The fourth staging of the Network Operator Development Program was completed in 2022 and the participants joined the other guests at the Presidents Dinner at the Bendigo conference for the graduation ceremony.
This group has done it tough. They actually started the program in February 2020 and with the onset of the pandemic, they had a stop start experience all the way through, until they finally completed the seventh session in February 2022. One of the sessions was moved to an online format in mid 2020 and one thing this group have taught the organising Committee is that the program doesn’t work online! The real benefit is the face to face interaction between the participants themselves and all the presenters and committee people.
WIOA would like to sincerely thank the organising Committee of Neville Whittaker, Mike Rankin, Mick Mahoney, Andrew Povey, Dean Barnett, Grant Powell, Jamie Rossato and Michael Wink for all the effort they put into delivering this program along with everyone who has presented to the operators at any of the sessions.