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The Volunteers Conference Asia Pacirfic took place together with the PATW AP Regional Final and ANZ YP meeting in Auckland 19th - 20th August 2017.  Over 50 representatives from 10 countries including our guests from UK:  Alex, Head of Communities and Events and Tom, Board of Trustees Treasurer joined the Conference.  Raj and Jeff from Victoria represented Victoria Network to attend the Conference.  We all enjoyed the inspiring talk by Professor Simpson not to mention having lots of fun when competing for the “Funniest table” Award at Annual Dinner.   Thanks Auckland Network’s volunteers and CC-AP team for their hard work!!

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CVC Asia Pacific in Auckland


During the Award Ceremony during the CVC dinner, the following were awarded to the Asia Pacific for the outstanding achievements in different areas:

Congratulations to Victoria Network for winning the Asia Pacifiic Most Used Engineering Communities Award!!!


Other Awards:

Best Budget Plan in AP:  Brunei Network

Most Innovative Event/Initiative:  NSW Network – Volunteer Squad

Most Improved Network:  Singapore Network and WA Network

Best Presentation:  Simon from Brunei Network, Leon from WA Network

PATW AP Regional Final Winner:  Rovik Olsen from Western Australia Network



Well done WA YPS team for livestreaming the event (nearly 3k viewers) and the cool video they produced with PATW Contestants introducing themselves in their native languages: video  The video was displayed at the competition and the Conference dinner.

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Jeff and Raj from Victoria Network at the Conference


During the IET ANZ YP meeting in Auckland, we had good discussions with Alex about different issues and it was our first time to invite the Main Committee/Senior Committee members to join the meeting. Victoria Vice Chairman Raj and Jeff, Victoria YP were also at the meeting.  We all agreed both Main Committee and YPS should build stronger ties such as to sit in each other’s meetings or to join and support each others' events.  They can then share resources and hence build a stronger team/Network.   Thanks Rob for sharing their South Austrlia Network’s best practice and Steph and Peta to lead the meeting!


Check out the video produced by ANZ YPs to promote IET in ANZ.


A fruitful and enjoyable time in Auckland, I look forward to the next Asia Pacific Volunteers Conference!


Winnie Lee

Community Relationship Manager, Asia Pacific