Boomtown! Property & Infrastructure Summit 2018

This year, BOOMTOWN! has introduced a pre-conference dinner on Thursday 8 November with Friday 9 November
featuring the full-day summit.

The dinner includes the announcement of our Patrons’ Prizes for Excellence in Public Policy and the BOOMTOWN! Project of the Year Award with Mike Baird as our guest of honour. The inaugural winner of the award was Western Sydney University’s Parramatta CBD campus, “Peter Shergold Building” which has changed the regional design and innovation landscape.

The “West comes to town” for the day to talk with financiers, developers, regulators and operators about the growth opportunities in one of the nation’s most dynamic regions. Focussing on our feature projects of MetroWest Rail and the Western Sydney Airport (plus the property & transport developments around them), urban renewal, and strategic corridor planning, ‘regulation vs innovation’ within the cost of development debate, funding and governance review, showcase partnerships and legacy issues and take on the vexed question of how to build and maintain community trust amid construction grief.

Event details
Project of the Year Awards Dinner

Date
Thursday, 8th November

Event details, Summit
Boomtown Property & Infrastructure Summit

Date
Friday, 9th November

Venue
Sofitel Sydney Wentworth

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Summit program (9 NOV)

GWS projects of the year award nominees

Featured speakers

Larry McGrath

General Manager: NSW & ACT, McConnell Dowell

Charles Moore

Chief Executive Officer, BaptistCare NSW & ACT

Christopher Brown AM

Chairman, Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue

Adam Leto

Chief Executive Officer, Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue

Sara Mansour

Co-Founder & Artistic Director, Bankstown Poetry Slam

Jason de Sousa

Executive Director, Lendlease Australia

Kirsten Andrews

Chief of Staff to the Vice-Chancellor, The University of Sydney

Hon. Andrew Constance MP

NSW Minister for Transport and Roads

Dr Tim Williams

Strategic Adviser, ARUP

Hon. Stuart Ayres MP

Minister for WestConnex, Minister for Western Sydney & Minister for Sport

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We acknowledge and honour Aboriginal People who have cared for Country in Greater Western Sydney for at least 60,000 years and acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we gather today.

The Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue thanks these Traditional Owners and we pay our respects to their Ancestors and Elders – past, present and emerging.

We also acknowledge the vital role played by our Local Aboriginal Land Councils, the modern custodians for all First Nations people who currently live in our region, home to one of the largest urban Aboriginal populations in Australia.

Further, the Dialogue will support the YES campaign in the Voice to Parliament referendum. This recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia and reflects our pride that Greater Western Sydney is home to one of the largest urban Indigenous populations in this country.