Program
Performance Teams Forum
The Performance Teams Forum program delivers insights from leading experts, real world reflections, peer-to-peer learning, and intentional space for curiosity, reflection and exploration of Performance Teams, with topics covering:
- Spotlighting Performance Teams
- The Coach and the Practitioner
- Competitive Advantage
- What It Takes To Win (WITTW) and Individual Athlete Plan (IAP)
- Intuition and data insights
- Professional development – explore new areas of performance
- Growing, retaining and leveraging high performance system expertise
- Exploring our Connection to Country
- A Legacy in Knowledge
These discipline network activities will take place today. Session details are subject to change.
Time | Session | Details |
|---|---|---|
9:00am | Registration opens | Arrival and networking |
The Biomechanics discipline activity will bring together the Biomechanics network to strengthen the collective direction, impact and future readiness of sports biomechanics within the Australian High Performance sport system. Themes include clearer performance problem framing, stronger integration in Performance Teams, improved focus on insight generation, and greater national alignment in capability development.
Time | Session |
|---|---|
10:00am-10:30am | Pre meeting coffee networking |
10:30am-11:00am | Session Introduction Speaker: Andrew Lyttle, NPSL - Biomechanics (AIS) |
11:00am-11:45am | Setting the Scene Speaker: Brendan Burkett, USC |
11:45am-12:30pm | Small Table Discussion Role Prioritisation Exercise Future Focus Activity: What is going to change in 3 years, 5 years, 10 years Facilitator: Andrew Lyttle, NPSL - Biomechanics (AIS) |
12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch |
1:30pm-2:15pm | Data Storytelling/ Success Narratives Facilitator: John Warmenhoven, UTS |
2:15pm-3:30pm | Generating Insights Facilitator: Andrew Lyttle, NPSL - Biomechanics (AIS) |
3:30pm-4:00pm | Break |
4:00pm-5:00pm | Discipline Direction Facilitator: Andrew Lyttle, NPSL - Biomechanics (AIS) |
6:30pm-9:30pm | Network Dinner |
The Performance Analysis activity will bring together Performance and Data analysts from across the system to increase understanding of each other's expertise, explore opportunities for collaboration, and share innovative practice across the system.
Time | Session |
|---|---|
9:00am-10:30am | Arrivals and Registration |
10:30am-11:30am | Welcome and Pre Game Analysis Speakers: Performance and Data Analysis Leads | AIS |
11:30am-12:00pm | Data on and off the Field of Play: Bridging Performance Analysis and Data Intelligence Speaker: Sam Wells | Paralympic Performance Specialist | Paralympics Australia |
12:00pm-12:30pm | Sports Data Challenge - Introduction to real world sport challenges Speaker: Various |
12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch |
1:30pm-3:00pm | Sports Data Challenge - The Engine Room |
3:00pm-3:45pm | Afternoon tea |
3:45pm-5:00pm | Sports Data Challenge - The Final Whistle |
The Nutrition discipline day provides an opportunity for the HP nutrition network to connect, share ideas, and collaborate. The program will include opportunities to showcase current work, learn from colleagues about athlete interventions, innovative projects, and system-wide initiatives, and explore new approaches together. Associate Professor Julia Carins from Griffith University will also lead a workshop on impact, focusing on how we can map, measure, and communicate the value of our work.
The Applied Physiology discipline activity Physiological Excellence: Advancing Practice, Driving Performance, Creating Scalable Impact will bring together the Physiology network to leverage collective capability, sharpen best practice implementation, and maximise performance impact across the Australian High Performance sport system.
The Learning Design discipline activity, From Cases to Conversation, will bring together the Learning Design network to share and learn from real cases of Learning Design practice with coaches, athletes, and the broader performance team. These cases will provide a catalyst for conversations about the processes practitioners work through to create the conditions for impactful practice.
Time | Session |
|---|---|
9:30am - 10:15am | (Re)Connection - Guided Walk Along Birrarung Marr |
10:15am - 10:45am | Setting the Scene on Growth for Learning Design Facilitators: Derek Panchuk & Michael Maloney | National Perfomance Support Leads | AIS |
10:45am - 11:00am | Break |
11:30am - 12:30pm | Missteps as a Catalyst for Growth Facilitator: Carl Woods | Learning Design Lead | QAS |
12:30pm - 1:45pm | Lunch & Networking |
1:45pm - 2:15pm | Practitioners in the Spotlight |
2:15pm - 3:00pm | Stepping into the Unknown - Reflecting on a career of transitions |
3:00pm - 3:20pm | Afternoon Tea |
3:20pm - 4:40pm | Moments of Influence - How do we work with others? Facilitator: Georgia Askew | Skill Acquisition & Learning Design | Boccia Australia |
4:40pm - 5:00pm | Where to from here? Facilitators: Derek Panchuk & Michael Maloney | National Performance Support Leads | AIS |
The Performance Psychology discipline activity will bring together the Performance Psychology network to strengthen connection across the Australian High Performance sport system, discuss emerging areas of best practice, and explore themes of innovation and excellence.
