Speakers
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Ilija Grgic
Engineering Manager, Geelong Refinery
Shell Refining (Australia) Pty Ltd. |
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Ilija has been working in the oil and gas, petrochemical and mining industries for more than 10 years covering project management, business development, consulting and general management. He joined Shell Refining (Aust.) Pty Ltd in July 2005 as Projects Team Leader and was appointed to the role of Engineering Manager at Shell Geelong Refinery in 2006.
Before and during the above period Ilija also played as a professional athlete in the Australian Football League with Footscray, West Coast and Essendon.
Ilija’s current role is varied including technical hands-on, project management and general management roles. Ilija is part of the Refinery Leadership Team at Shell Geelong Refinery. |
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Shaun Cumming
Manager Capital Delivery
Barwon Water |
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Shaun currently manages the delivery of Barwon Water's $560 million 5 year water, sewerage and recycled water infrastructure investment program - incorporating the Northern West Plant.
Shaun has extensive experience in water infrastructure project management, design of advanced treatment systems (UF, RO and UV), water and wastewater treatment plant operations and business management and development.
Shaun holds a wide range of qualifications including a Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental), Bachelor of Science (Checmical) and a Masters of Business Administration. |
Charlie Foxall
Health, Safety & Environment Manager
Foster’s Yatala Brewery |
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Charlie Foxall is manager of Operations Support at Foster’s Yatala Brewery in Queensland.
His passion for safety and the environment has led him to his present position with responsibility for Health Safety and Environmental issues at the brewery. He also manages the Water Recovery Centre and regularly presents to seminars and workshops on the environment and sustainability.
Particular achievements in the environmental area have been the development and installation of the biogas system for the boilers, sitting on Council advisory committees and the instigation, development and installation of the water recycling process at Yatala. He was recently voted as one of the countries top 10 environmental leaders by WME Magazine.
Prior to joining the Brewing Industry 21 years ago he worked as a mechanical engineer in the sugar industry in North Queensland gaining experience in steam and process engineering and the operation and maintenance of waste treatment plants. |
Dave Pryor
National Engineering Manager
P&N Beverages |
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David Pryor is the National Engineering Manager for P&N Beverages.
Graduating from the University of New South Wales with a degree in Chemical Engineering David spent the first years of his career with the consulting firm Stroud Consulting, helping manufacturing companies achieve their KPI goals. Since then he has been the Director of Engineering Services with CCL Custom Manufacturing (now KIK Custom Products).
His work has taken him to a wide variety of industries across the US, UK and Europe. He is now glad to return home to apply this experience to helping P&N achieve their goals, particularly driving their water conservation efforts Australia wide. |
David Hicks
Performance Manager
Norske Skog |
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David has a background in electrical engineering and commenced his career with the Dept of Navy at Garden Island in Sydney before moving to Albury with his wife and working in the contracting/construction industry. In 1982, David moved to the manufacturing industry joining the team at the new newsprint mill at Albury. David has held several senior management roles at the mill including Production, Engineering, Health & Safety, IT and Environment. He has also been involved in many strategic development roles and currently is the Norske Skog Albury Mill's Performance Manager accountable for Environment, the mill's Technical development and Operational improvement. David holds qualifications in electrical engineering and an MBA in Technology Management. At the present time David is heavily involved with the mill's water management due to the enduring drought conditions in the Murray Darling Basin and the mill's Climate Change initiatives. |
Greg Johnson
NationalManager, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability
Stockland |
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Greg Johnson is the National Manager Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability for Stockland's Commercial Property business. With over 28 years of experience in the property industry in building services and asset management, Greg has been responsible for the development and implementation of sustainability policy and strategy over the last 6 years, and at Stockland since February 2007.
With his background in building services and asset management, Greg has a comprehensive understanding of the issues of measuring the performance of buildings and the integration of sustainability into operations for existing buildings and new development. |
Guenter Hauber-Davidson
Managing Director
Water Conservation Group Pty Ltd |
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Guenter has over 20 years of experience in environmental consulting, having worked on a wide range of water, wastewater and waste projects from small to very large at all levels, from concept design to implementation, commissioning and operation.
Guenter is the Managing Director of Water Conservation Group, a company specially set up to do whatever it takes to help large water users save water. Guenter is one of Australia’s leading water conservation practitioners. He has been instrumental in developing leading edge water conservation design tools and models. He is at the forefront of designing and constructing large innovative rainwater harvesting solutions.
