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Wednesday 28th September
8.30 Registration
9.00 Indigenous welcome, Opening by Chairs of host Regional Body Boards
9.20 Housekeeping
9.30 An international perspective on extension for Natural Resource Management - Niels Röling and Janice Jiggins, Wageningen University, Netherlands
10.00 A national perspective on the Australian NRM Knowledge System - challenges and options – Andrew Campbell, Executive Director, Land & Water Australia
10.30 Morning Tea
11.00 Regional Bodies:
o Shifting community driven organisations to outcome based delivery – Phil McCullough, CA
o Successes, opportunities and challenges in delivering integrated NRM in the Queensland Murray Darling Basin –RickKowitz, QMDC
12.15 Summary of additional Regional Body contributions – Brian Stockwell, QDPI&F
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Small group discussions – identifying and prioritising key issues and opportunities for Regional Bodies
2.15 Profiling rural and regional communities and perspectives – Prof Helen Ross, School of Natural and Rural Systems Management, University of Queensland
2.45 Concurrent sessions – Innovative extension approaches
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Session 1 – Downs Room
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Session 2 – Warrego Room
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Session 3 – McCafferty room
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2.45
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Development of Capacity Assessment Methodology for NRM Regional Arrangements – Deirdre Lawrence
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IAWM: A model for achieving NRM practice change – Bill Wilkinson & Julie Ferguson
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DairyCatch, a partnership for sustainable dairy farming – Robert Rouda, WA
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3.05
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Personalities of Farmers and Resistance to Change – Ian Plowman
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Engaging stakeholders: it does not have to be so difficult – Tony Gleeson
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Extension in the Grazing Industry of the Burdekin Rangelands – Bob Shepherd
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3.30
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Afternoon tea
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4.00
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Rural Women’s Engagement in NRM: Eastern Darling Downs Case Study – Fiona McCartney
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NRM Engagement, Relationships Australia or the Rubik’s cube game! – Val Sapin & Scott Cawley
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Options for integrating NRM and production extension – Amabel Fulton
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4.20
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Social and Economic constraints to improved NRM – Jeanette Stanley
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Lessons to Improve CE for NRM: A Case Study – Paul Harris
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Achieving a paradigm shift with natural resource managers - Margaret Bridgeford
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4.40
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Understanding current engagement practice for NRM in the SEQ western catchments – Cristine Hall
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From the Kitchen to the Catchment: simple NRM extension tools – Paul Webb
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Changing farmers - systems, partnerships and buzz – Don Yule
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5.00 Close at 5.30 pm
7.00 Dinner: Speaker Tom Kirk – Aboriginal kinship systems and patterns; Cultural timeline
Thursday 29th September
8.30 Presentations – extension/ community engagement models
The Challenge of Learning and Adapting – Paul McDonald
Current extension models that work - Jeff Coutts
Contextual issues for NRM - Janelle Allison
Developing NRM extension models - Greg Leach
Deciding on who engages - Christine King
10.30 Morning tea
11.00 Concurrent sessions – Innovative extension approaches
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Session 4 – Downs Room
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Session 5 – Warrego Room
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Session 6 – McCafferty room
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11.00
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Implementing on-farm change on dairy farms using social networks to accelerate on-ground outcomes – Bronwyn Fisher
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Enhanced NRM outcomes in the cotton industry through partnerships – Veronica Chapman & Susan Maas
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Converging innovations for sustaining River Murray communities - Dick Osborn
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11.20
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Innovative whole community engagement through network building and social context analysis - Ken Keith
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Putting the action into action learning through training for extension practitioners - Richard Fell
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A social-ecological framework for sustainable landscape planning - Iris Bohnet
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11.40
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Building capacity through knowledge management – John James
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A case study of increasing community groups and government agency capacity to communicate – Carl Glen
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Using Participatory Evaluation for better NRM Engagement across - Val Sapin
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12.00 Small group considerations - Niels Röling and Janice Jiggins. Using these approaches and models to achieve solutions and outcomes in the regional NRM context
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Niels Röling and Janice Jiggins – ‘Big picture’ considerations of what works, where to from here, what skills are needed
2.45 Application feedback/ discussions and evaluation
3.00 Close
Regional body summary – Vickie Webb, SWNRM
John James (APEN) 
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