aes26 International Evaluation Conference: Full Schedule

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9:00am ACST

Opening plenary: Welcome to Country followed by Robyn Ober "Being comfortable with discomfort"

Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am ACST

Welcome to Country: Kim Mulholland
Opening address: Kim Grey, President, Australian Evaluation Society

Being comfortable with discomfort
Robyn Ober, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, Lead Researcher and Educator

This keynote challenges evaluators and commissioners to get comfortable with discomfort, and to rethink what ethical, rigorous evaluation looks like when it happens on Country.

Responding to the aes26 theme Making Space, Valuing Place, Dr Robyn Ober draws on three decades of practice in Aboriginal communities to show how traditional knowledge systems and contemporary evaluation can work together.

Through vivid stories from remote and very remote contexts, the talk brings to life the tensions at the heart of evaluation practice: timelines versus relationships, control versus trust, and methodological neatness versus lived reality. At the centre is the Community Researcher Approach, where local people are co-researchers who shape the questions in collaboration with evaluators, lead conversations in language, and make meaning on their own terms.

The talk argues that ethics and integrity are enacted in how we show up, who holds authority, and whether participants’ voices are recognised, respected and valued so they feel safe to share their own truths. Integrity is also enacted when Aboriginal people can see that the purpose of evaluation is for the benefit of Aboriginal people. You’ll leave with practical ways to commission and conduct evaluation on Country to strengthen voice, evidence quality and impact.

Chair

John Guenther

Research Leader, Education and Training, Batchelor Institute

John Guenther is a senior researcher and evaluator with the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, based in Darwin. Much of his work has been based in the field of education. He has worked extensively with community-based researchers in many remote parts of the Northern... Read More →

Speakers

Kim Mulholland

IvolveGen

Kim Mulholland is a proud Larrakia and Yanyuwa man and Founder of IvolveGen. His work sits at the intersection of Aboriginal Knowledge Systems, Social & Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB), trauma-informed practice, leadership, organisational development, ceremony and community healing. Over... Read More →

Robyn Ober

Lead Researcher and Educator, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education

Robyn is a Mamu/Djirribal woman from Far North Queensland. She is a Lead Researcher and educator at Batchelor Institute and has extensive experience in the Northern Territory that spans three decades. She is well renowned for her expertise of both-ways pedagogy, working to combine... Read More →

Kim Grey

President, Australian Evaluation Society

Christabelle Darcy

Director, Evidence and Evaluation, NT Department of Treasury and Finance

I'm co-convenor of aes26, along with Alison Reedy. In my day job, I lead the Program Evaluation Unit within the Department of Treasury and Finance in the Northern Territory Government. We aim to help government achieve the best outcomes within the allocated budget and build an evidence-base... Read More →

Alison Reedy

Manager Evaluation, Northern Territory Government

I am an education and social science researcher and evaluator working in the Northern Territory Government. My recent work is in the evaluation of government programs, policy, strategy and legislation across the areas of housing, community development, arts and culture, local government... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am ACST
Hall 2

Plenary

Format Keynote address
Audience Level Advanced, Foundational, Intermediate

11:00am ACST

How should we evaluate legal policy?

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am ACST

Waterfront 1

Authors: Caitlin Morton, Maggie Hawkins (Attorney General's Department)
This session poses the question – how should we evaluate legal policy? Evaluators across all sectors encounter legal frameworks, yet few forums explicitly address how law itself can and should be evaluated. This session seeks to help carve out that space within evaluation practice.

Strong approaches to evaluating legal policy are critical to achieving just, fair, and secure society - the remit of the Attorney-General's Department. In this session, past and current evaluators from the AGD reflect on observations, challenges, and conversations, and invite discussion on what it looks like when legal policy is working well. We present an overview of existing dialogue on this question, and argue that it is critical to examine the social and ethical foundations of legal policy, the principles that inform legal policy, and how the law can support the operation of impactful legal policy.

We will investigate how law does and does not align with the beliefs and assumptions of the communities it touches, and how law is interpreted and put into practice. Together we will explore localisation as a major challenge and opportunity in evaluating legal policy – noting the persistent regional/metro divide in accessing legal services, and diversity between communities and across states, which always requires collaboration.

