Stacie is an experienced senior executive and has international experience in the management of large-scale LiDAR collection, processing and vegetation analytics. Stacie holds a Master of Science degree in Plant and Soil Science, is a Project Management Professional and Certified Utility Arborist

Chris Clark is a Graduate of the Master of Urban Horticulture at the University of Melbourne(2021) and was a contributing author (1) & lead author (2) for this research.

Joe Harris is an arborist based in Tasmania. He is primarily a climbing arborist or contract climber, although his work also includes training, workshops, technical writing and other projects. He has been in the industry for 14 years, during which time he has volunteered with several industry bodies and in many different roles. Joe is 2-time Australian tree climbing champion and 2-time world tree climbing silver medalist

Beverly Hand, also known as Aunty Bev, is a Kabi Kabi woman and immense knowledge keeper with an incredible mastery of Indigenous plant life, traditions and history around South East Queensland. Beverly weaves these stories in such an enthralling and engaging way she is highly sought after byNon-Government, Government, Corporate, business and education providers..

Many people when thinking of Aunty Bev immediately connect her to Bunya or Boinyee, as she is so intimately interwoven to this sacred tree having created and re-established the traditional Bunya Dreaming Festival in 2007 - ongoing.

She is far more deeper that than we imagine.  Ever since Beverly came home to Country she began trying to uphold a legacy of cultural responsibility to the region of the Sunshine Coast, its hinterland and Mary Valley by actively participating in community and continually building and sharing her knowledge through relationship building.  Today these vast layers of knowledge, ceremonies and traditions are embodied by Beverly’s ability to articulate these to wider and diverse groups

A leader in contract and project delivery across maintenance and capital investment programs, Kevin is a partnership delivery model specialist in both contract management and contract delivery roles.

Kevin has a passion for innovative delivery with a keen focus on systems and automation of process and has extensive industry experience in asset management, including whole of life asset maintenance, project and program management. He is asset system experienced, including extensive SAP and mobile computing integration and system design and is a LiDAR and aerial patrol implementation specialist.

Mark Hartley is a second-generation arborist whose career spans over four decades. Mark has received the ISA’s Award of Merit for his contribution to arboriculture and has received six awards of Excellence in Arboriculture from the TCIA for transplanting and tree pruning.His skills and knowledge in tree transplanting have taken him to 7 countries in 3 different continents. His expertise with palms resulted in him providing consultancy services in the UAE to the Royal Family on palm related issues.

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As Senior Strategist Land, Research and Development at Powerlink Queensland I have the privilege to work with a broad range of people internal and external to the business on a broad range of topics.  This includes representing Powerlink at state, national and international forums and memberships. There has never been a more exciting time to be involved in the electricity industry and that includes vegetation management programs. Stephen will share some insights into some case studies Powerlink is undertaking to ensure we’re doing our bit to “Connecting Queenslanders to a world-class energy future”.

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Following four decades in local government and the private sector Tim began his current role as Director: TREENET in November 2021. A research adjunct at the University of South Australia and at Flinders University, his interests focus on green engineering design which supports trees in urban settings so interactions between roots, infrastructure, water and soil can deliver maximum benefit to the community and environment. His experience on the tools and in technical and research roles in horticulture, arboriculture and civil engineering underpin his practical approach to applied research which investigates nature-based solutions to challenges presented by urbanisation and climate change.

Current research projects include investigating the effects of stormwater harvesting on transpiration rates in urban trees, the stormwater-harvesting capacity of urban soil, and the effects of stormwater infiltration on reactive soil. Tim is currently supervising two PhD students who are researching the stormwater management benefits of dispersed, small-scale infiltration devices and the climate moderating effects of stormwater infiltration into tree root zones.

Tim is a member of Arboriculture Australia and of the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA). He has served on the Significant Tree Committee of the National Trust of South Australia (2002 – 2012), the South Australian Local Government Urban Forest Alliance, and the South Australian Urban Forest Biodiversity Program (1997–2006).

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Professor Dave Watson leads a group of researchers working at the interface between community ecology and landscape-scale restoration. In addition to distributional dynamics, Dave’s team develops new ways to estimate biodiversity, pioneering the use of results-based stopping rules to standardize diversity estimates and collaborating with computer scientists to detect species automatically from long-duration recordings from the Australian Acoustic Observatory. Dave’s current research extends to sandalwood management in the western desert, wildlife conservation in agricultural landscapes, mistletoe ecology and evolution worldwide, the development and manufacture of future-proof nest boxes (using 3D-printed plastics), working with landholders to maximise Carbon sequestration in on-farm habitats, and using strategic interventions to keep common species common. https://ecosystemunraveller.com

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Thami is an urban planner and spatial analyst working with the ICON Science Program with a specialist interest in urban greening, with a history of delivering greening projects and policy in Melbourne’s most urbanised spaces.

He currently is part of an international project team advising the European Union on planning for urban greening; over the next three years Thami will facilitate the development of greening plans for eight cities around the world.

Simon is new to the tree industry. With a BAppSc (with distinction) and 40 years’ experience including R&D, experimental design and multivariate analysis, consumer and product market research, finance and commercial, sales and marketing , he brings a uniquely multi-disciplined approach to this challenging field. 

