Flood & Coast Digital Series 2024 and FREE LIVE workshops

Course Overview

The Flood & Coast Digital Series is designed to share insights from the 2024 Flood & Coast Conference in the lead up to the Flood & Coast Conference and Exhibition 2025, which will take place on 3rd – 5th of June, 2025 in Telford. This course is free for anyone who was a paid attendee of the Flood and Coast 2024. If you didn't attend the live event, you can still gain access to all the amazing digital content by paying a registration fee, and you will also receive a 10% discount code for the Flood & Coast 2025 event in Telford. Additionally, the monthly LIVE workshops are free for all - please see below for more details and how to register.

COURSE CONTENT:

DAY 1 | Flood and Coast Futures
curated in collaboration with The Environment Agency

SESSION 1 - Duration: 1h 12m
Flood and Coast Futures
The opening session sets out how we are working to create a nation more resilient to flooding and coastal change. It highlights achievements across the flood and coastal sector over the past year and looks ahead to future challenges.

SESSION 2 - Duration: 1h 04m
The Coast is Clear: Strengthening Shoreline Management Planning
This session discusses and debates the recently refreshed Shoreline Management Plans and the work to update the new national coastal erosion risk map. It also covers the importance of planning and adapting to a changing coastline, along with innovative approaches being developed through the Coastal Transition Accelerator Programme.

SESSION 3 - Duration: 1h 16m
Innovations in Integrated Water Management
This session explores innovative strategies, best practices, and policy frameworks aimed at enhancing flood and drought resilience through integrated water management approaches. It includes discussions on pioneering approaches to surface water flood risk management and the use of nature-based solutions to enhance flood resilience.

DAY 2 | Water and Us: Charting our Course to Success
curated in collaboration with The Rivers Trust and the CIWEM Rivers and Coastal Group

SESSION 1 - Duration: 1h 12m
What nature-based solutions do for us
This session highlights different perspectives on nature-based solutions, demonstrating how practitioners and partners across sectors work together to embrace water in our landscape and society.

SESSION 2 - Duration: 1h 01m
The right solutions, in the right place, by the right people
This session develops an understanding of what is needed to identify opportunities for nature-based or hybrid solutions and mainstream their delivery, including data, design, and monitoring.

SESSION 3 - Duration: 1h 03m
Unlocking the safe: funding nature-based solutions
This session offers an end-to-end exploration of how the ongoing challenge of funding nature-based solutions can be overcome, with an emphasis on blended finance from public and private sources.

SESSION 4 - Duration: 1h 05m
Nurturing community engagement with nature-based solutions
This session showcases the value of genuine community involvement in the collaborative delivery of nature-based solutions, from design through implementation and beyond.

DAY 3 | Collaborating to Deliver Better Surface Water Management
curated in collaboration with the CIWEM Urban Drainage Group

SESSION 1 - Duration: 1h 12m
Mainstreaming better surface water management
A panel representing key stakeholders involved in drainage discusses how the sector can consistently enable good practice when implementing SuDS for new build developments and retrofitting surface water management.

SESSION 2 - Duration: 1h 04m
Working together to deliver multiple benefits in surface water management
As funding and resources remain constrained while pressures and demands for various environmental outcomes increase, this session brings together expert thinking and good practice examples of how organizations can and are effectively working in partnership to unlock multiple outcomes.

SESSION 3 - Duration: 1h 02m
Delivering high quality Sustainable Drainage Systems
Subject to consultation, mandatory SuDS with associated standards and adoption routes are being introduced in England. Government policy objectives point towards a need for extensive SuDS retrofitting. This session showcases leading-edge examples of new build and retrofit SuDS schemes that manage flood risk, remove rainwater from sewer systems, and create better places and spaces.

SESSION 4 - Duration: 1h 04m
Communities, catchments, and surface water
This session puts communities at the heart of the conversation by exploring examples of community projects working at a catchment level to manage surface water and groundwater flood risk.