Appita New Speakers Contest

The 2011 New Speakers’ Contest for the section finalists will be incorporated into the Technical Program at the 65 Appita Annual Conference & Exhibition to be held in Rotorua, New Zealand from the 10 -13 April 2011. 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 International Business 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 2011 Appita Conference & Exhibition in Rotorua, New Zealand.

Please register your interest now!

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

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Melbourne Competition Flyer
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Competition Rules

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

NZ Section New Speakers Contest – July 2010

The NZ Section New Speakers’ Competition was held in July. The three speakers were all excellent: Kevin Yap (Norske Skog Tasman) who described the novel approach that the Tasman mill took in addressing its need to produce hydrogen peroxide bleached pulp for its high brightness paper grades; Olivia Goh(CHH Pulp & Paper Kinleith) who described a project undertaken to reduce Kinleith’s steam costs by minimising the steam swings in the No.1 kraft batch mill; and Jo Spod (Norske Skog Tasman) who discussed the benefits of using a “Design of Experiments (DOE)” technique in a mill environment to solve an intermittent problem that Tasman’s PM3 winder was having with off-centre cores (OCC’s). The high standard of the presentations made it extremely difficult for the judges to decide on a winner with all three contestants being scored within one mark of each other. The winner was Jo Spod, who received a trophy, an educational grant and complimentary registration for the 2011 Appita Annual Conference to be held in Rotorua. Kevin and Olivia each received a cash prize as runners-up. The NZ Section would like to thank the evening’s principal sponsor, Beca AMEC, and supporting sponsors, Metso Paper, Omya Australia/NZ, Chemiplas NZ Ltd, Cleveland Process Automation Ltd and Evonik Degussa Peroxide Ltd.

 


 

altFrom left to right: Kevin Yap, Adele Elice-Invaso - Executive Director, Appita, Olivia Goh, and Jo Spod (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.

 

 

 

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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).