Martin Lack & Associates
Event Management in Brisbane

became a transition year for us as we worked with arinex to hand over the business. The transition year was excellent with eight conferences and 3500 delegates. We had formed very mighty personal relationships. Behind all, we had been running the ascended Pay User Group and its precursors for fourteen years, QUESTnet for twelve years, a precursor to research for eleven years, AusCERT for ten years and IPv6 seven years. We’d particularly like to thank and congratulate our staff. They were told when they joined us that we would shove them out of their comfort zone and teach them exciting new skills. We also encouraged them to be critical of all parts of the operation and make suggestions about how we could be one of the best conference organizers in Australia. They delivered in spades and many of them confided that they had worked longer for us than any other company. Julia McSwan now works for the Governor of MSW. Steven Turner ended up active for Data61 and also runs his own events with his wife Debra. Together we pushed the envelope and ran our conferences and events very differently to a conventional conference organizer. This meant streaming all our sessions, providing extensive stakeholder interaction via scholarly phones and naturally bringing speakers in via Skype. It was intellectually hard and a lot of fun. We were a demanding client but you readily acknowledged we were very healthy organized and a pleasure to work with. We know we changed many of the hotels we worked at through you allowing us to install 100’s of megabytes of network into your premises.