OPEN Symposium 2021

The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare invites you to the OPEN Symposium 2021. The three-day online event will run from 26-28 October.

Over the past year of the global pandemic, services that work with children and families have had to reconfigure and reimagine the way they work, deliver services, implement programs, and engage with clients and communities. This has led to new ways of working and thinking about what matters.

This year’s OPEN Symposium will explore these ideas and innovations that are occurring across the Victorian child and family sector and other allied sectors.

Keynote Speakers

We are excited to announce our first two keynote speakers for this year’s OPEN Symposium.Our keynotes are:

Dr Norman Swan, health journalist, broadcaster and commentator
Professor Sharon Goldfeld, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Jonathan Breckon, Senior Policy Advisor at Open Innovation Team – Govt. of UK and former Director of Alliance for Useful Evidence, Nesta
Liz Weaver, Co-CEO of Tamarack Institute (Canada)

The full symposium ticket will give you access to all sessions across three days via Zoom. Member discounts are available and students can attend for free.

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OPEN Symposium 2021

Keynote Speakers