Flood Risk Management
Thursday, 11th October 2007

Chair     David Rooke MBE (Head of Flood Risk Management, Environment Agency)
Welcome and introduction

David Richardson (Acting Deputy Director, Flood Management, Defra)
Update on “Making space for water”

Peter Bide (Team Leader:  Minerals and Physical Environment Planning, Communities and Local Government)
PPS25: planning to manage flood risk

David Balmforth (Technical Director, MWH)
Integrated approaches to flood risk management

Helen Samuels (Associate Director, Halcrow) and Paul Rayner (Principal Engineer, Halcrow)
EU Flood Directive – the Romanian journey

Renuka Gunasekara (Senior Engineer, Royal Haskoning)
Planning development for sustainable flood management - case studies

Ronnie Falconer (Senior Consultant, Flood Risk and River Basin Management, Jacobs)
Pluvial and groundwater flooding - new approaches in flood warning and risk management

Chair     David Balmforth (Technical Director, MWH)

Jon Wicks (Associate Director, Halcrow)
 Communicating uncertainty in flood maps - a practical approach

Sun Yan Evans (Principal Engineer, Water and Environmental Management Division, Mott MacDonald) and Neil Gunn (Mapping and Data Management Team Leader, Environment Agency)
Flood risk management: how modelling techniques can help

Margaretta Ayoung (Senior Hydrologist, Atkins)
Integrated flood risk modelling using OpenMI

Nick Haigh (Principal Economist, Environment Agency)
Developing a decision support framework for the Thames Estuary 2100 flood risk management strategy

Mike Cope (Principal Engineer, Halcrow)
Flood risk management in a highly developed, extensive and largely undefended flood plain:  lower Thames example

Jaap Flikweert (Flood Risk Management Adviser, Royal Haskoning)
 From 3 metres below sea level to 4 metres below sea level:  impacts of climate change on Dutch flood risk management

Innes Thomson (Project Executive, Environment Agency)
Cockshaw Burn flood alleviation scheme - sustainable flood risk reduction