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26-27 February 2010

Wellington College
Dufferin St, (near Government House and Basin Reserve)
Wellington

Guest Speakers Include:

Alan Gibbs,Entrepreneur,Businessman and ACT donor

Dr Don Brash,Chairman of the 2025 Commision

Dr Muriel Newman,Party Icon and former MP

Dr Graham Scott,Public Policy specialist extraordinaire and Party sage

Friday 26 February

(Programme may change slightly)

3.30pm Registration Desk Opens

3:50pm National Council Meeting (Members Only)
- chaired by ACT President Michael Crozier and Vice President Chris Simmons

4:30pm Annual General Meeting- Members Only
- chaired by President

5.30pm Sir Roger Douglas

5.55pm Q and A

6:00pm Parliamentary Report - Hon Heather Roy

6.20pm Conference Adjourned

Dinner Timetable at the James Cook

6:45pm Drinks at the James Cook Chancellor, The Terrace

7:45pm (approx) Dinner is served

8:15pm Keynote Speaker: Emma Gibbs,Neuroscientist,
The title of Emma’s speech is “Can I really chose who to vote for?"

Emma Gibbs is a geneticist and biochemist specializing in the genes involved in the conversion of short term to long term memory in the hippocampus of the brain. Most of this research was done in the lab of Prof Eric Kandel, Columbia University, nobel prize winner 2001.

1998 - 2003 Howard Hughes postdoctoral research scholar in Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, in laboratory of Eric Kandel, Nobel prize winner 2001.

1991 - 1998 PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology, (First class honours), Cornell University, New York.
1989 - 1991 Masters degree in biochemistry and molecular biology, (First class honours), Auckland University, New Zealand.

Saturday 27 February

8.45am President opens Conference

8.50am David Seymour,Frontier Institute,Canada

9.05am Alan Gibbs,Entrepreneur,Businessman : “The Nature of Liberalism”

9.55am Q and A with Alan

10.00am Dr Muriel Newman, NZ Centre for Political Research

10.25am Q and A

10.30am Morning tea

10.45am Dr Graham Scott, Former Secretary of the Treasury

11.10am Q and A

11.15am Breakout sessions Economy and Climate Change (more details to come)

12.30pm Lunch

1.30pm Hon Heather Roy MP

1.45pm Break

1.50pm Hon Rodney Hide MP,Official Leader’s Address

2.25 pm Breakout Sessions Economy Session #2 and Education

3.30pm Afternoon Tea

3.40pm Dr Don Brash,Chairman of the 2025 Taskforce and former Governor of the Reserve Bank

4.10pm Q and A

4.20pm John Boscawen MP

4.27pm Don Nicholson,Federated Farmers President

4.50pm David Garrett MP

4.56pm Conference reportback sessions

5.25pm Closing addresses

6.30pm for 7.00pm Casual Dinner at Istanbul,Cuba St