The Murray Bridge Business Breakfast Forum is held quarterly and provides an excellent opportunity to listen to decision makers and network with like-minded business people in the Murraylands Region.

Forum event topics will include:

Guest Speakers

Tony Pasin MP with special guest Federal Assistant Minister for Science, Jobs and Innovation the Hon. Zed Seselja.

Tony will speak about the Government’s initiatives and the programs that are available to benefit both job seekers and businesses such as the Prepare, Trial Hire program (PaTH) and how it can benefit local businesses and our wider community.

B2B – Business to Business Program Launch

An new program for the Murraylands after a successful program run in the Barossa Valley, Regional Development Australia’s Jarrod Bielby and Michael Bridge will be launching the B2B – Business to Business program in the Murraylands. The B2B program will help your business access expert advice and services so that you can feel confident to make the correct decisions to achieve your business goals and objectives. The program will help you identify where your business has opportunities and barriers and the best way to assist in these areas.
The B2B program will also help businesses access new clients who are actively looking to engage in your service or industry by referring potential clients, building business relationships in our region.

Tech Talk for Businesses

Special guests Murray Computers with an overview of new and useful technologies for business.

Date and time: 

Monday the 2nd of May 2018

7:00 am – 8.30 am

Location:

Murray Bridge Club, 1 Murray Cods Drive, Murray Bridge

Registrations:

$20pp for MBBA Members (including booking fees)
$25pp for non MBBA members (including booking fees)

Registrations are now open – Book online!

Tickets includes entry into the event and a served breakfast including juice, tea and coffee. Opportunities to network after the even.

STOP, READ & BOOK IN 3rd May 2018

A simulated fruit fly outbreak exercise will be held in the Riverland to ensure the local horticulture industry and government are ready to respond to such an event.

Exercise Fruit Fly Ready will simulate an outbreak of Queensland fruit fly in the South Australian Riverland during peak harvest activity and test the industry’s responsiveness.

Aimed at industry and growers in the Riverland, participants will experience what it is like to respond to a fruit fly outbreak and learn what processes occur in the response and recovery phases.

The simulated exercise aims to clarify high level roles during an outbreak, improve stakeholder awareness and highlight opportunities for improvements.

South Australia is the only mainland Australian state that is fruit fly free.

The estimated farm-gate value of South Australia’s horticultural produce vulnerable to fruit fly infestation, including wine grapes, was $1.25 billion in 2016–17.

The simulated exercise is being run by PIRSA, through Biosecurity SA, with support from Regional Development Australia Riverland and Murraylands and the Riverland Fruit Fly Committee.

Bookings & Registration

The exercise is being held at the Renmark Club on 3 May 2018.

Numbers are strictly limited. If you want to participate, please RSVP by 18 April to nic.smith@sa.gov.au.

The Disability Workforce Hub and Enhanced Career Services, will be holding a FREE Professional Boundaries Workshop – Riverland 

This Workshop has been designed around the essential principles required to maintain professional boundaries within the workplace. This workshop will teach you how to recognise, establish and maintain healthy professional relationships. This is imperative to the wellbeing of yourself, your clients, your team and your organisation.

Providers highly regard the skill set and knowledge required to establish and maintain professional relationships within the disability and general community services sector. Your attendance at this workshop will be highly viewed when seeking employment within the sector.

Date and Time:

Thursday the 3rd of May

12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Location: 

Regional Development Australia- Murraylands and Riverland

6 Kay Ave Berri, SA 5345

Registrations:

Registrations are now open!

To register please contact Joni Drogemuller on 8580 8500 or by emailing berri.admin@rdamr.com.au

Regional Development Australia Murraylands and Riverland will be holding their first Farm to Fork networking event for 2018.

Hear from our guest speaker Tawnya Bahr, from Straight to the Source, who will talk briefly about Straight to Source and its potential for the region.

Tawnya Bahr will be visiting the Riverland and Murraylands to share with her the diversity of produce from across the region. Straight to the Source specialises in delivering unique behind-the-scenes food and beverage experiences for chefs and hospitality professionals in regional areas across Australia. They focus on connecting producers and industry professionals who are sourcing, cooking with and serving their products, with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and education through bespoke master-classes, workshops and hands-on regional farm experiences

The event will also be an opportunity to come together with other food and beverage businesses across the region.

Date and Time:

Thursday the 3rd of May

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Venue:

Banrock Station, Holmes Rd, Kingston on Murray

Bookings:

Please book your tickets at Eventbrite by Friday 27 April

Light canapes will be served and beverages will be available for purchase.

If you would like to join the Farm to Fork group check it out at www.facebook.com/groups/FarmtoFork/

Regional Development Australia Murraylands and Riverland will be holding their first Farm to the Fork networking event for 2018.

Hear from our guest speaker Tawnya Bahr, from Straight to the Source, who will talk briefly about Straight to Source and its potential for the region.

