy Paterson

  • The Industrial Relations Revolution with Tamsin Lawrence, Australian Business Lawyers

  • How you can improve culture to mitigate risk in your workplace with ICARE

  • The True Cost of Excluding Inclusion with Cate Thomas PhD (USyd), Charles Sturt University

  • Generative AI with Ganna Pogrebna, Executive Director, Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Futures Institute, Charles Sturt University

  • AI in Sustainability with Craig Lefoe, Toustone

  • More than Just a Job with Rhyley Hunter and Kaitlyn Fuller, Huntsman Recruiting

  • Creating Vibrant Regional Communities in conversation with Business NSW, Regional Director Serena Hardwick and David Hunter, Habitat Planning

  • Productivity - The Unspoken Crisis with Business NSW

  • Hear from innovative regional business Meet Pat on a mission to deliver safe drinking water solutions while contributing to sustainable impact for people and the planet.

Key outcomes of the summit include co-designing real solutions for business resilience and how to better promote the region for investment and workforce attraction.

The first day of the summit will be followed by a Regional Dinner.

Regional Dinner |Thursday 29th August 2024, 6.30pm | Enhance at Willowbank, Willowbank Rd, Albury 

The Regional Dinner will showcase the high-quality produce cultivated throughout the Riverina Murray. Accompanied by award-winning regional caterers, you will embark on a culinary exploration of the region.

This is an evening not to be missed.

Willowbank is located in South Albury less than 5 minutes from Albury’s city centre and railway station and no more than 10 minutes drive from Albury airport.