S+SNZ 130th Annual Conference 2019 | Survey and Spatial New Zealand

2017 - 128th Conference - Napier, NZ

2017 - 128th Conference - Napier, NZ

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In a rapidly evolving environment we are positioning ourselves for the future.

We are a very diverse group of professionals and we all make important contributions. Working together enables us to have a greater impact where it matters most and helps us all remain at the cutting-edge. How our communities respond to their challenges and opportunities is informed by surveying and spatial professionals somewhere along the way.

By sharing concepts, ideas and knowledge we all have outstanding opportunities ahead to help shape the communities of the future.

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Participants

360

Topics

18

Sessions

62

Speakers

75

2019 Speakers

Survey and Spatial NZ is proud to bring educational and inspirational

speakers from all areas relevant to the surveying and spatial sector.

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Professor Juliet A. Gerrard, FRSNZ | Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor

Professor Juliet Gerrard trained at Oxford University, where she completed a First Class Honours degree in Chemistry and a DPhil in Biological Chemistry.

In 1993, she was appointed as a research scientist at Crop & Food Research, where her multidisciplinary research portfolio included a substantial element of applied research in the food science area.

She was appointed as a Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of Canterbury in 1998, where she became Professor and Co-Director of the Biomolecular Interaction Centre.

In 2014, she moved to the University of Auckland as a Professor in the School of Biological Sciences and the School of Chemical Sciences and is now the Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Science.

Juliet’s research has a broad base and is interdisciplinary, cutting across biochemistry, chemistry, health, agricultural and food science and biomaterial design. It also incorporates a full spectrum of fundamental and applied research, ranging from Marsden projects to research for industry, and includes collaborations in the UK, USA and Australia.

From 2012-2016 she held a Callaghan Innovation Industry and Outreach Fellowship (at 50% FTE) focussed on creating an integrated research programme across Callaghan Innovation and the Universities of Canterbury and Auckland. During this time she also founded a start-up company, Hi-Aspect Ltd, which went on to receive seed funding from a private investor in 2017.

Juliet has over 150 publications, as well as three books. She won a National Teaching Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching in 2004 and has served on FRST panels and domain reviews. She enjoyed her role as Chair of the Cellular, Molecular and Physiological Biology Marsden Panel and Deputy Chair of the Marsden Council prior to being appointed Chair in 2012. She stepped down from this role early in 2018, having overseen an increase in the fund from around $54 million to over $80 million and steered the Marsden Fund Council through the creation of the Fund’s first investment plan.

Juliet has had an increasing interest in governance and served on the Board of Directors of Plant & Food Research Ltd from 2013-2018. Juliet has resigned her roles on Boards to take up this position and won’t apply for research funds in New Zealand while she holds the role.

Ed Parsons | Google's Geographer

Ed Parsons is the Geospatial Technologist of Google, with responsibility for evangelising Google’s mission to organise the world’s information using geography. In this role he maintains links with Governments, Universities, Research and Standards Organisations which are involved in the development of Geospatial Technology.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium and was co-chair of the W3C/OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group.

He is a Visiting Professor at University College London and an Executive Fellow at the University of Aberdeen Business School.

Ed is based in Google’s London office, and anywhere else he can plug in his laptop.

Ed was the first Chief Technology Officer in the 200-year-old history of Ordnance Survey, and was instrumental in moving the focus of the organisation from mapping to Geographical Information. He came to the Ordnance Survey from Autodesk, where he was EMEA Applications Manager for the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Division.

He earned a Masters degree in Applied Remote Sensing from Cranfield Institute of Technology, holds a Honorary Doctorate in Science from Kingston University, London. and is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a professional member of the British Computer Society.

Ed is married with two children and lives in South West London.

He is a lapsed aviator having learnt to fly before succumbing to the english weather and the price of avgas, he now just takes photographs of aircraft, examples of which can be found at photos.edparsons.com.

Rob Edwards | Business Leader

On stage or in-house Rob’s purpose is to provide a meaningful and memorable experience that leaves people focused on looking after their most important asset, themselves. A long history of developing his craft ensures plenty of laughter and messages that stick. His professionalism off stage makes life easy for event organisers.

His experience working with people at all levels of business, cardiac patients, young offenders, elite athletes and remote island communities gives a communication style that genuinely connects with any audience. He’s been speaking professionally for 20 years and was one of only two Australians to receive the internationally recognized status of Certified Speaking Professional in 2012 (it’s pretty tough to get).

Rob has been a business leader for 20 years in the well-being industry designing and his staff delivering programs for hundreds organizations. Prior to that he worked for five years in a cardiac rehabilitation program where he developed programs to motivate people who had heart attacks, bypasses, diabetes and the like to get back on their feet and get the most out of their lives. There he wrote the internationally distributed book “Better Blood Pressure”. He took a year out with a group of 20 others to develop and implement a wilderness based rehabilitation program for young offenders. Rob also founded and manages Its Time Foundation that replaces diesel power with solar in remote island schools. Also, established a Women’s Resilience program in Fiji and soon to be launched For Plastic Free Oceans project.

Andrew Bayly | National Spokesperson for Building and Construction

In the 2014 and 2017 Andrew was elected to Parliament as the National MP for the Hunua Electorate. He is currently National's Spokesperson for Building and Construction, Spokesperson for Revenue, and Associate Spokesperson for Finance. He's also a Member of the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee and is Co-Chair of the Middle East/Africa Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Prior to entering Parliament, Andrew initially trained as an accountant before working with merchant banks in New Zealand and London for a period of 10 years. After returning to New Zealand, he co-founded a merchant bank, offering corporate advisory and capital markets advice to a range of government entities, local authorities and corporate clients.

During his corporate career he has been a director of numerous companies, including the chair of the board of New Zealand Financial Planning and a trustee of the Enterprise Franklin Development Trust, the economic development arm of the Franklin Council.