This session is critically important to evaluators as law touches all public policy, which in turn impacts the operations of not just federal governments, but local and state governments, private businesses, community organisations, not-for-profits, and more.

Chair

Lindsay Reilly

Speakers

Caitlin Morton

Independent Consultant

I’m Dr Caitlin Morton, I’m passionate about turning knowledge into power to help people solve the world’s biggest problems. I do this as an independent evaluator based on Awabakal Country in Newcastle, NSW Australia. I can help you use data and evidence to improve outcomes by... Read More →

Magdeline Hawkins

Evaluation Lead, Attorney General's Department

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am ACST
Waterfront 1 Stokes Hill Rd, Darwin City NT, Australia

Ethics and integrity

Format Short paper
Audience Level Advanced, Intermediate
Industry Public administration and safety
ID 262

11:30am ACST

Building culturally grounded evaluation, led by First Nations communities

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm ACST

Rooms 1+2

Authors: Jen Lorains (Children's Ground), Veronica Doolan (Children's Ground), Pauline Grant (Children's Ground), Jackie Treeves (Children's Ground)

For too long our people have been the subjects not the leaders of evaluation and research: “Our people have been researched to death. It’s time we researched ourselves back to life” (William Tilmouth, Senior Arrernte man).
Children’s Ground (CG) is disrupting the status quo in research and evaluation. From daily data collection and designing evaluation tools, to analysing evaluation data through community and culturally centred evaluation frameworks relevant to each place.

Using practice evidence and collaborative reflection about how First Nations communities are leading service/program evaluation for their families and place, the workshop learning objective is that participants will increase their understanding of culturally grounded evaluation and gain practical strategies and skills that can be applied to their evaluation context.

The workshop will consist of two parts, including CG sharing practice evidence, followed by collaborative group/table strategy development.

Firstly, CG’s evaluation principles will be outlined, with First Nations leaders sharing experiences in action. Participants will reflect on 2-3 principles, documenting their effective and challenging experiences of working in line with the principes, then sharing with the larger group. CG’s First Nations leaders will respond, building on the knowledge being generated by the participants.

Secondly, CG’s First Nations leaders will share experiences of developing community and culturally centred evaluation frameworks, including a visual walk through of 2-3 frameworks developed by First Nations communities across three culturally and geographically diverse regions. Comparative examples of evaluation data analysis between CG’s cultural and western evaluation frameworks will also be shared, including methodological implications.

Participants will collaboratively document ideas for supporting First Nations people/communities to develop community and culturally centred evaluation frameworks in their context, then sharing with the larger group.

We believe learning how to embed culturally grounded evaluation from First Nations community’s real-world experience is an important contribution to holistic learning, complements theoretical learning.

Chair

Deb Moyle

Speakers

Jen Lorains

Director Research & Evaluation, Childrens Ground

Jen Lorains is the Director of Research & Evaluation at Children’s Ground. She works with each community to evaluate and evidence the impact of Children’s Ground’s empowerment, systems reform and integrated service platform.Jen has undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications... Read More →

Veronica Doolan

Children's Ground

Pauline Grant

Jackie Treeves

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm ACST
Rooms 1+2 Stokes Hill Rd, Darwin City NT, Australia

Traditional and new ways

Format Skill building
Audience Level Intermediate, Advanced
Industry Economic development tourism and infrastructure, Health and disability, Education and training, Community and social services
ID 300

12:00pm ACST

Change that Matters People in Place

Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm ACST

Waterfront 1

Author: Salli Cohen (The Policy Room)
This presentation explores the uncomfortable space where policy and evaluation structurally reinforce harm. Its objective is to challenge assumptions of neutrality and examine how evaluative frameworks can either illuminate or obscure inequity.
The core argument is threefold: (1) evaluation and policy are never neutral and must interrogate power; (2) systems alignment and cultural authority determine whether outcomes are real or performative; and (3) accountability must ask “for whom” evaluation and policy work; and who bears the cost.
The session blends applied case insight with structured reflection and peer dialogue to provoke critical engagement and practical recalibration.

Chair

Lindsay Reilly

Speakers

Salli Cohen

Founder, The Policy Room

Salli is a strategist, storyteller and a quiet force re-imagining what policy should be.

