Events

Below is a list of upcoming events:

Thu

Jun

Thu

Jun

June Zoom Water Drinks (Free networking event).

Date: 4th Jun, 2020 - 4th Jun, 2020

Time: 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm

Venue: Zoom

Address: Online

Organiser: Clearwater

Phone: 03 9679 7711

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June Zoom Water Drinks (Free networking event).

Thursday 4th Jun 2020 4:30PM - 5:15PM

Online - Zoom

Since 2016 Clearwater and Stormwater Victoria have been hosting a triannual networking drinks event for practitioners involved in stormwater management and Integrated Water Management (IWM).

The new COVID-19 requirements have presented us with the exciting challenge of working, collaborating and networking online. So this June we will be holding Water Drinks on Zoom. This event will give you a chance to meet or reconnect with your water colleagues in an informal, fun and relaxed online event. To facilitate online connection - with the industry and each other - there will be short updates from Stormwater Victoria and Clearwater, an online 'speed-dating' activity, and an ISO fashion parade* (yes, there will be prizes).

The event will be sponsored and hosted by facilitation experts Ross Allen (Three Seeds Agency) and Simone Maus (Collective Insight) who will share their five golden rules for creating engaging online events.

BYO DRINKS

BYO Bring cocktail snacks and a drink of your choice.

*DRESS CODE (optional but encouraged)

Formal above the waist, casual below (because no one can see your legs online anyway, right?!)

RSVP

Wednesday 3 June

TESTIMONIALS:

“I met sooo many new people.”

“I find it a great way to touch base with people in the industry I don't often get to see in person.”

“I think this is a great, accessible opportunity for all sectors of the industry to get together. The informality helps to break down barriers and the food and drink gets the conversation going. The regular occurrence and late afternoon start makes it more workable for people to drop-in/drop-out according to their other commitments. I hope these events continue well into the future.”

Enquiries:

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Zoom, Online

4:30 pm

Wed

Apr

Fri

Apr

Stormwater 2021 National Conference

Date: 14th Apr, 2021 - 16th Apr, 2021

Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Venue: Crown Promenade Melbourne

Address: 8 Whiteman Street Southbank VIC 3006

Organiser: Stormwater Australia

Phone: +61 2 9744 5252

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New Frontiers for Stormwater: Into the Next Decade

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of Stormwater Australia and the Conference Working Group, we invite you to join us at STORMWATER 2021, the 6th National Conference on Urban Water Management convened by Stormwater Australia, to be held from Wednesday, 14th to Friday, 6th April 2021 at the Crown Promenade Melbourne, VIC.

With over 300 delegates anticipated, it will be the one stop shop for industry professionals looking to keep abreast of contemporary practice, share ideas with their peers and make new contacts that can be invaluable in their everyday work.

The 2021 Conference theme is: New Frontiers for Stormwater – Into The Next Decade.

We face profound challenges to manage our co-dependent urban and rural areas into the next decade. Population growth and climate change is driving rapid changes to the natural and human environment including declining waterway health and increasing flood risks. These challenges involve behaviours, policy settings and society expectations in linked economic, social and environmental systems. A systems approach is needed to transform our science, governance, practice, policy and culture to resolve these continually evolving problems and understand the trade-offs. How can we explain these complex challenges to our colleagues and instigate change within society?

Does increased urban density provide sustainable outcomes or result in declining liveability? Our knowledge, experience and culture are also rapidly evolving into the next decade. Perhaps these evolving opportunities will meet to challenges of the next decade and transform our urban and rural areas. How will this happen? The evolution of systems thinking, recognition of circular economies and the connectivity of scales, increased diversity, better connected networks of people, digital twins and legacy knowledge from our first peoples are the new frontiers. This might influence local actions to deliver global benefits to people and ecosystems.

As with previous years, we will be holding our National Excellence Awards at the Conference Dinner, and will be rounding the event program with a number of social and networking events.

We look forward to working together with all of you "into the next decade". See you in Melbourne in April 2021!

Crown Promenade Melbourne, 8 Whiteman Street Southbank VIC 3006

8:00 am