Formerly an Officer in the New Zealand Territorial Army and British Parachute (TA) Regiment, Andrew has also had a long career in adventure racing, including competing in three Coast-to-Coast events, marathons and Ironman events. More recently he took up mountaineering, having scaled many mountain peaks, including Aoraki Mt Cook and Mt. Aspiring, and four mountains in Antarctica, including Vinson Massif (highest mountain in Antarctica), a first ascent and new route on a third. In the summer of 2012/13, he dragged a sled 112 kms to the South Pole and in 2016 he and his son each dragged sledges 120 kms across the ice to the North Pole. It is estimated that only about 120 people have trekked to both Poles.

Andrew graduated from Massey University and is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the NZ Institute of Management, the NZ Chartered Institute of Corporate Management and the UK Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London.

Rebecca Strang | S+SNZ President

Rebecca is delighted to be the first female president since the organisation’s inception over 100 years ago. “We represent surveying and spatial professionals throughout New Zealand and it is a huge honour” says Rebecca. One of her aims would be to streamline the way the council is currently operated.

Rebecca has been Vice-President for two years and prior to this, was actively involved at the branch level and as a leader of the Young Professionals group.

Based in Auckland, Rebecca’s professional role is Digital Practice Leader at Aurecon NZ - a global engineering and infrastructure advisory company. Her role is to help the organisation to define the way they deliver projects to their clients in the most efficient and consistent way.

Malcolm Archbold | S+SNZ Conference MC &Director

Malcolm has over 30 years’ experience working in the survey, mapping and data capture fields in New Zealand, Australia, South Pacific, New Caledonia and the Middle East. Projects have varied from surveying the border between Iraq and Kuwait after the first Gulf War to mapping NZ’s territory in Antarctica and establishing Tonga’s Geodetic Datum and Map Projection.

Malcolm is a consultant to the World Bank on surveying and information capture technologies including the use of modern technology such as UAV and 3D laser scanning to capture and provide accurate survey and spatial information. Malcolm is also a part time lecturer at the University of Technology, Auckland.

Ken Crosson | Architect & Director

Described as an ‘architectural humanist’, Ken’s starting point in architecture is an intuitive response to site, informed by cultural and contextual references relevant to client, site and community. This approach generates a rich and diverse palette of texture and materiality, while the clarity of form and structure reveals the strength of the underlying ideas.

Ken studied in Auckland, and apart from a period living and working in London as a young graduate has been based in the city, running projects throughout New Zealand. He cites the architecture of Claude Megson – specifically Megson’s complex spaces and ‘spaces for occasions’ – as a pivotal influence. Central to Ken’s design process are the ideas of exploration – allowing the design to evolve through constant re-evaluation; and appropriateness – maintaining the underpinning reference to site and context.

The exceptional design portfolio Ken has developed has granted him recognition within the profession, with awards including NZ Home magazine Home of the Year in 2003 and Home of the Decade in 2006. In 2012 he was a finalist in the World Architecture Awards for the project ‘Hut on Sleds’. His designs have twice been listed by World Architecture News among the Six Best Houses in the World – with awards in 2006 for the ‘Coromandel Bach’ and in 2013 for the ‘Hut on Sleds’.

In 1997 Ken was awarded a Fellowship of the New Zealand Institute of Architects and continues to be actively involved in the development of the profession, in undergraduate education, institute awards and registration assessment. He has a passion for quality urban design and has been an active participant in the NZIA Urban Issues Group.

Anne Harper | Chair of SIBA - Spatial Industry Business Association

Anne has over a decade of experience in the geospatial sector, including the Department of Conservation and Esri UK.

Anne is also Current Chair of SIBA, the Spatial Industry Business Association. In this role, she works to grow and sustain the spatial industry in New Zealand, and help more organisations realise their mission with geospatial data.

In her role at Koordinates, Anne is currently focused on growing the amount of open geospatial data published by New Zealand government agencies, including central and local government.

Anne is committed to realising the enormous potential of geospatial data. Outside of Koordinates, Anne enjoys diving, hiking and is a committed conservationist, volunteering for a range of projects, including Tiritiri Matangi and Kapiti islands.

Mark Stirling | Chair of Earthquake Science

Professor Mark Stirling is the inaugural Chair of Earthquake Science at the Department of Geology, University of Otago. His expertise spans the topic areas of seismic hazard modelling, active fault mapping, and earthquake statistics. Prior to his Otago position he was based at GNS Science where he led the development of the 1998, 2002 and 2012 versions of the national seismic hazard model for New Zealand. He continues to contribute to these model developments in his present role, along with seismic hazard assessments for critical facilities in New Zealand and abroad.

Vic Crone | CEO of Callaghan Innovation

Vic Crone is the CEO of Callaghan Innovation, and an experienced director over a variety of private, social, and not for profit enterprises.

She has had twenty years experience in the Communications and IT sectors, across strategy, partnerships, product, marketing, channels, business development, customer services, communications and brand.

Vic is passionate about making a difference to NZ Inc, and passionate about how technology and innovation can be used to advance New Zealand on the world stage.

She also has significant executive and governance experience in which spans from start-ups to mature products across consumer, small business and enterprise sectors.

Vic was previously the Managing Director of Xero, NZ and New Markets, following executive roles at Chorus and Telecom New Zealand.   She has been an Independent Director on the Boards of a number of companies and organisations in the technology sector, including Contact Energy, RedShield, Figure.NZ, Creative HQ and the Hi-Tech Trust.

Christina Hulbe | Professor - Dean of School of Surveyors

Professor Christina Hulbe is a geophysicist who studies how and why polar ice sheets change over time. She earned her PhD in Geophysics at the University of Chicago in 1998. She is Professor and Dean of Surveying at the University of Otago and was previously Chair of the Geology Department at Portland State University in the United States. She moved with her family to Dunedin in 2013.

