Terms & Conditions

1. Registration

1.1 In order to attend and participate in an ASFA conference, briefing, forum or other event (Event) the individual listed as the delegate (You) are required to complete a registration form and to agree to these participation terms and conditions.

2. Participation and substitution

2.1 Attendance at the Event is only for You. Your registration cannot be shared.
2.2 If You are unable to attend the Event (including as a result of COVID-19 government restrictions), a replacement delegate may be substituted at no extra cost. Details of substitution (including the details of the new delegate) must be received by ASFA in writing no later than three days before the start of the Event.
2.3 Any attendance recorded prior to a substitution being made, will be removed upon the substitution being made.

3. Cancellation

3.1 As ASFA incurs costs prior to the commencement of this event, the following policy applies to all cancellations. All cancellations must be received in writing.
3.2 For the ASFA conference:
(a) Cancellation requests received more than 60 days before the start of the Event will be eligible for a full refund; and 
(b) Cancellation requests received within 60 days of the start of the Event are not eligible to receive any refund, and for invoices not yet paid ASFA will require payment of the amount outstanding upon cancellation. 
3.3 For any other Event:
(a) Cancellation requests received more than 14 days before the start of the Event will be eligible for a full refund; and 
(b) Cancellation requests received within 14 days of the start of the Event are not eligible to receive any refund, and for invoices not yet paid ASFA will require payment of the amount outstanding upon cancellation. 

4. Changes and modifications to an Event

4.1 ASFA reserves the right to change, modify or cancel an Event at its discretion due to any circumstances including without limitation, unavailability of venue, government restrictions (including any restrictions related to Covid-19), danger, or any other cause. Details of any changes will be published on the Event website, e-newsletter and/or other media.
4.2 Should there be a requirement to postpone an Event, registration fees paid will be carried across to the rescheduled Event dates.

5. Payment

5.1 Payment of any applicable attendance fees is due 30 days after receipt of invoice or before the start of the Event, whichever date may fall first. Your registration will remain provisional until payment is received.
5.2 Payment must be made by either direct debit or credit card for registrations made less than 30 days before the start of a conference or 14 days before the start of any other Event.

6. Conference name badge

6.1 If the Event is a conference, You will be provided with a name badge upon arrival and check-in at the conference. For some conferences:
(a) You will be required to tap Your badge to gain access to the sessions and activities,; and
(b) tapping Your badge is also required to record your attendance and receive CPD points. ASFA will not be able to report attendance or provide CPD points for sessions where You have not tapped Your badge or where access to that session is not included in Your registration.
6.2 Where the technology has been enabled, Your badge can also be used as an electronic business card throughout the conference. Tapping Your badge on devices held by ASFA’s supporting partners and exhibitors will provide them with Your registration details (your name, job title, email, company).
6.3 If You lose Your name badge, Your details will remain safe. Only a unique ID is stored on the badge and it can only be accessed by conference tap devices. Staff at the conference enquiries desk can also deactivate a badge and issue a new one. ID must be shown before name badges are reissued.

7. Claims

7.1 ASFA will not be held responsible for any claims regarding registration related costs.

8. Photography policy

8.1 You acknowledge and agree that:
(a) ASFA may be photographing and filming at an Event for the purpose of reporting on the Event and for use in future promotional material; and
(b) by registering to attend, You give Your consent to be photographed and filmed.

9. Privacy

9.1 ASFA collects your personal information for the administration of the Event and for future marketing and promotional purposes relating to ASFA.
9.2 Unless You advise ASFA in writing at any time that You do not want any of Your personal information to be shared, You consent to Your name, organisation and job title being published in delegate lists and being shared with commercial partners in advance of, during and/or after the Event for the purpose of networking and marketing.

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.