aes26 International Evaluation Conference: Grid

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Opening plenary: Welcome to Country followed by Robyn Ober "Being comfortable with discomfort" 9:00am - 10:30am

Introduction to Evidence for New, Emerging and Non-Evaluators 11:00am - 12:00pm

The ethics of independence – wha... 12:00pm - 12:30pm

Plenary: Lígia Teixeira "From evidence to impact: reclaiming eva... 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Beyond Symbolic Inclusion - Building a Collective Mandate for In... 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Evaluating accommodation needs o... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Professional isolation in evaluation: AES members’ experiences,... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Two Worlds Evaluation: Shifting... 11:00am - 11:30am

Building culturally grounded evaluation, led by First Nations co... 11:30am - 12:30pm

Using partnering principles to navigate power and ethics in eval... 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Cultural Wisdom and Story Gather... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Centring Indigenous worldviews: Warlpiri and the Itaukei Trust A... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Application of Social Network An... 11:00am - 11:30am

Building your first AI evaluation assistant: From setup to first... 11:30am - 12:30pm

Interrogating problem representations in evaluation: Are we solv... 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Strategy evaluation. Does it hav... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Managing the eight main enemies of evaluative thinking 4:30pm - 5:30pm

How should we evaluate legal pol... 11:00am - 11:30am

When no one has time for evaluat... 11:30am - 12:00pm

The Reckoning 12:00pm - 12:30pm

Epistemic Justice: victim survivors of child sexual abuse as co-... 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Who Shapes What Counts? Collabor... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Evaluating projects using social capital framework in refugee co... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Beyond Silos: A Technology–Evalu... 11:00am - 11:30am

What! No survey? Introducing the Collective Noticing Method (CNM... 11:30am - 12:30pm

Ignites 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Developmental Evaluation or a Le... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Ignites 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Practical ways to make space for... 11:00am - 11:30am

What makes place-based evaluation different? 11:30am - 12:30pm

Evaluation as a Bridge: The Mult... 2:30pm - 3:00pm

The case for key monitoring ques... 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Making space for influence: Danj... 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Two-way learning through evaluation: An innovative Indigenous-le... 4:30pm - 5:30pm

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Plenary: Bagele Chilisa "Making Space, Valuing Place: The 21st C... 9:00am - 10:00am

"Yalalamirri mala-djarr’yun – “and then we check” Understanding... 10:30am - 11:30am

Walking in Two Worlds: evaluating First Nations programs in the... 11:30am - 12:30pm

From commissioning to learning: how funders can help shape the c... 1:30pm - 2:30pm

When Worlds Collide: Evaluation... 2:30pm - 3:00pm

Culturally Governed Evaluation:... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Meeting new challenges with better theories of change 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Challenging power through MEL: What can Australian and internati... 10:30am - 11:30am

Evaluating with the Vanua: A Practical Framework for Relational,... 11:30am - 12:30pm

From Panic to Practice: Putting... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Is there room in the C-suite for evaluators? 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Is this going somewhere? Using e... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Strengthening community mental wellbeing through culturally grou... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Scalability and scaling in and across place: A practical framewo... 10:30am - 11:30am

When the story turns against the evidence: Navigating media scru... 11:30am - 12:30pm

Process tracing in practice: testing causal claims with mixed ev... 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Monitoring on a shoestring: How... 2:30pm - 3:00pm

Is the value of evaluation hidin... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Quality evaluation that makes a difference: continuing the conve... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

From Paper to People: Community-Centred Monitoring, Evaluation a... 10:30am - 11:30am

Ubuntu in Evaluation Practice: B... 11:30am - 12:00pm

Embedding Ethical Practice in an... 12:00pm - 12:30pm

Establishing an Indigenous owned and led evaluation process for... 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Strengthening engagement with ev... 2:30pm - 3:00pm

Uncertain impacts, real decision... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

A social worker, an astrophysicist and an economist walk into a... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

What works for whom? Development... 10:30am - 11:00am

When tools meet context: Pilotin... 11:00am - 11:30am

Case studies – an overlooked tec... 11:30am - 12:00pm

Impact beyond food: How Communit... 12:00pm - 12:30pm

Making Space for multiple perspe... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Ignites 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Finding your space - the psychological, organisational and polit... 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Making Space for Evaluation: How... 4:30pm - 5:00pm

Philanthropy and Evaluation – What Gives? 10:30am - 11:30am

Creating Starlight’s First Socia... 11:30am - 12:00pm

Evaluating ‘value for the public... 12:00pm - 12:30pm

Walking alongside each other at... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

An open discussion on research and evaluation that works for rem... 2:00pm - 3:00pm

From insight to action: A pragma... 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Looking upstream and downstream: longitudinal case studies of cl... 4:00pm - 5:00pm

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Plenary: Selwyn Button "Insight that Delivers: How Good Evaluati... 9:00am - 10:00am

Who defines a ‘professional’ evaluator? Roots and routes across... 10:30am - 11:30am

Evaluation professionalisation: where to from here? 11:30am - 12:30pm

The 2026 (Mostly-Serious) Crowd-Sourced Debate: Evaluation’s plu... 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Closing plenary: Emily Gates "When “What’s Right” is Contested:... 2:30pm - 3:30pm

From framework to practice: What does it take to implement share... 10:30am - 11:30am

Across the aisle: building practical skills for navigating ethic... 11:30am - 12:30pm

Embedding lived experience: stre... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Beyond strategic metrics: Center... 2:00pm - 2:30pm

Evaluation reporting using infographics 10:30am - 11:30am

What’s your problem? Navigating the impact of problematisation o... 11:30am - 12:30pm

Learnings from the field: why prisoner voice matters in the eval... 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Navigating Rigor and Responsiven... 10:30am - 11:00am

Insights from the implementation... 11:00am - 11:30am

Staying Grounded in Complexity: Designing an M&E System for Coun... 11:30am - 12:30pm

Building critical thinking into your writing 1:30pm - 2:30pm

How to evaluate a company 10:30am - 11:00am

When participatory approaches do... 11:00am - 11:30am

Ignites 11:30am - 12:30pm

Making Space for Economics: Less... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Doing It Together: rethinking ev... 2:00pm - 2:30pm

Making space, valuing place: in and through higher education eva... 10:30am - 11:30am

One dataset, many destinations:... 11:30am - 12:00pm

Creating impact culture empowere... 12:00pm - 12:30pm

Making the invisible visible: Ab... 1:30pm - 2:00pm

Making Outcomes Stick: A Practic... 2:00pm - 2:30pm

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