Flood and Coast Digital Series 2024

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 event is free to attend for anyone who was a paid attendee of 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. Everyone who registers will receive a 10% discount code for Flood & Coast 2025 enabling attendees to recoup the cost of their digital attendance off their ticket for the main event in Telford, 3rd - 5th June 2025.

Series Sessions:

• The opening session sets out how we are seeking to create a nation more resilient to flooding and coastal change. It sets out achievements across the flood and coastal sector over the last year and looks ahead to future challenges.
  
• 'The Coast is Clear: Strengthening Shoreline Management Planning'
  This session discusses and debates the recently refreshed Shoreline Management Plans and the ongoing work to update the new national coastal erosion risk map. It also discusses the importance of planning and adapting to a changing coastline and innovative approaches being developed through the Coastal Transition Accelerator Programme.
  
• '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 discussing pioneering approaches to surface water flood risk management and the use of nature-based solutions to enhance flood resilience.
  
• 'What nature-based solutions do for us'
  Highlighting different perspectives on nature-based solutions, this session demonstrates how practitioners and partners across sectors can work together to embrace water in our landscape and our society.
  
• '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.
  
• 'Unlocking the safe: funding nature-based solutions'
  This session explores how the continued challenge of funding nature-based solutions can be overcome, with an emphasis on blended finance from public and private sources.
  
• '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.
  
• '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.
  
• 'Working together to deliver multiple benefits in surface water management'
  With funding and resources constrained while pressures and demands for a range of related environmental outcomes increase, this session brings together expert thinking and good practice examples on how organizations can and are effectively working in partnership to unlock multiple outcomes.
  
• 'Delivering high quality Sustainable Drainage Systems'
  Subject to consultation, mandatory SuDS with associated standards and adoption routes are coming in England. Government policy objectives point towards a need for extensive SuDS retrofitting. This session showcases leading-edge exemplars of new build and retrofit SuDS schemes that manage flood risk, remove rainwater from sewer systems, and create better places and spaces.
  
• 'Communities, catchments and surface water'
  Putting communities at the heart of the conversation, this session explores examples of community projects working at a catchment level to manage surface water and groundwater flood risk.