Alan Davis

Director, Sustainability, E-LAB

At the intersection of engineering and design, Alan is an ideator and integrated designer. He works to deliver regenerative, high-performance project outcomes in response to the climate emergency. Applying a place-based approach to net zero that builds on co-design principles and systems thinking, Alan measures success based on connected urban systems; buildings, utilities, mobility, circularity and technology

Sam Kernaghan

Director, Resilience Program, Committee for Sydney

Sam Kernaghan is the Director of the Resilience Program at the Committee for Sydney – an independent urban policy think tank passionate about the future of Greater Sydney. Over the past 20 years Sam has worked with more than 50 cities across Asia, New Zealand, Australia and the US, to build resilience to growing shocks and stresses – risks that are being intensified by climate change. At the Committee, Sam has led advocacy on reducing flood risk, and led the development of “Decarbonising Sydney” a report which sets out the pathway for Sydney to meet its 2030 and 2050 carbon reduction goals.

Kellie Ballew

Vice President of Global Sustainability & Innovation, Shaw Industries

Kellie Ballew is Vice President of Global Sustainability & Innovation at Shaw Industries, a Berkshire Hathaway Company encompassing brands such as Shaw Contract. A passionate sustainability advocate, Kellie was an instrumental part of the Shaw development team who introduced the first Cradle to Cradle Certified™ and PVC-free flooring product in 1999.

Professor Andrew Macintosh

Director of Research, ANU Law School

Professor Andrew Macintosh is a regulatory and environmental markets expert based at the ANU Law School, where he is Director of Research. He is one of Australia’s preeminent experts on environmental policy design and evaluation, particularly the design and administration of environmental markets and environmental certification schemes. His research is published in leading environment journals, including Nature Climate Change, Global Change Biology, PLoS One, Climatic Change, Journal of Environmental Law and Resources, Conservation & Recycling. In addition, among other things, he was Chair of the Australian Government’s Domestic Offsets Integrity Committee and Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee between 2013-2020, a member of the Australian Government’s Emissions Reduction Fund Expert Reference Group in 2014, an Associate Member of the Climate Change Authority in 2015-2016, a member of the Expert Panel Examining Additional Sources of Low Cost Abatement (King Review) in 2019-2020, a member of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act Expert Review Panel in 2019-2020, and a Commissioner on the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements (otherwise known as the ‘Bushfires Royal Commission’). Professor Macintosh works extensively with the private sector. He is currently a director of the Paraway Pastoral Company, was a strategic advisor to LMS Energy Pty Ltd in 2021, a director of the Port of Newcastle over the period 2017-2019 and a director of the Sydney Desalination Plant between 2018-2020.

Luke Thornton

Senior Development Manager, Beulah

Offering a unique and detailed approach to his role, Luke is responsible for end-to-end development management at Beulah. With a Bachelor of Business (Property) from RMIT University, coupled with extensive experience in managing large scale residential, hotel and mixed-use projects in Australia, Asia and the Middle East, Luke’s experience has seen him tackle some of the biggest and most ambitious projects across the globe. An impressive career-to-date, Luke has managed an extensive portfolio of projects including large scale land reclamation project in Middle East, the development of a 75,000m2 CBD commercial tower with Brookfield and a $1.7bn Public Private Partnership bid to build a major hospital and delivered the tallest tower in Melbourne CBD. Bringing his positivity and pragmatism to Beulah, Luke provides leadership support to the wider development team, utilising his unique experience to solve complex challenges and work cohesively with project collaborators.

Renae Gasmier

Head of Sustainability Consulting (Australia), JLL

Renae is Australia’s Head of Sustainabilty Consulting. Her responsibilities include leading the national consulting practice that provides strategic sustainability advice to our investor and occupier clients on sustainabilty choices and pathways to netzero. Renae’s team works with clients on their ESG and NetZero strategies, NetZero Certifications, clean energy approach and how to embed sustainability within their investment decisions and real estate portfolio plans. The consulting team is a cross section of sustainability consultants and sustainabilty engineers with discliplines across electrical, mechanical, building optimisation, renewable energy, waste and embodied carbon. Renae has an outstanding record in delivering impactful programs that lead to positive and commercially sustainable growth. Prior to JLL, Renae held senior leadership roles at RACV, Vicinity Centres, Horizon Power, Medibank and Synergy leading customer-centric programs such as Project Symphony, community battery rollouts, electric vehicle strategy and creating the Schools Virtual Power Plant for the WA State Government. In 2019, her $73 million Integrated Energy Program with Vicinity Centres won awards from both the Clean Energy Council and the Property Council of Australia, which reset renewables for Australian retail property. Renae was instrumental in her role at Medibank with the construction of 720 Bourke St Docklands which was Australia's first ever WELL Certified Gold rated building.

Anthony Manning

Chief Executive, School Infrastructure NSW

As Chief Executive for School Infrastructure NSW (SINSW), Anthony is responsible for the State’s first school delivery-focused unit. Over the past four years, SINSW has been at the forefront of the NSW Government’s response to unprecedented population growth in NSW, investing more than $7.9 billion to continue its program to deliver 215 new and upgraded schools, supporting communities across NSW. This is the largest investment in public education infrastructure in the history of NSW. Anthony has overseen SINSW’s development of innovative strategies to accelerate delivery of much-needed school infrastructure in areas of high growth, while providing effective learning spaces to support contemporary teaching approaches. This has included increased uptake of modern construction methods that save time and improve quality. As well as new infrastructure, SINSW is delivering a $600 million COVID-19 stimulus package, with a focus on rural and regional schools to support the post-COVID economy. This investment will support thousands of jobs in metro, regional and rural communities and see new tenders released across multiple disciplines. SINSW oversees a comprehensive school maintenance and minor works program that keeps NSW’s 2,000+ public schools in top condition, as well as the Cooler Classrooms program to provide air conditioning to schools. Through community-focused programs like Share Our Space, SINSW is leading efforts to place schools at the heart of local communities. Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive at SINSW, Anthony played a key role in Health Infrastructure NSW’s executive team, growing the highly successful enterprise to reform and deliver a similar long-term social infrastructure program.

