Conference - 30 November 2016
The ABSIA Conference & Expo. 2016 was held on the 30th of November 2016 at the Sydney Masonic Centre (SMC) Conference & Function Centre.
The guest speakers for the day covered a range of topics relating to current industry issues and emerging trends to assist industry in preparing for changes including some thought provoking presentations on the future of Fintech and the rate of change we can expect over coming years. We also heard from some of our government partners on Single Touch Payroll (STP), Simplier BAS, SBR evolution and the eInvoicing Interoperability Framework.
Some of the presentations from the sessions are attached to the agenda item below.
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9.00am |
Registrations opens |
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9.30am |
AGM |
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10.00am |
Welcome |
Simon Foster - Director - ABSIA |
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10.10am |
Key note speaker - Fintech the Future! |
Tim Reed - MYOB |
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10.40am |
Australian FinTech & RegTech What's happening locally in ecommerce? |
James Eyers - The Australian Financial Review |
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11.10am |
Morning Tea |
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11.30am |
Global Fintech Whats happening globally in ecommerce? |
Peter Cowan - Paypal |
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12.00pm
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NPP in the Fintech space |
Wendy Booth - CBA |
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12:30pm |
Panel Session - Opportunities for business management software in the Fintech space |
James Eyers - The Australian Financial Review |
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1:00pm |
Lunch |
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2.00pm |
Official ABSIA Website Launch including the Product Register |
Josef Bobinac - Director - ABSIA |
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2.20pm |
SBR Evolution: We have listened and heard and we are delivering! |
John McAlister – ABR-SBR |
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3.00pm |
Single Touch Payroll (STP) Business Update |
Michael Karavas – ATO |
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3.30pm |
Afternoon Tea |
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3:50pm |
Single Touch Payroll (STP) IT Options and Update |
Chris Thorne - Assistant Commissioner - ATO |
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4.30pm |
Simplified BAS update |
Richard Robinson on behalf of Tim Pulsford - Director - ATO |
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4.50pm |
Digital Business Council (DBC) and eInvoicing |
Matthew Addison - ICB |
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5:10pm |
Conference close |
Simon Foster - Director - ABSIA |