Each year, we host our flagship lunch across capital cities in Australia and New Zealand. They’re our largest events of the year and help our industry come together to celebrate our achievements, reflect on the year gone by, and share our excitement for the year ahead.

We’re trying something different in Canberra this year, to reflect on the happenings and changes in the Territory throughout 2024 and beyond.

This December, Roads Australia will host a policy discussion, followed by a celebratory lunch in Canberra.

Following a re-assessment of our national threat level, the Australian Government introduced a suite of reforms to our critical infrastructure protections - expanding the four critical sectors to eleven and expanding the scope to include sectors like telecommunications and transport. The legislation has been active for two years, with most companies' obligations in our sector commencing within the last eighteen months. Each of our sessions are geared towards discussing the protections, their operability, and how we can work to make our sector and ultimately our nation safer for all Australians.

After the Policy discussion, guests will enjoy a celebratory lunch and hear more about what’s next in achieving a world classes transport system across the ACT (including freight) as well as tackling decarbonising infrastructure delivery/net zero transport, road safety, skills shortages and productivity.

Our speakers

We are pleased to announce David Pryce, Director-General, Transport Canberra and City Services as our keynote speaker.

David commenced as the Director-General for the Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS) Directorate on 28 May 2024. The TCCS Directorate’s responsibilities includes the delivery, management and maintenance of the ACT’s road related infrastructure, policy responsibility for road safety and transport regulation, and Canberra’s public transport system including light rail. David was previously the Head of Access Canberra and ACT Registrar-General between 2019-2024. David has extensive senior executive experience in law enforcement, emergency management, justice and community safety including 28 years as a police officer with both the Northern Territory and Commonwealth government. David is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Our guests will also hear from:

Sophie Bazzana: Acting Assistant Secretary for Critical Infrastructure Security Policy – the Department of Home Affairs
Geoff Brown: General Manager of Assurance – Omni
Dr Kaitlin Shilling: Global Resilience and Adaptation Services Leader – Arup; and
Tom Kjaer-Olsen: Mining and Transport Lead for APAC – Cisco
Brenton Steenkamp: Partner - Clayton Utz

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Dress code: Business attire

Dietaries: Please inform of any dietary requirements 2 weeks prior to the event

Please ensure you make your booking using the appropriate rate. Bookings from non-member companies that book at a member rate will be contacted and asked to rebook at the correct price. If you are unsure of your organisation's membership status with RA, please contact events@roads.org.au

The Event Organiser reserves the right to use any recordings whether audio or video and/or any photographs taken at any stage during the event for promotional, advertising or reporting of the meeting and/or its content at their sole discretion. If you have any concerns, please contact the team via events@roads.org.au

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