Event and meeting management

Summary:

  • Extensive experience in organising, managing, and facilitating conferences, forums, workshops, management meetings, public meetings, field excursions, and other events and activities.

Highlights:

  • Knowledge forum leader – Lead organiser of the 2025 KM Triversary Forum, a global online event which had the theme “bridging the research-practice gap in knowledge management (KM)” and attracted more than 130 participants.
  • Knowledge strategy workshops – Organised and facilitated the Regional Knowledge Strategy workshops for the Land & Water Australia Knowledge for Regional NRM Program. This comprised 23 pilot region workshops involving 12-50 participants in five regions across Australia, and then 12 Regional Knowledge Leaders training workshops involving 8-20 participants in capital city and regional locations across Australia.
  • Biodiversity conferences – Organised and led a series of biodiversity conferences including the 1998 WWF South-East Queensland Rainforest Recovery Conference and the 2000, 2001 and 2002 Southern Queensland Biodiversity Conferences. These conferences stimulated significant conservation activity, for example the 1998 WWF South-East Queensland Rainforest Recovery Conference led to the establishment of one of Australia’s first multi-species recovery planning projects, the South-East Queensland Rainforest Recovery Project.
  • Property planning workshops – Organised and delivered a series of five property management planning workshops for 30 Oxley Creek Catchment landholders, and a series of five property management planning workshops for 15 Helidon Hills landholders. These workshops trained the landholders in the use of the Living in the Lockyer Property Management Planning Kit.
  • Landholder engagement workshops – Facilitating three workshops involving 20 landholders to develop the Upper Ma Ma Creek Rainforest Restoration Project.
  • Biodiversity recovery workshops – Establishing a 12-person Threatened Species Recovery Team comprising scientists, government representatives and community members, and convening a series of six Recovery Team workshops to prepare the Biodiversity Recovery Plan for Gatton and Laidley Shires, South-East Queensland 2003-2008.
  • Biodiversity investment forum – Convening a Biodiversity Investment Forum involving 40 participants to explore the introduction of ‘markets for ecosystem services’ in the Lockyer Catchment.
  • NRM strategy workshops – Establishing a 15-person multi-stakeholder Reference Group and convening six Reference Group workshops to prepare the Natural Resource Management Strategy for Crow’s Nest Shire, Queensland as part of the award-winning Holistic Natural Resource Management of Crow’s Nest Shire Project, Queensland (‘Project Green Nest’).
  • Project development workshops – Convening three community workshops involving 60 people to develop a project funding proposal for the Stockyard and Upper Flagstone Sub-Catchments Management Project.
  • Sustainable development public meetings and workshops – Convening two public meetings of 80 participants and 16 workshops of 8-50 participants as part of the preparation of the Sustainable Management of the Helidon Hills Management Plan in the Sustainable Management of the Helidon Hills Project.

Testimonials:

KM Triversary Forum

Biodiversity conferences

2001 Southern Queensland Biodiversity Recovery Conference - Congratulations letter

Land & Water Australia Knowledge for Regional NRM Program

Team Leader, Knowledge for Regional NRM Program, Land & Water Australia