He has worked with Top ASX200 companies to identify their corporate water use, develop strategies how to reduce it and help them report on it. He has assisted in preparing business cases and obtaining funding for well over $3M worth of water conservation measures. Guenter holds a M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering. |
Ian Kiernan
Chairman and Founder
Clean Up Australia |
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Ian Kiernan is the Founder and Chairman of Clean Up Australia and Clean Up the World – a community based organisation which aims to inspire and work with communities to clean up, fix up and conserve our environment.
Clean Up Australia voices community concerns on the state of the environment and actively promotes environmental repair. This includes advocating practical community based solutions on issues such as extended producer responsibility, container deposit systems, resource re-use, electronics recycling and the initiation of environmentally friendly practices into the Australian psyche. Clean up the World partners with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to inspire individuals and communities from every corner of the globe to make their environment a cleaner, healthier place to live. Clean Up the World mobilises an estimated 35 million volunteers from 120 countries annually.. |
Joe Croke
Environment Manager
Cadbury Schweppes |
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Joe graduated from Melbourne’s RMIT with honours in Environmental Engineering. Early in his career Joe worked in the solar industry and land remediation.
Joe travelled extensively, including a year in South Korea, before working on rail construction in rural England. Joe’s work centred around ground and surface water monitoring and remediation.
Joe had a break from rail construction to install groundwater remediation systems around Scotland. The high speed rail line linking London and Paris was being constructed, and Joe returned to England to work on the London station. Joe was the Site Environmental Manager during construction of the station, with a wide variety of environmental issues to cover. The portfolio extended from water and waste management, contaminated land, environmental noise, through to heritage listed building protection and archaeological reporting on excavations.
Returning from the UK, Joe worked for Parsons Brinckerhoff on Environmental Planning Approvals and energy and water auditing.
Currently, Joe is the Environment Manager at Cadbury Schweppes’ Ringwood factory, where he works to reduce energy, water and waste.. |
John Newton
Group Sustainability Manager Australasia
Amcor |
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In his presentation, John Newton, Group Sustainability Manager for Amcor Australasia will explain how aggressive targets have been used to engage and deliver water savings. Formerly the General Manager for the Australian Environment Business Network (AEBN) and the Manager of Environment and Energy at the Australian Industry Group, John has almost 20 years’ experience in dealing with environmental management and policy issues. |
Mohan Senevirtane
Independent Consultant |
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Mohan is an independent consultant with 28 years experience in water management, conservation, treatment, reuse and trade waste program development. He was formerly the foundation manager of Sydney Water‘s Every Drop Counts Business Program which won the 2006 Stockholm Industry Water Award as well as the Director of Water Efficiency in the Queensland Water Commission. In 2007, Mohan published a book dedicated to water conservation for industry “A Practical Approach to Water Conservation for Commercial and Industrial Facilities”. The book is a step by step guide on how to implement water conservation and water reuse in industry. He is a regular contributor to a number of journals including Waste Management and Environment as well as Asian Water (Singapore).
Mohan has worked in Australasia, South East Asia, the Middle East and in Eastern Europe. Currently he is working on an assignment in Central Asia in one of the largest oil and gas fields in the world as well as providing consultancy to a number of councils and industries in Australia. |
Kevin Shaw
Corporate Account Manager and Sustainability Specialist, Australia/New Zealand
Nalco Australia Pty Ltd
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Kevin Shaw is a Corporate Account Manager and the Nalco Australia/New Zealand Sustainability Specialist. Kevin joined Catoleum (an ICI/Nalco joint venture company) in 1985 as a Technical Marketing Specialist. Catoleum became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Nalco company in 1991. He has held verious Technical Markting and Sales, and Sales Management positions.
Kevin is focused both on driving the sustainable development of Nalco's own activities, as well as delivering programmes and services which support the sustainable operation and development of customer processes. Kevin's specialty is applying triple bottom line measures to industrial water using processes. |
Dr. Peter Holt
Principal Consultant, Sustainable Water Management Services
Energetics |
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Peter is a chemical engineer with experience in innovative water treatment technologies, institutional capacity development, risk assessment and a systems approach to water management. Peter approaches problems from a holistic, systems perspective, being able to work over a range of spatial and temporal variations. This approach enhances transdisciplinary teams as required for integrated solutions. Peter has worked on strategic projects, decision-making frameworks and institutional capacity development with private and government organisations. |
Stephen Hale
Director
OgilvyEarth
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Stephen is a Director of both Impact Employee Communications and sustainability communications practice, OgilvyEarth. Prior to this he was in senior marketing/communications roles at organisations ranging from News Ltd to Time, Warner and Accor Services. He has been responsible for the development of proven approaches in CSR, industrial relations, change and sustainability. He has headed up the sustainability practice called OgilvyEarth since 2005 and it has expanded to incorporate a wide range of services that can assist organisations to reduce their impact on the environment. Working with the OgilvyEarth team and based on the Green Globe 2005 award winning Amcor project he has given stewardship to the development of their 5 step approach to sustainability strategy. This proven approach has assisted a wide range of organisations to improve the impact of their strategy. He works closely with leadership teams to align employee behaviour to the sustainability goals of the business. |
Chris Stevens
Sustainability Manager
Diaego Australia |
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Chris has a well travelled path in the Food and Beverage Industry,
He started his career as an Analytical Chemist working for Rosella Foods then Petersville in Melbourne in the 70’s. In the early 80’s Chris moved into the Snackfood Industry working for Smiths Snackfoods (owned by Amatil), where he stayed for 17 years in Technical and operational roles until the business was sold to Frito Lay.
