The 2022 Carbon and Energy Professionals Conference is open to all

Reducing emissions is in everyone’s job description this year the CEP gathering is a great place to learn and meet experts

While the CEP annual conference in Rotorua on June 1-2 in Rotorua is an essential calendar entry for all carbon, sustainability and energy efficiency professionals, it offers an opportunity for anyone who needs to know more about reduction opportunities to meet the experts who can help reduce emissions.

The CEP conference is New Zealand’s largest gathering of practising carbon, sustainability and energy efficiency personnel. The year’s theme is Accelerating Decarbonisation and the focus is on educating delegates with innovations, practical solutions and case studies.

As an investment in personal development or to accelerate your organisation’s decarbonisation, the CEP conference is excellent value for money.

The conference runs in partnership with the Bioenergy Association and The Sustainability Society and topics on the programme include efficiency, decarbonisation, low carbon buildings, renewables, biofuels and energy storage and cover embedded and/ or operating emissions.

CEP is affiliated with Engineering New Zealand as a Collaborating Technical Society and the conference programme reflects this practical bias, especially its second day where the structure of concurrent sessions allows delegates to pick and choose sessions to match their areas of interest.

The conference is an excellent way of picking up CPD points and there are concessionary rates for members of CEP, Engineering New Zealand, The Sustainability Society and the Young Energy Professionals Network.

The keynote speakers are world leaders in their fields and have been selected to bring variety and fresh perspectives.

Kim McCoy is an oceanographer who has dedicated his life to understanding the relationship between climate change and the oceans. He has unsurpassed insight into how rising sea levels and more volatile tidal surges will impact coastal areas and what we can do about it.

Dr David Rolnick is a leading expert in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. He is CoChair and biodiversity lead at Climate Change AI, a collaborative of the brightest global brains in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

AI is already delivering huge efficiency improvements in building maintenance but that is just the tip of the iceberg. The next wave of AI will dramatically change design, build and operations in virtually every sector of the economy.

The remainder of the programme is packed with high quality sessions from across New Zealand’s corporate and public sectors.

These include Genesis, EY, NZGBC, Ara Ake, EECA, Toitu Envirocare, Hutt City Council and GNS.

The conference closely follows the scheduled release of the Government’s Emission Reduction Plan and representatives of the Green Party (Hon James Shaw), the Labour Party (Hon Dr Megan Woods) and the National Party (Hon Scott Simpson) will be on hand to provide their views on its content, implications and impact.

Event MC is Te Radar, who brings proceedings together with his wit and knowledge of sustainable living.

The conference runs an associated trade exhibition which provides a platform for companies in the market to showcase their products and services and engage with buyers.

It allows delegates to learn about the latest in available technologies and innovations and meet product and service providers that will help them decarbonise.