WEXPO

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9am Workshops

Who: Katherine Hawes, Digtial Age Lawyers

Topic: Digital Ecosystems Era: protecting your business assets!
Where: Wattle Room
About: Increased digitisation has been a growth trajectory for businesses.  It creates a relatively safe space for people to communicate, exchange information, trade online, provide feedback and generally accelerate the speed at which transactions occur and thereby reduce time to market. Katherine will explore legal considerations for organisations looking to protect their commercialisation strategy, including: intellectual property; information governance; contractual obligations, social media and digital law, competition and corporate transactions. 
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Who: Bob Turner, Blacktown City FC
Topic: Sport Builds A City’s Identity
Where: Waratah Room
About: Sport excels through its tribal base and nature.  For National teams like the
Wallabies, Matildas, Opals or Boomers the support comes from the country.  When it comes to locally based teams like Collingwood, the Bulldogs, Eels or the Kings, the passionate fan base can run through generations. Passion and building community spirit is the goal of Blacktown City FC. The team has the vital ingredients of a beautiful home stadium, history, culture and long-standing credibility of producing talent.  Playing in the NSW Premier League, Blacktown City has the potential to become a sporting catalyst to assist in igniting pride in Blacktown.
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9:45am Workshops

Who: Sarah Bauling, Perfect Pitch Guru
Topic: The Perfect Pitch
Where: Wattle Room
About: Sarah Bauling is known as “The Perfect Pitch Guru”. She is a Professional Speaking Coach, specialising in creating The Perfect Pitch.  With over 20 years of Sales and Marketing experience Sarah knows the power that this 30 -40 second pitch can have on your business. How it generates leads, converts clients and ultimately makes you more money.  In the “Perfect Pitch” presentation Sarah will share the “Perfect Pitch Blue Print” so you can create and craft YOUR Perfect Pitch and have it ready to deliver to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
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10:30am Workshops

Who: Paul Campbell, ACU
Topic: ACU Blacktown opportunities for collaboration
Where: Wattle Room
About: ACU opened in Blacktown in 2020 and has grown to more than 800 students in 2022, expecting to grow to more than 1200 students in 2023. ACU continues to expand across Western Sydney. In 2023 ACU will join Blacktown City Council in the Blacktown Exercise Sport and Technology hub (BEST). In this session, ACU will provide an overview of the higher education, research, community and industry engagement opportunities in Blacktown. The session will include an overview of ACU’s development plans and opportunities to collaborate. 
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Who: Emmanuel Martin, BREED
Topic: Mastering the Ten Success Pillars of Starting your new business.
Where: Waratah Room
About: Are you an Aspiring Entrepreneur who dreams of starting of your business? The majority of small businesses fail by the fourth year of start-up due to not having the right strategy and mindset to achieve success. This engaging workshop will give you insight into ten success factors that you will need to consider for turning your dream into reality. By implementing the learnings from these success factors, your chances of owning a profitable, long-term business will improve.
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11.15am Workshops

Who: Cristina Lee, Tech Abstract
Topic: Can your business benefit from the Research & Development Tax Incentive Program?
Where: Waratah Room
About: Have you developed a new product feature or design? Have you developed a new process or manufacturing method that is new in your industry? You may be doing Research & Development that is eligible for the R&D Incentive and not even know it! If you’re eligible you can claim up to 43.5% of your costs back – Join our workshop to hear more.
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1:30pm Workshops

Who: Charles Barnard, Growth Engineer

Topic: How to find $50,000 in 45 minutes or less in any business
Where: Waratah Room
About: Using a special purpose, proprietary simulator accessed via their phones, attendees will discover for themselves how they can uncover significant opportunities for profitable growth in their own businesses.  Benefiting from compounding, several small changes in key areas can result in massive change for the business. Charles will provide delegates with his top five high impact strategies for unlocking businessn value. Attendees will be able to download their own customized road map for profit improvement based on the numbers they enter into the simulator.
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2:15pm Workshops

