b'CommitteesASEG newsloose in the Exhibition Hall to engage with the booths, which morphed into a grab as much merch you could carry event.The Committees next organised day commenced with an Industry Q&A panel session designed to facilitate the engagement of Young Professionals or Early Career attendees with some of the most interesting and successful people in geoscience: former ASEG President and general the sky is not the limit go-getter, Kate Brand, the esteemed new CEO of the AIG, Jaime Livesly, and globe-trotting SEG Member, Jan Franke. The turnout was low, but this allowed for a much more open and free-\x1cowing Q&A. The mic was run to nearly every single member of the audience, and the event touched on some pretty personal topics like gender in the workplace, work-life-family balance and even team leadership tips. One early career/PhD candidate said it was her favourite part of Ao Chang at the GeoPitch explaining her PhD work on a geostatistical approach to Full Waveform Inversion. the conference, which certainly made the position some drill hole locations to testof interpretations. They did a verypanel worthwhile.some made up resource targets on GAimpressive job, the brightest picking seismic line 17GA-SN5. The high schoolout that this group of wiggles lookedThat afternoon came the GeoPitch, students had no seismic experience, nolike that group of wiggles, and the bestattracting ten very keen and impressive geophysics experience, and some hadasking why? Following the stationundergraduate and early career no geoscience knowledge at all, yetactivities and a Suzy-led what did youpresenters who gave a strict three-in 15 mins they had created a varietylearn? debrief, the students were letminute geoscience summary of a topic they were interested in. They were so impressive that the judges, including me, had a di\x1bcult job picking a winner. It turns out at least one GeoPitcher has already had job opportunities stem from their presentation.Finally, a Brisbane Brews event on the last afternoon was well warranted, allowing for the exchange of contact details, congratulations and farewells to new connections made during the conference. This was one of the most well attended YPN events at the conference, and was put together by the new ASEG President Elect Janelle Simpson. From the loads of meetings, the emails and phone calls hunting for rocks, to the horrendously butchered pronunciation of panellists names, and meeting one student whose merch grabbing skills surpassed my own, all the work our EC&S Committee poured into these events did, in hindsight, pay o\x1e!Nick Josephs Young Professionals networking during the Brisbane Brews event. nicholasjosephs86@gmail.com7 PREVIEW JUNE 2023'