The Physiotherapy Leads activity will bring together the network to strengthen connection across the Australian High Performance sport system with a focus on health and performance challenges. It aims to explore data utilisation as a performance enabler and inform current and future best practice.
The Performance Support Manager activity will bring the Performance Support Manager network together to strengthen connection across the Australian High Performance sport system with a spotlight on performance support leadership, to explore challenges and opportunities, and share strategies for success.
Opening day of the Performance Teams Forum
Time | Session | Details |
|---|---|---|
8:00am | Registration opens | Arrival, coffee and networking |
9:00am-9:30am | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
9:30am-10:30am | What is our Brisbane 32 Competitive Advantage? Driving a competitive advantage in the field of play - driving towards home ground success Exceptional Performance Team Environments How performance teams need to evolve for 2032 and beyond - what is the vision for exceptional performance teams in the future Enhancing Performance Teams Exploring frameworks and philosophies to establish Performance Teams as the engine room of Win Well | |
10:30am-11:00am | Break | Morning Tea |
11:00am-11:30am | Think Like a Coach Building a Strong Succesful Performance Team around an athlete/s | |
11:30am-12:30am | Sport Case Studies | |
12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch | |
1:30pm-2:00pm | Can Intuition and Data co-exist in Performance Teams? Exploring the 'gut feel' of intuition and experiential learning, in the Performance Team environments rich with data insights. | |
2:00pm-3:00pm | From Intuition to Data: How Performance Teams Learn John Sullivan | Head of Psychology, High Performance Sport New Zealand Facilitated Table Discussions | The presentation explores how high-performance teams can translate information into clearer, more informed decisions. Drawing on functional neuroscience, the presentation examines how the brain learns and perceives information, the influence of affective cognitive pathways, and the biases that can cloud judgement. It also considers the fundamentals of clarity and the human factors required to facilitate learning, collaboration, and effective decision-making within performance teams. |
3:00pm-3:30pm | Break | Afternoon Tea |
3:30pm-4:30pm | National Project Showcase ParaUplift Showcase Performance without Barriers - strengthening your coaching tool kit | |
4:30pm-4:50pm | Power of Reflection | |
4:50pm-5:00pm | Closing Remarks | |
5:00pm-6:00pm | Networking Event |
Second and final day of the Performance Teams Forum
Time | Session | Details |
|---|---|---|
8:00am | Networking | Arrival, coffee and networking |
9:00am-9:30am | Welcome and Day 1 Recap | |
9:30am-10:30am | Spotlighting Stronger Together: Case Studies Highlighting the power of collaboration, shared purpose and integrated approaches to achieving performance success. | |
10:30am-11:00am | Break | Morning Tea |
11:00am-11:30am | Playing the long game - Retaining performance knowledge through time How organisations can capture valuable insights, learn from experience and strengthen knowledge retention through research, cultural connection and deliberate legacy-building practices. | |
11:30am-12:00pm | Performance Team perspectives - Strengthening a legacy of knowledge How we use a legacy of knowledge as a performance advantage, and how the entire Performance Team plays a crucial role in achieving this. | |
12:00pm-12:30pm | Yarning Circles Creating space for connection, listening and reflection, the Yarning Circle session encourages meaningful conversations about personal journeys, shared experiences and future aspirations. | |
12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch | |
1:30pm-3:00pm | Performance Theme Rotations Optimising Heat Acclimation in the Elite Athlete | This presentation will explore the science and application of heat acclimation in elite sport, focusing on how adaptation can be optimised to maximise performance and athlete readiness. Particular emphasis will be placed on individual responses, effective implementation strategies, and translating research into competitive advantage. |
Performance Theme Rotations Performing Under Pressure | ||
Performance Theme Rotations Research Showcase | ||
3:00pm-3:30pm | Break | Afternoon Tea |
3:30pm-4:30pm | HP System Initiatives: ARC Industry Training Centre - Human Sensing Technology B32 Committees - Who, What and Why Mandatory Genetic Sex Testing - main considerations | |
4:30pm-4:50pm | Leaving Stronger Together on our journey to 2032+ | |
4:50pm-5:00pm | Closing Remarks | |
5:00pm | End of the 2026 Performance Teams Forum |