Attend Beyond A Tunnelvision 2024 as a speaker

Costs

Early bird tickets: €150,- (excl. €31,50 VAT)

Regular tickets: €175,- (excl. €36,75 VAT)

Young professionals or students (-35 y/o)*

Early bird tickets: €100,- (excl. €21,00 VAT)

Regular tickets: €150,- (excl. €31,50 VAT)

*Your ID will be checked upon arrival at the location.

Location

A Room With A Zoo, Antwerp, Belgium

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Participate with your knowledge or experience

Asset owners, industry, and knowledge partners need to work together on solving issues related to tunnel renovations. Beyond a Tunnel Vision is aimed at sharing real-life problems and learning from practical solutions for asset owners. Therefore you have the chance to share your input with others involved in tunnel renovations in Europe during the Beyond a tunnel vision conference on October 16th, 2024.
 
The topics presented at the conference meet some requirements. Therefore, when you apply as a speaker (see form on this page), you need to address the practical value of your contribution to asset owners and fit your subject into the three goals of the European tunnel network. Preferably you join forces with another organization and make your presentation a co-production. For example client/contractor, asset owner/knowledge institute, contractor/sub-contractors, et cetera.

Topics for presentations

The following three topics will be addressed during the conference. If you are an expert on one of the topics mentioned below and want to give a presentation or host a workshop during a parallel session, please apply by filling out the contact form before the 31st of May 2024.

 

1. Skills and resources; how to manage, maintain, and renovate tunnels with limited resources 

• Silent knowledge made specific and available
• Building  an ecosystem of tunnel experts

 

2.Asset management for tunnels; professional, data-driven decision-making from a lifecycle perspectives

• Asset management 1.0, a lifecycle approach
• Climate proof tunnels
• Uniformity and standardization in demands and requirements
• The balance between costs and benefits for society

 

3. Renovation while in use; management, and maintenance with ‘the shop open’

•  Strategies, and options
• Just in time, effective monitoring and maintenance strategies
• Unknown unknowns, getting a grip on your asset, including cybersecurity
• The tunnel within its system, getting a grip on stakeholders and their network
• Civil, IT, installations, logistics, and refurbishment strategies and options

Terms & conditions

• Until August 31st, 2024: If you cancel your registration, you will receive a full refund.
• From September 1st, 2024 to October 1st, 2024: Cancellations are permitted, but a 50% administration fee will be deducted from the total costs.
• From October 2nd, 2024: Cancellations are accepted, but no funds will be provided.
• Your registration is transferable to another person until October 14th, 2024.
• Failure to attend the conference without prior cancellation will result in being charged the full registration fee.

Cancellation

For any cancellation of your registration, please contact bringyourowntunnel@cob.nl via email