Christina got her start as a polar glaciologist conducting field work in a remote west Antarctic camp during the summers of 1991 and 1992, but most of her research is computational, using mathematical models and remote sensing to investigate modern systems and the recent past. Her use of structural evidence in the Ross Ice Shelf to infer century-scale stagnation and reactivation of the ice streams flowing into the shelf fundamentally changed the understanding of ice flow variability in this part of the world. Her work on the role that surface meltwater could play in fracture propagation and ice shelf collapse led to a new paradigm in ice vulnerability to climate warming. She continues to find new ways to study these processes. In 2016, in recognition of her contributions to glaciology and skill as a public speaker, she was invited to give the Nye Lecture at the Fall Meeting of the American Geogphysical Union, the world’s largest annual gathering of Earth and space scientists.

Christina made her first trip south with the New Zealand Antarctic programme as lead investigator of the New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute-funded “Vulnerability of the Ross Ice Shelf in a Warming World”. The ambitious multi-institution, interdisciplinary effort aims to observe and understand processes and process interactions that determine thresholds for and rates of change in a region of great national and international concern. You can read about their most recent discoveries in a popuar article in The Conversation https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-explore-hidden-ocean-beneath-antarcticas-largest-ice-shelf-90006

Emily Tidey | Lecturer - Hydrographic Survey

I am a past student of Te Kura Kairūri, and joined the staff in 2013. At the School of Surveying I manage Hydrographic Surveying – primarily teaching students and working with researchers from Surveying, Marine Science and Geology, as well as running demonstrations with visiting school students.

I have been part of several research cruises on the university Research Vessel Polaris II and am on the management team for our new multibeam echo sounder. I teach practical hydrography skills around Dunedin Harbour on the university vessels RV Beryl Brewin and RV Polaris II.

In conjunction with our UK partners at the Marine Learning Alliance (MLA) I run the Southern Hemisphere hydrography practical papers that form part of the Hydrographic Academy (HA) Hydrography for Professionals distance taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses – the only online course in the world (http://www.mla-uk.com/). Students from NZ and many international locations come to attend these papers during NZ summer.

Prior to coming to Otago I completed my MSc (Hydrography) on the FIG/IHO/ICA recognised Category A course in Plymouth, UK. My background also includes several years working worldwide on a variety of hydrographic projects including charting, habitat mapping, oil and gas, renewables and offshore construction.

I thoroughly enjoy being at sea and like to learn, share and apply all aspects of nautical knowledge to my teaching – as well as when I’m at the beach, out sailing or kayaking!

Scott Sambell | Field Worker in the Conservation Industry

Scott Sambell refers to himself as a “Field Worker in the Conservation Industry” which is a kind way of describing someone who navigates remote challenging terrain all day resetting traps to control small mammals in sensitive native ecosystems.
About 7 years ago he got so sick of “Walking the Line” day after day and seemingly not getting anywhere, that he decided to focus his efforts into leveraging spatial technology to finally get the upper hand on invasive pests. Now he specialises in creating systems, that take advantage of the very latest in Esri’s ArcGIS software to make his work many times more efficient and effective.
In the process of developing automated biosecurity systems, he co-founded Econode, a ground-breaking IoT company that specialises in remote sensing in challenging terrain and which now monitors traps across the country and overseas.

Although very reluctant to call himself a GIS professional, Scott’s company Ethos Environmental was given the Award for Environment and Sustainability and the Supreme Award in the 2018 Spatial Excellence Awards.

Scott now dedicates a lot of his time to evangelising the benefits of ArcGIS cloud platforms as a way for all of us to finally collaborate effectively and achieve our shared goals… as long as those goals involve ridding the entire country of every last rat, possum and stoat by 2050.

Thomas Gibbons | S+SNZ Board Member & Director

Thomas Gibbons is a director at McCaw Lewis in Hamilton. He is the author of Unit Titles Law & Practice (2nd ed, 2015), and Land Transfer Law & Practice (2017). His practice focus on land development and land governance, including subdivisions, redevelopment projects, plan change issues, infrastructure contracts, and complex easement and covenant matters. He has a special interest in unit titles, and has provided expert evidence in the High Court on development issues.

Thomas has presented academic and professional papers to a range of audiences in New Zealand and overseas. He is currently on the board of Survey & Spatial New Zealand, sits on the Property Transactions Committee of NZLS, and has recently served on the national council of Property Council New Zealand. He has qualifications in law and planning.

Rhys Davies | Senior Hydrographic Surveyor

My survey career started in 1998 with joining the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) as a hydrographic assistant. I spent the next ten years within the RNZN moving throughout the various ranks finishing as a Petty Officer (interestingly the only one survey wise upon my leaving). During my time in the RNZN spent most of time working of LINZ Shipping Lane projects using Shallow and Deep water Multibeam Echo Sounders (MBES) and conducting various Single Beam Surveys in NZ and around the Pacific Regions. My responsibilities included; Managing Small Survey Teams, Data Acquisition and Processing and Chart (Survey Sheet) production. A brief list of survey projects I was involved in is below:

* 1998/99 LINZ Survey of Stewart Island: ATLAS MD230, ATLAS FS20 MBES Systems

* 2000/01 LINZ Survey of Oamaru: ATLAS MD230, ATLAS FS20 MBES Systems

* 99/2006 LINZ Shipping Lane Surveys (Various): ATLAS MD230, ATLAS FS20 MBES Systems

* Lake Wakatipu: Single Beam Echo Sounder (SBES)

* Port of Napier Survey: FS20 MBES System

* Apia Harbour / Port Villa / Noumea: Single Beam Echo Sounder (SBES)

In 2005 I was deployed to Afghanistan as a GIS Analyst and spent 6 Months in country providing GIS support to contingent. In 2006, I completed my IHO Cat B course at HMAS penguin in Sydney. My final few years in the RNZN I was at the RNZN Hydrographic School in a teaching capacity and then finished my time as 2 i/c of the Detached Hydrographic Unit responsible for military hydrographic surveys.