David Kaunitz

Director, Kaunitz Yeung Architecture

David Kaunitz as a Director of Kaunitz Yeung Architecture is focused on facilitating high quality architecture in some of the most disadvantaged communities in Australian and Asia – Pacific. Underlying this is a deep commitment to participatory design and local construction. They have a significant body of award-winning architecture and have worked in more than 40 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island communities, 200 Pacific Island communities as well as in Asia. This includes prestigious awards such as the Union of International Architects, Vassilis Sgoutas Prize the world’s highest architectural honor for working with the underprivileged.

Lynette Ryan

COO, Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition

Lynette is a senior executive with over 20 years of commercial experience in leading global and Australian companies and a sustainability and ESG specialist. Lynette supports innovative purpose driven companies to facilitate a change for good, working with key stakeholders to develop and implement sustainability strategies, delivering financial and social returns and bring about positive systemic change. Most recently Lynette was Group Head of Sustainability for SunRice, an ASX listed global consumer, food, manufacturing and agricultural sector. In this role Lynette co-designed and implemented a GHG Scope 3 supply chain reduction innovation –leveraging and expanding current Australian Riverina rice grower practices which generate significant GHG reductions. Lynette is an optimist and believes that the significant opportunities created by the changing sustainability landscape can be leveraged to build better outcomes for communities, the environment and for future focused companies. With a background in legal, Lynette has held roles as in-house legal counsel with large Australian and international organisations such as Lion Nathan, PepsiCo and Qantas. Lynette holds a Bachelors of Commerce and Law from University of New South Wales and a Graduate Certificate in Social Impact from UNSW and Centre for Social Impact and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Ben Peacock

Founder, Republic of Everyone

Ben is founder of Republic of Everyone, a company bringing together strategy and creativity to make sustainability simple, inspiring and social. Over 15 years in sustainability he has had the pleasure of working with everyone from Patagonia to Fantastic Furniture, helping leaders lead and beginners begin.

Alix Pearce

Senior Manager, Climate Action, Insurance Council of Australia

Alix Pearce is an experienced leader, campaigner and policy professional, with a career specialised in climate change. Alix currently leads the climate and resilience work at the Insurance Council of Australia. Prior to this, Alix was the Head of Campaigns and Advocacy for the Climate Council, leading this national Not-For-Profit’s advocacy and government relations team to accelerate Australia’s trajectory to net zero. Alix has also been the Director of Policy and Campaigns for the Consumer Action Law Centre, leading a team of policy professionals, campaigners and communicators in the wake of the Banking Royal Commission. Alix was the Founder and Director of the Cities Power Partnership, the biggest climate and energy program for cities in the country. She was awarded campaigner of the year at the Third Sector Awards and serves as a board director for international relations Not-For-Profit, Global Voices.

Haico Schepers

Principal, ARUP

Haico is a Building Physicist and certified architect and engineer, who has worked at Arup since 1997. Having been involved in building physics design for most of his career, Haico’s aim is to deliver outstanding sustainable design outcomes by integrating his experience in passive thermal strategies, natural daylight and building systems. With a passion for all things sustainable he is focused on achieving real change. Through the course of his career, Haico has been involved in a variety of high profile, multidisciplinary projects in England, US, Holland and Japan. This extensive knowledge of international best practice is reflected in his ability to find the right solution for different environments and projects. Haico has played a pivotal role in the design of multiple award-winning sustainable buildings such as the RAAF Richmond, Darling Quarter, 200 George St and the world-renowned Beijing Water Cube. Always at the forefront of new sustainable developments such as Green Star, Energy Design and NABERS, Haico has provided technical expertise to government agencies and the Green Building Council of Australia. He is an Adjunct professor of Architectural Science at University of Sydney. One of Haico’s main objectives is to develop the field of architectural science successfully to obtain outstanding outcomes for building design. Some examples of successful approaches include hybrid naturally ventilated buildings, half conditioning strategies to provide sufficient conditioning for adaptive comfort and applying double skin concepts to change the microclimate conditions. Haico believes that in order to achieve an ecological age in the future, engineering and built environment professionals need to do more with less and utilise new material opportunities.

Alexandra Faure

Sustainability Associate, Better Cities and Regions, HIP V. HYPE

With a background in sustainability, urban planning and architecture, Alex joins HIP V. HYPE as an Associate in the Better Cities and Regions Team. Known for her dedication and project management skills, Alex thrives in complex environments and when collaborating with clients and industry peers to guide exceptional outcomes. She brings a wealth of knowledge across strategic and statutory planning, built environment policy analysis and reform, sustainable urban renewal, and climate resilience and adaptation planning. Alex has always been very active in environmental and social resilience, the Right-to-the-City, gender and equity. This is perhaps best reflected through her work with the Women’s Planning Network, the Sustainable Living Foundation, the National Climate Emergency Summit and more recently, Planners Declare, which she co-founded in 2020. Outside of the Collective, Alex immerses herself in nature, culture and community. You'll likely find her at a local gig, music and arts festival or exploring regional Victoria.

