About the speakers
Dan Stevens
Dan Stevens is the business director of Water at Beca. He is a principal environmental engineer with over 36 years’ experience mostly in the water industry. Dan is a water distribution specialist with particular expertise in advanced asset management, master planning and hydraulic modelling. He is a regular speaker at national and international conferences and is recognised internationally for his work advanced asset management. He has extensive experience leading multi-disciplinary teams on strategic asset planning projects. He is a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management.
Clare Feeney
Clare Feeney is the sustainability strategist, director of Environmental Communications Ltd and founder of the Environment and Sustainability Strategic Training Institute (ESSTI).
She is an award-winning speaker and trainer and a published author. The second edition of her book How to Change the World - a practical guide to successful environmental training comes out of her 30-plus years of hands-on environmental management and training experience.
Her unique strategic training model helps business, government and non-profit bodies make a bigger difference faster to pressing environmental issues, by supporting environmental experts to develop and deliver the great training that only they can do.
Clare also enables environmental experts to ensure their training has measurable – and monetised – outcomes that create jobs, grow profits and improve the environment.
She has worked with local and national governments, factories, farms, mines, first peoples and big construction sites – but she got out of sewage treatment before she fell in.
Find out more at https://esst.institute/.
Graham Mitchell
Graham Mitchell is CEO of Crown Infrastructure Partners, the Government agency responsible for funding and managing the UFB, Rural Broadband and Mobile Black Spots, Regional Digital Connectivity Programmes, Infrastructure Funding Financing and Infrastructure funding as part of the COVID-19 recovery.Prior to CIP, Graham was CEO at Private Equity and Venture capital funded technology businesses and was also a senior executive of Telecom NZ in New Zealand and Australia.