Community & Stakeholder Engagement Australia**

The Community & Stakeholder Engagement Australia, formerly the Community Engagement Australia, the Community Engagement Forum and the Community Engagement for the Public Sector, is a one day forum with post-forum workshops, organized by Ark Group Australia. The forum aims to provide the latest developments and approaches to policies and practices in community and stakeholder engagement intitiatives.

Conference History:

Community & Stakeholder Engagement Australia 2018, 13-14 March 2018, Adelaide, South Australia
Conference Theme: Let’s Have Some Fun: Evaluate – Understand, Change, Inspire, Action – Evaluate
Post-conference Workshops: (A) Gamifying to Engage, (B) Writing an Engagement Strategy

The Advancement of Community Engagement in the Australian Public Sector, 19-20 September (announced for 5-6 July) 2017, Sydney, Australia
Conference Theme: Lessons Learnt and What’s Next
Workshops: (A) How to build and sustain collaboration with your ecosystem by connecting strengths at scale at scale, (b) Community Engagement vs Community Activism – is there a difference?

Community Engagement Australia 2017, 28-29 March 2017, Melbourne, Australia
Conference Theme: Creating The Social Treehouse
Post-conference Workshops: (A) Amplify Engagement, Reduce Concern, Build Trust, (B) Dealing with the Political Reality – Her today, Gone Tomorrow

(CANCELLED?) Cultural and Community Knowledge in Australia, 16-17 November 2016, Melbourne, Australia
Conference Theme: Utilising Your Business Cultural Network for Creating a Higher Performance Workplace
Post-conference Workshops: 2 half day

Community Engagement Australia 2016, 22-23 March 2016, Melbourne, Australia
Conference Theme: Moving Beyond Through Innovation and Collaboration
Post-conference Workshops: (A) Introduction to the Design Thinking for the engagement Process, (B) Inclusive engagement – Getting Beyond Accessible to Motivate and Encourage the Community

Pushing the Boundaries of Community Engagement, 14-15 July 2015, Canberra, Australia
Conference Theme: Driving Innovation through Best Practice
Post-conference Workshops: The Program Logic of Community Engagement – an evidence based approach to measuring success

Community Engagement Australia 2015, 25-26 March 2015, Sydney, Australia
Conference Theme: Successful engagement for smarter decision making
Post-conference Workshops: 2 half-day

Community Engagement via Interactive Media, 27 November 2014, Adelaide, Australia
Conference Theme: Using social and online media for effective community engagement
Post-conference Workshops: No

Journey to the Centre of Effective Online Community Engagement, 8-9 July 2014, Sydney, Australia
Conference Theme:
Post-conference Workshops: 2 half-day

7th Community Engagement Forum, 8-9 July 2013, Sydney, Australia
Conference Theme: Creating High-Impact Community Participation
Post-conference Workshops: (A) Effective Online Engagement, (B) What the psychologist’s couch can teach us about community engagement

6th Community Engagement Forum, 19-20 June 2012, Sydney, Australia
Conference Theme: Engage the Unengaged: Best Practices in Community Engagement
Post-conference Workshops: 2 half-day

Creating Cooperative Community Engagement, 24-25 November 2011, Brisbane, Australia
Conference Theme: Latest best practice for proactive community participation
Pre-conference Workshops: (A) Broadening your audience for controversial projects: building a business case for engaging online, (B) A step by step guide to planning, implementing and evaluating engagement programs

Interactive Community Engagement for the Public Sector, 13-14 September 2010, Sydney, Australia
Conference Theme: The public sector and communities collaborating via Web 2.0 and social media
Pre-conference Workshops: (A) A crash course in social media for community engagement, (B) Best practices in government’s use of Web 2.0 for engagement: lessons from the Obama Administration

Driving Community Engagement and Social Inclusion in the Public Sector, 10-12 March 2009, Sydney, Australia
Conference Theme: Crafting policy to deliver sustained community participation and social growth
Post-conference Workshops: (A) Fostering social inclusion through community engagement: practical case studies, (B) Beyond community engagement: making the social count

Engaging the community in public sector projects, 9-11 April 2008, Sydney, Australia
Conference Theme: Collaborating with the community to achieve better service delivery and sustained development
Post-/Pre-conference Workshops: ?

Community Engagement for the Public Sector, 11-13 April 2007, Canberra, Australia
Conference Theme: Creating strategies for effective communication and relationship building within the community
Post-/Pre-conference Workshops: ?