Agenda for Plenary Event

10am – Welcome

The iCASP Journey

Joe Holden, Director of iCASP

10.15am Guest speaker – Baroness Judith Blake, former leader of City of Leeds Council

10.35am – Overview of iCASP impacts and partnership development

Hebin Lin, Impact and Economic Evaluator and Finn Barlow-Duncan, Impact Officer and Phoebe King, Project Support Officer with iCASP

10.50am – Promoting flood resilience – outcomes from two projects

Bridging the knowledge gap to boost SME resilience - Dr Paola Sakai, UKRI Research and Innovation Fellow and iCASP Impact Translation Fellow

Yorkshire Flood Resilience - Steve Wragg, Flood Risk Manager, York City Council

11.10am – break

11.25am – How the new Natural Flood Management (NFM) toolkit will benefit the Calderdale community - Introduced by Oliver Harmar, Yorkshire Director of the Environment Agency

11.35am – The design and use of the NFM toolkit - Dr Tom Willis, iCASP Impact Translation Fellow

11.50am – New beginnings for Natural Flood Management Community of Practitioners

How the project has evolved - Introduction by Dr Jenny Armstrong, iCASP Impact Translation Fellow

Next steps for the project - Jonathan Moxon, Flood risk manager for Leeds City Council

12.05pm – Findings of ‘In My Farm’ iCASP project

Dr Kevin Hicks, Senior Research Fellow at University of York

12.20pm – Discussion about regional opportunities

Led by Professor Joe Holden, Director of iCASP and Professor David Hodgson, Deputy Director of iCASP

12.40pm – Closure of Confluence

iCASP Confluence 2021