Presenters

Samuel Allam, Special Counsel, Baker Mackenzie
Sam is a Special Counsel in our Environment and Climate Change practice, based in Sydney. He is known for providing incisive advice to manage environment and climate change issues, especially risks and opportunities most acute to the renewable energy and digital economy transitions. This positions clients to meet regulatory, governance, and shareholder expectations from a whole-of-environment and ESG perspective. Sam has been operating in this field for more than 10 years, in private practice and in-house. This includes working inside one of Australia’s biggest renewable energy companies where he led the Environment Team and reported to the GC and COO. Before joining Baker McKenzie three years ago, Sam was a Senior Associate at a top tier law firm in Sydney. His regular column – the "Whole of Environment Report" – is published by The Fifth Estate (a leading Australian newspaper on the sustainable environment). The column targets the C-suite and leaders in government. It draws on Sam’s day-to-day work and through its conversational style offers rare clarity on subjects like emissions reduction targets, mandatory climate reporting, corporate governance, greenwashing, the voluntary carbon (ACCUs) market, Australia’s new nature repair market, climate change litigation, nuclear energy and offshore wind.  Sam is a guest lecturer on environment law, renewable energy, sustainability and climate change at the University of Melbourne Law School.


Dr Adam Bumpus, Principal Sustainability Consultant, Senversa
With over 20 years in climate communications, policy, and technology, Dr Bumpus specialises in helping organisations navigate and create value out of creating a low carbon, climate resilient future. Currently he spends most of his time helping Australian companies navigate mandatory climate reporting requirements and improve their responses to climate change. He brings extensive experience working with the private sector, UN, World Bank, and governments to improve reporting, communications, and strategy implementation. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University in carbon finance and degrees in geography and ecology. He is particularly interested in the role of innovation and entrepreneurship for climate solutions. Previously, Adam led research projects on clean energy innovation at the University of Melbourne and held visiting positions at Stanford and UC Berkeley. He co-founded the Internet of Energy Network (IOEN) and previously co-founded and ran a communications agency delivering strategic climate projects for the UN and World Bank across the Pacific and Southeast Asia.