Program 2022

Registration and Coffee commences

Take your seats

Welcome to Country

with Maroochy Songwoman.

Official Opening

The Honourable…... (we will tell you soon, promise)

Opening Address

Romilly Madew AO, Infrastructure Australia - The Infrastructure Priority List and Community Engagement. What happens now?

Keynote Address: Water Infrastructure NSW - Wilcannia Weir Replacement Project – Listen, Learn, Adapt, Deliver - Together

Hear from the Aboriginal Community about how they want and expect to be engaged. Meet the NSW government project team who delivered engagement that the Aboriginal community define as “the best they have seen and the benchmark for what all Aboriginal engagement should be like”. Hear from Wilcannia Community Leader Brendon Adams who will discuss how they were engaged and the outcomes they achieved for their community. They will be supported by key members of the Water Infrastructure NSW, Wilcannia Weir project team – Brendan O’Neill, Lead Project Manager and Felicity Rooney, Community Engagement Lead. They will also be joined by Donna Kennedy, Water Infrastructure NSW and Russell Hill, WaterNSW to share with the engagement sector the significant and transformative outcomes that can be achieved by working with Aboriginal communities in genuine collaboration.

Professor Sara Bice (Director, the ANU Institute for Infrastructure in Society) and Kirsty O’Connell (Industry Director, the ANU Institute for Infrastructure in Society) will talk about what’s driving trust for Australian infrastructure projects - a community perspective

Join the team from the ANU Institute for Infrastructure in Society to learn what 3500 Australians and nine infrastructure intensive communities are thinking about the selection, planning, design and delivery of infrastructure and the way in which infrastructure projects engage.

Michelle Cramer, GHD will discuss engaging with Constantly Disrupted Communities

How can we do better?

Hear from nationally recognised Carly Taylor from Carly Taylor Coaching about how to better relate, understand, consult and engage with our colleagues and the community.

This presentation will especially focus on managing interactions with disenfranchised and enraged people. Carly is qualified in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Japanese Psychology (Morita Therapy and Naikan), a University qualified Nutritionist, a certified Personal Trainer and a certified Health Coach (IIN).

Our wellness session - hosted by Comacon

Hear from Paul Taylor from the Mind Body Brain Performance Institute.  Paul is a Neuroscientist, Exercise Physiologist, Nutritionist and host of The MindBodyBrain Project podcast. Learn strategies to ensure you're in peak shape to do our demanding job to the best of your ability. Learn how to protect your energy, to perform better and get better outcomes.

Young and Emerging professionals panel chaired by Marion Short, IAP2

Panel will include:  Courtney Webb (GHD), Alexandra King (Aurecon) and Sophie Perissinotto (Leisa Prowse Consulting).

Construction Comms 101 with Jill Boag from Gamuda

Here from one of the nation’s leading Infrastructure Project Directors on what we do right, what we can do better and how we can influence project outcomes.

Panel Discussion hosted by Kate Kernaghan from Factotum Communications

COVID CRISIS - what did we learn from the comms we did during COVID? What engagement worked during COVID? How can this be the new norm? Has the increase in accessibility we provided during COVID  changed how we engage?  Panellists:  Tim Holmes (Gamuda), Debbie Low (Water NSW) and Rebecca Dean (Lendlease).

"Reflections:  Looking into the future" Hosted by GHD

Cocktail Party at Cloudland, level 2