Optimistically, we have booked travel to Canada for January 2022. Can’t wait to get there and I know a lot of others are thinking the same way. We NEED to gather and process what has happened over the last two years and start to plan for the next. So we are planning to hold a […]
A few months ago we were buoyed by airlines announcing they were getting international flights going by October 2021. It’s pretty clear that that is not going to happen. The Australian Budget is predicated on international travel not resuming until June 2022. Accordingly, odds are that we won’t be running a conference in January 2022. […]
The world has certainly moved a long way since our last post on 14th of March. Then, we anticipated still holding a meeting in SilverStar in January 2021. We struggled to conceive of a pandemic that might disrupt minor aspects of our lives for a short period. Now, there are so many “known-unknowns and unknown-unknowns” […]
Recovery seemed like an appropriate theme for 2021 as we participated in the APE 2020 SilverStar conference in January and watched the fires wreaking havoc in Australia. Recovery now seems like an even more apt theme as we have gone through a biblical series of disasters since. The latest concern is of course the COVID […]
Thanks to all the delegates, presenters and staff who made APE 2020 a great success. Physical and mental stretching was evident throughout the week in keeping with the theme. A copy of the final program is here. The summary proceedings will be published in the first half of the year. We’ve already started planning for […]
The January SilverStar conference got us off to a running start. March saw a small APE contingent discovering Antarctica and in May we ran the SLAM conference associated with the Great Wall Marathon (see summary here). It is fair to say that this year has been extraordinary and 2020 looks like it will be equally […]
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Feb
Maybe it is just me, but the year seems to be proceeding very fast. We’re still only in February but it seems like a long way back that we were enjoying APE SilverStar 2019. Have a look here if you need to take a breath and remind yourself of the fantastic presentations in January. Also […]
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Jan
While many of our supposed “thought leaders” are heading off to Davos, we are just back to the 40 degree heat of Canberra in a super heated January – a big prompt to get planning for 2020. The theme of “Bonds” worked well in 2019 to ensure a mix of topics and some truly reflective […]
A lot of speculation has been put to rest in recent days as it has been announced that: Daniel Craig will reprise the Bond role with filming to commence in March 2019; Bond Yields Climb as Investors Embrace Risk, Cautiously (WSJ); and Bonds are going to be forged in January at APE. These bonds will help […]
You can check out the summary proceedings from 2018 here. We’ve been workshopping the theme for 2019. There is some enthusiasm for bonds so let’s go with that! We’re looking forward to presentations on bonds be they financial instruments, partnerships or secret agents. We’ll also consider presentations on the active forms (bonding or bondage) but […]