2024 AGS Victoria AGM and Annual Dinner

We are pleased to announce that nominations are now open to join the AGS Victoria Chapter Committee for 2025. Our committee works hard to deliver professional development opportunities and networking events for AGS members. We need dedicated, enthusiastic individuals to join the committee and help us to plan, manage and deliver these events.

Nominations should be submitted using the attached form.

Nominations will be accepted until COB, Monday 25 November 2024.

The Victoria Chapter of the Australian Geomechanics Society invites you to its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Wed. 27th of November 2024, followed by its Annual Dinner.

During the AGM the Chair, Clare Bridgeman, will summarise the Chapter’s activities throughout the year.

AGS members may attende the AGM component for free, but attendance at the annual dinner requires registration.

About the speaker

Heather Wardlaw Principal Engineer, ATC Williams

She’ll be right mate (or how to say no)

Heather completed her Bachelor of Engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1984 and has worked for over thirty years as a geotechnical engineer. In 1995, she joined ATC Williams and has been there ever since.  

During her time at university, she expressed her desire to design dams to her undergraduate soil’s lecturer, but his response was there wasn’t much future in that. Despite this, Heather has now dedicated over 30 years to designing and managing upstream raised tailings dams and currently serves as the EoR representative for six tailings storage facilities at a mine site in the middle of Australia.

Heather has always been a strong advocate for STEM in schools and was actively involved in running a lunchtime engineering program at her daughter’s primary and secondary schools. Her family has a strong tradition of women pursuing STEM, with each generation inspiring the next. Now, the fourth generation of women in her family is following a STEM path at the University of Melbourne.

Heather was the first female chair of the Victorian chapter of AGS and was privileged to be on the AGS Victorian Committee for over 10 years. She is delighted to be able to talk at the upcoming AGS event some 25 years later.

Registration

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Engineers Australia members participating in AGS technical sessions can record attendance on their personal CPD logs. Members should refer to Engineers Australia CPD policy for details on CPD types, requirements and auditing guidelines.