Looking Ahead Infrastructure Symposium 2023

PROGRAMME

8:50AM - 8:55AM	Welcome Formalities Amanda Millar - MC
8:55AM - 9:00AM	Cultural Welcome
9:00AM - 9:30AM	Opening Keynote Address Ross Copland - Chief Executive Officer, New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga
9:30AM - 9:40AM	Hon Dr Megan Woods
9:40AM - 9:55AM	Session 1: Delivering New Zealand’s infrastructure New Zealand has $92bn in the Pipeline. How do we get it done? Gabrielle Trainor - Acting Chair, Infrastructure Australia
9:55AM - 10:25AM	Panel: Hosted by Blake Lepper - GM infrastructure Delivery, New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga Francesco Saibene - Project Director, Ghella Limited Roger Sutton - Chief Executive Officer, EA Networks Gabrielle Trainor - Acting Chair, Infrastructure Australia
10:25AM - 10:40AM	Q & A Session with Panel
10:40AM - 11:00AM	Morning Tea
11:00AM - 11:25AM	Session 2: Attractive and inclusive cities Two thirds of population growth will occur in 3% of our land area. How do we shape our economic engines? Edward Glaeser - Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics, Harvard University.
11:25AM - 11:40AM	Q & A Session with Ed
11:40AM - 12:10PM	Panel: Hosted by Geoff Cooper - GM Strategy, New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga Cressida Wall - Chief Executive, Office of Projects Victoria David Rankin - Chief Executive, Panuku Development Auckland David Stolz - Assistant Co-ordinator General, Office of the Co-ordinator General
12:10PM - 12:25PM	Q & A Session with Panel
12.25PM - 12:40PM	Session 3: Providing and paying for infrastructure; What’s fair? Infrastructure access is uneven. How should we respond? Coralie Williams - Director, Project Advisory & Evaluation at Infrastructure Australia
12:40PM - 1:10PM	Panel: Hosted by Professor Gail Pacheco Keri Brown, Chair - Energy Hardship Expert Panel at Hutt City Council Coralie Williams - Director, Project Advisory & Evaluation at Infrastructure Australia Judy Kavanagh - Director Inquiries - Strategy, New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga
1:10PM - 1:20PM	Q & A Session with Panel
1:20PM - 2:00PM	Lunch
2:00PM - 2:15PM	Session 4: Strengthening resilience to shocks and stresses Hazards are changing and prevalence increasing. How do we plan for a future of disruption? Tim Grafton - Chief Executive, Insurance Council NZ
2:15PM - 2:30PM	Nick Rogers - Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction Specialist
2:30PM - 2:45PM	Belinda Storey - Senior Research Fellow, New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute Christian Zammit - Hydrologist, NIWA
2:45PM - 3:00PM	Q&A for all presenters
3:00PM - 3:15PM	Session 5: Megaprojects take decades. We can't afford to wait. How to better use what we have while we build the future. Peter Colacino - Infrastructure Policy and Strategy, Avista Strategy
3:15PM - 3:45PM	Panel: Hosted by Ross Copland, New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga Nicole Rosie - Chief Executive, Waka Kotahi, New Zealand Transport Agency Peter Colacino - Infrastructure Policy and Strategy, Avista Strategy Nick Legget - Chief Executive, Infrastructure New Zealand
3:45PM - 4:00PM	Q&A Session with Panel
4:00PM - 4:15PM	Afternoon Tea
4:15PM - 4:45PM	Dr Juliano Denicol - Director Megaproject Delivery Centre, University College London
4:45PM - 5:00PM	Closing Keynote Address Shamubeel Eaqub - Partner, Sense Partners
5:00PM - 5:05PM	Closing Remarks Amanda Millar - MC
5:05PM - 6:05PM	Networking Function
6:05PM - 8:05PM	Dinner