REGISTRATION BROCHURE

Sunday 9 - Monday 10 October 2005

Pre - Conference Workshops

Monday 10 - Wednesday 12 October 2005

Conference

Rydges South Bank

Brisbane, Queensland

The 2005 AES International Conference

The AES International Conference for 2005 will be held at Rydges South Bank in Brisbane, Queensland.

This year the conference will commence from Sunday 9 October with one and a half days of pre-conference workshops ending on the Monday 10 October.

The AES conference will take place on the afternoon of Monday 10 - Wednesday 12 October.

The conference will look at evaluation from the 'inside out' - its theory, methods and practice and trends for its future development and use. There will be five strands:

The Australasian Evaluation Society's 23rd annual international conference brings together practitioners, managers, academics, students, users and others with an interest in evaluation for several days of professional development, robust discussion and networking. What better place to do this than in beautiful Brisbane in October.

In line with the role of evaluation as a process of high quality systematic examination, this year's conference has sponsored a leading international evaluator, Valerie Caracelli from the US Government Accountability Office, to provide a keynote address on overseas developments in evaluation theory and practice. Two Fellows of the AES will be presenting keynote addresses: John Owens and Sue Funnell. In addition, Phillip Adams, one of Australia's 100 living treasures, will provide a thought provoking and entertaining address to the conference. I have no doubt that each of the keynote speakers, as well as the many other conference presenters, will challenge your view of evaluation and ignite new ways of looking at evaluation and its uses.

The Society puts a lot of effort into planning its conferences to ensure they meet the needs of the diverse range of delegates who attend. The 2005 Conference will appeal to those who are involved in strategic policy development and planning, program development and evaluation, review and audits and project planning, as well as anyone seeking to introduce or improve organisational and program change processes. The combination of workshops presented by some of the leading evaluators and academics in Australia and New Zealand, and presentations by a range of evaluation researchers and practitioners provides a unique opportunity to gain good value for money.

I hope you will take up this opportunity, and I look forward to seeing you in Brisbane in October.