In 2008 I was offered a position at a new survey company called iXsurvey Australia (now iXblue) in which I accepted. I have been with this company for the last 11 years and am a Senior Hydrographic Surveyor and whilst having continued conducting Nautical Charting Surveys have significantly expanded my knowledge base into the various aspects of hydrography such as Oil and Gas, Geophysical and Construction Projects. To summarise as above some of the projects since joining iXsurvey I have been involved in is below:

* 2008 LINZ Survey of Milford, Doubtful / Thompson and Dusky Sounds – RESON 7125 MBES

* 2008 Pre-Hazard Clearance Survey for CGG Vertis – North Sea (UK) – RESON 8101 MBES

* 2009 LINZ Survey of Great Barrier Island – KONGSBERG EM3002D

* 2009 Geophysical Survey of the Black Sea (Romania) – ELAC 1050 MBES, EDGETEC SSS/SBP

* 2009 SBES Survey of Sepik River (PNG) – SBES, RTK

* 2010 MBES Survey of Darwin Harbour – R2Sonic 2024 MBES

* 2010 Pre-Hazard Clearance Survey for CGG Veritas – Madagascar – RESON 8101 MBES

* 2010-2011 SBES Survey of Zambesi River – Mozambique – SBES

* 2011 LINZ Survey of Chatham Islands – KONGSBERG 3002D MBES

* 2011 Pre-Hazard Clearance Survey for CGG Veritas – Jakarta – KONGSBERG EM3002D MBES

* 2012 MBES survey of the Waikato River - KONGSBERG EM3002D MBES

* 2012 MBES Survey of Lake Rotoiti - KONGSBERG EM3002D MBES

* 2012 Cable Route Survey – St Brieuc (France) – R2SONIC 2024

* 2013-13 LINZ Shipping Lane 6 - KONSBERG EM3002D MBES

* 2013 LINZ MBES survey of Whitianga and Bay of Plenty - KONGSBERG EM3002D MBES

* 2013 Pre-Hazard Clearance Survey of Kara Sea (Russia) - KONGSBERG EM3002D MBES

* 2014 LINZ Survey of Chalky and Preservation Inlets - KONGSBERG EM3002D, EM2040C MBES,

* 2014 Object Search Operation – Freemantle (Australia) – IXBLUE SHADOWS SAS

* 2014 LINZ Survey of Auckland Islands - KONGSBERG EM2040C MBES

* 2015 LINZ surveys of Doubtless and Rangaunu Bay - KONGSBERG EM2040C MBES

* 2015 LINZ Survey of Whangaruru Bay - KONGSBERG EM2040C MBES

* 2016 LINZ Survey of Tamaki Strait - KONGSBERG EM2040C MBES

* 2010 Cable Route Survey – Cherbourg (France) – R2SONIC 2024, SHADOWS SAS, ECHOES SBP

* 2017 Tide Gauge Calibration Weipa (Australia)

* 2017 Geotechnical Survey at Hay Point (Australia) – Geometrics TVG (Gradiometer)

* 2017 LINZ Survey of Kaikoura - KONGSBERG EM2040C MBES

* 2018 LINZ Survey of Kingdom of Tonga (SIC Role)

* 2019 LINZ Survey of Fiordland (SIC Role)

Recently I have completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Hydrographic Surveying and are also a current member of the NZIS Hydro Stream executive. I have a passion and an enjoyment for hydrography which has taken me all over the world to many places that most will not see.

Stuart Caie | Manager Hydrographic Survey

New Zealand Hydrographic Authority

Land Information New Zealand

After completing a BSc. (Hons) Surveying and Mapping Sciences degree in 1989, Stuart spent 16 years working as a Hydrographic Surveyor in the Oil & Gas and telecommunications industry based in the UK. In 2005 Stuart moved to New Zealand and joined Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) in May 2006 as a Senior Hydrographic Surveyor within the New Zealand Hydrographic Authority.

Stuart lead the New Zealand Hydrographic Risk Assessment project, an evidenced based, risk lead assessment to prioritise future hydrographic surveys around New Zealand. The subsequent long-term prioritised survey programme, HYPLAN, was published in 2017. Stuart has responsibility for maintaining HYPLAN and has oversight of the assessment of maritime safety information for Notices to Mariners and radio navigational warnings; and the validation and verification of hydrographic survey data rendered as part of LINZ contracted surveys for use in the production of nautical charts.

Within the region, Stuart has represented New Zealand at the IHO South West Pacific Hydrographic Commission meetings and led a number of workshops funded by the IHO Capacity Building Sub-Committee. The workshops aim to build the capacity and capability of Pacific Island Countries to meet their international obligations for the provision of hydrographic services.

Stuart is also working on a NZ Aid programme, the Pacific Regional Navigation Initiative, which is focusing on navigation-safety aspects in the South West Pacific, where LINZ is the charting authority responsible for producing and maintaining charts for the Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau and Tonga.

Chris Pearson | Research Fellow

BSc (Union College) MSc (University of Alaska) PhD (Otago)

Chris Pearson Chris is a research fellow at Otago University School of Surveying where he is active in developing tools to provide accurate coordinates in deforming regions.

Currently he is helping the Survey Department of Nepal to develop a new datum after the Gorka Earthquake. Chris completed a PhD at the University of Otago in 1991 and a PostDoc at Columbia University. Between 1993 1nd 2001 Chris was a research fellow at the School of Surveying where he was involved in measuring earth deformation.

Between 2001 and 2011 Chris worked for the US National Geodetic Survey where he was geodetic advisor to the state of Illinois working with IDOT on geodetic/positioning issues and he was also responsible for maintaining the HTDP program.

Chris is a member of Survey and Spatial New Zealand and an honorary member of the Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Association.

