Kaupapa Motuhake: Strategic Insights & Side Events 9
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Kaupapa Motuhake: Strategic Insights & Side Events
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 |
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM |
Speaker
Mr James Hughes
Technical Director - Climate And Resilience
Tonkin + Taylor
Confronting Moloch. Overcoming systemic adaptation challenges
1:45 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
James has a 20-year career in the infrastructure and environmental sectors. He has been involved in a wide range of important projects over recent years, including the first National Climate Risk Assessment, MfE’s Climate Adaptation Technical Working Group, the Health Sector Climate Scenarios, and a variety of climate risk and adaptation projects
Ms Barbara Lewando
Senior Climate Change Policy Advisor
KiwiConsult
Confronting Moloch. Overcoming systemic adaptation challenges
1:45 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Dr. Barbara Lewando is a climate change policy advisor in local government with extensive experience in the private sector and international climate policy, sustainability, and resilience-building.
Nic Newman
Bay of Plenty Regional Council
Confronting Moloch. Overcoming systemic adaptation challenges
1:45 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Nic is the Climate Change Programme Manager at Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council. Nic has over 20 years of experience working with complex resource management issues and communities. He has worked leading and facilitating projects from freshwater problem solving in Canterbury to technology and rural development in the Peruvian Andes. He likes complex problems
Paddy Pringle
Tonkin & Taylor Ltd
Confronting Moloch. Overcoming systemic adaptation challenges
1:45 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Paddy is a climate risk and adaptation specialist with more than 20 years’ experience in consultancy and applied research. His work has seen him lead the UK Climate Impacts Programme, and lead various adaptation programmes in the Pacific and provide technical support on adaptation during UNFCCC negotiations.
Ms Ruby Clark
Senior Adaptation Advisor
Christchurch City Council
Building community resilience through digital collaboration: Leveraging the Resilience Explorer platform for climate adaptation planning
2:30 PM - 3:15 PMBiography
Ruby is a senior climate adaptation specialist at Christchurch City Council, New Zealand, leading the implementation of adaptation planning processes across coastal communities. She specialises in community engagement and translating technical risk information into actionable adaptation pathways.
Dr Tom Logan
Cto, Senior Lecturer Above The Bar
Urban Intelligence
Building community resilience through digital collaboration: Leveraging the Resilience Explorer platform for climate adaptation planning
2:30 PM - 3:15 PMBiography
Dr. Logan is a Rutherford Discovery Fellow, Senior Lecturer Above the Bar at University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Technical Director at Urban Intelligence. His research focuses on climate risk assessment and adaptation planning, with expertise in developing digital tools that support evidence-based decision-making.
Mr James Hughes
Technical Director - Climate And Resilience
Tonkin + Taylor
Confronting Moloch. Overcoming systemic adaptation challenges
1:45 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
James has a 20-year career in the infrastructure and environmental sectors. He has been involved in a wide range of important projects over recent years, including the first National Climate Risk Assessment, MfE’s Climate Adaptation Technical Working Group, the Health Sector Climate Scenarios, and a variety of climate risk and adaptation projects.
Dr. Barbara Lewando is a climate change policy advisor in local government with extensive experience in the private sector and international climate policy, sustainability, and resilience-building.
Nic is the Climate Change Programme Manager at Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council. Nic has over 20 years of experience working with complex resource management issues and communities. He has worked leading and facilitating projects from freshwater problem solving in Canterbury to technology and rural development in the Peruvian Andes. He likes complex problems
Dr Tom Logan
Cto, Senior Lecturer Above The Bar
Urban Intelligence
Building community resilience through digital collaboration: Leveraging the Resilience Explorer platform for climate adaptation planning
2:30 PM - 3:15 PMBiography
Ruby is a senior climate adaptation specialist at Christchurch City Council, New Zealand, leading the implementation of adaptation planning processes across coastal communities. She specialises in community engagement and translating technical risk information into actionable adaptation pathways.
Tom is a Rutherford Discovery Fellow, Senior Lecturer Above the Bar at University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Technical Director at Urban Intelligence. His research focuses on climate risk assessment and adaptation planning, with expertise in developing digital tools that support evidence-based decision-making.
Ruby is a senior climate adaptation specialist at Christchurch City Council, New Zealand, leading the implementation of adaptation planning processes across coastal communities.