Thomas Astell-Burt is the Professor of Population Health and Environmental Data Science and the Founding Co-Director of the Population Wellbeing and Environment Research Lab (PowerLab) https://socialsciences.uow.edu.au/powerlab/index.html at the University of Wollongong (UOW). Thomas is also an NHMRC Boosting Dementia Research Leadership Fellow (1 of only 4 awarded in public health in Australia).

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After completing a level 3 certificate inHorticulture/Landscaping from NMIT to help his nascent landscaping businessPeter discovered a passion for academic research.  Since then, he has studied Garden Design withAndrew Laidlaw, completed his master’s degree in Urban Horticulture from theUniversity of Melbourne and completed his PhD on ‘Remediating degraded urban soils to improve the establishment and growth of trees’.  Post PhD Peter worked as a lecturer at theBurnley Campus of the University of Melbourne where he taught masters and undergrad level students about plant propagation and soils.  He currently works as a Senior Soil Scientist with Australia’s foremost soil consultancy, SESL Australia.

Previously Peter spent 20 years working as a professional rowing coach in Australia and Great Britain.

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Honorary Associate Professor Cris Brack from the Fenner School ofEnvironment and Society, Australian National University, has been studying urban forests since the 1990’s. Along with colleagues and research students,Cris has been: quantifying the planted urban estate; estimating the environmental and other values of the urban forest; exploring the mental and physical health benefits provided simply because trees are around; and exploring options for the future of urban trees as they age in a hotter, drier city.

 Cris has published over 70 peer reviewed papers. He regularly is interviewed on radio and print on all things to do with urban trees and often makes presentations to conferences of professional Foresters andA rboriculturalists as well as at ACT Tree Week.

He is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of UrbanGreening and Ecology (National Parks Singapore); a Member of the ACT ClimateChange Council; and a Director of the National Arboretum Canberra Foundation.

Associate ProfessorJoe Hurley a researcher in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University. His research focuses on the intersection between urban planning and urban sustainability, and on the role of urban governance and policy in producing sustainable outcomes. He leads a program of research called Making Greening Happen in ConsolidatingCities examining the relationship between urban development, land-useplanning policy, and the urban forest.

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Dr Sebastian Pfautsch is an Associate Professor in Urban Studies and the Research Theme Coordinator at Western Sydney University. In these roles, Dr Pfautsch develops trans-disciplinary research around the complex issue of urban heat. While the core of his work is concerned with the cooling functions delivered by green infrastructure (GI), his applied projects deal with heat mitigation far beyond GI and include surface and building materials, engineered shade and water infrastructure, smart city technology and more. His high-quality research output is documented in the form of more than 90 peer-reviewed research papers, technical reports and journal articles. Sebastian's work features regularly in the media, which in 2021 led to more than 350 headlines in 21 countries, published in 5 languages and reached more than 1 billion people.

LisaAnnese has been the Chief Executive Officer of Diversity Council Australiasince 2 June 2014. In this role she leads debate on diversity and inclusion inthe public arena, and oversees the development of thought leadership researchpieces for Australian workplaces.

In2018, Lisa was named one of the AFR’s 100 Women of Influence. In 2019 shewas elected to the Board of AmnestyInternational Australia and in 2021, appointed to the Board of Women forElection.  Lisa is a member of Chief Executive Women and ExecutiveProducer of DCA’s podcast, The Art of Inclusion.

Lisa has had a long career in the diversity andinclusion space across the corporate, government and not-for-profit sector. Someof her career highlights include: advocating for policy action to eliminateworkplace harassment and gendered violence and closing the gender pay gap, presentingDCA’s leading research internationally; developing the first ever citationrecognising Employers of Choice in Gender Equality and the first ever census of‘Australian Women in Leadership’ while at the Workplace Gender Equality Agency,and co-authoring “Chief Executives Unplugged: CEO’s Get Real About Women in theWorkplace”.

With a general interest in  horticultural plant science, revegetation and ecology, Greg is particularly  interested in arboriculture. He was inaugural president of the International  Society of Arboriculture, Australian Chapter, and has been a member of the National  Trust’s Register of Significant Trees since 1988 and chair since 1996. He has  served the boards of Greening Australia (Victoria) 1988-2012 and Trust for  Nature, 2009-17. He has been on the board of TREENET (chair 2005-2019) and is  on the board of Sustainable Gardening Australia. He has written three books,  seven book chapters and has published over 200 scientific papers and  articles. He was awarded an OAM in 2017 for services to the environment,  particularly arboriculture.

Hillary is a registered Psychologist and Director of Leading  Safety, a consultancy specialising in the leadership of safety and wellbeing,  the assessment and development of safety and wellbeing culture, human  factors, and workplace health and safety.   She developed the Business Leaders Health and Safety Forum’s CEO Guide  to Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work. This sense making framework has been  used extensively, both in Governmental Agencies and private organisations, to  assess both current wellbeing initiatives, as well as develop future  wellbeing strategies.  She also  developed the Forum’s guide, Protecting Wellbeing for the Forum which  provides a process for organisations to identify factors that are harming or  protecting wellbeing in any workplace. In 2019 she was awarded the New  Zealand SafeGuard Lifelong Contribution to Health and Safety Award.

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Heath Frewin is Manager Strategy – Vegetation at Essential Energy where he provides strategic direction and leadership in the development, implementation and monitoring of strategies and risks relating to the vegetation clearance/corridor asset class.

Heath won the inaugural Utility Arborist Award, 2021 and is a passionate advocate for true risk-based and asset management-structured approaches to utility vegetation management.

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