Conference Attendee List
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018
All presentations are available for download by qldwater members and delegates. Click on the hyperlinks to view presentations.
qldwater members can access presentations by logging in using their usual website username and password.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018
| 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
Tour - Departing from Gold Coast Turf Club. Gold Coast Disaster Management Unit, Broadwater Parklands/ Commonwealth Games Aquatic Centre. Presentations on water and sewerage projects and operations during the Games |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch Ixom Australia State-wide Best of the Best Queensland Water Taste Test |
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Welcome to Gold Coast Paul Heaton, Director Gold Coast Water and Waste |
| 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Planning, implementation and execution of CoGC's water quality management strategy for the Commonwealth Games period. Kris Pardoe-Matthews, Coordinator Product Quality, Gold Coast Water and Waste |
| 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Vendor pitch session-2 presentations with proceeds going to QWRCIP Scholarships Royce Water Technologies DCM Process Control |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM |
Afternoon tea including voting for best pitch |
| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Meter Services Management and CoGC's Holistic Metering Contract - one year on Scott Emmonds, Coordinator Metering, Gold Coast Water and Waste |
| 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM |
qldwater 2019 activities |
| 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
Break (drinks) |
| 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM | Optional Dinner-Gold Coast Turf Club Dinner Speakers - Ian Roberts, Supply Chain & Technical Director Australia and New Zealand, Lion Beer and Gary Faulkner, Director of Craft Breweries. Lion's journey from manual plants to state of the art - leveraging data, assets and renewables to create some of Australia's finest drops. |
Thursday, September 6, 2018
| 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM |
Arrival, tea, coffee |
| 9:00 AM - 9:05 AM | Welcome and overview - qldwater TRG Chair Trevor Dean, Fraser Coast Regional Council |
| 9:05 AM - 9:10 AM | |
| 9:10 AM - 9:35 AM | Keynote - National Water Reform Inquiry Report Keynote - National Water Reform Inquiry Report - Associate Commissioner John Madden |
| 9:35 AM - 10:15 AM | Strategic Sector-Wide Investment - panel discussion Background - qldwater, panellists including Cr David Schefe, Maranoa Regional Council, John Madden, State Government rep |
| 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Morning Tea Emerging Leaders to meet with Productivity Commissioner |
| 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM | Data transforming the water sector-The future of Queensland benchmarking (presentation/ case studies/ workshop) Background - qldwater panellists including Shaun Johnston (Burdekin Shire), Paul Harris (Marchment Hill), and Jason Zinetti (Unitywater). |
| 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Catchment resilience in a changing environment-Future STP stewardship - a panel discussion including DES Background - qldwater, panellists including Chris Mooney, Ian Ramsay, Megan Bickle (DES) and Lynne Powell (Cairns RC) |
| 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM | Next gen water - Big Data Applications Richard Savage, James Skene (GHD) |
| 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | Lunch including Sponsor Welcome Lunch including lunch sponsor address - Chris Owen, City of Gold Coast |
| 1:45 PM - 2:55 PM | Resource recovery and renewables - range of speakers including presentations on energy recovery, viability of reuse options including biosolids and recycled water David Brooker (Queensland Urban Utilities), Chengrong Chen (Waste to Fertiliser CRC) Meta-analysis of the value of waste by-products for new fertilisers and other soil treatments, Cr Anne Maddern (Fraser Coast Regional Council) Biosolids, Peter Zemek (Zemek Environmental) Viability of energy production. |
| 2:55 PM - 3:20 PM | Understanding and exceeding customer expectations-- Shaping a Water Sensitive Townsville: our transition starts now Chris Manning (Townsville City Council) and Katie Hammer (CRC for Water Sensitive Cities) |
| 3:20 PM - 3:30 PM | Report from scholarship recipients Cliff Caton, Mark Caon, Nick Hall |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM |
Afternoon Tea |
| 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM | Small, remote and nimble - Sustainability for regional communities, with DNRME Dinesha Emmery (DNRME), Dinesha Emmery (DNRME)-updadate from the regulator Peter Manning ( Central Highlands R.C.) |
| 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM |
Closing address from Dial Before You Dig on behalf of sponsors, raffle draw |
| 5:00 PM - 5:05 PM |
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