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Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall, and I'm here with Rosemary Barnes, Matthew Stead, and Yolanda Padron. And three out of the four of us will be in Melbourne Australia talking to a number of operators and interested parties about WOMA 2027. Matthew, where will we be the couple of days we're in Melbourne?

Matthew Stead: So, um, first of all, we've got the Pullman, uh, East Melbourne, which is, uh, where the venue will be for, for 2027. Um, so that'll be our home base. Um, we've got around about eight meetings planned already. So what we're doing is we're talking to the operators and a few other industry, um, players about [00:01:00] what we need to talk about, how we're gonna move the industry forward in Australia.

Uh, so it's gonna be jam-packed, but there's a little bit of time left on the Friday afternoon if there's any late-minute, um, people that wanna get in contact and catch up with us, um, for next Thursday, Friday, or actually Friday. Uh, so yeah, it's gonna be a, a jam-packed time. I think we're gonna be tired, too many coffees, and talking to all the key, all the key operators, uh, about what they wanna hear about and how we can move the, the industry forward.

Allen Hall: And if someone wants to put an input into the WOMA panel about what will be discussed at WOMA 2027, Matthew, how would they do that? How do they get ahold of you?

Matthew Stead: Well, we have a wonderful website, and that's got all the details you could ever want. Um, you can also register on the website, so please register.

Otherwise, um, I'm sure we're gonna be a sellout this year for sure. So woma2027.com.

Rosemary Barnes: I just wanna add that when people talk to [00:02:00] me about the event, they always say how they love that the top