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Infrastructure Grand Challenges: Exhibition and Networking Forum #icifGC
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ICE
1 Great George Street Westminster London SW1P 3AA United KingdomDescription
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The ICIF research team look forward to welcoming over 100 infrastructure champions from industry, government, regulation to Infrastructure Grand Challenges (#icifGC) on 21st February at ICE. With the objectives to:
- Catalyse multi-disciplinary infrastructure conversation
- Challenge and re-examine current approaches to infrastructure
- Share key themes and findings from ICIF’s multi-disciplinary research
- Facilitate networking and collaboration
- Shape future infrastructure priorities
Event Agenda
For details of the event Agenda, our Grand Challenges and Key Note guests please view the file Grand Challenges - Agenda - Key Note Guests
The event is structured using Grand Challenges connected to our Interdisciplinary research into interdependent infrastructure systems as common themes. To explore these Grand Challenges from a range of perspectives we have structured the event in four parts:
- ICIF Research Exhibition - open from 9am
- Interviews and Infrastructure Question Time with Key Note Guests - 10.00 -11.45
- ICIF Research Showcase sessions 12.05 - 12.50 and 13.40 -14.20
- Open Forum Grand Challenge Conversations 14.30 - 16.30
Latest Agenda
Download Welcome Pack (Grand Challenges - Agenda - Key Note Guests)
Opens 9.00
Brunel Room
Research Exhibition, Registration and Refreshments
Exhibition of ICIF research and opportunity to meet the ICIF team
10.00
Smeaton Room
Event Welcome from ICIF lead Professor Brian Collins, and ICE President Professor Tim Broyd
10.15
Smeaton Room
Chat Show Interviews with Key Note Guests
Practitioner insight into interdependent infrastructure system grand challenges.
11.20
Smeaton Room
Infrastructure Question Time
Audience questions to key note panel and research team.
11.45
Brunel Room
Refreshments
12.05
Smeaton
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Council Rooms
ICIF Research Showcases Part 1
Showcase of ICIF research linked to Grand Challenges
12.50
Brunel Room
Lunch + Networking + Research Exhibition
13.40
Smeaton
and
Council Rooms
ICIF Research Showcases Part 2
Showcase of ICIF research linked to Grand Challenges
14.20
Brunel Room
Refreshments
14.30
Smeaton
and
Council Rooms
Open Forum Infrastructure System Grand Challenge Conversations
Interactive, collaborative, audience led exploration of important challenges at the heart of Infrastructure Systems
What are the benefits? - How can we realise them? - What is stopping us?
16.30
Smeaton Room
Wrap Up and Close
17.00 until 20.00
Brunel Room
Networking Drinks Session and Nibbles
A further opportunity to engage with our research, our team andfellow infrastructure champions.
Organised by
Professor Rod Rainey read maths, at Cambridge University, graduating in 1971. He also has an MSc in control theory from Imperial College London. He worked as a design engineer for Yarrow shipbuilders on the Clyde, and as a research fellow at Imperial College, before joining Atkins Oil and Gas division in 1978 where he worked until leaving in 2016 to form Rod Rainey and Associates Ltd. He specialises in the scientistructures, and was responsible for the early development of the AQWA suite of computer programs, which are the world’s most widely used in this fnumber of well slender body theory, on freak waves, and on tidal barrages. He has been closely associated with the development of the Pelamis and Anaconda wave energy devices.
He is an internationally recognised authority in the oading and is a visiting Professor at the University of Southampton and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2016