Conference Proceedings Report - Final Draft - National Federation ...

The key to the Solutions-Generating sessions was the participants. These people became
the active voice at the conference and comprised of service providers, both voluntary and
statutory, support staff, policy makers, people with intellectual disability, families,
advocates and state agencies & departments. Each delegate had a role within the session –
to procure realistic and solution-focused problem solving. For this reason, the conference
had a much more participatory style.
In line with the theme of innovation, and to help protect the environment, the National
Federation decided to compile all the speakers’ presentations onto a specially customised
memory stick, as opposed to giving out handouts of each presentation, as would have
been done in previous conferences.
Conference Navigator Guide
Especially for the National Federation’s Innovation Conference, Mr. Ed Bernacki
customised a Conference Navigator Guide, a book that combines a guide for innovative
thinking and an idea journal all in one.
Ed Bernacki’s Navigator Guide
The Navigator Guide had two overriding objectives:
1. To help people make more effective notes. This can be a summary of key points
from a presentation, quotes from speakers, questions to consider later, or ideas
that come to mind during the event.
2. To prompt people to manage their ideas into action after the event.
The dedicated website for the conference has been updated to include speakers’
biographies and presentations and is available to view at:
http://conference.fedvol.ie/
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