KEYNOTE Demographic Trends: The Sunshine Coast Difference
Alison Taylor, Senior Demographer, Planning Information and Forecasting Unit, Queensland Government

PANEL Environment Trends: Trade-offs; Business and the Environment
Professor Tim Smith (University of the Sunshine Coast Sustainability Research Centre)with Bob Cameron (Rockcote); Annie Nolan (Sunshine Coast Environment Council); and Michael Hopkins (Investa); John Brannock, Brannock & Associates

KEYNOTE The Hospital: A crisis unfolding
Dr Andrew Southee, President, Sunshine Coast Local Medical Association

KEYNOTE Our place; Our future; Your say
Warren Bunker, Sunshine Coast Regional Council

Have your say in guiding the way the Coast looks, feels and grows over the next twenty years with an interactive prioritising of actions from the Council's new State of Proposals.

PANEL Strengthening the Region: The case for no States!
Join with our facilitator, Professor Scott Prasser, Australian Catholic University along with the panel, Hon Andrew Fraser MP, State Treasurer; Steve Dickson, State Member for Buderim; Sunshine Coast Regional Council's Deputy Mayor Tim Dwyer; Professor Paul Thomas, Vice Chancellor, University of the Sunshine Coast; Everald Compton, Head of National Seniors; Graeme Pearce, Chairman, Sunshine Coast Tourism and David Oliver, Head of Sunshine Coast Branch of UDIA for a light-hearted hypothetical discussion of what life would be like with no States!