Guided by her values of equity, self-determination and respectful collaboration, and grounded in her principle of change that matters, she works with organisations and communities to ensure they have the tools, relationships and confidence to drive the changes desired by those they... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:00pm - 12:30pm ACST
Waterfront 1 Stokes Hill Rd, Darwin City NT, Australia

Ethics and integrity

Format Short paper
Audience Level Intermediate, Advanced
Industry Not for profit Philanthropy, International development, Public administration and safety, Community and social services, Health and disability
ID 82

1:30pm ACST

Plenary: Lígia Teixeira "From evidence to impact: reclaiming evaluation as a means to an end"

Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm ACST

Hall 2

From evidence to impact: reclaiming evaluation as a means to an end
Lígia Teixeira, Founder and Chief Executive of the Centre for Homelessness Impact

Evaluation has never been more sophisticated, yet many challenges it seeks to address remain stubbornly persistent. Across sectors, we generate high-quality evidence, but too often struggle to translate it into meaningful, sustained impact. The risk is not just a lack of rigour, but a loss of connection to purpose: the way evaluation is used within systems can allow it to become an end in itself, rather than a means to improve lives.This keynote argues for renewed focus on evaluation as a discipline of impact. Drawing on international efforts to tackle homelessness, it explores how outcomes are shaped not by individual interventions alone, but by the systems in which they operate. Without a systems lens, even strong and diverse forms of evidence – quantitative, qualitative and lived - can lead to fragmented action, missing the broader dynamics that ultimately determine success.

The keynote reflects on how evaluation can better connect global insight with local context, enabling faster learning while respecting place-based realities. It also argues that effective systems prevent harm before it occurs, rather than responding once it is entrenched.

This is a call to re-centre evaluation on its core purpose: not just to understand the world, but to change it.

Chair

Eleanor Williams

Managing Director, Australian Centre for Evaluation

Eleanor Williams is the Managing Director of the Australian Centre for Evaluation in the Commonwealth Department of the Treasury. She has worked in a variety of senior executive roles in the Victorian and Australian Governments, and is a former board member of the Australian Evaluation... Read More →

Speakers

Lígia Teixeira

Founder and Chief Executive, Centre for Homelessness Impact

Dr Lígia Teixeira is the Founder and Chief Executive of the Centre for Homelessness Impact , part of the UK Government’s What Works Network. She works with governments and cities to rethink how homelessness is understood and addressed – using data, evidence, and experimentation... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:30pm - 2:30pm ACST
Hall 2

Plenary

Format Keynote address
Audience Level Advanced, Foundational, Intermediate

2:30pm ACST

Epistemic Justice: victim survivors of child sexual abuse as co-evaluators

Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm ACST

Waterfront 1

Authors: Nic Vogelpoel (Day Four Projects), Malika Reese (Lived Experience Advisor), Angela Obradovic (National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse)

What happens when evaluation is not just informed by lived experience, but led by it?

This presentation offers a rare, practice-based account of a lived experience-led evaluation undertaken with the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse, where victim survivors worked as co-evaluators across all stages of the process. Established to centre victim survivors in awareness-raising, help-seeking, advocacy and best-practice responses, the Centre provided a powerful context to rethink how evaluation knowledge is produced, and by whom.

The session argues that lived experience-led evaluation is not an ethical “add-on”, but a fundamental shift in values, power and epistemology. Drawing on the evaluation findings, presenters will explore three core propositions.

First, nothing about us without us: moving from evaluation on people to evaluation led by people with lived experience reshapes evaluation questions, evidence, outcomes and definitions of rigour. Second, epistemic justice: lived experience leadership challenges entrenched assumptions about who gets to ask questions, whose knowledge counts, and how institutions respond to new forms of evidence. Third, beyond advice to synthesis: lived experience cannot simply “advise” evaluation, it must be integrated as a distinct way of knowing that transforms the whole evaluation.

Co-presented by lived experience evaluators and Day Four Projects evaluators, the session will combine reflective storytelling, concrete practice examples and facilitated dialogue. Participants will be invited to critically examine their own evaluative assumptions, engage in small-group reflection, and explore practical strategies for making space for multiple knowledge systems while maintaining evaluative integrity and meeting institutional requirements.This session will be particularly valuable for evaluators, commissioners, researchers and practitioners seeking more just, credible and impactful approaches to lived-experience evaluation in complex and sensitive contexts.