Lisa Hinde

Head of Sustainability, Colliers

Lisa is Head of Sustainability at Colliers for the Real Estate Management Services (REMS) team and her key focus is developing long term sustainability, health and wellbeing strategies to support her colleagues and Clients' ambitions. This involves integrated planning and management of new and existing asset performance using industry best practice and ESG technology solutions. She builds strategies by drawing on her extensive experience with sustainability, health and wellbeing tools such as Green Star, the WELL Building standard, Climate Active (net zero / carbon neutral) and Circular Economy principles. Her work is globally recognised as enabling scalable solutions to complex challenges in the built environment. As well as leading the REMS sustainability team for Australia, Lisa supports Colliers Global ESG committee through her role on the steering committee for Asia Pacific and leading the Environmental pillar regionally. This role supports Colliers long term strategy to develop and execute a robust ESG program including commitments to Science Based Targets Initiative and achieving net zero status by 2030. As a natural collaborator, she has a keen interest in developing practical strategies to assist with a streamlined application of sustainability initiatives, translating executive goals into hands on implementation.

Jasmine Seymour

Dharug language teacher, researcher and activist

Jasmine Seymour is a Dharug woman belonging to the Burubirangal people. She is a Dharug language teacher, researcher and activist. Jasmine is a registered primary school teacher (BEd) with a Masters degree in Indigenous Languages Education (University of Sydney). She teaches Dharug language at her school and also delivers Dharug lessons in community to adults. Jasmine is the author/illustrator of Baby Business, winner of the CBCA Best New Illustrator Award in 2020 and also the author of the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award winning children’s title, Cooee Mittigar, illustrated by Leanne Mulgo Watson. As a researcher, she is engaged with documenting Dharug, has collaborated with Grace Karskens on the Real Secret River project and is a co-curator for the Dyarubin exhibition at the State Library of NSW. Jasmine is the secretary of the Da Murrytoola Aboriginal Education Consultancy Group (AECG). She is currently studying a Masters by Research at Western Sydney University.

Matt Poll

Manager Indigenous Programs, Australian National Maritime Museum

Matt Poll works as the Manager of Indigenous Programs at the Australian National Maritime Museum. Matts curatorial and publications work is centred on prioritising contemporary First Nations voice across Public art, collections and exhibitions development. Matt has participated in international collections engagement projects in Helsinki, France, China and the United States. He is currently a member of the Reimagining the British Museum working group and in Australia has previously worked as the Artistic Director of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, as well as positions at the Macleay Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, and Wollongong City Gallery.

Jeanine Hill

Sustainability Manager, Charter Hall Group

Jeanine Hill has over 20 years’ experience delivering sustainability initiatives and solutions for the built environment across a diverse range of sectors, including real estate, telecommunications, transport, government, retail and banking. Her expertise in Green Star Performance tools has been valuable to Charter Hall Group, which now holds Australia’s largest Green Star Performance footprint — covering more than 5.2 million square metres of office, industrial and retail properties. Jeanine is currently piloting Green Star Performance v2 across retail and industrial assets, while contributing to the development of the first Green Star Performance tool for social infrastructure buildings. Jeanine is specialised in applying innovation and data to improve sustainability outcomes, reduce operational costs and meet compliance requirements including NGER, CDP and GRESB. Jeanine holds a Master of Environmental Management and Bachelor of Engineering (Civil).

Ren DeCherney

Built Environment Lead, North America and Australasia, Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute (USA)

Ren is a licensed interior designer who uses her first-hand experience of the complexities of the building industry to help designers and manufacturers translate their sustainability pledges into reality. Prior to joining the Institute as lead built environment for North America and Australasia, she worked in Portland as a designer, where she took her firm PVC-free, making them the first firm in Portland to make such a commitment. She was then the Director of Industry Transparency at Source, a digital materials platform, where she synthesized design team needs and industry trends to integrate sustainability seamlessly into the design process. This included building various user tools, growing strategic partnerships, and developing all of the sustainability filters on the platform. She then worked at the International Living Future Institute, overseeing the Declare and Living Product Challenge programs. There she worked with both designers and manufacturers to understand the current market incentives for sustainable practices and how to implement sustainability strategy into everyday practices. Ren has an undergraduate degree in Art History and French from Smith College in Massachusetts and holds a Masters in Interior Architecture from the University of Oregon.

Craig Mitchell

Training Lead, Sentinent Computing

Craig Mitchell is part of the leadership group of Sentient and leads the immersive training product line. Craig has a structural engineering background and after starting at Sentient as an AR developer, now leverages his diverse experience to help customer Learning and Development teams design, develop and deliver e-Learning, VR and AR training projects.

Amanda Joseph

Associate Director – Sustainability and Climate Change, WSP

Amanda began her career as a corporate lawyer before undertaking a Master of Science in Sustainability Management. She is a high-performing sustainability specialist with over 10 years of experience in sustainability practice, strategy and project management, in both the corporate and not-for-profit sectors. She has worked across various sectors, including sustainable finance, mining and resources, sustainable transport and rail infrastructure. Her experience spans both Australia and the UK. She has developed and delivered corporate sustainability strategies for organisations, as well as led on the development of a routemap to increase investment in biodiversity conservation in Scotland. Amanda has managed large projects, leading multi-disciplinary teams to create innovative solutions to reduce environmental impact and improve social and economic outcomes.