Tawnya Bahr will be visiting the Riverland and Murraylands to share with her the diversity of produce from across the region. Straight to the Source specialises in delivering unique behind-the-scenes food and beverage experiences for chefs and hospitality professionals in regional areas across Australia. They focus on connecting producers and industry professionals who are sourcing, cooking with and serving their products, with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and education through bespoke master-classes, workshops and hands-on regional farm experiences

The event will also be an opportunity to come together with other food and beverage businesses across the region.

Date and Time:

Friday the 4th of May

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Venue:

The Davery Establishment

4/4 Seventh St, Murray Bridge SA 5253

Bookings:

Please book your tickets at Eventbrite by Friday 27 April

Light canapes will be served and beverages will be available for purchase.

If you would like to join the Farm to Fork group check it out at www.facebook.com/groups/FarmtoFork/

Weathering the Storm is a series of three workshops that have been designed to assist women to prepare themselves, their families and communities for natural disasters.

The workshops aim to build resilience, networking and a sense of community among women so that they can support their families and community in the event of a natural weather event.

This is a prime opportunity to gain the skills, knowledge and networks in preparation for these unplanned weather events.

Morning tea and lunch will be provided in each of the sessions.

Bookings & Registration

To book your place in this free workshop series call or email Kim Blenkiron, Executive Officer, WoTL

M: 0427 592 243

E: eo@wotl.com.au

Come along to the FREE Supplying to Government Workshop to learn more about how your business can be successful when tendering or quoting for government contracts.

Hear from the SA Water on upcoming opportunities, tendering processes and understanding the rules as well as the Department of Industry and Skills on support services available for your business.

Also covered throughout the workshop are strategies for your business including;

• knowing your customer;
• understanding the process;
• finding opportunities;
• building relationships; and
• tendering to win.

Date and Time:

Wednesday 9th of May 2018

9.00 am – 11.30 am

Location:

RDAMR Berri Office

6 Kay Avenue, Berri, SA 5343

Registration:

Registrations are now open – Book online!

The Disability Workforce Hub and Enhanced Career Services, will be holding a FREE Professional Boundaries Workshop – Murray Bridge

This Workshop has been designed around the essential principles required to maintain professional boundaries within the workplace. This workshop will teach you how to recognise, establish and maintain healthy professional relationships. This is imperative to the wellbeing of yourself, your clients, your team and your organisation.

Providers highly regard the skill set and knowledge required to establish and maintain professional relationships within the disability and general community services sector. Your attendance at this workshop will be highly viewed when seeking employment within the sector.

Date and Time:

Wednesday the 9th of May

9.30 am – 12.30 pm

Location: 

Murray Mallee Aged Care

2 Myall Ave, Murray Bridge SA 5253

Registrations:

Registrations are now open!

To register please contact Melissa Taylor on 8535 7170 or by emailing mtaylor@rdamr.com.au

SATIC, with the support of the Government of South Australia, the South Australian Tourism Commission and the Commonwealth Tourism Demand Driver Infrastructure program, will be holding a ServiceIQ Workshop in the Riverland: Tell your Story and Identify your USP.

This workshop is designed for you to discover your unique selling point, your business story and learn how to tell it well.

Key takeaways:

• Identify your business stories
• Write or refine your mission statement
• Share your story for maximum benefit
• See your business from a different perspective

Workshop details:

Trainer: Traci Ayris – Vislex Media Solutions

Date and Time:

Thursday, 10th of May

9:30 am – 12:30 pm

Location:

23rd Street Distillery – Twenty Third Street, Renmark SA 5341

Investment: 

Standard registration – $60pp

Destination Riverland Industry Partner registration – $48pp
Partners subsidised by Destination Riverland.
Includes morning tea.

RSVP: Thursday, 3 May
Spaces limited, bookings essential.

Register Now

At this years field day you will learn how to build resilience into your farming system, better understand chemical vs
biological farming, see local dryland soil health trials and hear what has worked for local and national farmers
to improve soil health.

You’ll walk away with practical skills to improve soil health, soil water and resilience on your farm!

Keynote speaker Deane Belfield – Regenerative Australian Farmers, Tom Nicholas – Healthy Soils Australia,
Melissa Rebbeck – Climate & Agriculture Support Pty Ltd, Peter Toombe – TOIP Telemetry Specialist, Greg
Mitchell – Fp Ag, and Jeremy Nelson – Department for Environment and Water.

Plus over 20 Soil health exhibitor displays including: liming sources and ordering, biochar, soil health ameliorants, soil moisture probes,
soil testing services, farm groups and support, regenerative grazing groups, native grasses information and
measuring pasture health.

Bookings & Registration

Barossa International Business Network and Hong Kong Trade and Development Council will be holding a roundtable networking event to bring insight on how to boost your export capabilities.

