| TIME | SESSION | SPEAKER/S |
| 9:00 | REGISTRATION | Jaeger Room |
| 9:50 | OPENING | Professor Philippa Collin, Young and Resilient Research Centre, Western Sydney University |
| 10:00 | WELCOME TO COUNTRY | Paul Girrawah House, senior Ngambri-Ngunnawal custodian |
| 10.10 | SCENE SETTING | Professor Owen Atkin, Director, Agrifood Innovation Institute, Australian National University |
| 10.15 | KEYNOTES | - Dr David Obura, Chair of Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and Founding Director CORDIO East Africa
- Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Fenner School for the Environment, Australian National University
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11.15 | PANEL DISCUSSION | Anticipating Shifts in Natural and Socioecological Systems. How will human society, culture and economies need to change in a hotter world? Chair: Xuemei Bai - Belinda Medlyn, Distinguished Professor, Ecosystem Function and Integration, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
- Kris Wild, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne
- Marwan El Hassan, Director FDF Program Evaluation and Support Section, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Steven Lade, Fenner School for the Environment, Australian National University
- Su McCluskey, Australian agriculture advocate
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| 12.45 | LUNCH & POSTERS | Foyer of the Shine Dome |
1.30 | PANEL DISCUSSION | Business as Usual is not working. What forms of knowledge, communication and governance are needed for societies to thrive in a hotter world? Chair: Philippa Collin - Angelica Ojinnaka-Psillakis, Social and Health Researcher, Former Australian Youth Representative to the UN
- Carmel Reyes, Climate Action & Sustainability Manager, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
- Joan Leach, Professor and former Director, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
- Joshua Waters, Senior Research Fellow, National Indigenous Knowledges Education Research and Innovation Institute, Deakin
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| 3.00 | AFTERNOON TEA | |
3.30 | PANEL DISCUSSION | Can we extend the thermal limits of life? How do we predict and understand how natural and agricultural systems will respond to extreme heat and can they adapt to a hotter world? Chair: Daniel Noble - Brajesh Singh, Centre Director, Global Centre for Land-Based Innovation, Western Sydney University
- John Troughton, Swift Grow
- Margie Mayfield, Professor of Plant Ecology, Head of School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne
- Pieter Arnold, Research School of Biology, Australian National University
- Tiahni Adamson*, 2024 SA Young Australian of the Year and National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Engagement Manager Bush Heritage Australia
*pre-recorded presentation |
| 5.00 | POSTER SESSION | Foyer of the Shine Dome. Canapes and drinks will be served from 5.30pm. |
6.00 | PUBLIC EVENT | How do we prepare society and nature for a hotter world? Facilitated by Professor Joan Leach | Ian Walker Theatre - Andrew Feldman*, Assistant Research Scientist, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center & University of Maryland
- Ary Hoffman, Professor & Chair of Ecological Genetics, University of Melbourne
- Carmel Reyes, Climate Action and Sustainability Manager, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
- Peter Susanto, 2024 NT Young Australian of the Year and youth representative @ COP29
- Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Professor of Climate Science, Australian National University
- Xuemei Bai, Distinguished Professor of Urban Environment and Human Ecology, ARC Laureate Fellow, Australian National University
* pre-recorded presentation |
| 8:00 | DINNER | Subsidised dinner at Rebel Rebel (for invited speakers and workshop participants) |
