Agenda

CONFERENCE DAY
Thursday 29th April 2010

8:30 Registration and Coffee

9:00 Opening Remarks from the Chair

Solving Australia's E-Waste Problem

9:10 E-Waste: The Australian ICT Industry Strategy

• The future of producer responsibility across the ICT industry
• Meeting the challenges of corporate and domestic waste streams
• Coordinating State and Federal government activity
• Driving change: The steps to success

Ian Birks, CEO, AIIA - Australian Information Industry Association

E-Waste Management in Practice

9:50 The Future for Byteback

• Byteback: Why it was initiated
• Key outcomes and impacts from the program
• Where to from here?

Jan Van Degraaff, Project Manager, Materials Efficiency, Sustainability Victoria

10:30 Morning Tea

11:00 Role of Local Government Councils in Managing E-Waste

• The financial and logistical issues of managing e-waste at the local government level
• Successful collection initiatives
• Where to from here?

Michael Neville, Waste Education Coordinator, City of Sydney

11:40 Ensuring Sufficient Capacity to Handle the Avalanche of Obsolete Electronic Equipment - A Recyclers' Perspective

• Current capacity for e-waste recycling in Australia
• Constraints in capacity expansion
• Technological and regulatory solutions for best results
• Lessons from global experience

Kumar Radhakrishnan, Senior Vice President, Sims Recycling Solutions, Asia Pacific

12:20 Lunch

1:20 The Role of ACOR in Promoting E-Waste Recycling

• ACOR's new vision and expanded mandate
• Key priorities in e-waste recycling
• The importance of engagement with government
• Opportunities for e-waste industry collaboration

Rod Welford, CEO, Australian Council of Recycling

2:00 Television and Computer Monitor Recycling

• What's the problem?
• What's in the glass?
• How can it be recycled?

Michelle Morton, Managing Director, E-Cycle Recovery

2:40 Our Organisation wants to Recycle its E-Waste, how can we be sure that the Data Stored in the Equipment is Permanently Destroyed?

• Modern data storage capabilities
• Your intellectual property, privacy policy, and responsibilities to ensure data is compliantly destroyed
• Common methods of data destruction
• What is 'Top Secret' destruction?
• The process of hard-disc granulation

Mark Pobje, Business Development Manager, Advance Security Destruction

3:20 Afternoon Tea

3:50 IBM's Goals and Experience with the Sound Environmental Management of End-of-Life IT Equipment

• Industry leading practices in product design for the environment and management at end-of-life
• A national perspective on recovery and recycling of end-oflife IT equipment

Michael Chanell, Environmental Manager, Corporate Environmental Affairs, IBM Australia

Keynote International Video Address

4:30 European IT Equipment PRO's: Leveraging Best Possible E-Waste Recycling Outcomes for the Australian Market

The WEEE Forum is a European association of more than 40 electrical and electronic waste collection and recovery systems. The aim of the WEEE Forum is to provide a platform for these producer responsibility organisations, or take-back systems, to foster ideas and share best practices while optimising environmental performance through a proper management of electrical and electronic waste.

Andreas Rthlisberger, President, WEEE Forum

5:10 Closing Remarks from the Chair

5:20 End of Conference and Networking Drinks

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