Steve Thorne | Architect and Urban Designer

Steve Thorne is a qualified architect and urban designer and Managing Director of Design Urban. He has a wide variety of experience gained from working in Australia, the United Kingdom, South Africa, New Zealand, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the Czech Republic.

He has worked in both the private and public sectors and has held various positions including; Director of Urban Design (Victorian State Government) and Principal Urban Designer (City of Melbourne).

He has been a speaker at many professional and industry conferences on sustainable urbanism, design, urban structure, community safety, and transit-oriented development. He has won a number of international, national and state urban design awards.

Steve has sat on a number of design review panels including the Abu Dhabi Urban Design Panel, the Victorian Design Review Panel, and is a former chairman of the Northern Territory’s Urban Design Advisory Panel.

Steve is the master planner of Auranga.

Mark Todd | Managing Director

Co-founder of Ockham Residential, Mark Todd has been a successful residential property developer for 18 years. He has a strong interest in suburban redevelopment and speaks at lectures on urban design with a particular focus on how to deliver smaller, varied housing typologies at a lower price point while increasing retained green space on site.

Mark’s skills are key to the creative approach to building design adopted across our developments. Mark is a builder by trade who whilst building through his family company, developed an academic interest in enhancing liveability through quality building and intelligent use of land, aspect and architecture. Larger scale projects became possible when Ockham Residential was formed, and the success of our recent projects are a testament to Mark’s skills in this area.

Mark has led the business since 2009 with a hands-on style and he is integral to the creative process around Ockham Residential developments.

Robert Odolinski | Senior Lecturer

Dr. Robert Odolinski teaches Geodesy and least-squares adjustment theory, and conducts research in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs).

Robert joined the School of Surveying as a Lecturer in 2015 directly after his PhD studies at Curtin University. He was subsequently appointed Senior Lecturer and was awarded a University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research, all for his performance at the Otago University in the first two and three years, respectively.

Robert is a member of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) ICCT Joint Study Group “Multi-GNSS Theory and Algorithms”. His research interests involve deriving mathematical models for the combination of different countries’ RNSSs/GNSSs, and investigating the corresponding positioning performance improvement that is achievable when compared to using the systems separately (e.g. GPS-only). Particular emphasis of his research is on the positioning performance using smartphones and low-cost receivers in New Zealand, as one of the few countries in the world with a good visibility of all GNSSs.

Crystal Filep | Lecturer in Urban Design

Dr Crystal Filep is Lecturer in Urban Design at the University of Otago, and former Team Leader Urban
Design with Dunedin City Council. Her research explores how diverse human experiences shape urban
conceptualisations, planning theories and design approaches. Situated in various contexts, her
research builds on the investigative work she undertook in Sweden and on her professional
collaborations. Her practical experience is interdisciplinary and extensive across public and private
sectors. She has a PhD from the University of Otago and is published internationally on the subjects
of urban design and planning, urbanism, architecture and qualitative research. She has a MArch and
MADU from the University of Notre Dame, and a BEnvd from the University of Colorado.

Brett Gawn | Land Surveyor

Brett is a professionally qualified land surveyor, with 40 years experience in a wide range of surveying work, in New Zealand and Asia.

His particular expertise is in land development where his broad knowledge of RMA processes, planning rules, design and construction, his understanding of land and cadastral surveying, give him an “end-to-end” knowledge and understanding.

Brett is an MfE Planning Commissioner. He was a member of the expert committee that assisted LINZ develop the new 2010 rules for Cadastral Surveys. He was a member of the Cadastral Surveyors Licensing Board from 1999 until 2017 and it’s Chair for the last 6 years.

Brett has been a member of the NZIS since 1974 and held a National Executive committee role in 1993/94 and Wellington Branch committee positions, including secretary and chairman. He is on the leadership group of the Land Development and Urban Design Stream and was elected a Fellow of NZIS in 2012. He is a Licensed Cadastral Surveyor and Registered Professional Surveyor and also qualified as a Licensed Surveyor in Brunei while living there. He is a senior member of Calibre’s urban development team and was previously a director and Wellington Manager of Tse Group for 10 years.

Brett grew up in rural North Otago, is married to Fay and moved to Wellington in 1989 after 8½ years in Borneo in the 1980’s where Brett worked on mapping, housing, infrastructure and construction projects as a surveyor, including 2½ years as project surveyor for the Sultan of Brunei’s palace.

He is interested travel and outdoor activities, particularly sailing and has held executive committee roles in yachting and rugby. He is a recreational cyclist, skier and swimmer.

Brett helped Ngati Toa and Carrus secure the Kenepuru Landing site and has lead the project consulting team since then.

James Gunn | Spatial Champion - Christchurch City Council

James is an expert at getting things done and achieving more, with less. He enjoys teamwork, striving to maximise win-win outcomes, inspiring ideation, fostering strategy & vision and bringing mindfulness to the workplace. One of his goals at the CCC is to empower people to exploit information by changing how they think, how they make decisions and how they use technology. His foundations in information management and geospatial technologies stem from a 12-year consulting career for Beca Ltd. where he worked on a diverse range of projects with key clients including the NZ Transport Agency, Auckland Council, Watercare Ltd., Metrowater Ltd. and the Christchurch City Council.

James has been drawn to Christchurch for work, his love of rock-climbing and access to the outdoors. Working for the Christchurch City Council since late 2016, as Spatial Champion, his role includes agile product owner, advocacy & change management, keeping up with emerging trends in the industry and contributing to solution architecture. He is lifting the profile and capability in spatial technology across the organisation.

Neal Johnston | Location Data Specialist

Neal is a location data specialist and senior geospatial developer for Orbica. He’s got a BSc in Geography, a PGDip in GIS and a genius for controlling Python, SQL, databases and network routing etcetera using only the power of his mind, fingers and thumbs. He is a meticulous practitioner who takes genuine pleasure in the search-and-conquer challenge of finding innovative new pathways to automating tasks.

