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Scotland’s Flood Resilience Conference
Verture has been running Scotland’s leading annual Flood Resilience (previously Flood Risk Management) conference for the last two decades.
This is an annual event bringing together flood professionals and practitioners, researchers, policy makers and communities to share, learn and network.

 

Conference reports, videos and slideshows from all conferences held since 2017 can be found below.

 

Since 2020, conference have been recorded and videos of the sessions can be viewed on the Verture Vimeo channel.

 

See the programme for the 2025 event here.

  • This year, we built build on Scotland’s first National Flood Resilience Strategy, published in December 2024. With sub-themes of People, Place and Process and multiple breakout sessions, we aimed to share good practice, inspire. and provide learning opportunities to establish a new level of cross-sector collaboration.

     

    You can view the conference programme here and the presentations here. Videos for the live streamed session are on our Vimeo page.

     

    With thanks to our conference sponsors allowing a diverse and engaging programme to be delivered:

    FloodRe, AtkinsRealis, AECOM, CPE Consultancy, Network Rail and Balfour Beatty.

    We focused on raising the collective ambition and planning together for the future of flood resilience in Scotland, ahead of the consultation on Scotland’s first Flood Resilience Strategy. We recognised achievements and identified opportunities to further progress making flood and broader climate resilience a core part of how we design Scotland’s places.

     

    You can view the conference programme here and the presentations here. Videos for the live streamed session are on our Vimeo page.

    Acknowledging that the flooding challenge due to the climate emergency compels us to work together to ensure that Scotland’s places continue to thrive despite rising sea levels and more intense and frequent rainstorms.

     

    You can view the conference programme here, the report here, and download the presentations here. Videos for the live streamed session are on our Vimeo page.

     

    COVID19 and lockdown highlighted structural faults and inequalities within our society with efforts underway to tackle underlying issues with a green recovery and ‘building back better’.

     

    View the conference programme here. This conference was a fully online conference and videos of the presentations are available rather than the slide decks. These can all be found on our Vimeo page.

    We explored what the climate emergency means for Flood Risk Management with contributions from youth climate strikers as well as policy and planning experts from the public sector. We looked at translating the growing momentum into systemic change and identifying new ways of working.

     

    View the conference programme here, and the conference report here. The report contains links to our conference audio recordings on Soundcloud as well as video interviews with delegates. The slide deck is available here and videos for the live streamed session are on our Vimeo page.

    The ten year anniversary of the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009, provided an opportunity to take stock of achievements and to identify opportunities to make further progress. The overall theme was ‘moving forward together’ with sub-themes including community engagement and adapting to climate change.

     

    View the conference programme here, report here and slides here.

    The year, the impetus was on weaving together policy areas as well as organisations. The conference focused on four topics: the wider Flood Risk Management policy landscape; coastal flood risk management; surface water management; and innovation.

     

    View the conference report here and slides here.

    Over the course of the event, inspiring speakers guided the delegates through three key themes – changing climate, changing roles for communities, and changing land use – showing the progress Scotland has made already, and where the flood risk community should be going next.

     

    View the conference report here and slides here.