AARES Adelaide 2026 Preliminary Program Overview

Sunday 8 February
  • Pre-conference Adelaide Hills field-tour, Sunday 8 February 1pm-7.30pm (NOW FULL!)
Monday 9 February
  • Pre-Conference Early Career Day, Monday 9 February 10am-7pm
Tuesday 10 February
  • Early Morning Fun Run/Walk, Around the Torrens River, 7.30am - ~8.30am (or earlier if you are running!)
  • Pre-Conference Field Tour: Beeronomics, Tuesday 10 February 9am-5pm
  • Pre-Conference Workshop 1:  9am-4pm. Asia-Pacific workshop
  • Pre-Conference Workshop 2: 10am-4pm,  ROAR Practical
  • Welcome Reception     5:30pm to 7:30pm, Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide
Wednesday 11 February
  • Welcome to Country and conference opening: 8.30am
  • Plenary Session – Prof Moriah Bostian (~9-10am)- Environmental Adjustments to Agricultural Total Factor Productivity
  • Contributed paper sessions
  • Lunch – Women in Economics Session Danielle Wood (~12-1pm)- Women in the workforce: progress and priorities
  • Contributed paper sessions
  • Special sessions
  • Presidential address – Prof Jeff Connor (~5pm-6pm)-The Productivity and Wellbeing Value of Collegiality, Cooperation, and Collaboration
  • Conference Dinner - Playford Hotel. (~6-11pm) Dinner performer: Prof David Pannell
Thursday 12 February
  • Contributed paper sessions
  • Plenary Session – Dr Ken Henry (~10-11am)- Environmental reforms to secure intergenerational justice
  • Contributed paper sessions
  • Lunch – 3MT
  • Invited Speakers (~2-3pm)
    • A/Prof Tim Nelson - Reviewing the National Electricity Market
    • A/Prof Nazmun Ratna - Beyond the Binary: Traversing Research Paradigms for Gender-Transformative Agricultural Policy
    • Dr Rick Llewellyn-Sustaining change in a new agricultural RD&E landscape 
  • Contributed paper sessions
  • Social Networking Night at Glenelg SLSC on the Glenelg foreshore (~6-9 pm)
Friday 13 February
  • Contributed paper sessions
  • Special sessions
  • Lunch – poster presentations
  • Contributed paper sessions
  • Closing Plenary Session – Dr Salomon Salcedo (~2:30-3:30)- Politics interference with effective agricultural and rural development policy: the elusive results-based public management approach in developing countries
  • Awards and Conference Closing (~4pm)
Times are approximate and subject to minor adjustment prior to complete program release.
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