This inquisitive nature and methodical approach saw Neal play lead roles in two 2018 NZSEA Award category-winning projects. One of the awards was for Technical Excellence for Orbica’s research and development of GeoAI – geospatial artificial intelligence – which was the underpinning technology used in a proof of concept to automate build progress reporting for thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions.

Experience and specialisms

Neal is skilled in the use of proprietary and open source photogrammetry from motion technologies and has used them in educational and asset management environments, producing high quality 3D representations constructed from imagery alone. His skills also branch out to database management and implementation, static and web visualisation in both 2D and 3D platforms. He has also been involved in the feasibility study of a mobile asset collection system, and many other large system integrations and data visualisation applications.

Sectors, leadership and innovation

Neal has key competencies in both geospatial analysis and development. His project experience extends to the delivery of successful GIS projects for both private and public organisations, notably within the technology, asset management, agriculture and transportation sectors, and in the innovative development of road safety applications and data visualisation tools.

Neal is always researching new and developing technologies and applying this knowledge to his everyday work. He is an experienced team leader, project leader and conference/workshop presenter who has a keen wit and knack for communicating difficult technological concepts with ease.

Lyn Carter | Senior Lecturer

Dr Lyn Carter ( Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe, Waitaha) is a Senior Lecturer at Te Tumu, School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago. Lyn co-ordinates and teaches in the programme for Indigenous Development.

Her main research area is environmental literacy with a key focus on Indigenous development and sustainability in the context of climate change. This involves understanding past, present and future land-use and planning ( informed through traditional knowledge, values and practices), and how traditional knowledge can assist in mitigating and adapting to the challenges from climate change. Lyn has published widely in areas of landscape and identity and the way that place names interpret the landscape in unique cultural ways.

Her most recent publications include the book Indigenous Pacific Approaches to climate change: Aotearoa New Zealand (Palgrave McMillian Series in Disaster Studies).

James Berghan | Licensed Cadastral Surveyor and PhD candidate

James (Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri) is a Licensed Cadastral Surveyor and PhD candidate at the University of Otago. After working on a range of planning and land development projects in Hamilton and the wider Waikato region following graduation, James returned to the School of Surveying in 2017 to research alternative housing and development models, with a specific focus on cohousing and urban papakāinga.

My research focuses on the development of Māori and indigenous land for housing. Specifically, I am undertaking post-occupancy evaluations of urban papakāinga and urban cohousing developments in order to understand how principles of traditional tribal communalism manifest in contemporary residential development.

Jeff Needham | Chair of the Ethics and Standards Committee

Past President and Fellow, Jeff is the current chair of the Ethics and Standards Committee. Having had a diverse career for more than 30 years in the profession including the privilege of representing surveyors during the development of the original Landonline, Jeff has meet many of the membership and has plenty of experience understanding everyone’s unique situation. He has sat on several enquiry panels and seen a wide range issues raised with the profession over the conduct of members.

Mieszko Iwaskow | Global Service Leader, Urban Mobility and Integrated Transport

Mieszko Iwaskow is the Global Service Leader for Urban Mobility and Integrated Transport at engineering and infrastructure advisory company, Aurecon. Mieszko is an engaging leader who has a genuine passion for putting people at the heart of how we design our future cities, and over the past 18 months, has led the development of the Urban Mobility & Integrated Transport strategy across Aurecon. In addition to his role as a global service leader, Mieszko is passionate about driving innovation and regularly facilitates workshops and problem solving conversations that aim to challenge the status quo. Prior to joining Aurecon, Mieszko worked in senior client transport planning and delivery roles for the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA). Mieszko holds a deep understanding of client drivers and customer centric design and strives to use alternative techniques to challenge the norm and identify successful novel approaches to re-define how people move around cities and operation of the transport system.

Guy Panckhurst | S+SNZ Vice President

Guy is S+SNZ Vice President and immediate past Chairman of the Consulting Surveyors of New Zealand. He is also on the ASaTS Survey Working Group.

He is a director of a surveying consultancy in Hawke’s Bay, but was born and bred in Dunedin. He obtained a BSurv degree from Otago before moving to Taupo to complete professional training, obtaining a cadastral licence in 1986. In 1990 he moved overseas to gain construction experience in the UK and Egypt, and spent six years in the Middle East oil industry, before returning to Napier as a lifestyle choice.

Guy is passionate about cadastral surveying and good land development, as well as promoting the unique skills of the surveying and spatial profession through advocacy and high standards of professional practice.

Kieran McCarthy | Survey Manager South, Transmission Gully LHJV at HEB Construction

The Transmission Gully Project is a dual carriage motorway for 27km linking Wellington City to eh Kapiti coast, creating further resilience for a city located in a high earthquake activity zone. The motorway construction requires 9 million cubes of earth to be moved, 28 structures (multi-span viaducts, single span bridges, box culvert and underpasses), three major stream diversions, rigorous environmental controls, and tight timeframes. The contract value is circa $850 million. The survey team is 14 people strong and covers the entirety of the project using traditional Total station and GPS setouts, UAVs, 3D machine control systems, and our own integrated GIS program. Due for completion in April 2020, the project is over 50% complete and on-track for completion within time and budget.

Elaine McAlister | Women in Spatial

Elaine McAlister is a self-employed geospatial consultant who holds a BSc in Land Surveying and an MSc in GIS. Her 20 + year industry experience includes working in utilities, research, consultancy, transport and conservation. Elaine is the chairperson of the Women in Spatial group in NZ and current holder of the New Zealand Spatial Excellence Awards Professional of the Year award.

Tim Jervis | Building Construction BDM

Tim Jervis specialises in the areas of reality capture and construction set-out and is an advocate for their relevance in the wider discussion of BIM moving forward. His main focus is how technology helps facilitate the flow of information between design and construction.

