Make your own way to Brisbane City Hall at 0850 for 0900 technical tour

TOUR - Meet at City Hall at 9.00 am. Tour of museum/photo library, followed by chartered bus tour to Spring Hill Reservoir, Eagle Farm Pump Station and QUU Luggage Point, Presentations, Taste Test and Vendor Pitch Session. (Snacks provided on bus, BYO water) PPE is required - please wear closed in shoes, long sleeves and long trousers. Queensland Urban Utilities will provide hard hats and high vis vests.

Bus - Spring Hill

TOUR - Heritage listed Spring Hill Reservoir

Bus - Eagle Farm

TOUR - Eagle Farm Pump Station, including rising main

Bus - Luggage Point

TOUR - Luggage Point, historical infrastructure at STP

Welcome to QUU Innovation Centre, Lunch and Ixom Best of the Best Water Taste Test

Vendor Pitch Session - Aqseptence, Antec and Royce Water Technologies - Proceeds supporting the Queensland Water Regional Communities Innovation Program

Break: Voting for best Pitch, Presentation for Taste Test Winner, Presentation for Pitch Winner. Afternoon tea provided.

Bus returning to city for those requiring transport

Own arrangements for dinner

Arrival and Registration - Tea and coffee on arrival

Welcome and Scene Setting

Keynote - Experiences from the Energy Sector including restructuring of Energex and Ergon - Philip Hirschhorn, Boston Consulting Group

Automated Metering - Follow up from the February TRG workshop (including updates and Q&A from utilities implementing automated metering - Scott Emmonds, Gold Coast; Linda Roberts, Mackay; Ian Johnson, Cairns); Update on changes to telecommunications platforms and technologies (Chris Andrews, Ventia)

Morning tea

Department of Energy and Water Supply (DEWS) Session - Introduction from Director General, Paul Simshauser.

Queensland Water Regional Alliances Program buried infrastructure research project (Rob Fearon and Ryan Cosgrove, qldwater)

The future of the Queensland urban water and sewerage sector (follow up from Council-Controlled Entities Workshop) (qldwater)

LGAQ ratepayer analysis – how to elevate the investment priority for water and sewerage (Greg Hoffman, Grassroots Connections Australia)

QUU Utility of the Future program (Abel Immaraj, Craig Ma and Colin Chapman, QUU)

Lunch Break

Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (DEHP) Session - Introduction from Director General, Jim Reeves and Executive Director, Andrew Connor

Discussion - Sewerage Services – Collateral Damage? (Andrew Connor, DEHP)

Innovation and risk across asset life cycles (Trevor Harvey, North Burnett; Ben Godford, Maranoa; Chris Mooney, DEHP)

Panel discussion – Opportunities for water quality offsets (Linda Roberts, Mackay; Graham O’Byrne, Cairns; Jim Fewings, DEHP)

Current opportunities for resource recovery from sewage (Professor Damien Batstone, University of Queensland)

Afternoon Tea

Scholarship Recipients - Geoff Rintoul (Longreach Regional Council), Nathan Litzow (Central Highlands Regional Council)

Your Technical Reference Group (Trevor Dean, Fraser Coast & TRG Representatives)

Short Workshop Session over drinks

Close - pre dinner break

Optional Dinner - Dinner Speaker: Piers Clark, Chairman, Isle Utilities - "Innovation Flash"