Chair

Anona Armstrong

Director Research, Victoria University

Professor Anona Armstrong AM is Director of Research and Research Training, Professor of Governance and Head of the Governance Research Program in the College of Law and Justice, Victoria University. She was Foundation President, and is a Life Member and Fellow of the Australasian... Read More →

Speakers

Nic Vogelpoel

Director, Day Four Projects

We specialise in the theory and practice of good collaboration. We have a particular interest in learning and evaluation for partnerships, platforms and collaborative initiatives. We work with international and domestic partners from multilateral organisations, governments, NGOs... Read More →

Malika Reese

Lived Experience Advisor

Talk to me about Lived Experience awareness, consultation and healing. Talk to me about helping your organisation be more trauma informed.

Angela Obradovic

National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse

Angela has been actively involved with the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse for the past 3 years, committed to improving how lived experience can inform prevention of CSA and responses to Adult Survivors of CSA. With 30 years of experience across social work and mental... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm ACST
Waterfront 1 Stokes Hill Rd, Darwin City NT, Australia

Boundaries and bridges

Format Long paper
Audience Level Advanced, Intermediate
Industry Not for profit Philanthropy, Health and disability, Community and social services, Public administration and safety, Education and training
ID 45

2:30pm ACST

Interrogating problem representations in evaluation: Are we solving the right problems?

Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm ACST

Rooms 3+4

Authors: Andrew Boyle
Development programs often focus on whether interventions achieve intended outcomes, yet comparatively little attention is given to how the problems those interventions seek to address are defined. The way a problem is represented shapes which interventions are considered possible, influencing theories of change, program design, and the evaluation questions that follow.

Chair

Dorothea Huber

Evaluation Advisor, AMSA

Dorothea Huber is a senior evaluation and lessons management professional with extensive experience across Commonwealth and state government, spanning maritime emergency response, health, employment, innovation, research and natural resource management. She is passionate about informed... Read More →

Speakers

Andrew Boyle

Andrew Boyle Consulting

Andrew Boyle is an Australian monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) specialist and Principal Consultant at Andrew Boyle Consulting. His work focuses on organisational learning, Theory of Change, evaluation capacity strengthening and culturally responsive practice, particularly... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm ACST
Rooms 3+4 Stokes Hill Rd, Darwin City NT, Australia

Traditional and new ways

Format Round table
Audience Level Intermediate, Advanced
Industry Education and training, Environment and climate change, Community and social services, International development, Economic development tourism and infrastructure
ID 135

4:00pm ACST

Making space for influence: Danjoo Koorliny and decolonising evaluation to measure systems change

Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm ACST

Waterfront 3

Author: Doyen Radcliffe, Bajja Yungayimanha Collaboration
Indigenous-led systems change often begins with shifts in cultural authority, relationships, trust and institutional behaviour—long before formal outcomes or policy reform become visible. Yet many evaluation approaches continue to prioritise measurable outputs and short-term results, overlooking the relational, cultural and ethical foundations that drive meaningful change. This creates a gap between what First Nations communities experience as impact and what institutions recognise as evidence.

This presentation introduces the Danjoo Koorliny Five-Dimensional Indigenous Influence Model, developed through the Aboriginal-led impact evaluation of the Danjoo Koorliny movement in Western Australia. The model offers a practical and culturally grounded way to measure systems change by identifying and assessing influence across cultural, relational, behavioural, structural and transformational domains. Central to this work is a decolonising evaluation process that repositions cultural authority, Country and relational accountability as the foundation of ethical and rigorous evaluation. For First Nations evaluation, this means privileging Elder governance, community decision-making, Indigenous Data Sovereignty and culturally grounded methods such as yarning, storywork and outcome harvesting. For evaluation more broadly, it expands how evidence, value and impact are understood in complex systems and supports earlier identification of meaningful change.

The session will highlight three key messages. First, influence is the primary mechanism and measurable pathway of Indigenous-led systems change. Second, decolonising evaluation strengthens methodological rigour by integrating Indigenous and Western approaches rather than positioning them in opposition. Third, valuing place, relationships and cultural integrity improves the relevance, integrity and usefulness of evaluation for communities, policymakers and funders.

