Online participation

Please join us online for the 2023 Australian Repair Summit on 11 August 2023.

To join the event online, please click on the following link:

https://livestream.com/iv/ausrepair23

Questions

For all questions - please click on the below link, where you will be able to type your question and it will be sent through to a moderator who will ask questions on behalf of the audience.

https://app.sli.do/event/gY6pTjgwLwCWp9RS88255Q

Program - 11 August 2023

8.30am      Arrival and registration

 9.00am     Welcome (including Acknowledgement of Country)

                   Professor Leanne Wiseman, ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University

                   Pip Kiernan, Chair, Clean Up Australia (MC)

 9.15am     North American Updates on Right to Repair

                  Canadian Right to Repair Developments

                   Anthony Rosborough, Doctoral Researcher, European University Institute,  Florence Italy; Representative of the Canadian

                   Repair Coalition

                   US Right to Repair Developments

                   Kyle Wiens, CEO and Founder of iFixit, USA

                   Q & A

10.00am    What’s happened to Australia’s Right to Repair?

                  Professor Leanne Wiseman, ARC Future Fellow, Griffith University

 10.45am   Morning tea

 11.15am    Incentivising Repair: Examples of Repair Policy and Repair Design

                   Chair: John Gertsakis, Director Australian Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence, Adjunct Professor with the

                               Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS, and Co-founder of the Ewaste Watch Institute

                   Queensland Government, Draft E-Products Action Plan   2022-2023

                   Kylie Hughes, Director, Waste Policy and Legislation, Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, 

                   Queensland Government

                   South Australia's Repair and Maintenance Sector Study

                   Robert Crocker, Senior Lecturer, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia

                   Nokia Phones Play the Long Game

                   Brenden Folitarik, Country Manager, ANZ & Pl, HMD Global Home of Nokia Phones

                   Q & A

 12.30pm    Lunch

 1.30pm     The Repair Training   Dilemma: How well trained do we need to be?

                   Chair:   Lesley Yates, Director of Government Relations & Advocacy Australian  Automotive Aftermarket

                                Association (AAAA)

                   Repair training dilemma

                   Alexandre Isaac, CEO at the Repair Academy, France

                  ‘Authorised  Repairer’ status requires an investment in people, tools and equipment. What does it mean to be

                  ‘factory trained’ and what is a fair return on that investment?

                   Brian Savage, Deputy CEO, Australian Automotive Dealer Association (AADA)

                  Skills & Training Challenges in the Repair of Assistive Technologies

                  Margaret Noonan, Senior Policy Officer, Assistive   Technology Suppliers Australia Ltd (ATSA)

                  Q & A

2.30pm    EU Right to Repair Developments

                 The French Right to Repair Movement

                 Alexandre Isaac, Vice-Secretary General at RCUBE, France

                 The Austrian Repair Bonus

                 Markus Piringer, Environmental consultant, Die Umweltberantung, Vienna, Austria

                 EU Right to Repair Proposal

                 Professor Taina Pihlarjarinee, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability, University of Helsinki, Finland

                 Q & A

3.30pm    The need for fair and open markets for Hardware and Software

                 Tomás O’Leary, Free ICT Europe

 3.45pm   Where to now for   Australia’s Right to Repair?

                 Pete Shmigel, Revolve ReCYCLING

                 Annette Brodie, The Reconnect Project

                 Bryce McIntosh, Commercial Director, EMPR Australia 

                 Open discussion

 4.30pm  Thanks and close

Sponsorship 

We would sincerely like to thank the following organisations for their sponsorship and ongoing support of the Australian Repair Network.  Without you, we would be unable to host events like this.