Agenda Conference

Conference Schedule

09:30 Registration
10:00

Opening Remarks

10:15 Session One
Case studies on elite sportswomen already earning a living from their sporting careers and conversation around these examining:
  • How do we define and quantify a successful sporting career?
  • How has location affected their success?
  • What have they done or are doing that has enabled them to earn their living through sport?
  • Why have these things worked and how can you make a difference to your career today?
Case studies on the secrets to the success of Canberra's women's sports programmes with representatives from:
  • Government
  • Media
  • Corporate
  • Community
And discussing with them:
  • What they're doing to support women's sport - and why
  • How do we define and quantify the success they have contributed to?
  • The detail of how and why, when these four groups come together, their support has been a catalyst for great women's sport in Canberra
11:30 Group Report
Over morning tea both groups will come together to share their definitions of success and the reasons behind the success of our existing great programmes and athletes.

11:45 Session Two
Workshop: Social Media for Sportswomen
  • In this hands on workshop, you'll learn the basics of social media, build your profiles and tips on how to use these tools to help build you career.
  • You'll walk away with a plan on how to best use social media in 10 minutes a day.
  • This workshop is specifically tailored to the unique needs of sportswomen.
Workshop: Take Control of your Web Presence
  • Learn why it's important to have your own home on the web in addition to your social profiles
  • We'll teach you how to use the Sports Hydrant content management and blogging system to build and publish your own website.
  • You'll walk away with your own fully functioning, live website and blog
Facilitated Discussion:
  • Which parts of Canberra's model can be replicated?
  • Are there any parts that we can improve on?
  • If there are sections that would be difficult to replicate, are they important to the whole? How can they be mitigated?
13:00 Lunch

We've got a fully catered lunch planned (yes, with tasty vegetarian options of course!) and a great outdoor area to get some fresh air and socialise (IRL!).

For everyone interested we'll be running a more relaxed discussion in the main room about your own visions for the future of women's sport - the more crazier, exciting, radical or controversial ideas you've got, the better!

We expect this will be a lot of fun :)

13:45 Session Three
Workshop: Take Control of your Web Presence
  • Learn why it's important to have your own home on the web in addition to your social profiles
  • We'll teach you how to use the Sports Hydrant content management and blogging system to build and publish your own website.
  • You'll walk away with your own fully functioning, live website and blog
Workshop: Social Media for Sportswomen
  • In this hands on workshop, you'll learn the basics of social media, build your profiles and tips on how to use these tools to help build you career.
  • You'll walk away with a plan on how to best use social media in 10 minutes a day.
  • This workshop is specifically tailored to the unique needs of sportswomen.
Facilitated Discussion:
Now we have identified what is working, why it's working, improvements and roll-out strategies, it's time to discuss:
  • How do we implement them?
  • What can we do to change views and build support?
  • Recommendations for our leaders
15:00 Session Four
Workshop: Becoming the Media
  • We'll cover writing for the web (hint: it's different!): what to say, when to say it, how to say it, where to say it.
  • Producing content for social media and your website.
  • What do fans want to see? How to best promote yourself.
  • Pitching to the media: How to tell a good story.
Facilitated Discussion:
We're making sure the content for this conference is of the highest quality and that means making the best decisions on the topics for discussion. We'll be announcing the final subject area for discussion imminently!
16:15 Closing Remarks