Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day and diversity in tunnel engineering

The Australian Tunnelling Society (ATS) and Diversity in Tunnelling (DiT) team cordially invite you to join us for the upcoming event to mark International Women’s Day with presentations from key women in the industry (followed by Q & A).

Event Program (AEDT)

5:30pm – Registrations open & light refreshments

6:00pm – Event commences

6:45pm – Q&A

7:00pm – Discussion & drinks

7:30pm – Event close

Who should attend: Tunnelling engineers, and all those interested in the space.

Speaker 1 – Nina Kilpinen, Managing Director at Seed Engineering Australia

Nina is a successful engineer, expert project manager and business leader, with almost twenty-five years of professional experience. She is the founder and Managing Director of Seed Engineering, specialising in the development and management of complex civil infrastructure projects, large team leadership and business management. Nina is recognised for her efficiency, versatility, creativity and team building leadership capabilities, which she brings to the large-scale civil infrastructure projects she has managed.

Nina has a depth of business experience. She has founded and operated successful retail businesses, worked as non-executive director at the Australian Theatre for Young People, is a casual academic and member of the Professional Advisory Board at the University of Technology Sydney, a Fellow of Engineers Australia and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She holds tertiary qualifications in engineering, construction law and engineering management and is passionate about building leadership skills in the next generation of engineers. Nina was awarded the highly commended Consult Australia Female Leadership Champions of Change award in 2017, in recognition of her support for women in engineering. She is an active and founding member of the NSW Construction Industry diversity and inclusion roundtable, which includes representatives from over twenty construction, consulting, government and academic organisations.

Nina lives in the upper Blue Mts with her husband, three children and two dogs. She is a keen snow sports enthusiast and aims to spend at least forty days per year, on the snow.

Speaker 2 – Iris Yim, Lead Engineering Geologist at Aurecon

Iris is an engineering geologist in Aurecon with about 15 years’ experience in Australia and internationally. She worked on few challenging tunnel projects such as the Express Railway link and South Island Line Admiralty Extension in Hong Kong, Westconnex Stage 2b and 3a in Sydney. Other experiences such as geohazard risk assessment and mitigation and earthquake risk assessment in HK and New Zealand.