Simulation Industry Association of Australia Annual General Meeting 2007 20 September 2007

SIAA Annual General Meeting - Agenda Apologies Chairman’s Report Strategic Plan Election of Executive Members for 2007/2008 2007/2008 Budget Members Motions Other Business

Apologies Bruce Barraclough Health Glen Bethel Army Simulation Wing Ian Irving Thales Australia Ed Kruzins ADSO Tony Landers Thales Australia Gerry McLennan PCon Werner Naef NAEF Ltd Diana Pitcher Townsville Hospital Bill Runciman University of Adelaide Adrian Smith Sydac Lyn Stewart University of Western Sydney Grant Tudor Army Simulation Wing Merrilyn Walton University of Sydney Phil Wallace Learning Systems Analysis

Chairman’s Report - Operations Creating a basis for growth Membership Stable – 2005 2006 2007 ASSH* Full Members 16 17 15 2 Associate Members 21 24 22 2 Individual Members 25 26 45** 12 * ASSH Members since July 2007 ** Includes SIAA SISO Members, and Students

SIAA Members New Associate Members New Full Members Intelligent Software Development University of Technology, Sydney Zantech New Full Members Mining Industry Skills Centre Clinical Training & Education Centre (UWA)

Chairman’s Report - Operations Engagement Associations National Centre for Simulation membership Society for Simulation in Healthcare membership International Training & Simulation Alliance European Training & Simulation Association MIMOS (Italian Simulation Association) Simulation Interoperability Standards Organisation Game Developers Association of Australia Australian Spatial Information Business Association Systems Engineering Society of Australia

Chairman’s Report - Operations Engagement (Cont) Defence Defence Simulation Forum SIAA VIP Cocktails at SimTecT Army Simulation Wing meetings SimTecT Organising Committees ADSO Road map involvement and release

Chairman’s Report - Operations Engagement (Cont) State Governments Queensland State Development Multi-Media Victoria South Australian DTED

Chairman’s Report - Operations Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare (ASSH) Structured to be a Chapter of the SIAA Interim Executive Chair: Dr Leonie Watterson Deputy Chair: Dr Brendan Flanagan Treasurer: Mr Graham Beaumont Project Officer: Ms Adelle Wahry / Renee Corney SimTecT Health Conference in September 2007 $600k+ Department of Health and Aging Project – being managed through Queensland Health Curricula mapping Curricula distribution / sharing Project Officer funded for 24-months Agreement with the Society for Simulation in Healthcare re Journal Non-technical Skills Training in Synthetic Learning Environments

Chairman’s Report - Operations SimTecT 2007 Conference – Brisbane - best ever

Chairman’s Report - Operations SimTecT 2007 Conference (ctd) Best Paper award to present at I/ITSEC 2007 Best Student Paper Simulation Achievement Awards Dr Brendan Flanagan Dr Karol Miller Mr Grant Tudor SimTecT Committee Organising Committee Chair – Mr Jawahar Bhalla Papers Convenor – Dr Elyssebeth Leigh Future host city for 2008 - Melbourne 11

Chairman’s Report - Operations SimTecT 2007 Health Conference – Brisbane 12

Chairman’s Report - Operations Professional Certification 20 Certificates issued Skill Groups: Instructional Systems (Available) Systems Engineering (Available) Maintenance Support (Available) Human Factors (Almost Available) Project Management (Under Development) Policy (Under Development)

Chairman’s Report - Operations Professional Development SIAA Guide to Simulation Professional Skills Development in Australia Third Issue at SimTecT 2007 Includes Certification and Course information Introduction to Simulation Workshop Run four times with approx. 80 graduates Mr Shane Garrett continued as part-time Learning and Development Officer

Chairman’s Report - Operations Standards – SISO Australia Agreed with SISO to establish SISO Australia Included 100 free SISO Memberships, and web forum Charter and Terms of Reference agreed Membership nominations called; 46 allocated Established country product group experts

Chairman’s Report – Financial   Jun-07* Jun-06 Change Assets Total Assets $378,699 $408,939 -$30,240 Liabilities Total Liabilities $10,368 $75,982 -$51,693 Net Assets $368,330 $332,957 $35,373 Total Equity $ 368,330 $ 332,957 *Provisional *Un-audited

Chairman’s Report – Plan for 2007/8 Chairman’s Report – Plan for 2007/8 Plan to Transform to an Industry Peak Body Outline Points: Plan to transform SIAA from a volunteer organisation focussed only on simulation into a true peak industry body for Simulation & Training Broaden the appeal of SIAA to attract individual members in the masses Strategic Alliances with other peak bodies such as ASIBA Develop capability to manage Government and other externally provided funding projects

Chairman’s Report – Plan for 2007/8 Outline Points: Drive current Projects: Professional Development Healthcare Simulation Society Launch new Projects: Strategic Plan for Transformation National Security Mining and Construction More Project focus for SimTecT - eg Aerospace Training for SimTecT 08 Bolster / strengthen the Exhibition Increase interest levels for Defence stakeholders from CDG and DMO Will not compromise the broad technical focus of the conference 18

Executive Elections Positions Election to Executive Committee Executive Positions (nominated in constitution) Chair, Executive Committee Deputy-chair, Executive Committee Treasurer Executive Members General Executive Member Election to Executive Committee Member Voting Rights Full members each have one vote Vote required where italicized Vote for remaining nominations to executive committee Returning Officer SIAA Executive Officer (Mr Peter Hill)

Executive Elections – 12 Nominations 12 Positions Note: Dr Mather Mason, from DSTO, is invited as an Observer

2007/8 SIAA Proposed Budget - Income

2007/8 SIAA Proposed Budget – Development

2007/8 SIAA Proposed Budget – Expenses

Members Motion – New Constitution to add Chapters That the New Constitution accompanying the notice of meeting dated 29 August 2007 be adopted as the Constitution of SIAA in substitution for the existing Constitution. Moved: Peter Hill Seconded: Peter Cantwell Background To formalise the operation of a semi-autonomous group, under the auspices of the SIAA – a “Chapter” Define high-level responsibilities Details in the Chapter’s Terms of Reference Allow for the Chapter to spin-off from the SIAA

General Business Appointment of the Auditor Move that the SIAA re-appoints Robert Mitchell & Company Moved: Peter Hill Seconded: Peter Cantwell