Platinum - Premium Lounge

Klohn Crippen Berger is an award-winning engineering, geoscience and environmental consulting firm with 16 offices in Australia, Canada, Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, the UK and United States. For over 70 years we have developed sustainable solutions for clients in the energy, hydropower, infrastructure, mining and transportation sectors.
Our commitment to excellence is the driving force behind everything we do. We are proud of our legacy and will continue to build a better world through excellence, innovation and teamwork.

Platinum - Welcome Reception

Macquarie Geotechnical offers site investigation services including:
  • Archival geotechnical data indexing and digitisation for reuse;
  • Site investigation project management (as Principal Contractor) and technical services management;
  • Geotechnical site investigation field work, including field logging/data capture and drilling;
  • Geophysical investigation; and
  • Specialist laboratory and construction materials testing
Our data-centric approach offers unique benefits for large asset and infrastructure projects by providing multiple data streams for “business intelligence” reporting on field work progress; and near-real-time delivery of results in traditional and modern 3D visualisation formats.
Headquartered in Central NSW, we have operations and facilities in all eastern states and capital cities.

Gold - Sustainability Sponsor

ACCIONA is a global leader in sustainable infrastructure. In Australia, ACCIONA and its local specialist ground engineering business Geotech have an extensive history of delivering solutions distinctive for their innovation, sustainability and social purpose to infrastructure and water projects. Our global experience and local expertise mean we bring technical excellence and innovation to deliver on Australia’s infrastructure needs, shaping a better future for all Australians.
Experts in designing a better planet | ACCIONA | Business as Unusual

Gold - Barista Cart

ADASA is a global leader driving innovation in water digital technologies. We work with public and private organizations to solve the challenges of water management and related natural disasters leveraging advanced information and communications technologies, engineering and sensors.
Our product Dam360 is a unique cloud-based data management and analysis tool designed for dam safety monitoring. Dam360 helps operators to reduce risks by providing real-time safety information that is quick and simple to analyse.

Gold - Barista Cart

AFRY is a Global leader in Hydro engineering, design, and advisory services, with a global reach. We accelerate the energy transition towards a sustainable society. We are 19,000 devoted experts in infrastructure, industry, energy and digitalisation, creating sustainable solutions for generations to come.

Gold - Name Badge and Lanyard

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure.
We understand dams are critical infrastructure resources for the communities they serve. Our team work across every facet of dam delivery, from assessment, planning, design, through to construction. We provide a suite of regulatory compliance services, including ANCOLD dam safety evaluations and potential failure mode analyses (PFMAs). Drawing on our multidisciplinary global experience, we help clients to simplify complex dam challenges.

Gold Sponsor

Seqwater is the bulk water supply authority for South East Queensland, responsible for providing a safe, reliable and valued drinking water supply to more than three and a half million people across the region. Through Seqwater’s Dam Improvement Program, we’re investing in our region’s dams to ensure ongoing safety and water security for years to come. Thirteen upgrades have already been delivered with more underway including Lake Macdonald, North Pine, Somerset and Wivenhoe dams.

Pre - Conference Masterclass

As Queensland’s leading regional bulk water supplier, Sunwater captures and delivers water to more than 5,000 agriculture, industrial and urban customers.
Our network of critical infrastructure includes 19 dams, 64 weirs and barrages and 2,546 kilometres of pipelines and channels.

Silver Sponsor - Indulgence Cart

Black Insitu Testing was formed in 2008 as a specialised Cone Penetration Testing company. The company founders are experienced geotechnical engineers who have carefully developed a range of testing equipment that efficiently and reliably produce high quality test data that is required for dam design.
Our range of services include CPT, vane shear, DMT, seismic, pressuremeter tests, piston sampling, mini-block sampling and VWP installation. We have 10 CPT rigs that can access a wide range of site access conditions.
Detailed information on our testing services and CPT rigs is available on our website www.blackinsitutesting.com.au

Silver Sponsor - Conference App

DYWIDAG’s geotechnical systems stabilise the ground and support infrastructure worldwide. As one of Australia’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of specialist ground support reinforcement and construction support products, DYWIDAG offers customers engineered and highly reliable specialised construction and post tensioning systems. Our focus is on adding value to customers, researching and developing innovative solutions for the future while manufacturing and supplying cost competitive systems and services.
Our engineers configure smart geotechnical systems providing asset data and infrastructure intelligence to inform timely and crucial decision making. With production facilities in strategic locations worldwide and mobile production lines for major projects, DYWIDAG has the global coverage to service local demands.