The presentation will combine short input, reflective discussion and interactive activities. Participants will explore practical tools, apply the framework to their own contexts, and reflect on how measuring influence can strengthen systems thinking and evaluation practice across diverse sectors.

Chair

Stuart Raetz

Monitoring, Evaluation And Learning Lead, Climate Resilient Communities

Stuart Raetz is the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Lead for Climate Resilient Communities, supporting climate investment and integration across the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) international development program. He has 20 years' experience as... Read More →

Speakers

Doyen Radcliffe

CEO & AES Fellow, Bajja Yungayimanha Collaboration

Doyen Radcliffe is a Yamatji Naaguja man from the Midwest region of Western Australia. He is the Founder and CEO of Bajja Yungayimanha Collaboration, a First Nations-led consultancy, and a respected First Nations leader, evaluator and community development practitioner with decades... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm ACST
Waterfront 3 Stokes Hill Rd, Darwin City NT, Australia

Traditional and new ways

Format Short paper
Audience Level Intermediate, Advanced
Industry Education and training, Information media and telecommunications, Economic development tourism and infrastructure, Health and disability, Environment and climate change, International development, Arts and recreation services, Community and social services, Natur
ID 40

4:00pm ACST

Strategy evaluation. Does it have to be this hard?

Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm ACST

Rooms 3+4

Authors: David Stuart (Creative Australia)
Strategies are everywhere involving all sorts of topics and all kinds of goals, actions and stakeholders. Strategy defines important goals and outlines how an organisation's activities will meet those goals. You would think that strategy and evaluation were great friends. But why is strategy evaluation so low profile in evaluation literature, and so hard to pull off? This paper reflects on several attempts at strategy-based evaluation and the lessons for fruitful strategy evaluation including the role for evaluators and evaluation in supporting strong strategy design and success.

Chair

David Marchant

Founder and Managing Director, Inform Economics

Speakers

David Stuart

Director Evaluation And Impact Measurement, Creative Australia

Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm ACST
Rooms 3+4 Stokes Hill Rd, Darwin City NT, Australia

Traditional and new ways

Format Short paper
Audience Level Intermediate, Advanced
Industry Arts and recreation services, Public administration and safety
ID 166

4:00pm ACST

Using Evidence to End Homelessness: Lessons for Evaluators from Lígia Teixeira

Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm ACST

Hall 2

In this keynote speaker interview, Eleanor Williams will speak with Lígia Teixeira about her new book How to Use Evidence to End Homelessness: For Smarter, More Impactful Action, and the growing global movement to use evidence, data and evaluation to prevent and end homelessness.

The discussion will consider how evidence can be embedded in decision-making, and the role evaluators can play in supporting prevention, implementation and continuous improvement. Through practical examples and international case studies, Teixeira will share insights for anyone seeking to strengthen the use of evidence in complex policy environments. This session will form the Australian launch of How to Use Evidence to End Homelessness: For Smarter, More Impactful Action whilst the books haven't landed in the country just yet, there will be promotional cards with discount codes so people can purchase their copy when it's available.

Chair

Andrew Boyle

Andrew Boyle Consulting

Speakers

Lígia Teixeira

Founder and Chief Executive, Centre for Homelessness Impact

Eleanor Williams

Managing Director, Australian Centre for Evaluation

Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm ACST
Hall 2

Traditional and new ways

Format Short paper
Audience Level Intermediate, Advanced
ID 91

4:30pm ACST

Ignites

Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm ACST

Waterfront 2

Why you should leave evaluation (and come back!)
Author: Delyth Lloyd, Australian Centre for Evaluation
After 15 years as an AES member, I stepped away from evaluation for a one-year hiatus. What began as a brief stint in an implementation role quickly transitioned into a fast and furious year using every evaluation skill I had to offer. I negotiated in hard spaces, navigated power dynamics, held space for diversity and ethical complexities. Busy people asked for more rubrics and used them in practice! This presentation distils insights from my transition out of, and back into, the sector. It reflects on the evaluation competencies we hold, and highlights how deeply they are valued by others.

