Speaker Program

Full Program: Day 1 Thursday 5 September
From 7.30am REGISTRATION - HILTON, LEVEL 3, SYDNEY
OPENING SESSION - DARE, CREATE, INSPIRE
9.00 - 9.15am

Opening

9.15 - 9.20am

Introduction
RAY POYNTER & ERICA VAN LIEVEN
2013 Conference Chairs

9.20 - 9.25am

Welcome
KELVIN KIRK
General Manager, Nine Rewards
PLATINUM SPONSOR

9.25 - 9.55am

The history of men's underwear:
How science and society change categories.
DAVID MCCAUGHAN
EVP McCann Japan, Director Truth Central Asia Pacific, McCann World Group

9.55 - 10.20am

Nowhere is an island! Jugaad innovation
and the need to expand boundaries.
PRAVIN SHEKAR
Head of Krea

10.20 - 10.30am

Wrap up

10.30 - 11.00am

MORNING TEA

MORNING SESSION - POLL DANCING
11.00 - 12.20pm

Poll dancing with Tony Jones.
TONY JONES
Current Affairs Journalist, ABC


Panellists:
Rebecca Huntley
Martin O'Shannessy
John Scales
Carla Stacey
John Utting

12.20 - 1.20pm

LUNCH_______________________________

BREAKOUT SESSIONS
DIGITAL SOCIAL BIG DATA
1.20 - 1.25pm Chair: Tinna Raikko Chair: Vicki Arbes Chair: Ray Poynter
1.25 - 1.45pm

Market research in the social era - The missing essential element.
TERI NOLAN
T Garage

Co-creation of a community adaptability
tool using social research.
Rob Mercer Instinct and Reason�
What is big data?
JOHN CUCKA
TNS
1.45 - 2.05pm Social media beyond engagement.
JASON DUNSTONE & RYAN KLOSE
Square Holes
LeverageX
Alcohol advertisement complaints,
uphold or dismiss?
Corey Fisher Colmar Brunton Research
Denita Wawn Brewer’s Association of Australia
and New Zealand Inc.�

Big data or big hype?
How to leverage big data analytics
to transform customer experience.
Chris Kirby Fifth Quadrant�

2.05 - 2.25pm Effectiveness planning in a social age: Turning measurement into meaning.
GRANT BIRD
Hall & Partners
Using methodological innovations to
explore social research utilisation in
Australian social policy.
Dr Jenny Povey and Elizabeth Shaw
Institute for Social Science Research,
The University of Queensland�
How market researchers can
add value to big data.
Dean Harris Brand Navigator�
2.25 - 2.45pm

How social media and the second screen
enrich the TV viewing experience.
STEVE WEAVER & NEALE COTTON
Nine Network Australia
The Lab

Driving environmental outcomes – By
dismissing the environment.
Matthew Bond Quantum Market Research�
Driving QANTAS’s loyalty program
effectiveness by fusing stated preference
data with revealed preference data.
Dr Con Menictas QANTAS Loyalty QANTAS
Airways Limited�
2.45 - 2.55pm Questions Questions Questions
2.55 - 3.25pm AFTERNOON TEA
AFTERNOON SESSION - GLOBAL ISLAND
3.25 - 3.35pm

Industry update
SZYMON DUNIEC
President, AMSRS

3.35 - 4.05pm

The future of market research: Breaking barriers for the advancement of our industry.
KRISTIN LUCK
President, Decipher

4.05 - 4.25pm

Design thinking through the lens of insights and research.
PATRICK O'RIORDAN
Innovation & Insights Director, Lion Dairy & Drinks

4.25 - 4.45pm

Cooking with communities, creative research for meaningful insights.
ANNELIES VERHAEGHE
Head of Research Innovation,InSites Consulting

4.45 - 5.00pm

Questions/Wrap up

5.00 - 5.20pm

AMSRS AGM

7.00pm

Gala Dinner

Full Program: Day 2 Friday 6 September
From 7.30am REGISTRATION - HILTON, Level 3, SYDNEY
MORNING SESSION - CREATIVE THINKING
9.00 - 9.05am

Welcome & Housekeeping
RAY POYNTER

9.05 - 9.25am

How we predicted the world’s largest music poll using social media data.
Nick Drewe
Founder, Warmest 100

