Em1: Lauren Smith & Paul Fogharty
Topic: Working with food service providers
This workshop will highlight the importance of working with food service providers when seeking to introduce fair trade products into the university campus, school or workplace. A model of effective negotiation will be explored alongside strategies and techniques that have been tried and tested in the past. Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the best ways to make first contact and encourage long term relationships with cafes and other bodies, with a focus on developing an effectual individual style of approach.

Lauren Smith is a student, an active member of Monash University Hooked and Treasurer of Hooked National; Paul Fogarty is a former student of Australian Catholic University and part of Students for Awareness

Em2: Monique Wicks
Topic: Fair trade and the environment
Details coming soon.

Em3: Kathryn Voutier
Topic: Multiple ways to be fair: challenges in the movement
What do you look for when seeking to purchase ethically? What does the Fairtrade label actually signify? This workshop will explore the issues surrounding variously labelled products and consider the pros and cons to different approaches taken. Insight into both labelled and unlabeled fair trade tea and coffee products will be given, including a look at some of the practicalities of trading in developing countries. Attendees will be encouraged to investigate how we as consumers can be challenged to think globally when purchasing, and help others to do the same.

Kathryn Voutier is a member of the People for Fair Trade Collective.

Em4: Jane Thomas, Kevin Bain, Lyndal Rowlands
Topic: Partnering with indigenous people groups
This workshop will present the opportunity to hear from two speakers about working with indigenous people groups in the context of setting up a small business. Jane Thomas and Kevin Bain will outline their experiences in the world of fair trade in terms of linking with producers (particularly those in east Timor), the challenges of importing fair trade goods, and the realities of creating and maintaining a sustainable business. Stories of how to build relationships with and sell on behalf of other peoples will be shared along with various struggles encountered, providing those who attend an exciting glimpse into the practical establishment possibilities of fair trade.

Jane Thomas is in the process of opening up a small fair trade retail outlet, Local and Global (she was previously Manager at Oxfam store in Melbourne); Kevin Bain is the overseer of coffee distribution at Friends of Same; Lyndal is the secretary of Hooked National and is involved with Melbourne University Hooked

Em5: Cameron Neil
Topic: Current fair trade issues
From the success of the fair trade system over recent years, this workshop will engage with current challenges that face the Fairtrade world, and those which will impact the shape of the movement over the next decade. Issues such as balancing supply and demand; the participation of transnational companies; credible certification, consumer protection and producer development; and transforming or conforming to market capitalism, will be discussed with an emphasis on expanding and refreshing previous knowledge of fair trade.

Cameron Neil is a Fairtrade Certification Analyst of Fairtrade Labelling Organisation of Australia and New Zealand (FLO)

Em6: Juliet Armatolos, Emily Long, Erika Turner, Graham Romanes
Topic: Stories from the field
The presenters of this workshop will provide a sense of what it is like to live and work within cooperatives that produce raw commodities such as coffee. Their first-hand experience will make the realities of some of the world's poorest producers come alive as they communicate the pleasures, struggles, challenges and learning experiences they faced. A valuable chance for those who attend to discover more about the possibilities for their own travel abroad to visit such communities!

Juliet Armatolos is a student at Melbourne University and recently spent three months working and travelling around Central America; Emily Long studies at Melbourne University and spent time in Ghana in early 2006;