Keynote Speaker
Michael Carter, Principal Process Engineer, Beca Hunter H2O
Michael is a chartered chemical engineer with thirteen years’ experience in the water industry. Michael's passion for addressing regional water issues has given a voice to those concerns. He has personally and professionally given frank and fearless advice to government agencies, to overcome the regulatory hurdles and assist local water utilities. Michael was recognised as the 2022 AWA Australian Young Water Professional of the Year. Although Michael does not love horses, he was born in the Horse Capital of Australia. So being a country boy, he may speak a tad slower…. but he can run fast in gumboots!
Panellists
Jonny Renton, Senior Consultant, Digital Services, Arup
Jonny is the Digital Services market leader for Water, Energy and Resources (Australasia), leads the development for many of Arup’s Global digital water products and leads the digital strategy and advisory team in NSW/ACT. He is passionate about combining Arup’s water design and engineering expertise with new insights coming from data, advanced modelling and analysis, simulation, and visualisation.
Ellie Hubbard, Associate Director – Engineering, Assets & Project Delivery, KPMG
Ellie is passionate about helping people better understand risk and resilience considerations associated with owning and managing Infrastructure. She has held varied roles across the asset value chain and brings a breadth of experience which allows her to bring a diverse lens to complex challenges. Ellie specialises in embedding risk-based approaches into existing asset-intensive operations, with a focus on delivering sustainable outcomes.
Micah Starkis, Director, Data and Information - Knowledge Division, Department of Planning and Environment
Micah is ensuring the right technology and data outcomes are delivered and managed so water resources are sustainable, secure and healthy for our communities. Over the last 20 years he has lead technology transformation and new product design in government, media and digital health programs of national significance. He is driven to extract value and benefit from sharing data to enable innovation and industry participation.
Clarissa Philips, Technical Director Digital Delivery, Water ANZ, Jacobs
Clarissa is providing technical leadership to project delivery teams with a focus on Jacobs’ clients future Digital Twins. Clarissa is passionate about digital engineering and is excited to be a part of this fast-moving industry.
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