Four key industry Thought Leaders have collaborated with our Gold Partner, Rubner Holzbau, partner of Theca Timber, to explore why they think it is critical to our industry and our community’s future. This episode includes; Anthony Uahwatanasakul (K20 Architecture); Ellis Lamond (KPMG Infrastructure, assets and places); and Brett Diprose (Warren and Mahoney).
Claire Poole will be joining NSC this year virtually, sharing her latest thinking on sport and Climate Change and the Economic Opportunities for Sport and Government. Her weekly global podcasts interview, The Climate of Sport, features key sustainability and climate change thought leaders. This week she speaks to Aileen McManamon, Founder of 5T Sports and OG/Godmother/Coach of the sustainable sport movement. With a discussion that focuses predominantly on brand strategy, partnerships and sponsors.
To create impact, we need to focus on how do we put people first, we need to change our thinking, change the way we plan, build and operate programs, facilities and environments.
The NSC Sport and Recreation Expo will be the home of the delegates, peak bodies, collaborators over the two event days. We are excited to be able to share that the Sport and Recreation Expo Hall will offer delegates:
Following on the past decades increased understanding of climate change from the broad community, we have seen a significant interest in how sport is both being impacted by and can influence climate change.
The narrative about the Environmental Footprint that many community groups are concerned about, we are featuring an expert panel to explore what this means with the circular economy. Three expert speakers will provide an understanding of a circular economy and what innovation is being embraced to make this a reality for synthetic fields.
Within our industry we all appreciate that physical activity is vitally important for child health, development, learning and the future of participation in sporting pathways for the next 20 years. So why are we lagging behind the rest of the world?
There has been significant discussion around the latest usage trends in how to expand the usage of current natural turf fields and how to maximise sustainability of the fields. Historically this challenge has embraced broad-based benchmarks, something between 20 hours to 30 hours of play per week. It does not take into account key considerations such as:
Five “Big Issues” have been identified for this year’s NSC with key emphasis on how as an industry we can address and convert these issues into opportunities to grow participation. These will curate the NSC Agenda from day one with keynote speakers adding their weight to the discussions.
Only 3 months until the start of NSC22, with over 70 speakers (42% female) and 16 global speakers confirmed so far. Early bird registration rate ends on 31st May, so be quick to register and secure $150 discount, group discount rates are also available.