Designing the next decade of success

BCCM Member Event

In 2023 we are celebrating ten years of the BCCM. This is not only a coming of age for Australia’s first cross-sector advocacy body for co-ops and mutuals, the last decade also represents an epoch-making time for the movement in Australia.

The BCCM invites you to celebrate a decade of success and to design the next era of opportunity.

The BCCM Leaders’ Summit is Australia’s only cross-sector business summit for co-operative and mutual leaders. Held over two days, 25 and 26 October 2023 in Brisbane, featuring highly regarded international and national speakers in plenary sessions and interactive panel discussions.

Join your peers and colleagues from the top 100 co-operative and mutual businesses in Australia, along with political representatives, leading journalists, researchers and consultants.

We look forward to seeing you at the following events. Be sure to save the dates for our 2023 Leaders’ Summit.

Download the BCCM Leader’s Summit and Industry Dinner program.

Ticket prices – full price, discounts apply

BCCM Dinner, Breakfast and Summit - BCCM member: $2600 + GST and booking fee -DINNER SOLD OUT
BCCM Dinner and Summit - BCCM member: $2400 + GST and booking fee - DINNER SOLD OUT
BCCM Summit only – BCCM member: $2150 + GST and booking fee
BCCM Summit only – non member: $3500 + GST and booking fee
BCCM Dinner only – BCCM member: $295 + GST and booking fee - DINNER SOLD OUT
BCCM Dinner Table of Ten - BCCM member: $2750 + GST and booking fee - DINNER SOLD OUT

Ticket sales close at 6 pm, 20 October 2023

We look forward to seeing you at the following events:

Member forums

The Summit will host the following BCCM member forums on Wednesday, 25 October:

CME 100 Chairs’ Forum (Brisbane Convention Centre)
Agricultural Co-operatives Roundtable (Brisbane Convention Centre)
Retail and Buying Groups Co-operatives Forum (Brisbane Convention Centre)
Communications Group Forum (new group) (Location TBC - CBD venue)

Taste of Australia Dinner and Honour Awards - SOLD OUT

Wednesday, 25 October 2023, 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm AEST, The Emporium Hotel, Southbank, Brisbane

This is a special evening to celebrate the achievements of our retiring leaders and enjoy co-operative produce. Enjoy the very best produce and wine at our renowned Taste of Australia Dinner.

Dress code: Business suit and cocktail dress.

Breakfast on the Hill

Thursday, 26 October 2023, 7:00 am – 8:45 am AEST, Premiers' and Speakers' Room, Queensland Parliament House, Brisbane

This is the opening event of the BCCM Leaders’ Summit, where BCCM members, community stakeholders and political representatives meet to discuss the role of co-operatives and mutuals in building a better Australia.

Dress code: Business attire

BCCM Leaders' Summit

Thursday, 26 October 2023, 9:00 am – 5:15 pm AEST (with drinks following until 6:30 pm), Brisbane Convention Centre

Dress code: Business attire

The BCCM Leaders’ Summit is the only CME leadership event uniting C-Suite attendees and directors from organisations across our CME sector.

Designed as a thought leadership forum, our members share ideas, network and discuss best practice at a series of closed-door CEO roundtables, where attendees challenge prevailing norms and explore new ways of doing business.

Delegates enjoy plenary sessions and panel discussions that feature international and national speakers, including:

Nathan Schneider will join us from the US with a virtual keynote presentation on member engagement in co-ops and mutuals. Nathan is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Media Economies Design Lab and the MA program in Media and Public Engagement. He is the author of Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy and two previous books. He co-edited Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet.

Mary Nirlungayuk, Corporate Secretary and Vice President, Corporate Services with Arctic Co-operatives Ltd (Canada) will give a keynote address on the experience of Indigenous empowerment through co-operatives in Canada.

Ang Hin Kee, Chief Executive Officer, Singapore National Co-operative Federation, will share the secrets to Singapore’s flourishing co-op sector, based on a unique relationship between retail co-ops, trade unions, and youth and aged care.

Nina Schindler, Chief Executive Officer at the European Association of Co-operative Banks, will join us virtually to contribute insights from her experience across the mutual, corporate, ratings and geopolitical spheres.

Saul Eslake, independent economist, speaker, company director and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Tasmania, will join our Business Leaders in Conversation.

Peter Watts, Director of Watts Sustainability and author of our Sustainability Strategy for Co-operatives and Mutuals course, will bring his global consultancy experience to advise members on strategies for avoiding greenwash.

For any questions or concerns, please contact Events Convenor, Bev Wood at summit@bccm.coop or 0411 790 777.

Accommodation information

Discounted delegate accommodation is available at the Emporium Hotel South Bank using this link with the code EV23. Book quickly to avoid missing out.

2023 Leaders' Summit partners