8:30 am     Registration

9:00 am     Facilitator address
Dr Patrick O’Connor, O’Connor NRM Pty Ltd and Jim Binney, Marsden Jacob Associates

9:05 am     Welcome to Country

9:15 am     Introduction: how the forum will stretch us beyond the current status of MBI.

9:30 am     Environmental Stewardship Program—where we have been and where we are going
Emma Burns, Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

9:50 am     Carbon markets and their implications for regional Australia
Eliza Murray, Australian Government Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency

10:10 am    Markets for multiple ecosystem services—Victoria’s EcoTender Program
Michelle Butler and Mark Eigenraam, Victorian Department of Primary Industries

10:30 am     Panel discussion
Emma Burns, Eliza Murray and Michelle Butler (Facilitator Patrick O'Connor)

10:50 am     Morning tea

11:10 am     Achieving NRM goals—integrating the use of MBI and alternate NRM approaches
Dr Stuart Whitten, CSIRO

11:30 am     Farmer’s views and experiences on the use of MBI and the agriculture sector’s capacity to participate in ecosystem services markets
Philip Townsend, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES)

11:50 am     Panel discussion
Dr Stuart Whitten, Philip Townsend (Facilitator Patrick O'Connor)

Concurrent sessions (20 minute presentation, 10 minutes Q&A):

12:00 pm     What scope is there for private investment in ecosystem services markets?
Darren Grover, Ecofund Queensland

12:00 pm     Involvement of Traditional Owners in use of MBI in regional NRM
Julian Gorman, Charles Darwin University

12:30 pm     Lunch

Concurrent sessions (20 minute presentation, 10 minutes Q&A):

1:20 pm     BushBroker program from Victoria
Anne Buchan, Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment

1:20 pm     River Tender/Habitat Tender from Wimmera Catchment
Rob Moir, Wimmera Catchment, Victoria

1:50 pm     MBI for water quality improvement in the Burdekin River
Linda Hygate, NQ Dry Tropics, Queensland

1:50 pm     NSW BioBanking
Tom Grosskopf, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, Department of Premier and Cabinet

2:30 pm     Summation: where to from here?
Facilitators Patrick O’Connor and Jim Binney

3:20 pm     Evaluation of forum

3:30 pm     Afternoon tea

4:00 pm     Close.