Senator David Pocock

Independent Senator for ACT

Having migrated from Zimbabwe with his family as a teenager, David went on to captain the Wallabies and Vice-Captain the Brumbies as part of a stellar rugby career in which he has been awarded for leadership on and off the field. With a Masters in Sustainable Agriculture, David also has a track record as a powerful advocate on issues ranging from climate to marriage equality. He is involved in multiple small businesses and has co-founded numerous not-for-profit community initiatives in Australia and overseas, including with his wife Emma. In 2021, David attended the COP26 climate summit and led The Cool Down campaign that saw over 470 Australian athletes from 40+ sports call on the Australian Government to lift its ambition on climate change. Upon returning home, he announced his run as the community-endorsed Independent Senate candidate for the ACT. After campaigning on a platform of integrity, doing politics differently and making Canberra count, David was successfully elected at the 21 May 2022 Federal Election.

Michael Shelley

General Manager, Green Energy Transition, Woolworths Group

Michael joined Australia's largest food retailer in 2013 and is responsible for managing the energy needs of Woolworths' portfolio of +3,000 sites. This includes the full cycle of energy contracting, energy optimisation, Demand Management, and a multitude of market and energy efficiency related initiatives within the Group. Michael also manages a technical support team managing refrigeration and HVAC assets, and also the Resource Recovery services to the business. With over 20 years’ experience in most facets of the energy industry, Michael has broad experience gained through multiple roles in sales, customer service, business optimisation and technical disciplines for two of Australia's leading energy retailers.

Connie D. Hensler

Director of Environmental Management and Product Stewardship, Interface

Connie Hensler is the Director of Environmental Management and Product Stewardship at Interface where she manages Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) programs and global regulatory compliance, collaborates with Product Management, Marketing, and R&D functions to enable introduction of new products and promote responsible product stewardship. Ms. Hensler is a Life Cycle Assessment Certified Professional (LCACP) and has published LCA research in the Journal of Industrial Ecology and the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. She is a member of the board of directors of the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment. Prior to her current position, she worked for over ten years as a Life Cycle Assessment practitioner and twenty years in research and development and holds multiple patents for her work in polymer formulation. Ms. Hensler has a Master of Science in Applied and Environmental Microbiology from Georgia State University.

Dan Sturrock

Director, Integrating Renewables into the Grid Investment Priority, ARENA

Dan is a Director in ARENA's Business Development Team. Dan joined ARENA in 2014 and prior to that worked in in corporate finance with PwC and Macquarie. Dan has worked across most sectors of clean technology and climate change and is also a Director of the Living Futures Institute of Australia (LFIA).

Samantha Rich

Adjunct Lecturer, Institute of Global Development, UNSW

Samantha Rich is a Wiradjuri Graduate of Architecture dedicated to embedding First Nations worldview into the design of buildings and the broader built environment. Samantha has a focus on addressing systemic housing needs facing many remote and regional communities. She works with the community-led partnership called Yuwaya Ngarra-li for the last few years looking at multiple housing needs in the Walgett community. She is interested in the role that housing can play in supporting reciprocal relationships embedded in Indigenous culture to care for people, communities and Country. Her experience working across diverse typologies of health, housing, urban design, infrastructure, and Designing for Country has developed her design skills into creating culturally sensitive design and engaging authentically with First Nations Communities. Samantha is deeply interested in the intersections of social and cultural factors that can provide breadth and depth to these places to make them uniquely embedded in the characteristics and story of place.

Emma Hulse

Social Sustainability Officer, Landcom

Emma Hulse is the Social Sustainability Officer at Landcom. Emma works across Landcom’s Reconciliation Action Plan, Green Star Certification on projects, Modern Slavery and community development. Emma has extensive experience working in corporate responsibility, previously working as the CSR Advisor ANZ at AECOM.

Laura Kelly

Co-Founder and Director, Global Cooksafe Coalition

Laura has twenty years experience in strategic policy and communications, working in journalism, government, industrial relations and global sustainabilit

Chinyelu Oranefo

Director, Sustainability & ESG Finance Team, Lloyds Bank

Chinyelu is a Director in the Sustainability & ESG Finance Team at Lloyds Bank where she leads on ESG strategy for the Real Estate & Housing sector, structures ESG-linked transactions, engages with clients on sustainability and represents Lloyds Bank on committees and collaborations with various industry organisations including the LMA, CREFC, GFI and World GBC. Prior to joining Lloyds, as a lawyer, she delivered finance transactions for clients across a number of sectors and was at the forefront of advising clients on the evolving Sustainable Finance ecosystem. Chinyelu read Law & French Law and has a Masters in International Commercial Law.

Hannah Morton

Associate, Cundall

Hannah’s commitment to driving sustainability in the built environment accompanies a background in renewable energy and regenerative design, with experience spanning a wide range of sectors. She has led sustainability services on many of Australia’s prominent projects over the last 17 years, and is committed to delivering strategic sustainability solutions aiming to achieve a zero carbon future and a circular economy, while respecting nature and creating better places. She participates in a wide range of industry groups developing new policies, standards, and rating tools

Brent Clark

CEO and Founder, Wattblock

Brent Clark is CEO and founder of strata energy consultancy, Wattblock. Over the past 8 years Brent has worked with two state governments, nine local councils and seven universities on futureproofing strata buildings for EV charging. He has degrees in science and law, an MBA and is an accredited NABERS for apartment buildings assessor.

