We invite you to join us in Port Hedland on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 August for our 2022 Town Team Conference!
It’s more than a talk fest! It’s about living and embodying the Town Team principles through immersive experiences. It’s about learning through doing.
Conference Aims
- Explore the benefit of the place leadership approach to activating communities
- Rediscover the power of working together as a collective to create positive change
- Show how to create a cultural shift and shape communities through a ‘can do’ approach
- Inspire, engage and empower communities to form their own local town team
- Provide attendees with an action kit of new ideas, resources and strategies
Topics
- Place Leadership & Management
- Placemaking
- Creative engagement techniques
- Community challenges & the roles of Government
- Understanding & celebrating heritage and the arts
- The power of storytelling and vision making
- Economic & Community Development
- Embracing technology
Tickets and Prices
Full Conference – Thursday and Friday (Government and Industry) = $250 including GST
Full Conference Concession – Thursday and Friday (Not for Profit concession ticket includes CCI, CRC, Rotary and other not for profit groups) = $100 including GST
Thursday Conference and Networking Event Only = $75 including GST
Friday Conference and Closing Party Only = $200 including GST
Town Team Movement offers various discounts for Town Team volunteers and members of similar community organisations. Please email [email protected] for more information and arrange a discount ticket.
Purchase tickets
Online via Humantix – https://events.humanitix.com/town-team-conference
Tax Invoice – send an email [email protected] with the number and type of tickets you would like to purchase, plus provide a purchase order number. We will send a tax invoice through for payment.
Possible Travel Subsidy
Town of Port Hedland is providing an opportunity for a travel subsidy of $300 off flights for attendees who are staying in Port Hedland at least one night and willing to contribute to the event in some fashion. If this interests you please email [email protected] with your contact details and detailing why you want to come to the event and what you may be able to contribute (in terms of knowledge/experience sharing, volunteering, networking, performance etc).
Accommodation Options
Accommodation is at your own cost. We have rooms reserved at Discovery Park. Contact them directly and mention the Town Team State Placemaking Conference and your name when booking. Contact Roz at Discovery Park – [email protected].
Key Note Speaker – Krista Nightengale, Better Block Foundation (Texas)
We are excited that Krista Nightengale will join us in person! Krista is the Executive Director of the Better Block. The Better Block Foundation is a nonprofit organisation that educates, equips, and empowers communities and their leaders to reshape and reactivate built environments to promote the growth of healthy and vibrant neighborhoods.
You can see just a few of their awesome projects in the videos below –
Krista began her career at D Magazine, the city magazine in Dallas, Texas, where she served as Managing Editor, Executive Director of a leadership group aimed at empowering citizens to take action, and Executive Director of a literacy nonprofit that united the city in reading together. She then served as Chief of Staff of the Coalition for a New Dallas, an advocacy group that worked to reunite communities by removing an elevated highway between two neighborhoods in Dallas. Krista then launched Dallas Innovates, a news site that promotes Dallas-Fort Worth as a hub of innovation. While covering the city, Krista became intrigued by the built environment.
In 2016, she joined the Better Block, an international, urban design nonprofit that educates, equips, and empowers communities and their leaders to reshape and reactivate built environments to promote the growth of healthy and vibrant neighborhoods.
In her six years at the Better Block, Krista has worked with neighbors in more than 75 cities to rethink streets, turn parking lots to plazas, and identify the barriers keeping communities from enjoying their public spaces. She has led study tours in Dallas, Copenhagen, and Malmo and built hundreds of digitally fabricated benches, kiosks, and survey stands. She uses social media to educate around placemaking and transportation, and she’s a pretty adequate drone operator (as long as there’s no wind).
Krista is on the Dallas Comprehensive Land Use Committee, on the steering committee of Big D Reads, a board member of Philanthropy Kids, past-president of the Dallas Architecture and Design Exchange board, former AIA Dallas Board Member, City Lab High School Foundation Advisory Council, Emerging Leaders in Philanthropy cohort for Communities Foundation of Texas, former member of the Dallas Commission on Homelessness, former TEDxSMU steering committee, and a graduate of Leadership Texas.