Below is a list of upcoming events:
Four Key Leadership Takeaway Messages Webinar
Date: 22nd Oct, 2020
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online Zoom
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Phone: 02 9744 5252
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In this webinar, Celine will be sharing key learnings and tools from the 9-month award winning Water Leadership Program from the International Water Centre that she recently completed. As a mum of two young children, partner and group manager, she like many others is navigating challenging situations and is needing to develop the skills and behaviours to lead positive changes in her environment. Much like the pandemic health crisis that we are finding ourselves in, the challenges in advancing integrated water management projects requires leadership skills and behaviours from individuals to exert influence and positive changes.
International Keynote Showcase - City Shaping in a Post COVID World
Date: 5th Nov, 2020 - 5th Nov, 2020
Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Venue: Online Zoom
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The series kicks off starting at home in Melbourne, and examines the liveability, city shaping in a post-covid world presented by Dr Melanie Davern from RMIT University. Dr Melanie Davern is a Senior Research Fellow, Director of the Australian Urban Observatory and CoDirector of the Healthy Liveable Cities Group within the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University. Her research interests focus on liveability, community and individual wellbeing with specific expertise in the development and use of indicators as a measurement tool for policy development, program evaluation and community engagement.
In this week’s session, we will also meet with Dr Sivajanani Sivarajah from Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University to see how cities in Canada can provide accessible green space into the future. Dr. Janani Sivarajah is an urban forestry, urban greening, and plant biology researcher, educator, and consultant. Her transdisciplinary research explores the environmental services of urban trees for human well-being, including UV protection and mediation of ultraviolet exposure by urban trees.
We will discuss policies and approaches that are required in both countries to improve landscape design and move us beyond reactively adding green space to existing grey infrastructure.
International Keynote Showcase - Exploring Green Roofs in Europe
Date: 12th Nov, 2020 - 12th Nov, 2020
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue: Online Zoom
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In the second week, Dusty Gedge brings to Victoria the lessons learnt on promoting Green Roofs around Europe. He speaks on the successes he’s experienced in the adoption of green roofs, and discusses the challenges the continent faces in the future. Dusty is the current President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations (EFB) and Founder of Livingroofs.org. Dusty is a recognised authority, designer, consultant and public speaker on green roofs. He has worked on GI (Green Infrastructure) Projects in the UK for the last 17 years.
International Keynote Showcase - Planning for Sustainability
Date: 19th Nov, 2020 - 19th Nov, 2020
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online Zoom
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In the third week of the showcase, Mindy Brookes presents insights from City of Portland's "Central City 2035". This is the city's comprehensive plan for creating new guiding policies and urban design for the Central City and the Willamette Riverfront area. The session will examine how urban planning and design is used to foster creativity, innovation and productivity. Mindy Brookes Experienced City Planner who has worked at the City of Portland for over 15 years. |
International Keynote Showcase - Flood Resilience in the Netherlands
Date: 26th Nov, 2020 - 26th Nov, 2020
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Venue: Online Zoom
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The showcase is capped off with a presentation by Prof. Chris Zevenbergen on Flood Resilience of Urban Systems in The Netherlands. He discusses innovative concepts used to mitigate urban flood and methods to flood-proof building designs that have been trialled in The Netherlands.
Chris Zevenbergen is a Professor at the Water Engineering Department of IHE Delft and at the Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering of the TU Delft, The Netherlands. Prof. Zevenbergen worked as a researcher on various environmental issues related to the building industry, such as environmental impact assessments, product development, emission modeling, testing procedures, building codes and guidelines in the 1980s, followed by 25 years international research and consultancy in environmental engineering and water management.
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
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New Frontiers for Stormwater: Into the Next Decade
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!