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| Background |
Management Solutions (Qld) initiated the SEGRA National Conference in 1997 to focus on the problems and issues facing regional Australia today, and to propose positive solutions.
The first SEGRA Conference was held in Geelong & Lorne and since then has been hosted by Beaudesert, Alice Springs, Launceston, Wollongong Illawarra Region, Rockhampton, the Sunshine Coast, Ballarat, Thuringowa, Queanbeyan and the Gold Coast. Dedicated to tackling the current issues facing regional Australia, SEGRA has previously addressed the topics of:
- The state of regions and the needs of key industry sectors
- Attracting business to your region
- Tapping into new Commonwealth grants
- Key trends & issues
- Challenges facing regions
- Visions & immigration driving regional development
- The changing face of regional Australia
- Regions Taking Control
- Regions Driving Decision Making
- Raising Regional Profiles
- Building Regional Resilience
- Big Ideas for Regional Australia
- Sustainable Regional Development
- Adaptable Regions
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SEGRA 2008
The SEGRA 2008 Conference, held at Albury, NSW attracted 264 delegates and over 70 speakers presenting on Revitalising Remote Australia, Regional Implications of Climate Change, Indigenous Economic Enterprise, Strategic Financial Planning, Governance, Caring for Country and Emerging Population Dynamics. Workshops held at SEGRA 2008 included: Understanding Regional Economic Development, Economic Development through Community Invigoration, Scenario Planning as well as Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation. Two facilitated study tours were conducted by the host region - Regional Development: developing strategies and partnerships as well as Regional Manufactuing: regionally made, globally available.
The SEGRA 2008 Conference was themed: Creative Solutins - expect them to be different.
Key topics for SEGRA 2008 included:
- Regional Australia and the National Agenda
- Deliver Sustainable Economic Development
- Tools and Models for Regional Development
- Successful Case Studies - the different and unexpected
- Climate Change
- Identify the latest trends impacting regional Australia
- Review government, community, practitioner and commercial responses and experiences
- Showcase innovative policy responses, actions and decision making techniques
- Outline scenarios for regional futures
- Demonstrate a range of successful projects from regional Australia, and
- Identify key actions within high performing organisations.
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SEGRA 2007
The SEGRA 2007 Conference, held at Wollongong, Illawarra Region attracted close to 300 delegates and over 80 speakers presenting on Coastal Australia, Australia's Federation, Economic Outlook for Regional Australia, Changing Political, Social and Economic Environment, Regional Cooperation, and Indigenous Business. Workshops held at SEGRA 2007 included: Understanding Regional Economic Development; Unlocking Bright Ideas in Your Region Using Focus Groups; Scenario Planning; Lobbying for Regions: strategies and steps and Climate Change Futures: strategic responses and opportunities - learning from experience as well as the Illawarra State of the Region Summit which concentrated on sustainable business in the Illawarra Region. There was also a Climate Change Conference held concurrently with SEGRA looking at strategies for managing risks and making the most of climate change opportunities in your region.
The SEGRA 2007 Conference was themed: Changing Regions: the road to success.
Key topics for SEGRA 2007 included:
- Connecting Regions to the National Agenda
- Delivering sustainable Economic Development
- Doing Business in the Regions
- Skills and Capacity Building - Regional Solutions
- Physical and Social Infrastructure
- Dynamic Regional Communities Responding to Change
- Applied Regional Economic Development Strategies
- Regional Futures
- Data Analysis and Modeling
- Toolbox - the means to an end
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SEGRA 2006
The SEGRA 2006 Conference, held at Launceston, Northern Tasmania, attracted over 300 delegates and over 70 speakers presenting on Demographic Change, Regional Resource Issues, Environmental Concerns, Economic Drivers and Governance. Workshops held at SEGRA 2006 included: Regional Economic Policy Development Skills, Unlocking Bright Ideas in your Region using Focus Groups, Regional Climate Change Adaptation, Lobbying for Regions, Developing and Funding Collaborative Research Projects as well as Regional Study Tour, in which participants were shown the beautiful sites of the Launceston, Northern Tasmania Region.
The SEGRA 2006 Conference was themed: Adaptable Regions: open minds open opportunities.