Who: Nermeen Yacoub, Better Foundation
Topic: How to find $50,000 in 45 minutes or less in any business
Where: Waratah Room
Topic: Charity Partnerships – just feel good or just good business sense? 
About: In an increasingly crowded space, charities are working harder than ever to get corporates to partner with them to further their cause. While charity partnerships can make us feel great for contributing and even tick a social responsibility box, they can and should be doing so much more for your business. The right charity partnerships can inspire your customers, drive business growth and deliver unexpected results. Find out how to choose charity partners that support your organisational goals and how to build successful partnerships that grow your brand and business. 
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Who: Simone Rennocks, My Skills
Topic: The world of work has changed. So have the expectations of workers.
Where: Wattle Room
About: In a time of unprecedented upheaval, talent has new, heightened expectations about how work fits into their life—and are walking away if employers don’t meet those expectations. This workforce exodus creates hiring and retention challenges for companies across industries. Employers face increasingly fierce competition for talent, who are becoming more and more emboldened to set the terms of their employment. But the change also brings opportunity.
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3pm Workshops

Who: Stacy Farrell, Content Box
Topic: 7 Steps to Small Business Marketing Success
Where: Waratah Room
About: Are you a business owner who knows you need to do more marketing, but don’t know what, when where or how to start, or do any of these problems exist in your business today? The answers to the problems above aren’t found in SEO, social media, or web content – these are strategy problems and they can only be addressed with strategy solutions. The session will cover: What is a strategic approach to marketing? Why do you need strategy before tactics? What are the essential elements of a strategic approach?
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Who: Michael Khamas, Linked Business Solutions 
Topic: Business Development - How to grow your business
Where: Wattle Room

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3:45pm Workshops

Who: Leanne Elich, Leanne Elich Consulting
Topic: How To Get Inside The Minds Of Your Customers
Where: Wattle Room
About: Do you know why customers behave the way they do? Understanding their personalities, decisions and behaviours is not unlike a detective solving a mystery. In this workshop, we explore the art of persuasion and how to identify communication styles to connect, create influence and get the business outcomes you want. The workshop will equip you with ideas, processes, tools and frameworks to conduct exceptional business and sales practices well into the future including the 10 Commandments of Consumer Psychology everyone needs to know. Discover how to turn behavioural science and psychology into Business Intelligence.
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Who: Eric Tjoeng, Business Growth and Exit Specialists
Topic: How to Transform Your Business to Survive and Thrive
Where: Waratah Room
About: We are currently facing a very challenging economic landscape with surging inflation, interest rates, high fuel costs, supply and labour shortages, a new government eager to make its mark, as well as a definite shift in cultural and workplace attitudes. Any one of these on their own would be a challenge for business owners but combined they are unprecedented. The businesses that will meet this moment are those that are willing and able to adapt their business in a way that makes them an attractive partner to employees, suppliers, and customers alike. In this presentation we share with you how to pragmatically fine-tune and change your business to be able to sustain and grow your business.
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4:30pm Workshops

Who: Josie Gagliano, RoJo
Topic: How PR dictates the news cycle
Where: Wattle Room
About: "If I was down to my last dollar, I'd spend it on public relations" - Bill Gate
The point is: PR is the most effective way of getting people to know about your business, its products and services. In this modern world, much of what you see in the 24 hour news cycle is dictated by public relations. Don't believe me? Clips on social media now make it to the 6pm news bulletin: a TikTok gone viral, Hugh Jackman's announcement on his return as Wolverine, a "study" on how often people brush their teeth is really just an in-house survey from a toothpaste company. And so on! I look forward to unpacking more controversial statements at my speaker presentation.
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Who: Bob Croft, EZMarketing
Topic: Marketing Basics
Where: Waratah Room
About: As a small and medium business owner, your business budget is limited. Marketing your business in front of the right ideal customer is critical. In the session, Bob Croft from EZMarketing will present marketing basics and provide quick insights on marketing your business with a limited budget.
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