Adelaide coach Brenton Sanderson will be a key speaker at the AFL 2014 National Coaching Conference to be held at Adelaide Oval from January 31.

The event will also feature presentations from Crow assistant coaches Mark Bickley, Matthew Clarke and Tate Kaesler.

Other speakers include Power coach Ken Hinkley, AFL GM of Football Operations Mark Evans, Port Adelaide fitness guru Darren Burgess, former Opals coach Jan Stirling and Niall Moyna, professor of sports science at Dublin College University and seasoned GAA and International Rules coach.

Participants can choose five sessions from seven streams focusing on various aspects of football, coaching and performance, including a specific stream aimed at junior coaches. This includes sessions on kicking, game sense and body contact skills for juniors and other choices including age-based fitness, coaching for maximum involvement, and effective training sessions.

Several kicking sessions will also be held over the weekend event by Lindsay Gilbee (effective kicking), Kevin Ball (kicking for juniors) and David Wheadon (goalkicking).

Other topics such as building a game plan, coaching defence, coaching stoppages, effective forward structures, running patterns in the game, working without the ball and using vision in coaching will also be covered.

Derek Kickett will host a session on how best to assist and develop Indigenous footballers, with other presentations focusing on tall players and rucks, young players in different environments, coaching female players and running inclusive programs.

Some of the most innovative thinkers in the game will take part, including former AFL coaches Peter Schwab and Stan Alves, Peta Searle, Jenny Williams, Michelle Cowan, Josh Carr, Tyson Edwards and Lindsay Gilbee.