New Speakers Contest 

Appita New Speakers Contest

The Young Speakers Contest has been renamed the New Speakers’ Contest and the finalists incorporated into the Technical Program at the Appita Annual Conference. Each Section will have a runoff, as they have in the past, and the finalists will present their papers in a special stream at the Conference.

Section winners will receive complimentary Conference registration, and will have the chance to compete in the final for a prize valued at $4,000, to be used for overseas travel. The prize money comes from sponsorship and the Appita Asia Committee. Section winners will be given an opportunity to have their final paper published in the Conference Proceedings. 

Appita Melbourne Section

Appita Melbourne Section is calling for all interested to enter the Section runoff for the New Speakers Contest, the final of which will be held at the 2010 Appita Conference & Exhibition in Melbourne.

Please register your interest now!

For more information on how to enter please refer to the attached flyer.

Melbourne Competition Flyer
Competition Rules

 

 

 

Other sections will conduct their runoffs soon.  Watch this space for details...

NZ Section New Speakers Contest – 10 June 2009

 

The June meeting of the NZ Section was the annual new speakers’ meeting. The evening saw three speakers tackle very different subjects in a very confident and competent way. 
 
The first speaker was Tim Wright from CHH Penrose, who described the “Stickie Situation” at the Penrose mill in an amusing presentation describing good “Kiwi Innovation” in action finding a solution to “flying stickies”.
 
The second speaker was Todd Saddleton of Norske Skog Tasman. Todd described the pulp storage model he had developed to maximise benefits for power usage timing to avoid peak charges by organising the downtime in the RMP and TMP mills at Tasman. He described the morphing of the initial model from its academic beginnings to an effective mill personnel friendly cost saving tool.
 
The third speaker was Jonas Hoffmann-Vocke who is a PhD student from Waikato. His PhD is centred on the efficient design of air heaters used in Pulp & Paper as well as the dairy industry. Jonas also gave a confident well presented delivery taking the audience through the effects of maldistribution of the air stream through an air heater. The consequences of some of his work are already included in the design of air heaters for Fonterra.
 
All three speakers were excellent, making the judges’ decision a difficult one. The winner was Todd Saddleton.
 
As the winner of the NZ Section Competition, Todd received a trophy and a travel grant and complementary conference registration to attend the Appita New Speakers’ Competition at the 2010 Appita Conference in Melbourne. Both Tim and Jonas received a cash prize as runners-up. Thank you to the sponsors of the 2009 Competition: BOC, Chemiplas NZ Ltd, Metso Paper, Cleveland Process Automation Ltd, RTM Luzenac and Acu Cel.

 

 

 

From left to right Tom Clark, Pravin Mistry & Todd Saddleton (winner)
 

 

63rd Appita Annual Conference and Exhibition New Speakers Contest 2009

 

The winner of the 2009 New Speakers Contest was Xu Li of APPI Monash University for presenting her paper titled 'Paper as a low-cost base material for diagnostic and environmental sensing applications’. Her co-authors, also from APPI, are Jungfei Tian and Wei Shen. Xu Li wins AUD 4000, to be used for professional development.

 

Congratulations to Xu Li.

 

The prize is sponsored by Appita and the Appita Asia Committee.

Xu Li (centre) receives her New Speakers Prize from 2009 – 2010 President Lachlan McLean (left) and Vice-President and Director of APPI Professor Gil Garnier (right).