Dr. Sheila Nguyen

Head of Sustainability – AUS & NZL, FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023

Dr. Sheila Nguyen is a leading regenerative built environment design professional who has consulted with several sport organisations and professional clubs, globally, on strategic and operational environmental sustainability issues with the most recent work with the Australian Olympic Committee’s Climate Action Plan. Sheila was given the Honorary Lifetime Member award from the British Association for Sustainable Sport (BASIS) and recognised as an Australian Financial Review Top 100 Women of Influence (2019) for her leadership in galvanising the sport industry to respect and protect the natural environment. She has contributed to over 50 internationally peer-reviewed research outputs and media outlets, has been an invited speaker for TEDx, invited as the Chairperson & MC for the Sustainable Innovations in Sport Forum in Amsterdam (2018) (Ajax Stadium), and presented at COP21 in Paris (2015), the first-time sport has been invited to the climate agreement discussions. Sheila is on a number of boards and advisory committees including as an Independent Director on the World Lacrosse Sustainability Committee. Sheila is the Co-Founder and an NED of the Sports Environment Alliance, the coalition of sport & planet leaders in Australia and New Zealand working to protect the places where we play so we can continue to do what we love- watch and play sport. She is currently the proud Head of Sustainability for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023.

Dr. Stephen White

Energy Efficiency Leader, CSIRO

Dr White leads the Energy Efficiency Research at CSIRO. He has >25 years experience in energy end use efficiency and electricity industry demand side management. He is the Operating Agent for the International Energy Agency EBC Annex 81 “Data-Driven Smart Buildings”. He has oversight over a number of key national energy-use datasets and he leads the “Data Clearing House” digital platform initiative in Australia’s Affordable Heating and Cooling Innovation Hub. He has played a leadership role in the start-up of several companies, and the design of award-winning airconditioning systems. He is a member of the Australian Refrigeration and Building Services “Hall of Fame”.

Michael Antonelli

Senior Project Manager, Lendlease

Michael Antonelli is the Project Director for the One Sydney Harbour project at Barangaroo, responsible for Lendlease Construction’s delivery of this iconic $1.7B residential development. Michael has 30 years of professional experience in the construction sector, undertaking leading roles the design and delivery of large scale, high-quality and complex projects including Darling Quarter, ICC (Sofitel) Hotel at Darling Harbour and Sydney Martin Place Metro.

Graham Carter

Senior Technical Lead, Lendlease Integrated Solutions, Lendlease

Graham is a Senior Technical Lead within Lendlease’s in-house technical advisory group, focussing on building performance. Graham has worked with high-performance buildings for more than 25 years and with Lendlease has worked on the design and verification of some of the country’s most ambitious projects targeting both high indoor environmental quality and low energy outcomes.

Samantha Peart

Global Head of Sustainability, Hassell

Samantha has extensive sustainability experience, including in the senior leadership roles she’s held internationally. Her work has spanned 20 different countries and involved sustainability strategies and initiatives for commercial and residential buildings, healthcare facilities, retail developments, university campuses and large-scale infrastructure projects. Before joining us in our Melbourne studio, she was a Senior Director at Development Victoria, where she designed and implemented their sustainability strategy. Prior to that Samantha spent over a decade at Arup across Sydney, Singapore, Los Angeles and Melbourne.

Razvan I. Ghilic-Micu

Senior Associate, Hassell | Chief Editor, The Singapore Architect Magazine

An extroverted all-rounder and great communicator, Ar. Razvan I. Ghilic-Micu leads Commercial Architecture at Hassell Singapore. With 15 years of professional experience in Singapore, Shanghai, New York City and Toronto, Razvan brings to the table a global mindset with a keen understanding of the regional Asia-Pacific context. Outside of practice, he is active in the Singapore Institute of Architects as the Chief Editor of The Singapore Architect Magazine and the 2021 Archifest Festival Director. He also leads a Design Unit at the National University of Singapore, and sits on the M.Arch thesis jury.

Hannah Blossom

Director - Sustainability, Cundall

As an established leader in the field of sustainability, Hannah works collaboratively with built environment project teams to support increasingly sustainable and regenerative outcomes. Through a deep technical understanding of the buildings, infrastructure and the environmental opportunities that exist within our cities, Hannah is committed to helping communities thrive. Her skills and experience range from developing holistic strategies for high performance buildings, masterplanning of urban precincts and advising clients on pathways for decarbonisation and resilience. Hannah uses her ability to clearly articulate value-based solutions that are aligned with stakeholder drivers to advocate for positive change from the projects and organisations she works with.

Alistair Coulstock

Director, Climate Change & Sustainability, KPMG

Alistair is a leading expert on the subject of sustainability, an author and director in the Climate Change and Sustainability Team at KPMG Australia. His expertise is broad and extends to both organisational change and sustainability in the built environment. Alistair has assisted clients shaping their Social Impact and Sustainability Strategies including advising human rights, supply chain, sustainable procurement and climate change related issues. Alistair’s property and infrastructure experience spans the complete asset lifecycle.

Alice Debney

Manager of Agriculture and Nature Based Solutions Project Implementation, South Pole

Alice is a technical expert in soil carbon management and the ERF soil carbon method, with a background in undertaking soil surveys as a geotechnician. As a key member of South Pole's Climate Projects team, she manages the Australian Project Implementation for Agriculture and Nature Based Solutions. She holds a Bachelor in Agricultural Business Management and a Graduate Certificate in Agriculture. She also has experience working in corporate agricultural asset management, designing a program for assets to reach carbon neutrality, working with farm managers to structure and implement practices that increase soil carbon stocks, and coordinating revegetation projects. Alice has lately gained additional recognition as a soil carbon expert through various media interviews and speaking engagements, the most recent being at the QLD Rural Property Conference and ABC radio.

