Scotland's Flood Resilience Conference 2025

Sniffer is delighted to announce that the annual Scottish Flood Resilience Conference, will be held at Dynamic Earth on 28 and 29 January 2025. The theme this year is Taking actions to implement the Flood Resilience Strategy.

Scotland’s climate has already changed and will continue to do so. Increasing rainfall intensity, storm severity and rising sea levels mean it will not be possible to protect all communities from every flood that we experience. Scotland must become more resilient to flooding to help communities, organisations and places thrive in the changing climate. This will require a paradigm shift in how we deal with floods, building resilience at all scales from individual properties right up to catchment scale. It will require engagement of a broad range of delivery partners with communities at the heart of the process. And it will require more innovative and diverse flood management actions.

Join us at the 2025 Scottish Flood Resilience Conference, when Scotland’s first Flood Resilience Strategy will have been published. Get involved in exploring the ways the whole flood resilience community can take action to implement the Strategy’s intentions. We have a mix of plenary presentations, breakout sessions, panel discussions and Q&As, with something to appeal to all audiences.

Programme

A draft programme for the Conference is available on Sniffer’s website. The final programme will be available in December 2024.

Who should attend?

Delivering the Strategy will involve close collaboration between policy makers, flood practitioners, third sector, communities and all of those involved in managing and designing Scotland’s places and the infrastructure and land upon which we rely. Delegates from local councils, developers, government agencies, consultancies, NGOs, researchers, and communities are warmly encouraged to attend.

Tickets

The conference is often oversubscribed, so please register quickly to avoid disappointment. Ticket sales close on 10 January 2025. We want to make sure the diverse voices of the Flood Resilience community are represented, so we kindly ask you to try to limit the number of in-person delegates per organisation to 4 or less.

This year, we have been able to allocate one free ticket to each Local Authority in Scotland, to assist with attendance. Please check with colleagues before booking one of these tickets, as any second booking from a Local Authority will be cancelled.

Registration closes 10 January 2025

For queries about conference organisation including tickets, logistics and catering please contact our event manager partner Red Harbour Events: [email protected]

For queries about conference content and programme, please contact Sniffer [email protected]

Online delegates

Attendance online is free. Presentations and the plenary sessions will be live streamed; however, not all workshop sessions and breakouts will be available as hybrid. These will be highlighted in the final programme.

In person delegates

There is a modest fee to attend the conference to help offset rising catering and hosting costs. Please note that those chairing and speaking at the event are entitled to a concessionary ticket. A limited number of free tickets are available for individuals at an early stage in their career, community representatives or from third sector organisations for whom cost could be a barrier to attendance. If you have any questions about eligibility for free tickets, please contact [email protected]

Scottish Flood Forum and FloodRe Drinks Reception

We are delighted to announce that a networking drinks reception is being held at Dynamic Earth on the evening of Tuesday 28 January 2025 immediately after the main conference session, at which the Scottish Flood Bus will be officially launched by Scottish Flood Forum and FloodRe.

Drinks and refreshments will be available, and included in the standard two-day ticket price, but not in one-day or concessionary ticket prices.

'Small print'

· If you have not registered, we will not be able to admit you to the conference.

· Switching delegates is permitted but please inform Sniffer of any changes by 10 January 2025. We know that last minute changes to attendance are sometimes unavoidable and we will try our best to switch delegates with shorter notice than this, but please note that catering options, badges and programmes will not be able to be amended after this date.

· Refunds are available if requested 30 days before the event however please note that Eventbrite’s transaction fees are non-refundable.

· Please note it is essential to provide details for each individual attendee. Please take care to enter names as you would like them to appear on your name badge.

· The conference is oversubscribed every year and has a waiting list. Sniffer reserves the right to limit the number of tickets available to any individual organisation, to allow others the opportunity to attend.

We are pleased to announce that this years conference has been sponsored by:

FloodRe as our main conference sponsor, CPE Consultancy and Balfour Beatty.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Our Dynamic Earth, 112-116 Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, United Kingdom