Silver - Self Check-In Kiosks

IGS is a specialist in situ testing and sampling contractor, recognised both nationally and internationally as” one of the best”. IGS is physically based and staffed in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney & Perth. We also operate “virtual bases” in Sydney, Newcastle, Launceston, Townsville, and PNG. IGS is 100% Australian owned, run and staffed.
The company started in Brisbane in 2000 with the goal, to introduce up to date in situ testing & direct-push sampling technology to the Australian market, with the clearly-expressed mission of helping clients to “reduce geotechnical uncertainty.”

Bronze Sponsor – WiFi

C.R. Kennedy is a National Distribution partner for several Global brands including Hexagon. Leica Geosystems, Riegl, DJI and many more. As the largest provider of positioning, measurement, and monitoring systems in Australia we aim to have a solution for the most complex of engineering problems.
With an Australia-wide network of service, support, and training personnel, we provide industry leading equipment together with the best after sales support.

Bronze – Young Professionals Mentoring Lunch

At Jacobs, we deliver impactful global solutions to create a more connected, sustainable world — from intelligence to infrastructure, cybersecurity to space exploration.
Our 55,000 employees across 40 countries work every day, challenging the expectations of today to reinvent the way we’ll all live tomorrow.

Bronze – Young Professionals Networking Night

WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together talented people from around the globe.
We are technical experts who design and provide strategic advice on sustainable solutions, engineering projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

Bronze – Women in Large Dams (WILD)

Goulburn-Murray Water (GMW) is Australia’s largest rural water corporation.
GMW manages, store and delivers water through about 10,000 km of delivery and drainage infrastructure to more than 25,000 customers across northern Victoria.
The water authority manages 23 water storages, including Dartmouth Dam, Lake Eildon and Goulburn Weir, which can hold approximately 11,400 GL of water and has responsibility for managing more than 100,000 hectares of public land surrounding these storages.

Women in Large Dams (WILD) Breakfast Venue Sponsor

We’re a global engineering, management, and development firm. Around the world, our teams are pushing boundaries to make positive differences for our clients and their customers: combining digital technology and sector insights to transform delivery and outcomes; tackling climate change by cutting carbon and developing resilience; and making sure projects are socially inclusive.
We’re a leading provider of dam engineering services with a growing portfolio of projects. Globally, our teams have been engaged in the study, design and delivery of major dams and reservoirs for over 100 years and have undertaken roles covering all aspects of dam and reservoir engineering and management. We are now engaged in dams and hydropower projects in 15 countries ranging from small-scale diversion weirs to massive hydropower dams.
Engineering. Management. Development.

Young Professional Best Paper Award

WaterNSW operates the state’s dams, capturing and storing water, and then supplying it ready for distribution – for the environment, agriculture, industry and the community. With 41 major dams and hundreds of waterways across the state, we play a vital role at the source of the state’s water, delivering two thirds of all water used in NSW.
We’re the people taking care of the state’s water at the source – capturing, storing, delivering. Find out more www.waternsw.com.au

Refreshment Break – Tuesday

Together with VINCI, Seymour Whyte brings international experience in dams and pumped hydro to the Australian market.
Our Tier 1 expertise, capability, and financial strength coupled with the agility and personal connection of a Tier 2 and the enhanced resources of a global construction expert – in VINCI and its international Waterworks Division – give our clients the best of three worlds.
Seymour Whyte is a safe pair of hands with over 35 years’ local experience and genuine client collaboration commitment.
Other VINCI companies operating in the water space include Menard, Bachy Soletanche, Freyssinet, Conetec and Sixense.