Key topics for SEGRA 2006 included:
- Innovations for Regional Growth
- Foreseeing Opportunities
- Assessing Risk: Identifying Opportunities
- Adapting to vulnerability
- Regional Economic Development Strategies
- Indicators for Regional Economic Development
- Adapting to the Green Challenge
- Developing Strategic Partnerships
- Regional Collaboration: The Townsville Experience
- Measuring Process and Demonstrating Success
- International Trends in Regional Development
- Drivers of Growth
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SEGRA 2005
The SEGRA 2005 Conference, held in Rockhampton and Capricorn Region, Central Queensland, attracted over 270 delegates and over 70 speakers presenting on Strategies for Business Action and Applied Research, Regional Development Strategies, Regional Attractions and Destinations, Regional Governance, Sustainability and Business Practice, Infrastructure and services. This conference due to strong demand continued the "Innovation Showcase" which allowed in-depth presentation and discussion on the "how to's" of regional development. SEGRA 2005 also incorporated the "Climate Proofing Your Region " forum as well as the "Regional Economic Development Policy Skills" workshop. The SEGRA 2005 Conference was themed: Sustainable Regional Development: getting down to business.
Key topics for SEGRA 2005 included:
- Understanding industry drivers in your region.
- Differentiating and capitalising on regional strengths.
- Knowing your region’s industry structure.
- Harnessing entrepreneurial leadership and creativity.
- Linking institutions, organisations, enterprises and key personnel to drive regional growth.
- Indigenous enterprise.
- Influencing industry policy for regional business development.
- Building and maintaining management capability in regional business.
- Mechanisms to deliver triple bottom line development.
- Trends in industrial relations – impacts on regions.
- Analysing regional development strategies and measuring their impacts.
- How frontier technologies can help your region.
- Setting the regional research agenda.
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SEGRA 2004
The SEGRA 2004 Conference, held at Alice Springs, Northern Territory, attracted over 330 delegates and over 80 speakers presenting on Strategies for Business Action and Applied Research, Regional Development Strategies, Regional Attractions and Destinations, Regional Governance, Sustainability and Business Practice, Infrastructure and services. This conference due to strong demand continued the "Innovation Showcase" which allowed in-depth presentation and discussion on the "how to's" of regional development. SEGRA 2004 also incorporated the "Lobbying for Regions: strategies and steps" forum as well as the "Regional Economic Development Policy Skills" workshop.
The SEGRA 2004 Conference was themed: Big Ideas for Regional Australia: breaking new territory.
Key topics for SEGRA 2004 included:
- Testing 'big ideas'
- Research for actions
- Enhancing regional attractiveness
- Using events for regional growth
- Visioning, community engagement and outcomes
- Governance for regional sustainability
- Building business sustainability
- Infrastructure- its part in regional growth
- Politics for regional problem solving
- Trends: economic, environmental and social
- Skill formation for achieving
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SEGRA 2003
The SEGRA 2003 Conference, held on the Gold Coast Queensland, attracted over 240 delegates and over 90 speakers.
Key topics for SEGRA 2003 included:
- Defining Regional Resilience
- Managing economic social and environmental sustainability
- Governance and regional development
- Regional identity, marketing and industry
- Developing regional cohesion
- Regional tourism
- Urbanisation and regions
- Approaches to economic development
- Influencing decision making
- Harnessing regional knowledge and skills
- Developing regional agendas
- Successful regional project implementation
- Skills for regional work
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SEGRA 2002
The 220 delegates who participated in SEGRA 2002 in Queanbeyan NSW heard 90 speakers across two plenary sessions, 12 concurrent sessions and three workshops.
Key topics for the conference included:
- Improving the regional business and investment environment
- Growing through public private partnerships
- Recruiting and retaining intellectual investment
- Creating educational advantage
- Responding to changing regional settlement pattern
- Innovation and structural change - models of governance
- Sustaining and strengthening regional communities
- Responding to changing consumer demands
- Transport infrastructure and telecommunications
- Making regional tourism work for your region
- Marketing regions for growth
- Employment and training agendas for regions
- Regional interests and the national competition policy
- Lobbying for Regions: strategies and steps (forum)
- Building Better Partnerships (workshop)
- Triple Bottom Line (workshop)
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SEGRA 2001
The SEGRA 2001 Conference, held in Thuringowa, tropical north Queensland, attracted over 200 delegates and over 100 speakers This conference also incorporated a number of study tours profiling the growth of the Thuringowa region through industry, tourism, heritage and conservation.
Key topics for the conference included:
- Putting regions on the map
- Marketing regions
- Assessing regional assets
- Lobbying for success
- Understanding drivers of regional change
- Community engagement for better decisions, action and impact
- Innovative regional governance and processes
- Collaborative projects across regional, organisational and international boundaries
- Economic development strategies
- Changing the issues
- Implementing sustainable development practices
- Promoting regional tourism
- Building knowledge infrastructure
- Case studies for regional success
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