Thursday, 28th August IPWEA International Public Works Conference 2025

Featuring a Thought Leader Panel from: 

Johannes Coetzee, Chairman, GFMAM 

Andrew Hansell, Lieutenant Colonel, Commanding Officer/Chief Engineer, Australian Army

Ursula Bryan, Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Asset Management

Dr Kyle Wedberg, United States Government Finance Officers Association

Ville Alatyppö, Executive Director of Urban Environment, City of Kerava

• Reimagining Heritage Restoration – Digital Defect Management of the National Carillon - Aden Petersen
• Creating a Playbook for Collaborative Asset Management - Meg Hooper
• Hornsby Shire Council's Asset Management Evolution: A Data-Driven Approach to Infrastructure Excellence - Domenic Fonte

• Enhancing Wastewater Resilience with AI: Ballina Shire Council’s Fight Against Sea Water Infiltration - Mark Lee
• Active Assessment of Footpath and Bikeway Networks: A Case Study of AI-Driven FAST Technology Implementation - Nik Aloustani
• Cressbrook Dam Safety Improvement Project Lessons Learned - Courtney Shadbolt

• The development, implementation and positive impacts of the City of Swan Graduate Engineer Program - Mashallah Love
• Girls in Civil: Fostering Female Participation in Civil Construction and Local Government Through Experiential Learning - Erin Smidt
• Beyond Bitumen: Embedding Green Infrastructure in Transport Planning - Shraddha SD Dhungel
• Implementing a Just Culture - Matthew Southern
• BIOCHAR MODIFIED ASPHALT - Alexandru Let
• NextGen Women: Breaking Barriers and Building Futures - Darcie Holmes-Smith

• Asset based decarbonisation in action - The UK Live Labs 2 Programme - Neil Gibson
• The evolution of urban road surfacing and what the future holds for asphalt - Trevor T Distin
• Enhancing Infrastructure Resilience through Sustainability-Focused Asset Management - Melinda Ms Majoros

• Applying composite condition indexes to road asset management - SCI and PCI - Johan Cronje
• Improving Asset Managment & Forward Works Planning with AI and JunoAMS - Peter van der Wel

• Strategic Condition Assessments: Choosing the Right Data Level for Effective Asset Lifecycle Planning - Muhammad Fahad Khan
• Building Better Roads and a Better Future: A New Researcher’s Journey into Sustainable Infrastructure - Taylour Samuel

• Shaping Tomorrow’s World: Sustainable Pavement Solutions through Polymeric Asphalt Reinforcement - Brennan Rymer

Featuring talks from: 

Kate Munari - Australia’s only female Navy helicopter pilot to fly in Afghanistan

Featuring talks from: 

Amanda Rose, Founder and CEO, Entrepreneurial & Small Business Women Australia (ESBWA)