Industry Briefing
Regional Connectivity and Business Resilience Forum 2025
23 October 2025, 9:00am – 12:00pm AEDT
Event details
23 October 2025
9:00am – 12:00pm AEDT
Albury Business Centre
553 Kiewa Street, Albury NSW 2640
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Post-event recap
How it went
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first Regional Connectivity Forum — more than 80 of you, from sole traders to council executives.
What we heard
The loudest message of the morning was that resilience is a planning problem before it is a technology problem. Most of the organisations in the room had a backup connection; far fewer had tested what actually happened when the primary failed.
Three things people told us they were taking back to work:
- Write the outage plan down and test it once a quarter
- Put the EFTPOS and phone system on the backup path first, not the laptops
- Ask the provider what their resilience looks like, not just yours
Highlights
Sarah Mitchell walked through the 2024 flood outages street by street, showing where the network held and where it did not — and what has been rebuilt since. The panel with Albury City Council and two local practice managers was the most-discussed session of the day.
Next year
The 2026 forum is already open for registration. Same venue, bigger room.
A full room for the opening keynote.
Conversations continued well past the networking lunch.
The Lightning IP team fielding questions between sessions.
About the event
The inaugural Regional Connectivity and Business Resilience Forum explored how regional organisations can plan for, and recover from, connectivity failures — and what the next five years of infrastructure investment will look like across the Border region.
Program
- Keynote: the state of regional connectivity in 2025
- Panel: what businesses learned from the 2024 flood outages
- Workshop: building a connectivity continuity plan
- Networking lunch
Speakers
Sarah Mitchell
Head of Network Strategy, Lightning IP
Sarah leads Lightning IP’s regional infrastructure planning and has over 15 years of experience designing resilient telecommunications networks across regional Australia.
Event details
23 October 2025
9:00am – 12:00pm AEDT
Albury Business Centre
553 Kiewa Street, Albury NSW 2640
Email address
events@lightningip.com.au