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• Wednesday, 3 December 2025

   

  TIME	SESSION AND PRESENTER
  9:00am	Opening – The Lord Mayor of City of Adelaide
  9:30am	Keynote – Professor Chris Daniel – Green Adelaide goals, strategic plan, policy, activities.
  10:00am	Panel discussion
  10:30am	MORNING TEA
  	Session I - TREES AND URBAN FOREST
  11:00am	Protecting urban trees from harsh summer – Prof Stephen Livesly (University of Melbourne)
  11:20am	Which plant where? Climate ready street tree trials – Prof Michelle Leishman (Macquarie University)
  11:40am	Future trees project in South Australia – Dr Kate Delaporte (EI, Waite Arboretum)
  12:10pm	Panel discussion / Q&A
  12:30pm	Lunch
  	Session II – VALUING TREES AND GREENSPACE
  1:15pm	Learning from abroad – Modelling Nature-Based Solutions efficiency – Professor Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey, UK
  1:45pm	Multidimensional factors of green infrastructure – Gail Hall, the Australasian Urban Green Infrastructure Network
  2:05pm	Valuing the benefits and cost of street trees – Dr John Kandulu (EI, Economics)
  2:25pm	Asset Management for Green Infrastructure – Dr Jacquiline Balston, IPWEA Australasia
  2:45pm	Panel discussion / Q&A
  3:00pm	AFTERNOON TEA
  	Session III – BUILT AND GREEN INFRASTRUCTURES
  3:30pm	Learning from abroad – Implementing nature-based actions in cities: Learning from Varcities EU – Professor Denia Kolokotsa (Crete, Greece)
  4:10pm	New development models led by nature – Stephanie Sirianni, Nature Collective
  4:25pm	Opportunities to Optimise Urban Greening and its Water Sources using Smart Stormwater Systems– A/Prof Mark Thyer & Dr Matthew Armstrong (EI, Environmental Engineering)
  4:40pm	Panel discussion / Q&A
  5:00pm	END OF DAY ONE
  5:00 – 8:00pm	Tour to Botanic Gardens and with a BBQ/drinks/canapes at the end (optional).

• Thursday, 4 December 2025

  TIME	SESSION AND PRESENTER
  	Session V – FROM BARCELONA TO LONDON
  9:00am	Urban Greening: Challenges, Goals, Strategies, Evaluation – Dr Angeliki Karanasiou, Spanish Research Council, Barcelona
  9:45am	London as National Park City – Abby Crisostomo, Head of Green Infrastructure, London Authority
  10:30am	Panel Discussion / Q&A
  11:00am	MORNING TEA
  	Session V – HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT
  11:30am	Mental health benefits of green space – Professor Xiaoqi Feng (UNSW)
  11:50am	Nature Positive: The link between biodiversity and health – Professor Sarah Bekessy (RMIT University)
  12:10pm	Developing health-based green policy – Carmel Williams (EI/CHiAPRT)
  12:30pm	Panel discussion / Q&A
  12:50pm	Lunch
  	Session VI – GREENING AND COMMUNITY
  1:40pm	Community of practice of greening in Adelaide – Dr Tim Johnson, TREENET
  2:10pm	Planning for value and risk from urban greening – Assoc Prof Douglas Bardsley (EI, Social Sciences)
  2:25pm	Preparing the new generation of friends of trees – Dr Mark Kohler (EI, Psychology)
  2:40pm	Green urban environments for native wildlife and environmental education – Dr Katja Hogendoom (EI, Agriculture)
  3:10pm	AFTERNOON TEA
  	Session VII – MAKING IT HAPPEN
  3:40pm	Learning from abroad - Singapore Green Plan 2030 – Professor Prof Tan Puay Yok, National Parks Board of Singapore
  4:15pm	Good design, good outcome – Dr Matthew Skjonsberg, Praxis Institute, Switzerland
  4:50pm	Greening Adelaide: The role of landscape architecture
  5:10pm	Q & A
  5:30pm	END OF SYMPOSIUM

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