Infrastructure Grand Challenges: Exhibition and Networking Forum #icifGC

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Infrastructure Grand Challenges: Exhibition and Networking Forum #icifGC

By Sheila Stickland, Energy & Climate Change Division, Civil Enginering and the Environment UoS

Date and time

Tue, 21 Feb 2017 09:00 - 20:00 GMT

Location

ICE

1 Great George Street Westminster London SW1P 3AA United Kingdom

Description

ICIF Infrastructure Grand Challenges #icifGC Research Exhibition and Networking Forum

NOW SOLD OUT

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

and

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

 

 

 

 

 

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