Dirk Bennink

Manager of Contracts Infrastructure & Planning, Brisbane Airport Corporation

Dirk is the manager of contracts for infrastructure and planning at Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) responsible for both capital and operational contract delivery of aeronautical infrastructure at Brisbane Airport. Dirk’s prior roles at Brisbane Airport included Project Director and Client Representative for the delivery of major aeronautical infrastructure. Dirk’s current role includes the procurement of electricity for BAC and electricity on-selling to over 400 embedded electricity customers on airport. BAC set its net zero target to 2025 and Dirk secured its first Renewable PPA in 2022. This PPA complements BAC’s significant commitment to behind the meter solar generation which together underpin BAC’s net zero target. This PPA is also designed to facilitate net zero targets of all Brisbane Airport tenants by providing access to renewable electricity for the entire airport electricity consumption.

Steven Peters

Acting General Manager, ESG, ISPT

Steven is the Acting General Manager, ESG at ISPT. He has over 20 years’ experience delivering green building performance and sustainability solutions within the built environment. Steven has responsibility for the delivery of ISPT’s Environment, Social and Governance Strategy, including ambitious targets to drive positive change for all stakeholders.

Jon Clarke

Head of Smart Building Technology, Dexus

As Head of Smart Building Technology, Jon is responsible for overseeing the strategic deployment of Building Technology and Innovative solutions across the portfolio. He leads the building technology team who research and trial emerging technologies with a focus on solving real problems with scalability to deliver the next generation of cutting edge digitally enabled buildings. With over 35 years' experience in Systems Integration, Energy Management and Building Performance Optimisation, Jon has been on an industry journey from analogue to digital systems, and the current trend in data-driven cloud IoT technologies.

Damien Kerkhof

Regional Precincts Lead, Arcadis

Damien has been working internationally for the last 20 years in the implementation of precincts in the UK, Europe, Asia, Middle East and US for a variety of private and public Clients. A significant component of this has been concerned with value capture initiatives driven from transport infrastructure investment. Latterly this has focussed on implementing alternate commercial and procurement mechanisms to unlock precincts involving significant infrastructure needs combined with increased sustainability aspiration.

Tjakko Dijk

Technical Director Sustainability, Arcadis

Tjakko joined Arcadis Australia six months ago from Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Back in The Netherlands he worked as an urban planner and a sustainability consultant in national parliament and Over Morgen, an affiliate of Arcadis and consultancy in urban development and energy transition. Tjakko believes in integrated sustainable urban development. Not only integration of sustainability solutions and design, but also community and stakeholder engagement. “Only together we can face the big challenges in our built environment”.

Helen Cheng

Associate Director, Sustainability and Net Zero, Turner & Townsend

Helen Cheng has over 25+years of experience working in Australia and Singapore, with extensive practise experience in project briefing, design and implementation of residential, institutional, commercial and infrastructure projects in Australia, Singapore, Tianjin, Mumbai, and Dhaka. She has been responsible in all phases of projects, client brief development, building design and master-planning, documentation, co-ordination, construction to Client handover. Her core specialist competencies lie in passive building design, high performing construction materials, smart building and urban system technologies, design and modular construction methodologies and sustainable campus design. She also accumulated a diverse range of professional level skills in multi-stakeholder engagement and presentation, micro- macro level problem solving, design, design risk, and multi-disciplinary co-ordination. She is an effective and articulate communicator who prioritises the occupant- centric design requirements in her approach to projects. She is a team collaborator, leader and guiding project teams to successfully embed and deliver human centred design thinking into project delivery. She tutors sustainable design methodology in Architecture and Urban Design at University of Melbourne, SUTD and NUS on an ad-hoc basis. And pursues academic research for publication in sustainable development and urbanis

Mike Zorbas

CEO, Property Council of Australia

Mike has worked in Property since his first ever job working for former Property Council National President and Australian Property Hall of Fame member, the late Jim Service AO. Prior to becoming CEO, Mike was our Group Executive of Policy and Advocacy. Over the past two decades Mike has held senior roles at Lendlease, Stockland and the Liberal Democrats in the UK among other organisations working on public policy, communications and major projects in all Australian States. He is a current member of the Board of the Sydney Institute and a former Deputy Chair of the Committee for Sydney.

Timothy Smith

CEO, Allied BioServices

Tim Smith is CEO of Allied BioServices, a Sydney based company specialising in biotechnology infection control and germ mapping solutions that harness innovation, technology and data to address healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Allied BioServices improves patient experience and safety with the application of the world-leading SW2™, a long-lasting non-toxic coating technology that makes surfaces hostile to germs, bacteria and COVID-19. Tim knows firsthand the impacts of HAIs and its impacts to patients, families, staff and organisations. He is a passionate advocate in fostering discussion and education across industry to address and prevent avoidable infections. Tim brings over 20 years’ experience understanding what drives people’s behaviours and a track record of success leveraging innovation, data and technology to drive outcomes that solve industry challenges. Before his shift into biotechnology, Tim worked at Hitachi to drive the transition from segmented to centralised data use to generate insights that better inform decisions – work that went on to influence sectors from quality outcomes in healthcare to supporting commercial enterprise. A throughline of Tim’s career is seeking purpose driven roles that help people and businesses succeed. At the NBN Tim was involved in enabling telehealth capabilities for all Australians and helping to close the digital health divide. As Director of Operations at Play for All Australia, Tim seeks to make all playgrounds accessible to children with disabilities. SW2™ is the first product globally to be certified for long-lasting efficacy for 90+ days in high traffic environments. SW2™ has been clinically proven to reduce HAIs by 36 per cent and hospital staff sick leave by 11.2 per cent, supporting the capability of Australian healthcare institutions.

