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Infrastructure 2023 Looking Ahead Symposium - Making Strategy a Reality

Watch the presentations from the 2023 symposium.

Playlist of all 18 videos from Infrastructure 2023

View the full playlist above, or visit links to individual sessions and the slide decks for those sessions below.

Programme

Keynote - Ross Copland, CE, Te Waihanga

Opening address - Minister for Infrastructure - Hon Dr. Megan Woods at Infrastructure 2023: Looking Ahead Symposium

Session 1: Delivering New Zealand's Infrastructure
New Zealand has $92bn in the Pipeline. How do we get it done?

Gabrielle Trainor AO, Acting Chair, Infrastructure Australia
Slides - Better infrastructure delivery [PDF, 377 KB]

Panel - Delivering New Zealand's Infrastructure
Hosted by Blake Lepper, GM - Infrastructure Delivery, Te Waihanga
Gabrielle Trainor AO, Acting Chair, Infrastructure Australia
Francesco Saibene, Project Director, Ghella
Roger Sutton, CEO, EA Networks

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 Eleanore Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Slides - Attractive and inclusive cities [PDF, 2.7 MB]

Panel - Attractive and inclusive cities
Hosted by Geoff Cooper
David Stolz, Assistant Co-ordinator General, Office of the Co-ordinator General
Cressida Wall, CE, Office of Projects Victoria
David Rankin, CE, Ekepanuku Development Auckland
Q & A Session with Panel

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
Slides -Infrastructure access is uneven. How should we respond? [PDF, 588 KB]

Panel - Providing and paying for infrastructure: What's fair?
Hosted by Gail Pacheco, Professor of Economics and Director of the NZ Work Research Institute at AUT
Keri Brown, Energy Hardship Expert Panel at Hutt City Council, Slides - Energy hardship [PDF, 1.4 MB]
Coralie Williams, Director, Project Advisory & Evaluation at Infrastructure Australia
Judy Kavanagh, Director, Inquiries, Te Waihanga

Session 4: Strengthening resilience to shocks and stress
Hazards are changing and prevalence increasing. How do we plan for a future of disruption?

Tim Grafton, CE, Insurance Council NZ
Slides - Strengthening resilience to shocks and stresses [PDF, 839 KB]

Nick Rogers, Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction Specialist
Slides- How do we plan for future disruption? [PDF, 6.6 MB]

Belinda Storey, Managing Director, Climate Sigma and Christian Zammit, Hydrologist, NIWA
Slides - Time to failure in infrastructure [PDF, 2.6 MB]

Panel - Strengthening resilience to shocks and stress
Hosted by Amanda Millar
Tim Grafton, CE, Insurance Council NZ
Nick Rogers, Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction Specialist
Belinda Storey, Managing Director, Climate Sigma
Christian Zammit, Hydrologist, NIWA

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
Slides - Megaprojects take decades. We can't afford to wait. [PDF, 4.7 MB]

Panel - Megaprojects take decades. We can't afford to wait
Hosted by Ross Copland, CE, Te Waihanga
Nicole Rosie, CEO, Waka Kotahi, NZTA
Nick Legget, CE, Infrastructure NZ
Peter Colacino, Infrastructure Policy and Strategy, Avista Strategy

Dr Juliano Denicol, Director Megaproject Delivery Centre, University College London - Mega Projects
Slides - Megaproject delivery - Learning from the UK [PDF, 3.9 MB]

Closing Keynote - Shamubeel Eaqub, Partner, Sense Partners