SPEAKERS PROFILES & ABTRACTS

Thursday 17 March

ENGINEERS AS LEADERS

Douglas Armstrong, Councillor, Auckland City Council
Speaker Profile & Abstracts

Murray Jackson, CEO, Genesis Energy
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Geoff Vazey, CEO, Ports of Auckland Limited
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Garry Law, Principal, Law Associates Ltd
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ENGINEERING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Jeff Jones, Chief Executive, Environment Bay of Plenty
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Steve Abley, Chartered Traffic and Transportation Engineer, Independent Consultant
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Melvyn Maylin, Sector Leader Transportation Asset Development, Opus International Consultants. Speaker Profile & Abstracts

Friday 18 March

STREAM 1 –BUILDING AND CONTRUCTION

Andrew King, Section Manager, GeoHazard Solutions, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences

Speaker Profile & Abstracts

Graeme Beattie
, Principal Engineer, BRANZ Ltd
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Mark Batchelar, Principal, Mark L Batchelar Consulting Engineers &
Richard Hunt
, Building Systems Development Manager, Powerscape Ltd

Speaker Profile & Abstracts

Murray Isdale, Consulting Engineer
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Charles Clifton, Structural Engineer, HERA
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Des Bull,
Technical Director, Holmes Consulting Group Ltd
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Dene Cook, Project Manager, Cement & Concrete Association of New Zealand
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Dale Turkington, Executive Director, Beca Infrastructure Ltd
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STREAM 2 – EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (MORNING)

Dr Peter Xu, Associate Professor, Massey University
Speaker Profile & Abstracts

Robert Paxton, PhD Fellow, Diagnostics and Control Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology. Speaker Profile & Abstracts

Maan Alkaisi, Senior Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Canterbury. Speaker Profile & Abstracts

Murray Hofmans-Sheard, PhD Fellow Department of Philosophy, University of Auckland
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Prasika Manilal, PhD Fellow, Diagnostics and Control Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology. Speaker Profile & Abstracts

STREAM 2 – ENGINEERING MATERIALS (AFTERNOON)

Dr Zhan W. Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Auckland University of Technology. Speaker Profile & Abstracts

Ross Davison, The NZ Timber Design Society, Technical Manager, CHH Futurebuild
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Michael Eaglen, Engineer, High Modulus (NZ) Limited.
Speaker Profile & Abstracts