He has spent the last 7 years at Diageo originally in a senior technical role (including 10 months in Japan) prior to his current role of Sustainability Manager. He has won a number of internal awards within the organization for his work and the Australian Operations are highly regarded in the Global Diageo world as leading the environmental sustainability agenda .He is also the Project Leader of driving environmental Performance within Asia Pacific with a rapidly expanding business within China, India, Phillipines and South Korea. |
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Robert Kelso
AllFlow Supply Company Pty Ltd
AMR Consultant & Technician |
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Robert in an AMR Consultant & Technician with tertiary qualifications in business. He has 15 years experience in the Queensland Water Industry, the last 5 dealing with metering & process control with AllFlow Supply Co. In this role he deals directly with hydraulic consultants, engineers, local government as well as the end user. Robert heads up a team of consultants and technicians designing AMR solutions to best suit the end users budget and techncial requirements.
His experience covers both hard wired and non-wired AMR systems.
Robert is a past committee member of the QLD AWA Young Water Profesionals and is an active member of the Australian Water Association.
AllFlow Supply Co is based in Brisbane and services Australia. |
Prof. Tony Priestly
Deputy CEO, CRC for Water Quality & Treatment
CSIRO |
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Tony Priestley was trained as a chemical engineer, receiving his bachelor’s degree (with honours) from the University of Queensland and then a PhD from Monash University. After completing his studies in 1971, Tony worked for Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd for three years on the quality control of manufacture and processing of Kodachrome film. He then joined CSIRO where he has now worked for 34 years on various aspects of water and wastewater treatment technology. From 1995 to 2008 he was the Deputy CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment. His research interests include water/energy interactions, resource recovery and the design of sustainable urban water systems. |
John Meyers
Managing Director
SEPA Water Australia |
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SEPA WATER AUSTRALIA (SWA) specialises in the design, manufacture and construction of Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plants.
SWA is based in Sydney Australia and operates throughout Australia, New Zealand and SE Asia Some of our major projects have been in the Middle East, India, Peru, Malaysia, Philippines with more projects here in Australia and overseas currently on order.
SWA has an extensive range of equipment used for the treatment of industrial waste water, including Oil Separators, DAF units, Solids Separators, clarifiers, thickeners, polymer dosing plants, sludge de-watering, biological treatment processes, SWA has considerable experience in the treatment of effluent generated from many types of industries. The design and construction of industrial waste water treatment plants has always been our strength. SWA can identify the problems and rectify the process when designing treatment plants which in turn eliminates process failures.
For further information please visit SWA’s website: www.sepawater.com.
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Jean-Marc Laurillard
Contract Engineer
ABS Wastewater Technology |
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We Know How Water Works.
ABS is a global solution provider in wastewater technology with a complete product portfolio of pumps, mixers, agitators, aerators, compressors, control & monitoring equipment, and services. ABS also offers pumps for the dewatering market, as well as solutions for pulp & paper applications under the brand name Scanpump.
ABS has a long tradition in the industry with more than 140 years of application experience and manufacturing of customer-oriented solutions, being in the forefront of new technology.
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Gabriel Vigna
Industry Manager
ITT Water & Wastewater |
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ITT Water & Wastewater has over 35 years of experience in Australia and New Zealand. ITT is a complete water and wastewater provider for pumping units, pump stations, mixers, aeration systems, monitoring and control, membrane filtration, sludge pumping, UV, Ozone, service, spare parts and rental. From supply of a single product to a complete turnkey package, ITT Water & Wastewater has the local expertise to provide you with the most cost effective high quality solution. What you've come to expect from the world leader in fluid technology!
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Yuri Obst
Technology Manager
Baleen Filters |
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The Baleen Filter is able to remove matter from virtually any water stream. The innovative self-cleaning method enables screenings to be collected without the need for shutdown maintenance.
Baleen can be readily installed to meet specific applications and can be used either independently or alongside existing treatments to allow chemical-free filtration to as low as 25 micron.
