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  • Mon 6 July, Wed 8 July, Mon 13 July & Wed 15 July 2026 (

    QGIS for Environmental Practitioners | Short Course 3

    This course is now booked out. If you would like to go on the waiting list please email us at office@eianz.org

    This online short course “QGIS for Environmental Practitioners”, developed with the University of Western Australia (UWA), will enable you to develop practical QGIS skills with a focus on realistic environmental scenarios.

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  • Tues 7 July, Thurs 9 July, Tues 14 July & Thurs 16 July at 12:00pm - 3:30pm (AEST)

    Online workshop | Streamline and clarify your professional documents: Tools for stronger argument and clearer writing | Workshop 58

    Many people feel that professional documents, including the demanding ones for Impact Assessment (IA) or Assessment of Environmental Effects in New Zealand, are overly long, complex and filled with unnecessary details. Many suggest that better-written documents would help. That idea isn’t wrong, but it isn’t enough. Because you can’t write clearly if you don’t have something clear to say. And many professionals, who can master data and analysis, struggle with converting their observations into useful conclusions and recommendations.

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  • Thurs 16 July, Thurs 23 July, Thurs 30 July, Thurs 6 Aug & Thurs 20 Aug 2026

    Online Workshop | Artificial Intelligence: AI Readiness for Leaders | Workshop 1

    Build the confidence and practical readiness to lead AI adoption across your organisation, with a focus on strategy, risk, ethics and implementation.

    The program is designed to help leaders move from uncertainty and broad interest to practical readiness, strategic confidence and informed action. Participants will explore what AI readiness looks like in practice, where the real organisational risks and opportunities sit, and how to lead implementation in a way that is ethical, manageable and commercially sound.

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  • Wed 22 July, Fri 24 July, Wed 29 July & Fri 31 July 2026

    Online workshop | Environmental Leadership: Tools they don't teach - Increasing your impact as an environmental professional | Workshop 8

    Ordinary leadership training isn't designed for environmental professionals. We face unique challenges - from navigating complex stakeholder dynamics to driving systems change while managing scientific uncertainty. Environmental leadership demands resilience, the ability to perceive and respond to interconnected factors, and skills to hold organisations accountable while safeguarding the wellbeing of species and ecosystems.

    This program fills the gap. Rather than learning generic leadership theory, you'll be guided by an environmental leadership expert and learn to use tools specifically designed for environmental professionals working in complex, high-stakes contexts.

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  • 23 July 2026 NSW

    NSW | Social Practitioners Gathering: SIA Guidelines Update

    Join fellow social impact practitioners for an evening of professional connection and discussion in Sydney. This session features Tim Kirby, Director, Major Projects Advisory Development Assessment and Sustainability at the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure, presenting an update on the Social Impact Assessment (SIA) Guidelines, along with insights and lessons learned from recent practice.

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  • Mon 27 July, Mon 3 Aug, Mon 10 Aug & Mon 17 Aug at 12:00pm - 2:30pm (AEST)

    Online workshop | Artificial Intelligence: Black Belt training | Workshop 13

    The Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand is proud to present a series of interactive online workshops on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Whether you're just starting or ready to scale AI use, this course will guide participants through the practical steps of applying AI more extensively in your daily work.

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  • 30 July 2026

    Webinar | Wildlife monitoring at Australia’s sub-Antarctic islands and the detection of Avian Influenza at Heard Island

    Australia’s sub-Antarctic islands are among the most remote and extraordinary places on the planet, home to vast colonies of seabirds and seals, species found nowhere else, and ecosystems on the frontline of global environmental change. This webinar offers a rare look at how wildlife is monitored in these challenging environments, and how researchers are working to understand emerging threats such as highly pathogenic avian influenza at Heard Island.

    Join Dr Julie McInnes as she explores the wildlife monitoring at Australia's two sub-Antartic Island groups and some of the work carried out to understand the impacts of HPAI at Heard Island.

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  • 31 July 2026

    Webinar | Water Quality Matters – A Deep Dive Into 25 Years of Water Quality From Environmental, Process and Regulatory Perspectives

    Understanding water quality in an environmental context is not a one-size-fits-all exercise. While guidelines such as the ANZECC water quality guidelines provide a critical framework, the implications of their ‘carte blanche’ application often has real-world implications. In practice, this can lead to overly conservative targets, unnecessary cost, and outcomes that are not aligned with actual environmental risk.

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  • Tues 4 August 2026 to Thurs 6 August 2026

    National Biodiversity Offsets Conference 4.0 | Nature Positive by 2030: Integrity, Restoration and Net Gain in Action

    Australia's premier forum on biodiversity offsets returns for its fourth iteration. Under the theme Nature Positive by 2030: Integrity, Restoration and Net Gain in Action, this three-day conference brings together policymakers, regulators, practitioners and academics to explore how offsets can deliver genuine ecological outcomes – and to inform the path toward a nature-positive future.

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  • 3-4 September 2026

    EIANZ 2026 Impact Assessment Symposium

    Explore what Australia’s national environmental law reforms mean for impact assessment practice, and how implementation can drive better environmental outcomes across jurisdictions.

    The Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand's Impact Assessment Special Interest Section is proud to present its 2026 Symposium with the theme: Seizing the opportunity: Delivering better outcomes from regulatory reform.

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  • Tues 15 Sept, Thurs 17 Sept, Tues 22 Sept & Thurs 24 Sept 2026 from 10:00am to 1:30pm (AEST)

    Online workshop | Meaningful public participation and Impact Assessment: Tools for effective engagement and communications | Workshop 3

    Public participation, often referred to as community engagement, is a cornerstone of impact assessment (IA) and planning approvals processes. However, ongoing challenges to meaningful engagement include:

    • the complexity of the regulatory environment,
    • navigating uncertainty in impact assessment of policies, plans, programmes or projects, and
    • often low levels of public trust in organisations involved in these endeavours, the media, and governance processes[1].

    Join EIANZ and facilitator Tanya Burdett, for training in public participation, with a focus on impact assessment, explores 13 foundational, essential and contextual elements that combine to form meaningful engagement in IA.

    [1] The 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer suggests 61% have moderate or higher sense of grievance, with impacts on trust; and there are similarly low levels of trust in the emerging role of AI according to a recent KPMG / MelbUni study on trust, attitudes and AI use here

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  • 11-13 November 2026 | Melbourne

    EIANZ 2026 Annual Conference | Technology, Trust and Legislative Reform: Navigating the new environmental frontier

    The Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ) invites you to Melbourne for a two-day deep-dive into professional collaboration that delivers real-world environmental outcomes. The theme for this year's conference is Technology, Trust and Legislative Reform: Navigating the new environmental frontier.

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