Water & Environment 2011
CIWEM'S ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Olympia Conference Centre | London | 6th-7th April 2011
Organised by Bob Earll, CMS
Sponsored by:
Exhibitors to date:
Media Partner:
Big Society - Future Environment
The current trend toward austerity, whilst at the same time
delivering front line services, is a major global challenge.
Funding for projects will be more restricted, demanding novel and
innovative solutions. We are facing a new financial reality which
will focus our efforts towards achieving our aims for
sustainability and environmental gains with decreasing funding.
The UK coalition government has launched a "Big Society"
programme intended to "take power away from politicians and give it
to the people". (Full details on the programme can be found in the
page documents side tab). The programme includes giving communities
more power, transferring power from central to local government -
'localism', using 'third sector' resources to deliver government
programmes and giving wider public access to government data. This
programme will create opportunities and challenges for the
environment sector and society as a whole.
In April 2011, CIWEM will hold a two-day Annual Conference that
will address multidisciplinary issues across all areas of the
global water and environment sector and will also focus on the
issue of the "Big Society" and the implications for the environment
sector.
Aim
The aim of the conference is to challenge and inspire the water
and environmental community by sharing knowledge and best practice,
which is at the heart of meeting key global challenges. There will
be a mix of keynote speakers, offered papers, exhibitions and
networking opportunities that will make this the key event for
water and environment professionals.
We aim to provide the optimal public benefit by making outputs
from the conference freely available on the CIWEM website after the
event
Call for Presentations
The call for presentations is now open. Deadline Friday
10th September 2010.
In particular we are looking for offers of papers covering the
"Big Society" theme including:
- The issues, challenges and opportunities arising from the Big
Society
- The "business" response to these challenges
- Austerity and Third sector opportunities
- Delivering sustainability and environment in this context
- The changing agenda under coalition policies and governance -
climate change - infrastructure
- Mechanisms and case studies - innovation - doing more with
less
- Integrated solutions: catchment scales across the water and
environment sector
- What are the implications for flood risk management, water
resources and water quality, and ecosystems?
- Partnership working and partnership funding - delivering more
for less and understanding the costs
- Local authorities' lead role in flood risk management and
shared responsibility for flood risk
To submit your abstract please see the CMS website
For more details see the Call for Presentation document in the
page documents side tab
New! Keynote speakers confirmed
- Richard Benyon MP, Minister for Natural
Environment and Fisheries
- Tony Juniper, campaigner, writer,
sustainability adviser, environmentalist and former Executive
Director of Friends of the Earth
- Dr Mike Clarke, Chief Executive of RSPB
- John Edmonds, Aldersgate Group Lead on
Environmental Skills, Non-Executive Director of Carbon Trust,
Former General Secretary of the GMB Trade Union and Chair of the
Inland Waterways Advisory Council (IWAC).
Sponsorship
There are two main 'packages' for the Annual Conference - Full
Sponsor and exhibitor packages
For the full list of benefits see the sponsorship terms in the
page documents panel.
Previous sponsors have found the event valuable:
'The staff were helpful, the numbers attending and interest
our stall generated also positive. I felt it was a useful
conference for us to be involved, certainly as a sponsor.'
'We appreciated a very good stand position and the inclusion
of the company logo on delegate notes, slides etc.'
'First time exhibiting and very worthwhile'
For more information contact Lauren Goozee
Previous Event
Water & Environment 2010: CIWEM's Annual Conference
This took place on 28th- 29th April 2010 at the Olympia
Conference Centre, London.
See the Conference
Outputs page for the presentations and delegate notes.