Economic benefits typically offer a payback period within 18 months, with demonstrable savings in;
- Reduced Plant maintenance
- Recycling or re-use, and
- Spade-able by-product recovery.
Whatever the application, Baleen offers “Best Practice” in removal of fine constituents such as product debris, sediment , hair, oil, sludge and grease; with tangible benefits to both industry and the community at large.
Baleen is fundamental to all waste water management systems; is technically feasible, economically attractive, requires minimal supervision and maintenance, and will avoid many of the problems associated with waste water treatment today.
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David Lumb
Managing Director
Clearmake |
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Established in 1993, Clearmake is proudly Australian owned and well recognised as a leading provider of commercial and industrial water treatment and recycling solutions. Clearmake offer a standard product range for small business solutions through to custom engineered specialty systems for large multi-national or government organisations.
Equipment is currently used in over 3,000 businesses throughout Australia to address:
• oil/water/solids separation
• water recycling
• water treatment for reuse or safe discharge to the environment or sewer
• rainwater harvesting
• stormwater management and spill control
• solids handling or sludge dewatering
Products comply with local Council requirements, EPA regulations, and meet Australian Standards for manufacturing.
Clearmake has also developed a series of highly effective Quick Break degreasers and detergents. This revolutionary range of products promote optimal equipment performance, superior cleaning, while remaining fully biodegradable and safe for our environment. |
Chris Hertle
Business Leader-Industrial Water
GHD Pty ltd |
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GHD is an international professional services company. Our people deliver innovative solutions by combining technical skill and experience with an understanding of our clients’ objectives and aspirations.
We employ over 6,500 people in a network of more than 100 offices throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas and Europe. We serve clients in the global market sectors of Infrastructure, Mining & Industry, Defence, Property & Buildings and the Environment.
Central to our clients’ prosperity and GHD’s success are forward-thinking engineers, architects, planners, scientists, drafters, project managers, economists, and supporting staff. Our people embrace the core values that have sustained the company since inception – Teamwork, Respect and Integrity.
We contribute to the goals of sustainable development and are committed to managing the social, economic and environmental impacts of our operations and assisting our clients to manage theirs in the provision of our professional consulting services. We recognise innovation as the key to realising this objective.
GHD is a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and contributes to their focus areas of Energy & Climate, Development, the Business Role and Ecosystems. |
Thorsten Hofmann
Project Engineer
HYDAC |
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Over 40 years of Expertise, Innovation, Quality
HYDAC operates worldwide, offering an extensive product range to cover all areas of fluid technology.
The products range from components and sub-systems, through to complex controlled and regulated drive units for mobile and industrial machines and systems.
In addition we offer our customers a comprehensive package of technical services within the framework of HYDAC Fluid Engineering, for media such as hydraulic oils, lubrication oils, cooling/cutting fluids and water.
HYDAC has at its disposal a worldwide network of expertise, high quality standards and customer knowledge.
The continuous expansion of our global presence with strong local focus enables us to respond to the needs of our customers in almost every part of the world.
With 10 sales offices in Germany, over 40 overseas companies, some with their own production or assembly facilities, more than 500 sales and service partners and over 5000 employees, HYDAC is always close to its customers.
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Sally Armstrong
Manager – “Every Drop Counts” campaign
Sydney Water |
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Sydney Water delivers essential and sustainable water services for the benefit of the community.
Sydney Water provides drinking water, recycled water, wastewater services and some stormwater services to more than four million people in Sydney, Illawarra and the Blue Mountains. Drinking water is sourced from a network of dams managed by the Sydney Catchment Authority, then treated and delivered to customers' homes and businesses by Sydney Water.
With more than 3,000 staff, Sydney Water has assets with a replacement value of more than $20 billion and a capital expenditure program of more than $1 billion planned in 2007-08.
Sydney Water, a statutory State owned corporation, wholly owned by the New South Wales Government has three equal, principal objectives:
• to protect public health
• to protect the environment
• to be a successful business. |
Chris Madin
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies |
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Present in Australia & New Zealand for over 70 years, Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies is a world leader in Design & Build of water and wastewater treatment plants, focusing on reuse and desalination.
We provide Design & Build capabilities, custom & standard skid systems, Equipment Supply, Mobile Plants, Hydrex® Specialty Water Chemicals, as well as Maintenance & Service agreements.
We offer advanced technologies and processes, including Membrane Filtration, Reverse Osmosis, Actiflo® Clarification, Discfilters, Neosep® Membrane Bioreactors, and Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors.
We create water solutions for drinking water, industrial process water and wastewater aimed at municipal, commercial & industrial customers (Mining, Power, Oil & Gas and Food & Beverage). |
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