Join us for a deep dive into how asset management is addressing the pressing issue of climate change across various industries. In this insightful session, we will explore diverse perspectives from three key sectors. This event welcomes Young Asset Management Professionals who are interested in understanding more about how a career in asset management.

Featuring:

• Water Services Perspective, Danielle Higgs, Water Corporation
• University Perspective, Cristina Vulpe, University of Western Australia
• Speed Networking with industry peers
• Consulting Perspective, Adam Rotapel, KPMG

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About the Presentations and Speakers:

Water Services Perspective

The Water Corporation has an extensive asset base, servicing communities across Western Australia. Climate change is already impacting the provision of water services. This presentation will provide an overview of the Corporation’s response to date and efforts to better understand the risk to our services in the future. This will inform future asset investment and contingency planning to build the resilience of our water services.

Danielle Higgs, Manager Asset Management System & Risk, Water Corporation

Danielle Higgs is an Environmental Engineer with over 25years water industry experience. She has worked across a variety of functions including leadership, strategy, planning, operations and business improvement roles. Danielle is currently leading a team undertaking asset climate risk assessments and improving the Water Corporation’s contingency plans.  Danielle is also the Water Corporation’s representative on the Water Services Association of Australia’s Liveable Communities Committee.  This Committee is overseeing water industry wide initiatives to respond to the challenge of climate variability in order to achieve the water industry’s vision of supporting thriving and resilient communities.

University Perspective

The University sector has seen a sharp increase in industry-sponsored research projects tackling the effect of climate change on new or mature infrastructure. This presentation will provide a short overview of multi-million dollar research projects from Australia and internationally which aim to unlock new knowledge into designing and maintaining safe and resilient infrastructure in a changing climate.

Cristina Vulpe, Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia

Cristina Vulpe is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering at the University of Western Australia. She lectures in Environmental Geotechnics and Risk, Reliability & Safety. These units broaden students’ understanding of how infrastructure and systems impact on and interact with the environment.

Through her research, she provides safe and economic solutions for the deployment and management of onshore and offshore infrastructure throughout their lifecycle, taking into account the effect of the changing climate.

Consulting Perspective

Industry is recognising the need to understand climate risk and invest in resilience measures to ensure acceptable levels of service are maintained into the future. The consulting sector plays a critical role in supporting asset intensive organisations to address the risks presented by climate change. This presentation will provide an overview of the consulting experience applying asset management approaches to address climate change risk.

Adam Rotapel, Manager, KPMG

Adam is a Manager in KPMG’s Engineering & Asset Management practice with 15 years of consulting experience across power, water and other utilities sectors. Adam has been involved in all phases of infrastructure projects from asset management strategy and investment planning through to procurement and project delivery. Adam is the Chair of the Asset Management Perth Chapter and recently presented at the OzWater 24 conference on the topic of investing in climate change resilience. In his current consulting role Adam combines engineering, risk, project management and asset management expertise to deliver holistic business improvements to asset intensive organisations.