Originally from the UK, Tim began his career as a surveyor in the British Army working primarily on roads, bridges and temporary structures across Canada, Europe and the Middle East. Following his military career, Tim gained a master’s degree in BIM and Construction Project Management.

Tim relocated to New Zealand in 2017 and has wasted no time in applying his experience and knowledge in his current role as Building Construction BDM at Global Survey. As the NZ agent for Leica Geosystems, a global leader in positioning technology, Global Survey specialise in solutions for the AEC industry.

Most days you’ll find Tim consulting with customers and applying his diverse experience for the benefit of their projects. Typically, this involves the introduction of new technologies and processes into existing workflows, with the end goal of optimising the flow of building information throughout the construction lifecycle.

On a personal level, Tim is an avid consumer of technology and actively interested in new innovations, their capabilities, the opportunities they present and how they change the way we work.

Katja Lietz | General Manager – Masterplanning and Placemaking

Katja Lietz is a sustainable urban development professional with 20 years experience. Her career has spanned local government, freelance research and for the last 10 years property development. She is the General Manager Masterplanning and Placemaking at HLC and holds an Executive MBA from Auckland University and a Bachelor of Technology from UNITEC. At Hobsonville Point she has lead the development and implementation of the Hobsonville Point Sustainable Development Framework and the Axis Series Affordable Homes Programme. Katja has a passion for housing, sustainability and placemaking. She has recently been part of the Wellington Mayor’s Housing Taskforce and the Beacon Pathway’s Medium Density Advisory Group. She takes huge satisfaction from the success of Hobsonville Point and now leads a wider team tasked with bringing a sustainable development approach to HLC’s new projects across Auckland.

Mark Fraser | Project Director for Mangere/Mt Roskill/Owairaka, Oranga/Three Kings

HLC is leading the largest urban regeneration ever undertaken in New Zealand, a multi-billion dollar programme that will transform suburbs and communities across the country. The company was formed in 2006 to manage the development of Hobsonville Point, a new township of 4,000 homes in Auckland’s Northwest. In 2016 we were tasked with helping Housing New Zealand provide more homes, more quickly to growth areas, by managing housing development projects on under-utilised Government-owned land. I’m Project Director for the four developments that make up the majority of the Auckland Housing Programme (AHP): Mangere, Northcote, Mt Roskill and Oranga. The AHP will deliver around 23,000 new homes with a value of $15-$20 billion, including state housing, more homes for first home buyers, and a greater supply of homes on the market. In total there’s nearly 350 hectares of land under development, requiring a $1.5 billion investment in civil construction and infrastructure alone. This programme has no precedent in New Zealand in terms of scale, and will be truly transformational; providing an important opportunity to improve and increase amenity, public space, and infrastructure. Our vision is to increase the supply and choice of new, high-quality housing, and to support and strengthen communities as they grow.

Vanessa Wilkinson | Planning Consultant

Vanessa is a Planning Consultant with Scott Wilkinson Planning. Vanessa has over 18 years planning experience in planning in local government and the private sector. She holds qualifications in geography and planning from the University of Auckland.

During the development of the Auckland Unitary Plan Vanessa worked at Auckland Council as a Principal Planner in the Resource Consents Department. Vanessa was the Departments lead for co-ordinating and providing resource consenting input into the drafting of proposed plan provisions and testing them in a consenting environment. When the proposed plan was notified in 2013, Vanessa’s role included co-ordinating and providing training and technical advice for Council staff and external consultants on the new plan’s provisions and the requirements of legal effect and weighting under the Resource Management Act.

Vanessa then went on to assist the Auckland Unitary Plan Independent Hearings Panel. She helped lead hearings topics through the Unitary Plan hearing process, including the preparation of final recommendations on the Auckland Unitary Plan. She also assisted with the development of hearing procedures, including mediation and other resolution processes.

Vanessa has experience in the preparation of small to large scale residential and commercial planning / resource consent applications in New Zealand and Melbourne, Australia. She has provided planning / resource management advice and managed a range of projects through local government and court processes to deliver successful outcomes.

As a result of her previous roles at Auckland Council, Vanessa has a thorough understanding of the Resource Management Act and the statutory requirements for resource consents and plans. She has considerable experience in establishing processes and procedures to deal with legislation, organisational and other changes.

Vanessa is also skilled in creating and providing training on legislation and plan changes and their requirements.

Daniel Wiederkehr | Business Unit Leader

Daniel is the Business Unit Leader for Calibre Consulting Ltd Northern Region Survey team. He has gained over 25 years’ experience in the survey industry working for both consultancies and main contractors in both Switzerland and NZ and thus has a broad range of skills.

Daniel has a broad range of skills and experience including land transfer, unit title, Boma, engineering and monitoring, and topographical surveys.

Having spent the last 8 years in the construction industry he has developed a love for engineering surveying, has been involved in small multi story building setout, roading and minor tunnelling work and is currently the Chief Surveyor at Contract 1 of the City Rail Link project, where he leads a small team of surveyors providing the necessary support to build two tunnels underneath the heritage protected Chief Post Office Building in the Auckland CBD.

Daniel also has extensive project and team management experience on major civil Infrastructure projects providing detailed construction monitoring, set out and 3d integrated modelling services.

Michael Cutfield | Survey Manager: Infrastructure

I am on the Council of the NZIS and represent the Engineering Surveying Professional Stream (ESPS). Our stream focuses on providing practical positioning and measurement solutions to the construction and engineering sectors. Our members typically work directly for major construction companies or are sub-contracted to these companies. I have been the ESPS Chair and Councillor since late 2013 years.

