Event Detail
IPI Annual Planning Conference 2012
| Date: | Thursday, April 26, 2012 |
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| Location: | Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny |
| Members' Only Event: | No |
The Irish Planning Institute will hold its 34th National Conference on 26TH & 27TH April 2012 in the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny. This year’s conference is entitled PLANNING TO LEAD THE WAY: EMBRACING CHALLENGES & CREATING OPPORTUNITIES
The planning profession is faced with new challenges and opportunities. Planners are best placed to take up the mantle on many of the problems facing Ireland today. Planners and the planning profession need to take the lead in problem solving; use their unique skills to manage different interest groups in order to achieve a better, more sustainable future; bring people and ideas together and drive the profession into a position of leadership. This conference will examine the existing and future context of planning in Ireland and investigate new challenges and emerging opportunities for planners and the planning profession. Particular topics will include ‘unfinished developments’ ‘health and planning’ ‘new perspectives on planning’, ‘planning and new technology’ and ‘planning and flooding’. Confirmed speakers and discussion panelists include:
- Minister Phil Hogan
- Brian Motherway from Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
- Michael Walsh from the County and City Manager's Association
- Chris McGarry from the National Asset Management Association (NAMA)
- Mark Adamson from the Office of Public Works
- Andrew Montague Dublin Lord Mayor
- Conor Skehan, MIPI
More details and booking information will be available shortly on the IPI website www.irishplanninginstitute.ie