Conference Agenda

9:00 am

Registration

9:30 am

Welcome & Housekeeping | Donna Bush

Media and Communications Professional

9:35 am

Welcome + LIFE Video | Woody Foster

Chair, LIFE

9:45 am

Welcome Remarks | Her Excellency Jane Owen

Governor of the Cayman Islands

9:50 am

Remarks | Hon. André M. Ebanks, MP

Premier of the Cayman Islands

9:55 am

Building the Brain: Why the Earliest Years Shape a Lifetime | Dr. Laurence Van Hanswijck de Jonge

Clinical Psychologist, KidsAbility

10:35 am

Coffee Break

10:55 am

Every Child Has a Voice | Grace Byers

Actress and Author

11:35 am

What Children Are Telling Us | Faith Rochez

Speech and Language Therapist, Cayman Islands Health Services Authority

12:05 pm

“When Early Needs Go Unmet: Understanding the Cost of Inaction”

Moderator: Donna Bush, Media and Communications Professional

Panellists:
Helen Reynolds, Senior Management Team, HM Cayman Islands Prison Service
Dr. Cheryl Rock, Early Intervention Programme Coordinator, Department of Education Services
Dr. Shannon Seymour, Clinical Psychologist, The Wellness Centre
Delores Thompson, President, Cayman Islands Early Childhood Association

12:45 pm

Lunch

1:35 pm

Investing Early: The Economics of Opportunity | Paul Byles

Director, FTS Cayman Islands

2:00 pm

LIFE Discussion Paper Presentation | Erica Dell’Oglio

Executive Director, LIFE

2:30 pm

Coffee Break

2:50 pm

Keynote Address | Hon. Rolston Anglin, JP, MP

Minister for Education and Training

3:20 pm

“Shared Responsibility. Shared Success: From Awareness to Action”

Closing Leadership Forum

Moderator: Sam Nehra, Director, LIFE

Panellists:
Juliet Austin, Education and Outreach Coordinator, LIFE
Hon. Gloria McField-Nixon, Cert. Hon., JP, Deputy Governor and Head of the Civil Service
Tara Nielsen, MBE, Founder and Director, Acts of Random Kindness
Rayle Roberts, Director, Department of Counselling Services

4:20 pm

Closing Remarks | Sam Nehra

Director, LIFE

4:30 pm

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