At the end of 2003, I finished my two University of Otago degrees in Surveying and Computer Science. I have worked for a couple of well-known consultancy firms in NZ, then as a Contract Surveyor in the UK. I then became a Site Engineer in the UK, then returned to NZ in 2009 to continue as a Site Engineer for Fletcher Construction. I realised my passion was with surveying, so I went back to my surveying career, while remaining employed by Fletcher Construction. I have been the Survey Manager since 2013 for both on the Waterview Tunnel Project and the Puhoi to Warkworth Project at a combined project value of $2.1b.

Eric Audigé | Managing Director

Eric is an engineer with 30 years of experience in monitoring. Throughout his career he has driven the development and international applications in more than 20 countries of new monitoring solutions in a wide range of domains, including the environment, Defence & security, nuclear energy, mining and civil construction. This cross-sectorial and cross-cultural experience has enhanced his passion for innovation and seen him launch new monitoring solutions which have become industry standard. After relocating in Australia in 2009, Eric joined Sixense in 2013 as Managing Director of the Oceania branch of Sixense Group to foster real-time monitoring in civil construction and mining.

John Fellows | Head of Design CRL

Areas of Expertise:

Design management of major rail infrastructure projects. Leadership of multi-discipline design teams. Integration and interface management of engineering, architecture, art and culture

Experience:

* Design Manager/Design Team Leader/Project Architect | British Railways/ Railtrack UK | 1974-1992 |

* Thameslink 2000 Project UK | Railtrack | 1993-2001 | Architecture and Design Manager

* Birmingham Gateway Project UK |Network Rail/ Birmingham City Council | 2001-2005 | Asset Development Manager/Project Sponsor

* Various projects | Network Rail UK | 2005-2007 | Head of Station Design, Network Rail national specialist team leader.

* East London Line Technical Advisor UK | Mott MacDonald | 2007-2009 | Crystal Palace Station Design Manager

* Crossrail Line 1 Liverpool Street Station Design UK | Mott MacDonald | 2009-2012 | Project Package Manager and Interface Manager

* Auckland City Rail Link NZ | Mott MacDonald | 2012-2014 | Station Integration Manager.

* Auckland City Rail Link NZ I Auckland Transport I 2014 - 2017 I Manager Station Design

* City Rail Link Ltd I 2017 to present I Head of Design

Conference Subject:

Art, architecture and culture in major civil engineering projects.

Charles (Chuck) Coiner | Manager

Charles (Chuck) Coiner is passionate about empowering professionals through the capture and use of accurate digital data. The youngest person in California to receive his land surveying license in 1988, Chuck was an early adopter of new technology, starting with Datacom data collection software developed in New Zealand. At the time, this cutting-edge mapping software allowed surveyors to completely draw a topographic map with coded single point measurement in the field. In the 1990s he helped drive the adoption of real-time kinematic (RTK) GPS at Trimble Navigation. In 2000, he joined Cyra Technologies (later acquired by Leica Geosystems) to manage laser scanning and quickly moved into the role of vice president of High Definition Surveying (HDS) sales for Leica Geosystems Americas before taking on his current position as manager of the Leica Geosystems Public Safety Group and vice president/solutions manager for Reality Capture North America. New technology and inventive workflows have always been his passion. Chuck has been involved in nine new terrestrial laser scanner releases and multiple software advances and is now responsible for vehicle-based and wearable reality capture as well as UAS products in North America. Over the course of his career, Chuck has played an influential role in driving reality capture in surveying and engineering firms, law enforcement agencies, construction firms and other organizations that utilize rely on intelligent, 3D information.

Campbell Burrows | Director - Licensed Cadastral Surveyor Auckland

Campbell has 20 years’ experience working on significant projects in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. With a Bachelor of Surveying from the University of Otago, Campbell has a global background and history in all things development, infrastructure and land tenure related.

As a skilled project manager, Campbell is always working to ensure client projects achieve the developer’s vision through his strength in statutory process as it applies to land, as well as land development engineering and urban design.

Campbell has gained extensive experience with roading, tunnelling and infrastructure projects and has delivered outstanding results for Auckland Council, Auckland Transport, MoE, KiwiRail, Transpower and Vector.

In his spare time Cam enjoys time with his four girls at home and has a passion for surfing when time allows. Cam’s favourite surf break is “Skateparks” in the Telos Islands off Indonesia.

Simon Reid | Survey Manager · Licensed Cadastral Surveyor & Associate

Simon has 15 years’ experience in surveying and land development in New Zealand and has a Bachelor of Surveying from the University of Otago.

As a Licensed Cadastral Surveyor, Simon has worked on and prepared the survey and land requirement plans to define the position of the new Water View tunnel in strata including topographic survey within each affected property.

Simon has a responsive and friendly approach when working closely with the Auckland City Council, NZTA, Auckland Transport, Vector and a number of other developers on large scale Land Development projects to help them achieve their objectives.

Matthew Prasad | Director - Urban Design Specialist

Matthew runs a small urban design and development consultancy – Holistic Urban Environments (aka HUE); seeking to bridge the divide between innovative design thinking and real-world development constraints. HUE combines economic and strategic development objectives with beautiful people-based design to create environments that people want to linger in, enjoy and return to.

Matthew has a background in architecture and urban design with extensive experience working with developers and institutional organisations across the spectrum. He brings a diverse skill set and abilities to work across scales to create ‘Human Environments’ that are innovative, beautiful, exciting, functional, cost-effective and practical.

Roger Carman | Group Manager Topography

BSc, PG Dip Sc, Group Manager Topography, Land Information New Zealand (LINZ).

Roger has over 20 years experience working in the field of spatial information. His experience has been split evenly between the public and private sectors. He has also split his time evenly between New Zealand based roles and a decade spent in Europe.

Rogers’s current role sees him leading LINZ Topography Group. This group encompasses map production (LINZ Topo50 and Topo250 map series), the coordination of partnership programmes (National Imagery, Historic Imagery, Elevation and Earth Observation) and the development of a new set of Independent Topographic Datasets. Roger has a strong interest in helping his people develop their careers while building strong and adaptable teams.