SCM Summit Australia 2008 - and we still have some free iPods left!

By Alex Manchester, Editor, The Internal Comms Hub (Australia), Melcrum

For this year's Strategic Communication Management Summit in Sydney in September, we're giving away free iPod Shuffles to the first 25 delegates.

They're going quickly but we still have a few remaining, all you have to do is sign up to the conference (easy!) and they're (PRODUCT) Red shuffles too, which I find a worthy cause.

Now, I appreciate I'm in danger of breaking one of the unwritten blogging rules by writing marketing-esque stuff on the blog, but iPods are a handy diversion that allow me to talk more about the Summit, because we're rapt with the lineup of speakers and sessions this year. In no particular order we have confirmed:

• Jim Schaffer, Jim Shaffer Group (US)
• David MacGregor, Internal Communications Manager, Woolworths
• Kevin Panozza, CEO, SalesForce Australia,
• Rosie Mullaly,  Deputy Director News Services & Manager Corporate Employee Communications, Telstra
• Jenny Burn, Organisational Development and Learning Manager, AstraZeneca
• Helen Taylor, Internal & Management Communications Manager, Shell Australia
• Kellie Tomney, Executive Manager Recruitment & Branding Strategy, St George
• Ross Bernays, CEO, HIP Super
• Cary Frost,  Principal - Communication at Work, Aon Consulting
• Louise Martin, Director, Strategic Communication, Department of Justice (Victoria)
• Alex Gosman, Director - Government & Corporate Affairs, GlaxoSmithKline Australia
• Todd Montgomery, Principal Consultant, Mercer
• Karina Keisler, Group Manager External Communications, Sensis
• Michelle Berardone, Manager Corporate Communications, Powerlink Queensland
• Chris Jackson, Head of Communication, CGU Insurance
• Michael Moore, Manager Corporate & Business Communications, Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Genevieve O'Reilly, PhD, Research Consultant, Bond University

For a full list of presentations you can download the brochure here.

It was a great event last year, with the likes of Angela Sinickas, David Grossman, Peter Eksted at HP, Anna Wills at Alcatel-Lucent, Sue Dewhurst and more, and the Employee Engagement conference in May had some truly excellent presentations. If you're looking for a first class conference for internal comms, and you're in the region, then get in touch to register.

In fact, Melcrum Strategic Communication Management Summits are happening in quick succession around the world, with the Australian event in Sydney, 10-11 September, the US event in Chicago on 23-24 September, and the UK event in London on 15-16 October.

Comments

[Stephen Collins]

Sounds like an event with a lot of promise. Definitely something I'd come to if budget allowed (which I think is not the case this year).

As you know, I'm really interested in seeing where organisations are letting themselves explore social networking tools as a platform to enhance engagement, knowledge and information retention and ease of communication.

Certainly in Australia, most organisations have a lot to learn. The network drive folder - destroyer of the ability to retain and find information - is still very much the defining paradigm here.