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Scotland's Flood Resilience Conference 2027 - call for contributions

The aim of the 2027 conference is to build on last years theme of identify actions to implementing Scotland’s flood resilience strategy, and will look at how the wider flood resilience community can, and is, delivering action.

We would particularly welcome contributions that address the following questions:
  • How do we turn strategy into action?
    Implementation of the Flood Resilience Strategy; governance, leadership, planning, accountability, policy alignment and overcoming barriers to delivery.
  • How do we adapt to changing flood risk?
    Coastal adaptation, long-term transition and relocation; changing levels and patterns of flood risk; lived experience; and how communities navigate difficult decisions about their future.
  • What works on the ground?
    Practical delivery and case studies, including property flood resilience, nature-based solutions, catchment and land management, planning, infrastructure, community resilience and place-based approaches.
  • How can better evidence lead to better decisions?
    Climate scenarios, data, research, monitoring, AI and uncertainty; alongside lived experience, citizen science and creative approaches to understanding flood risk.
  • What will enable us to deliver at scale?
    Finance, investment, skills, workforce, infrastructure, maintenance, business involvement, collaboration and the partnerships and resources needed to make flood resilience happen.

Across all themes, we are particularly interested in examples of social and technical innovation, good practice, Just Resilience and lessons learned. While our focus is on Scotland, we are also keen to learn from approaches elsewhere where they offer useful lessons for Scotland.
  • Presentations - a maximum of 15 minutes, we will have Q&A sections at the end of each session
  • Workshops /breakout sessions - which can include presentations – we are open to different formats – please tell us more below. We particularly welcome interactive and creative approaches. We expect that these will last around 1-1.5 hours, and welcome collaborations between organisations.
Name(Required.)
Job title/role and organisation(Required.)
Email address(Required.)
Phone number (optional but recommended)
Which perspective would you be presenting from: (tick all that apply)(Required.)
What is the topic you would like to contribute? (200 word limit)(Required.)
How does this relate to the 5 themes? Please say if you consider it to fit in one theme, or multiple, and which one(s) (200 word limit)(Required.)
Who is the target audience for this presentation?(Required.)
What is the take home message for this audience? (200 word limit)(Required.)
What format would this work best in?(Required.)
What would your role be in this contribution?(Required.)
Would your contribution cover the following:
(if yes please provide more information)

Please note that these are the criteria against which we will review applications – we are not expecting all of these to be included in each contribution but will be using this to curate the programme.(Required.)
Would your contribution focus on Scotland or bring insights from elsewhere?
If the latter, please say where and the rationale for including this.
Would your contribution work in a hybrid situation – if not – please state if best delivered in person or online only(Required.)
Are you able to attend on both dates? (to note we may wish to suggest which session your presentation/workshop best fits)(Required.)