9.25 - 9.55am

The future of MRX – Forging a new frontier.
Ben Smithee
CEO, Spych Market Analytics

9.55 - 10.15am

Not so fast.
Reg Baker
Senior Consultant, Market Strategies International

10.15 - 10.40am

Panel discussion: Disruptive or disappointing?
Finding the diamonds in new MR.
Reg Baker, Ben Smithee, Kristin Luck, Annelies Verhseghe

10.40 - 10.45am

Wrap up

10.45 - 11.15am

MORNING TEA

BREAKOUT SESSIONS
BRANDING MOBILE HARD TO REACH
11.15 - 11.20am Chair: Nick Palmer Chair:Kate Inglis-Clark Chair: Joan Young
11.20 - 11.45am Using the metaphor of human
relationships to rethink brand research.
Rob Highett-Smith and Juergen Merz GfK​
Research goes to the game: Is it the battle of
the states or the battle of the brands?
James Burge Research Now
Sally Joubert Luma Research​
Using ‘digital’ media to talk to
a culturally challenging subject
among a hard to reach audience.
Colin MacArthur Jigsaw​
11.45 - 12.05pm Dare and inspire: The share a coke story.
Catherine Smith Coca Cola​

Shopper Pulse: Pathway to purchase,
one step at a time.
Kylie Brosnan and Peter Kenny
Colmar Brunton Research​

Ethnography – A new approach to
overweight/obesity research, undertaken
for the “Measure Up 3” campaign.
Robyn Rutley TNS Megan Briggs ANPHA​
12.05 - 12.25pm Changing the conversation.
Lisa Lewers Lewers Research
Bob Sharma Telstra​
Strengthening the longitudinal power of
the “My Telstra Experience” community
through mobile optimised surveys.
Matt Howley Telstra Sean Dunn Vision Critical​
Improving the safety of sex workers –
A client-researcher partnership.
Sam Everingham Stethoscope Research
Jackie McMillan Sex Workers Outreach Project​
12.25 - 12.35pm Questions Questions Questions
12.35 - 1.35pm LUNCH
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Quantifying the Future Sensing the Future Collecting the Future
1.25 - 1.30pm Chair Chair Chair
1.30 - 2.00pm Choosing the best choice: Innovations in choice modelling
SIMON FIFER
Centre for study of choice (CenSoC)
Do strangers in strange places say strange things? A pilot study examining alternative methods of group-based research
MELANIE RANDLE & DOROTHY DUDLEY
Institute for Innovation in Business and Social Research, University of Wollongong & The Ipsos Mackay Report
The who, when, where and how of smartphone research
BRIAN FINE
Australia Online Research & Confirmit
2.00 - 2.30pm Crossing the blue line: A CSI examination of the workhorse and the show ponies
PASCAL BOURGEAT & CON MENICTAS
Ipsos
Heart, mind, will, body, environment, tribe: A framework for considering consumer behaviour
HUW HEPWORTH
Painted Dog Research
Beyond colour and movement – Measuring the impact of dynamic survey answer formats on respondent behaviour
DUNCAN RINTOUL & JON PULESTON
University of Wollongong & GMI
2.30 - 2.50pm Better practice guide – Sampling design and weighting for Australian household/consumer and business surveys
JOHN HENSTRIDGE
Data Analysis Australia
Who’s kidding whom?
JEM WALLIS
Vivid
The future of survey sampling: Investigating the accuracy of landline RDD and online panel approaches
CAROLINE TOMICZEK & SANDRA MIHAJILO
ORIMA Research
2.50 - 3.00m Questions Questions Questions
3.00 - 3.30PM AFTERNOON TEA
AFTERNOON SESSION
Thinking beyond
3.30 - 3.35pm Chair
3.35 - 4.05pm Riding the value shift in market research: Only the paranoid survive!
DAVID BAKKEN
COO from KJT Group in NY
4.05 - 4.20pm Awards
4.20 - 5.00pm The limits of our thinking are the limits of our lives
DAN GREGORY
CEO at The Impossible Institute
5.15 - 7.15pm CLOSING DRINKS @ THE BRIDGE BAR