PUB LEADERS SUMMIT
AUSTRALIA’S FINEST
OUR FOURTH ANNUAL PUB LEADERS SUMMIT COMES TO MELBOURNE FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. SUMMIT CURATOR CRAIG HAWTIN-BUTCHER REVEALS WHY YOU ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, HAVE TO BE THERE.
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ustralian Hotelier‘s renowned Pub Leaders Summit will be returning for another industry-leading day in 2019 of networking, knowledge-sharing and over 50 ways to improve your business with the most important people in the business in attendance. Already well-established and well-respected in Sydney, we can confirm the industry’s foremost summit will maintain its exceptional focus and this year spread the love by taking place on Monday 20 May 2019 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) in the Sovereign Room. The one-day Melbourne event will pack in as many of the industry’s leading speakers, influencers, movers and shakers as you can handle. From operators and regulators to digital media experts, publicans, suppliers and brewers, you won’t want to miss this once-a-year opportunity to get the inside scoop on how to work more efficiently, more effectively and improve your bottom line. All wrapped up with beers at our networking session courtesy of Gage Roads at the end for an opportunity to catch up with friends old and new. There’s also an after-party at Richard Chatfield’s nearby venue, Melbourne Public, to keep the business opportunities flowing.
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TOP-DRAWER SPEAKERS Among the star-studded speakers already confirmed is our leading keynote speaker Chris Helder, a business specialist and author. His energetic delivery and excellent business acumen will help distill some of the sector’s most pertinent problems and offer clear solutions. Meanwhile we’ve some of Australian’s most influential operator groups represented on the day. The major executive team from Sand Hill Road will be joining us, including Dan Viney and Andy Mullins, along with Colonial Leisure Group’s Lawrence Dowd, Australian Venue Co’s CEO Paul Waterson and Zagame’s COO Jackie Booth to name but a few. But it’s not just key groups who’ll be sharing their top-level insights, we have game-changing individuals such as Steve Jeffares of Stomping Ground talking us through the latest in craft beer. Sommelier Matt Skinner will expand the topic beyond just beer into the wider world of quality beverage.
ENTERTAINMENT Live entertainment expert Shaun Adams and Melbourne native, who’s been responsible for much of the Espy’s line-up in recent years, will reveal how to go about building up your own entertainment proposition, in tandem
with Kirsty Rivers from Creative Victoria, an organisation tasked with trying to help venues make their plans a reality. Meanwhile Alistair Flower of The Settlers Inn in Port Macquarie knows exactly how to build a local community following via top-drawer marketing and social media management. Want to discover more about launching a large format venue, as they appear increasingly profitable? Tim McLernon of Three Pound Group’s The Camfield will explain exactly how they’ve launched and are operating one of Australia’s biggest new venues next to the massive Optus Stadium in Perth. For foodservice, we have Liam Matthews of Melbourne’s all-vegetarian Carringbush Hotel, Pete Baker of The Builders Arms, an Andrew McConnell venue, plus Sand Hill Road’s executive chef, Ashly Hicks.
GUARANTEED EXPERTISE We’ll have EY hospitality expert Stewart McCallum backing it all up with data and insights, along with strategic marketing thinkers quantifying and qualifying what’s working and why. Plus representatives from VCGLR and the AHA Vic will share their key expertise around licensing and the wider sector. Follow #PubLeaders across social media for the latest updates.
