Tuesday 24 October 2017 Time 12:00pm – 1:30pm Registrations for Tech Tour 1:30pm – 4:30pm Tech Tour 1: Riverway Drive Duplication Tech Tour 2: Port of Tech Tour 3: Humes Casting Facility 2:00pm – 5:00pm Exhibitor Bump In 5:00pm – 7:00pm Welcome Function – Townsville Entertainment and Convention Centre Sponsored by Abergeldie Complex Infrastructure Wednesday 25 October 2017 7:30am – 8:30am Registration Desk Open Official Conference Opening 8:30am – 8:45am Welcome to Country 8:45am – 9:00am Conference Welcome Councillor Jenny Hill Mayor of the City of Townsville 9:00am – 10:00am Keynote Address – Challenges of Big Data are Out of This World Dr Alan Duffy Astrophysicist; Research Fellow and Associate Professor Sponsored by Boral 10:00am – 10:30am DAY 2 – MORNING TEA Sponsored by Boral 10:30am – 11:15am Keynote Address – Six Ideas to Sustain Recovery Brigadier Chris Field Commander, 11:15am – 11:45am Changing Cultures Councillor Graham Scott Livingstone Shire Council 11:45am – 12:05pm Restoring the Transport Network Bill Lansbury Deputy Director-General, Department of Transport and Main Roads 12:05pm – 12:25pm ADAC V5.0 Darren Moore Logan City Council 12:25pm – 1:15pm DAY 2 – LUNCH Sponsored by Rocla

STREAM 1 STREAM 2 STREAM 3 Transport Change Water Palm Room Magnetic Room Yongala Room Session Chair Seren McKenzie Graham Cox Dawson Wilkie Lockyer Valley RC McCullough Robertson BPEQ 1:15pm – 1:45pm Cairns Transport WDRC Works "Futurefit" Dawson Wilkie Revaluation Reorganisation Introduction & Natasha Murray Aaron Meehan, Western Scott Moorhead; Cairns Regional Council Downs Regional Council Townsville City Council Water & Sewage 1:45pm – 2:15pm Southern Downs to B A Year on the Dark side Innovative Solution to Double or not to B Double Angela Fry reduce Nitrogen and Mike Holeszko GHD Phosphorous from Southern Downs Regional Treated Sewage using Council High Rate Algal Ponds Shaun Johnston Burdekin Shire Council 2:15pm – 2:45pm Performance Based Boom went Development in Mareeba Wastewater Standards in Australia the Gladstone Region Treatment Plant Upgrade under the National Heavy Celisa Faulkner Glenda Kirk Vehicle Law (NHVL) Gladstone Regional Council Mareeba Shire Council Brian Chuang NHVR 2:45pm – 3:15pm DAY 2 – AFTERNOON TEA Sponsored by Ecosure STREAM 4 STREAM 5 STREAM 6 Structures Community Projects Water Palm Room Magnetic Room Yongala Room Session Chair Pat McCormack Angela Fry Dawson Wilkie Local Buy GHD BPEQ 3:15pm – 3:45pm Timber Bridges in Local From Potter's Field: The Evolution of Engagement Government – Part of the Rise of the New and Delivery in Solution not the Problem Blackwater Aquatic Infrastructure Renewal David Goodman Centre Daniel Muir Cassowary Coast RC, and Carol Vertigan-See Qld Urban Utilities Dr Daniel Tingley SEEC Pty Ltd Wood Research and Development Ltd 3:45pm – 4:15pm Connecting Communities: Underground Waste Improving Council Flood Innovative Fibre Composite Vacuum Collection Risk Management and Solutions for Infrastructure System Infrastructure Outcomes Michael Kemp Andrew Ryan Alister Daly Wagners CFT Manufacturing Sabre Management Water Technology Pty Ltd Solutions 4:15pm – 5:00pm IPWEAQ Futures Challenge Project 5:00pm – 6:00pm Free Time 6:00pm – 7:00pm Pre-dinner drinks – The Ville 7:00pm – 11:00pm EXCELLENCE AWARDS CEREMONY AND GALA DINNER Sponsored by Premise Thursday 26 October 2017 7:30am – 8:30am Registration Desk Open 8:00am – 8:30am QUDM Launch Frank Scheele, South Burnett Regional Council Benn Barr, Department of Energy and Water Supply 8:30am – 9:15am Keynote Address – The Development of Human Behaviour Alan Patching Bond University 9:15pm – 10:15am Keynote Address – Q&A Brent Tate Former NRL Player and NQ Cowboys Legend Sponsored by Harrison Infrastructure Group 10:15am – 10:45am DAY 3 – MORNING TEA Sponsored by Ecosure 10:45am – 11:05am Take advantage of the Governments spatial information Phil Duggan Department of Natural Resources and Mines 11:05am – 11:35am Connecting Cape York through sustainable initiatives Sandra Burke Department of Transport and Main Roads 11:35am – 12:05pm Local Government Sustainability Panel Discussion Michael Shave, Noosa Council Jan Xanthopoulo, Queensland Treasury Corporation Patrick Flemming, Queensland Audit Office Craig Matheson, Dept of Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning Glenda Kirk, Mareeba Shire Council 12:05pm – 1:00pm DAY 3 – LUNCH NAMS-Q Advisory Group Launch STREAM 7 STREAM 8 STREAM 9 Digital Engineering Best Practice Drainage Palm Room Yongala Room Magnetic Room Sponsored by BPEQ Session Chair Mark de Hayr Nathaniel Tunney Ian Paterson Forcecor BPEQ Vinidex 1:00pm – 1:30pm Transforming your Business Driving regional Australian Rainfall & with ADAC sustainability outcomes Runoff 2016 Ross Guppy through road investment Ari Craven, Engeny IPWEAQ Glenys Schuntner Regional Development Australia, Townsville and North-West Queensland 1:30pm – 2:00pm Can BIM be Civil? Micro Grids to Lawful Point of Discharge – Dr Lee Gregory Community Funded Discharging the Myths 12d Solutions Renewables Projects Tony Loveday, RMA Ren Niemann and Engineers and Graham Cox Sarah Hausler, McCullough McCullough Robertson Robertson 2:00pm – 2:30pm Positioning Trends: The PE Act in action: Storm Culvert Transforming for 3D local government Maintenance Matt Higgins engineering works Steven Latimer Department of Natural Dawson Wilkie ITS Pipetech Resources and Mines Chairperson, BPEQ 2:30pm – 3:00pm DAY 3 – AFTERNOON TEA AGM – Members Only STREAM 10 STREAM 11 STREAM 12 Asset Management Future Planning Roads Palm Room Yongala Room Magnetic Room Session Chair Ashleigh Tomkins Ashlee Adams Mike Harris Gladstone Regional Council Toowoomba RC HIG 3:00pm – 3:30pm Leading the Way in Asset Flooded Road Smart Sustainable Approach to Management Warning System Maintenance on Low Kylie Munn Michael Pattinson Trafficked Surfaced Roads GHD Logan City Council Trevor Distan Colas Australia 3:30pm – 4:00pm A Deep Dive into Asset The Code for Smart Effect of Removing the Management Cities Amelioration Period on Brodie Young and Adam Beck Design and Construction of Raitt McLeod Smart Cities Council Lime Stabilised Subgrades Central Highlands RC Australia New Zealand in Local Government Scott Young Stabilised Pavements Aus 4:00pm – 4:45pm The Great Debate – Smart Cities are not that Smart Moderated by Alan Patching 4:45pm – 5:00pm IPWEAQ President’s Address 5:00pm – 7:00pm CLOSING CEREMONY – A Touch of Salt Sponsored by Fulton Hogan