The Evaluation Pub Test: Simple Questions for Public Value
Author: Amanda Taylor-Short, ARTD
Publicly funded evaluations carry an implicit responsibility to contribute to public good. In practice, evaluations are often viewed as mechanisms for accountability in government decision‑making. This can reinforce a focus on compliance, program‑specific detail, and predefined questions, limiting broader reflection about the contribution of a program and leaving simple but important questions unexplored. This creates a missed opportunity to connect evaluation work with the people and decisions it exists to inform. This presentation explores the Evaluation Pub Test: examining evaluator responsibility to support public value, the benefits of answering simple questions, and considerations for deciding which questions are worth answering.

From scientist to evaluator: Lessons beyond numbers
Author: Heather Bryan, First Person Consulting
This Ignite traces one evaluator’s unlikely journey from a postgraduate ecologist in Latin America to an honours student modelling climate impacts, and later a data analyst at the Australian Bureau of Statistics - before arriving at the unexpected doorstep of evaluation. Along the way came a new appreciation for the value of qualitative evidence. This talk shares three lessons motivated by moving beyond numbers: outliers are insights rather than errors, stories explain what numbers can’t, and subjectivity, when acknowledged rather than ignored, can strengthen evaluation. Together, these lessons invite a broader view of evidence, where individual stories bring meaning.

Seeing through their eyes: Photo-Elicitation in Evaluation
Author: Estelle Gaillard, CSIRO
Images can ignite conversation, evoke emotions, elicit reflection and spark new ways of thinking. Photo-elicitation uses photographs in interviews to prompt participants to share insights into their lived experiences that might not surface through standard questions. This Ignite presentation will introduce the method, show practical examples of its use in evaluation and outline the photo-elicitation process. Attendees will leave reflecting on whether — and how — photo-elicitation could fit into their own evaluation toolkit.

Making Space for Boba and Beats: Valuing Grassroots Reality with an Evaluation MVP
Author: Anabelle (Pin-Ju) Chen, Taiwan Pride Sydney
For a volunteer-run grassroots NFP, traditional evaluation often occupies the very space intended for community action. When resources are scarce, every hour spent on data collection undermines the operational realities of the place where we operate. As the President and Evaluator of Taiwan Pride Sydney, I faced this tension at the 2026 Sydney Mardi Gras. How do you measure the cultural impact of a 'Lanterns of Ecstatica, Taiwan Lighting up Asia' float when the generator dies, the music cuts out, and you are forced to march giant illuminated bubble tea cups in total silence?
This Ignite presentation proposes a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for evaluation. By shifting the focus to macro-validation and systemic consequences, I will demonstrate how grassroots organisations can engineer a structurally sound evidentiary argument that survives real-world disaster. Using aggressive dimensionality reduction and cognitive anchoring, we can design evaluation MVPs that extract maximum validated learning with minimum administrative friction. Let's spill the tea on how to make space for rigorous evaluation when absolutely nothing goes to plan.

Chair

Vanessa Hood

Director, Rooftop Social

I've been working as a facilitator and evaluator for over 20 years, in a wide range of contexts, including environment and financial literacy. I am a Director at Rooftop Social, a medium sized consulting firm, which provides services in evaluation, social research, facilitation and... Read More →

Speakers

Delyth Lloyd

Director, Australian Centre for Evaluation

This year I'll be chasing interesting new ideas in capacity building, competncies, and facilitation. You'll find me on a quest to up my game in systems thinking, eval theory and methods, and pondering the intersection between rigour and pragmatic evaluation.

Estelle Gaillard

Evaluation Officer, CSIRO

I am a social scientist currently working as the Evaluation Officer for the CSIRO Industry PhD (iPhD) Program.

Amanda Taylor-Short

Senior Consultant, ARTD

Anabelle (Pin-Ju) Chen 陳品儒

President/Evaluator, Taiwan Pride Sydney

Hi, I am Anabelle. I am an evaluator, data analyst and the President of Taiwan Pride Sydney. You might notice my profile picture is from my work as a DJ (O’a Gem, sound-alike for oyster omelette in Taiwanese 🇹🇼 ). I kept it because the skillsets are surprisingly identical... Read More →

Heather Bryan

Consultant, First Person Consulting

Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm ACST
Waterfront 2 Stokes Hill Rd, Darwin City NT, Australia

Ignite session

Format Ignite
Audience Level Foundational, Intermediate, Advanced
Industry Arts and recreation services, Community and social services, Economic development tourism and infrastructure, Education and training, Environment and climate change, Health and disability, Information media and telecommunications, International development, Natur
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