Erik Moore

Senior Sustainability Manager, AMP Capital

Erik leads the AMP Capital Real Estate ESG team and the implementation of their ambitious ESG strategy where he works with the real estate investment trusts and understands the issues which effect strategy and deliver long term risk adjusted returns and drive both financial and non-financial value. Erik is deeply passionate about driving more sustainable and fair outcomes and has experience in: renewable energy; operational performance improvement; environmental management systems; corporate social responsibility; green buildings; sustainability reporting; sustainability communication, education and training; human centred design. A Chartered building services Engineer, Erik has worked extensively on world leading built environment projects as a leader in sustainability strategy and the creation of engaging environments. He has successfully led engineering consultancy teams in Arup, Atelier Ten and Cundall, where he embeds an egalitarian, culturally balanced and supportive work environment.

Richard Boele

Chief Purpose Officer, KPMG Australia

Richard is the Chief Purpose officer for KPMG Australia. He is also a Partner of KPMG’s first dedicated human rights and social impact advisory team, KPMG Banarra. Richard offers over 26 years of experience in advising on and helping companies manage their human rights and social risks, including in relation to complex operating contexts. His particular strengths are engaging decision makers on strategic human rights and social risks, and asking the challenging but important questions that lead to many an executive’s career “ah-ha” moment. Richard is a former Director of the UN Global Compact Network Australia. He is widely published and a regular speaker at conferences.

Neil Purser

Senior Energy Advisor, Sourced Energy

Neil Purser is a Senior Energy Advisor with Sourced Energy. Neil has been in Australia’s energy sector since 1998 when he took up an engagement with Energy Australia, at the time a combined entity with Ausgrid, to assist in ring-fencing and alignment of systems, data and processes for entry of the separated entities into the NEM. In 2003 he was given the responsibility of managing Ausgrid’s emerging Energy Services division to consolidate existing unregulated products and services, including lighting, solar and contestable metering, and to identify new opportunities in energy management and renewable energy. The primary customer base for these services encompassed the electricity Retailers, government agencies, and large commercial and industrial businesses across the NEM. Neil added to his extensive knowledge of the market since 2013 by working in business development roles with new entrants offering renewable energy solutions in commercial solar, PPAs and embedded networks. In 2016 he volunteered his expertise to the not-for-profit Greater Western Sydney Energy Alliance to promote and lobby for local renewable energy solutions across residential, commercial and government sectors. Neil has contributed to the development of the market over the years through constructive responses to market rule change papers, and continues to monitor the development of the NEM through his advisory work with Sourced Energy.

Lisa McLean

CEO, Circular Australia

Lisa McLean is a circular economy and zero-carbon business transformation leader and CEO of Circular Australia, a national independent NFP leading the transition to a zero-carbon circular economy in Australia. She has been successfully advising industry and governments in developing new policy frameworks and regulations that bring about market change to enable the circular zero-carbon economy over the past 20 years. This work has covered the supply chains, infrastructure, energy, water, waste and mobility sectors in the UK and Australia

Tom Kleinitz

Development Manager, Commercial, Lendlease

Tom Klenitz is a Development Manager with 8 years of property industry experience, specialising in major commercial and mixed-use developments. Currently responsible for Town Hall Place, Lendlease’ landmark over station development integrating office with retail and the new Melbourne Metro, nestled within the icons of Flinders Street Station, Federation Square and St Pauls cathedral on Melbournes most famous intersection. Tom is a kind and collaborative leader, and a keen devil’s advocate who relies on his strong values to drive innovation and guide decision making to realise high-quality outcomes

Rod Mitton

Design Manager, Commercial Director, Manteena

With over 40 years’ experience in the construction industry, across both operational and management roles, Rod has delivered many significant landmark projects throughout the region. His background in carpentry trade works provides him with a crucial understanding of applied construction techniques. Rod’s a great communicator, so he was a natural choice for client liaison roles with several of Manteena’s key clients, including: the ACT Government; Land Development Agency; National Library of Australia, National Gallery of Australia; and the National Capital Authority. His ability to work with these clients on high-profile projects within the parliamentary triangle – while also leading the company’s team of administrative and supervisory staff, including trade contractors – has proven very successful. Rod is a strong advocate for training & development within the construction industry and was chair of the Master Builders ACT Group Training – a role he held for 10 years.

Andrew McDougall

Principal & Partner, SGS Economics and Planning

Andrew leads the consultancy-based projects, including business case development and review; financial and economic appraisals; evaluation of government programs; and economic analysis, strategy development and action planning. His focus in all these contexts is on how new projects or investment can improve community welfare. Andrew has worked for clients in all tiers of government, and the private and not for profit sectors, not only in Australia but in New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Malaysia. Andrew works with social infrastructure stakeholders to optimise education, health and cultural infrastructure through appropriate planning, analysis and funding. This work includes demand projections, supply optimisation, feasibility analysis, socio-economic appraisal, full business case development, and the prioritisation of available funding for government agencies.

Rory Martin

Vice President, Group Sustainability, Frasers Property Limited

Rory is focused on creating resilient people, businesses, and communities that are better placed to navigate a changing world. With 10+ years of industry experience in Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia, Rory supports and advises Frasers Property Limited and its subsidiaries on achieving their sustainability goals and objectives. He has previously held senior sustainability roles in both property and consulting companies. Rory is a registered Architect, holding both a Bachelor of Architecture with Honours and a Master of Science in Environmental Design with Distinction. He participates on multiple industry panels, speaks regularly at local and international conferences, guest tutors at universities, and has been recognised through award wins and nominations for his work in both design and sustainability.

