Previous Annual Conferences

2019

Speaker Presentations:

• Dave Watkins, Cornwall Council – South West Property Flood Resilience Defra Pathfinder Project
• Joe Parish & Steph Osborn, Environment Agency – How do we look after your defences?
• Jackie Smith, Cornwall Council – Sustainable Drainage
• Harriet Boughton, Flood Re – Flood Re and the Future
• Brent Jackson & Chris Hall, FloodFlash – FloodFlash: Rapid pay-out Insurance for Businesses, Landlords and Non-Profits

New to this year we also had interactive workshops for delegates to participate in. There was a choice of 3:

• Property Flood Resilience – Run by Premier Water Solutions Ltd
• Recruiting Flood Warden Volunteers – Run by the Environment Agency
• Sustainable Drainage – Run by Cornwall Council

You can browse the image gallery below photos of all presentations and workshops. We would like to thank all our speakers and workshop hosts for their time and interesting talks and time taken to support our conference!

2018

Last year’s Conference took place in Truro on Friday 2 November and was a tremendous success – our biggest ever with nearly 100 delegates. Below you will find the speaker presentations:

• Rachael Bice Presentation – Strategic & Environmental Waste Manager, Cornwall Council
• Arthur Roberts Presentation – Resilience & Emergency Management Officer, Cornwall Council
• Ben Johnstone Presentation – Flood & Coastal Risk Manager Devon, Cornwall & Isles of Scilly, Environment Agency
• Dave Watkins Presentation – Catchment & Coastal Environment Lead, Cornwall Council
• Henry Dieudonné-Demaria presentation – Head of Defra Natural Capital Committee Secretariat
• Joyce Duffin Presentation – Portreath Flood Group Co-ordinator
• Mark Summers Presentation – Catchment Partnership Officer, Cornwall Catchment Partnership
• Miranda Winram Presentation – Forest Enterprise Head of Strategy & Insight, Forestry Commission
• Paul Cobbing Presentation – Chief Executive, National Flood Forum
• Philip Rees Presentation – Chair, South West Regional Flood & Coastal Committee

2017

• Chris Jones Beaver Project
• Dave Watkins Extreme Rainfall Events
• Laurence Couldrick Integrated Catchment Management
• Rachael Bice Resilience In Cornwall
• Stewart Clarke Post Cap Land Use
• Tom Fletcher Starr
• Arthur Roberts Emergency Management

2016

• Kevin Hughes
• Cathryn Marcus Communities Prepared
• Daniel Johns Climate Change Adaptation
• Dave Watkins Llfa Update
• John Paton Surf Lifesaving Flood Rescue