FAQs

Cancellation requests received on or before Friday 12 September 2025 will be eligible for a full refund. 

If you are unable to attend the ASFA Conference a replacement delegate may be substituted at no extra cost. Details of substitution (including the details of the new delegate) must be received no later than Friday 7 November 2025.

All substitution and cancellation requests must be sent to the ASFA Conference team in writing.

Read the full terms and conditions here.

ASFA Conference passes cannot be shared between multiple parties. Each delegate must have their own pass, and must always display their name badge to access Conference sessions. 

If you are unable to attend the ASFA Conference a replacement delegate may be substituted at no extra cost. Requests must be sent to the ASFA Conference team in writing prior to the event.

Yes, but full payment must be received 30 days after receipt of invoice or at least 14 days prior to the event date, whichever date may fall first. Please be mindful that your registration is not confirmed until payment has been received.

All Ozaccom+ bookings (booked on the Conference event rate) include free cancellation seven days prior to your arrival date. All cancellations must be made in writing to Ozaccom+. Cancellations by telephone will not be accepted.

Travel insurance is recommended. You will need to organise this yourself and be aware of what your policy entails.

Visit the membership section of the ASFA website to check to see if your organisation is already a member, download an application if they are not. If you would like to speak to someone from the membership team, please call ASFA on 02 9264 9300 or 1800 812 798.

Your dietary requirements can be added to your ASFA Profile.

Please allow four weeks’ notice before the event to ensure we can accommodate your needs. On site you will be informed of where to collect your meals.

Please note our focus is on providing dietary meals for those that have allergies, religious restrictions or follow specific diets (e.g. vegetarian, vegan). While we will endeavour to cater to delegate’s requests, it is not always possible for venues to cater to a delegate’s specific dietary palate or preferences.

The 2025 ASFA Conference program will be announced soon. CPD Points will be allocated to members based on session attendance. Stay tuned!

No, delegates will need to make their own way from the airport to the conference venue. Please refer to the venue website in regard to planning your trip.

Limited cloak room space is available at the conference venue. We advise you to ask your hotel to store your luggage.

Conference attire is business casual. As room temperatures can/will vary, we recommend bringing a jacket. The dress code for the Conference closing event is cocktail for ladies and lounge suit (no tie) for men.

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Derek Thompson

Bestselling author, podcast host & founder

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Few speakers can match Derek Thompson‘s ability to synthesize mega-trends in society, labor, economics, technology, and politics. Put another way: Derek trawls the data sets and does the forecasting and deep reporting necessary to help us better understand how we live, how we vote, how we spend, and how we work.

In his paradigm-shifting #1 New York Times bestseller, Abundance (co-written with Ezra Klein), this award-winning journalist reveals how our policies and culture have pushed us into a world of scarcity (not enough housing, workers, or progress)—and offers a radical new path towards a world where housing is affordable, energy is plentiful, and innovation flourishes across industries.

He shares a compelling vision of a future where we have more than enough for everybody, and a practical, actionable roadmap for how to get there. It starts with taking more risks, building more expansively, and recognizing that we all have the power to create a world of abundance. “Everything’s utopian until it’s reality,” he says.

Carmen Beverley-Smith

Executive Director - Superannuation, Life & Private Health Insurance, APRA

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Carmen joined APRA in March 2023 and holds the role of Executive Director, Life and Private Health Insurance and Superannuation.  

She has had an esteemed career in financial services, spanning over 25 years. She has held diverse leadership roles at Westpac and Commonwealth Bank of Australia, including across risk, transformation and change, product and portfolio development, and sales and service. 

Prior to joining APRA, she held the role of General Manager, Risk Transformation Delivery Integration at Westpac. This involved leading the group-wide implementation of a suite of solutions to uplift risk management capability and develop data, analytics and reporting. 

Carmen leads with a values-driven approach and a particular interest in developing and mentoring talent. 

She holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Accounting, is a certified Chartered Accountant and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. 

Amy C. Edmondson

Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society.

Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and most recently was ranked #1 in 2021 and 2023; she also received that organization’s Breakthrough Idea Award in 2019, and Talent Award in 2017.  She studies teaming, psychological safety, and organisational learning, and her articles have been published in numerous academic and management outlets, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. Her 2019 book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley), has been translated into 15 languages. Her prior books – Teaming: How organizations learn, innovate and compete in the knowledge economy (Jossey-Bass, 2012), Teaming to Innovate (Jossey-Bass, 2013) and Extreme Teaming (Emerald, 2017) – explore teamwork in dynamic organisational environments. In Building the future: Big teaming for audacious innovation (Berrett-Koehler, 2016), she examines the challenges and opportunities of teaming across industries to build smart cities. 

Edmondson’s latest book, Right Kind of Wrong (Atria), builds on her prior work on psychological safety and teaming to provide a framework for thinking about, discussing, and practicing the science of failing well. First published in the US and the UK in September, 2023, the book is due to be translated into 24 additional languages, and was selected for the Financial Times and Schroders Best Business Book of the Year award.

Before her academic career, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked on transformational change in large companies. In the early 1980s, she worked as Chief Engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller, and her book A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (Birkauser Boston, 1987) clarifies Fuller’s mathematical contributions for a non-technical audience. Edmondson received her PhD in organisational behavior, AM in psychology, and AB in engineering and design from Harvard University.

 

Daniel Mulino MP

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services

Sessions

Keynote 8 – Navigating the energy transition: opportunities, investor strategies and policy needs

Born in Brindisi, Italy, Daniel was a young child when he moved with his family to Australia. He grew up in Canberra and completed his first degrees – arts and law – at the ANU. He then completed a Master of Economics (University of Sydney) and a PhD in economics from Yale.

He lectured at Monash University, was an economic adviser in the Gillard government and was a Victorian MP from 2014 to 2018. As Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer of Victoria, Daniel helped deliver major infrastructure projects and developed innovative financing structures for community projects.

In 2018 he was preselected for the new federal seat of Fraser and became its first MP at the 2019 election, re-elected in 2022 and 2025. From 2022 to 2025, Daniel was chair of the House of Representatives’ Standing Economics Committee in which he chaired inquiries; economic dynamism, competition and business formation and insurers’ responses to 2022 major floods claims.

In 2025, he became the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services.

In August 2022, Daniel published ‘Safety Net: The Future of Welfare in Australia’, which aims to explore the ways in which an insurance approach can improve the effectiveness of government service delivery.