Hear from guest speaker Bonnie Shek, Director of Hong Kong Development Council “Hong Kong: Food and Wine Trading Hub in Asia“. As well as Roundtable discussion with those who have experience trading in Honk Kong.

Roundtable discussions will also cover:

• Updates on the latest development in Honk Kong and China
• Business opportunities in Hong Kong /China for food and wine growers
• Practical tips and benefits of wine and food exporting
• Information on how to tap into the growth opportunities in Asia by using the HK platform
• Basic information on Wine Export Grants

Enjoy networking, drinks and beautiful landscapes from the new Ubertas Wine Cellar Door.

Date and Time:

Tuesday the 15th of May 2018

4 pm – 6 pm

Location:

Ubertas Wines 790 Research Rd

Nuriootpa, SA 5355

Cost:

FREE. Please bring a bottle of wine to share.

Registration:

Registrations are essential- Book Online

Natural Resources SA Murray-Darling Basin (SAMDB) will be hosting a workshop to provide insights into the productivity improvements identified in citrus and apple crop netting trials that were conducted in the Riverland.

Presentations will include:

• The University of Adelaide will present a final report on the results of netting trials in apple and citrus crops on; water usage, micro-climates, tonnages and yield quality.
• Explaining how recent changes to development regulations will potentially reduce the complexity for developers and make it easier to work with local government.
• The Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure will present an overview of recent changes to the development regulations related to (horticultural netting, 2018) and will explain how these changes provide benefits for future development in the region. Mr Nelson said the research project has shown that yield class and quality lifted significantly in observed imperial mandarin crops.

Workshop participants will have the opportunity to ask an expert panel questions related to research findings, development application processes, integrated pest management and netting installation and establishment.

Date and Time:

Thursday the 17th of May

9.00 am – 12.30 pm

Location:

Loxton Research Centre, Bookpurnong Terrace Loxton

Registrations:

Registrations or enquiries can be made to Natural Resources SAMDB Sustainable Agriculture Project Officer Jeremy Nelson on 8580 1800 or email jeremy.nelson@sa.gov.au

The Disability Workforce Hub and Enhanced Career Services are running FREE information sessions in Berri for people considering working in the disability sector.

Presentations will include:

• Overview of the disability sector.
• What working in the disability sector looks like.
• What jobs are in the disability sector.
• What qualifications you might need to work in the sector.
• The ins and outs of recruitment processes.
• What services you can access to help you explore the sector.
• Assess your suitability to the sector.
• NDIS in our region.

Date and Time:

22nd of May 2018

10.30 am – 12.00 pm

Location: 

MADEC

35 Bridge Rd, Murray Bridge

Registrations:

Registrations are now open!

To register please contact Melissa Taylor  on 8535 7170 or by emailing mtaylor@rdamr.com.au

SATIC, with the support of the Government of South Australia, the South Australian Tourism Commission and the Commonwealth Tourism Demand Driver Infrastructure program, will be holding a ServiceIQ Workshop: Customer Journey Mapping – Murray River Lakes & Coorong

Customer Journey Mapping

This workshop will equip you with the skills to develop a deeper understanding about your most profitable customer (actions, motivations, feelings, barriers, preferences) and map their customer journey from awareness to advocacy. It will break down the complexity of communication and distribution channels that your ideal customer uses and help you better deliver the right message, to the right customer, at the right time, using the right channel.

This improved customer knowledge enables you to deliver a more personalised experience at individual touch points and perfect the whole customer journey.

Key takeaways:

• The customer persona and how to tailor it to your business
• Understanding the different phases of a customer journey
• Development of a customer journey map
• Understanding of key customer touchpoints, current gaps and actions to improve individual touchpoints and entire customer journeys
• Improving the overall customer experience by providing the right information, to the right customer, at the right time

Workshop details:

Trainer: Siggi Frede – Effektiver

Date and Time:

Thursday, 24 May

10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Location:

Monarto Zoo – Old Princes Hwy, Monarto South SA 5254

Investment: $60pp
Light morning tea supplied.

RSVP: Thursday, 17 May
Spaces limited, bookings essential

Register Now

The Disability Workforce Hub and Enhanced Career Services are running FREE information sessions in Berri for people considering working in the disability sector.

Presentations will include:

• Overview of the disability sector.
• What working in the disability sector looks like.
• What jobs are in the disability sector.
• What qualifications you might need to work in the sector.
• The ins and outs of recruitment processes.
• What services you can access to help you explore the sector.
• Assess your suitability to the sector.
• NDIS in our region.

Date and Time:

24th of May 2018

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Location: 

Regional Development Australia- Murraylands and Riverland

6 Kay Ave Berri, SA 5345

Registrations:

Registrations are now open!

To register please contact Joni Drogemuller on 8580 8500 or by emailing berri.admin@rdamr.com.au