2022 Presidents Report
The severely disrupted landscape of the last few years has impacted everyone, even more so a not-for-profit industry peak body servicing constituent needs with finite resources and at the same time desiring to broaden its impact. Nonetheless, after the unavoidable cancelation of the 2020 and 2021 convention due to Covid, we are truly satisfied with program quality and diversity established for the ACETA 2022 industry convention, one that given the current environment will be compact, but dynamic. Throughout the year ACETA worked on new priorities including:
-the presentation of a convention in 2022.
-preparation for the launch of an industrywide accreditation program
-preparation for the publication of new and updated industrywide compliance guidance documentation
-the resumption of the Archive of Excellence program, producing episodes 4 and 5, and
-the administration of numerous established programs, such as the governments media reform green paper and its impact on wireless technology.
Membership renewal was due in January and it was most pleasing to realise an excellent retention outcome. In conserving financial resources and maintaining stability in a self-managed environment, we acknowledge and thank the outgoing ACETA board of management and commend ACETA manager Julie Hinton, who maintained all member services and engagement, often in trying circumstances, but always willing to listen to our constituents when necessary and even when not.
Whilst the pandemic has delivered a new set of industrywide complications, it also exacerbated pre-existing challenges. The major concerns we all confront include;
-a severely disrupted supply line in most areas,
-escalating stock, service provision and freight costs
-an across-the-board skills and labour shortage,
-increasing business operational costs, and
-globalised marketing, along with non-compliant and often questionable trading activity.
At some point these issues will negatively impact all companies, and are most effectively dealt with when a sector takes unified, pro-active ownership. All of these issues, will be on the table throughout the convention where we aim to achieve consensus on initiatives to support constituents in navigating the unchartered times that lie ahead.
We are challenged now, and will be in the foreseeable future, particularly given the time in our history where we are also confronting a period of significant personal and corporate transition. However, much negativity can be avoided by associating and belonging. Whilst current ACETA membership is small, it is loyal and dynamic, but much more can be achieved with a larger constituency, therefore ACETAs most important priority is to increase membership to the benefit of a committed industry.
All the best
Frank Hinton (President ACETA)
-the presentation of a convention in 2022.
-preparation for the launch of an industrywide accreditation program
-preparation for the publication of new and updated industrywide compliance guidance documentation
-the resumption of the Archive of Excellence program, producing episodes 4 and 5, and
-the administration of numerous established programs, such as the governments media reform green paper and its impact on wireless technology.
Membership renewal was due in January and it was most pleasing to realise an excellent retention outcome. In conserving financial resources and maintaining stability in a self-managed environment, we acknowledge and thank the outgoing ACETA board of management and commend ACETA manager Julie Hinton, who maintained all member services and engagement, often in trying circumstances, but always willing to listen to our constituents when necessary and even when not.
Whilst the pandemic has delivered a new set of industrywide complications, it also exacerbated pre-existing challenges. The major concerns we all confront include;
-a severely disrupted supply line in most areas,
-escalating stock, service provision and freight costs
-an across-the-board skills and labour shortage,
-increasing business operational costs, and
-globalised marketing, along with non-compliant and often questionable trading activity.
At some point these issues will negatively impact all companies, and are most effectively dealt with when a sector takes unified, pro-active ownership. All of these issues, will be on the table throughout the convention where we aim to achieve consensus on initiatives to support constituents in navigating the unchartered times that lie ahead.
We are challenged now, and will be in the foreseeable future, particularly given the time in our history where we are also confronting a period of significant personal and corporate transition. However, much negativity can be avoided by associating and belonging. Whilst current ACETA membership is small, it is loyal and dynamic, but much more can be achieved with a larger constituency, therefore ACETAs most important priority is to increase membership to the benefit of a committed industry.
All the best
Frank Hinton (President ACETA)