Mike Bellemore

Director - ClimateTech Strategy, Innovation, Commercialisation & New Ventures, Deloitte

Mike is a Director within Deloitte’s Climate & Sustainability team, focused on connecting climate technology innovation with industry to accelerate decarbonisation and climate adaption. He is one of the leads of GreenSpace Tech by Deloitte, a digitally-enabled service offering which helps the world’s leading organisations navigate the rapidly changing ClimateTech landscape and identify opportunities for organisations to decarbonise and create a sustainable competitive advantag

Dr. Margaret Moreton

Executive Director, Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience

Margaret is a disaster resilience specialist, who has worked with communities, non-government organisations, all levels of government, emergency services organisations and the business and philanthropy sectors. Margaret has recently joined AIDR as Executive Director and is looking forward to leading and strengthening the reach and work of her team. Margaret has strong community resilience knowledge and networks, reflecting her extensive experience working with communities and organisations to enhance community resilience to natural hazards.

David Tickle

Managing Principal, Sector Leader, Urban Design, HASSELL

David’s world revolves around cities and what makes them tick – the way people live and move in them and the quality of their buildings and public spaces. For him, great urban design has inclusion and resilience at its heart. He has experience on many large-scale urban design and master planning projects across Asia, Australia and the US, including Huangpu East Bank Urban Forest in Shanghai and Resilient by Design in San Francisco. A clever and engaging communicator, David has a flair for rallying the troops around a whole-of-city vision while still ensuring each person knows the role they play in bringing that to life. He thrives on building those connections, bringing together different perspectives and celebrating the contributions of everyone involved in a project – large or small.

Dwayne Van Halewijn

Associate Director, TTW

Expert on European façade systems and curtain walls, Dwayne joined TTW in 2020, bringing a wealth of experience from Germany and the Netherlands. Known for his strong leadership, he led multiple international projects in the USA, Middle East and Australia, covering high-rise office buildings, as well as museums, government and public buildings. Dwayne’s particular areas of interest are the thermal performance and sustainable solutions in façades, Passive House and the analysis and design of complex geometries. Dwayne adopts a positive and collaborative approach which enables him to bridge the gap between different disciplines. Coming from an architectural and building technology background, his design philosophy is to bring all competing elements of architecture, engineering, cost and construction together into a final, aesthetic solution. Some of Dwayne’s most notable work includes Atlassian HQ in Sydney, West Gate Tunnel Portals in Melbourne, European Commission in Luxembourg, Central Bank of Azerbaijan in Baku, and MOMA New York.

Krista Milne

Co-Director, City of Melbourne’ Climate Change and City Resilience

Krista Milne is Co-Director of City of Melbourne’s Climate Change and City Resilience Branch, which focuses on achieving a resilient, well adapted and zero emissions city. Krista’s team of experts advise and advocate on climate policy, guiding the community in its transition to a resilient, zero carbon and adapted future aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement as well as the Sustainable Development Goals. Over 12 years working at the City, Krista and her team have worked to elevate the city’s ability to tackle ongoing and future challenges, including climate change, by driving integrated solutions, informing and imparting knowledge from worldwide city networks. Krista has a background in resource and environmental management and prior to City of Melbourne worked for 10 years in environment protection including regulatory reform, policy development and corporate sustainability.

Georgina Blix

Director and Founder, Blix Architecture

Georgina Blix is the Director and founder of Blix Architecture, a studio dedicated to design excellence and wellbeing. Blix Architecture was created to create innovative places that support the health and wellbeing of individuals and the wider community. With a strong focus on urban design, master planning, seniors living, and education the studio offers a unique, research-based focus on wellbeing. Current clients include children's charity Stewart House and leading wellbeing school Ravenswood. With a passion for sharing new ideas, in 2022 Georgina co-authored research into wellbeing with Stewart House and taught a Master’s design studio at Sydney University on wellbeing. She regularly speaks at a range of conferences on design for wellbeing.

Clare Parry

Director of Sustainability, Development Victoria

Clare Parry is the Director of Sustainability at Development Victoria, Victoria’s state development agency. Originally from Peerapper country in the wilds of North-West Tasmania, Clare's love of getting out in nature and staying active meant that she found her way into sustainability early in her career. A mechanical engineer by training, Clare has worked across multi-disciplinary projects and run her own specialist sustainability and Passivhaus consultancy. Leading organisational strategy across nature, climate and carbon, Clare holds accreditations in Green Star, LEED, WELL and Passivhaus, and is currently working with the Living Building Challenge.

Robert Dodd

Executive General Manager, Finance & Commercial, Landcom

Robert was appointed Executive General Manager, Finance & Commercial in May 2018 with this role incorporating the previous Chief Financial Officer position. His areas of responsibility include finance, legal and IT, as well as commercial operations. Robert has 40 years' experience, the majority within the development and construction sectors of the property industry in Australia. He has extensive experience in both the residential, commercial and retail sectors, as well as in acquisitions and disposals. Prior to working at Landcom, Robert was the Chief Financial Officer for Leighton Properties (Aus), Lend Lease Construction Division (ANZ), Meriton (Aus) and Built (Aus). He has also worked in senior management positions with Toll Logistics, operating in the Asia Pacific region. Robert holds a Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) from the University of New South Wales, is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and is a Member of Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD).