UK & Ireland MIKE User Group Symposium 2025
Knowledge sharing and networking with water and environment professionals
Date: 23 to 24 September 2025
Venue: The Moat House Acton Trussel, LowerPenkridge Road, Acton Trussell, Staffordshire, ST17 0RJ
DHI UK & Ireland is excited to announce its 2025 edition of the MIKE User Group Symposium! It is an in-person, free, networking event to allow you to share knowledge and experiences about the MIKE software and other DHI technologies in the conducive setting of a symposium. Representatives from regulators, local authorities, environmental and civil engineering consultants, industry and academics are welcome to attend to learn and expand their professional skills.
INTERESTED?
Attendance Cost: Free
Accommodation: Please book your stay at The Moat House by contacting conference@thelewispartnership.co.uk
WHAT TO EXPECT:
Delegates are to arrive at the venue on Wednesday, 24th of September at 10:00 a.m.. Following registration and refreshments, the symposium will kick off the first of three presentation blocks of the day. Following lunch the latter two presentation blocks will be held, with a break for networking and refreshments around mid-afternoon. The last session of the day will be followed by an hour to recuperate or gather with colleagues. A three-course dinner will be the culmination of the symposium’s first day.
Thursday, 25th of September, is planned as a half day. Two presentation sessions with a break for refreshments are planned. Following a brief closing ceremony, delegates have the option to grab a to-go snack before departing.
PRESENTATIONS:
Presentations will cover a broad spectrum of themes including:
- coastal and estuary hydrodynamics and morphology
- flood and storm surge climate change risk mitigation
- the built coastal environment
- port, harbour and shipping examples
- offshore topics
- aquaculture
- ecological modelling
Presentation slots are filling up fast – Please contact us at mike.uk@dhigroup.com if you want to reserve one of the last few places.
CONFIRMED LINE-UP OF SPEAKERS:
- Kevin Barry [ARUP], a long-time symposium delegate, will be talking about 2D flood modelling.
- Vera Jones [Atkins Realis], also a returning symposium delegate, and her colleague Amelia Araujo, along with Rachel White [Port and Coastal Solutions] – in attendance for the second time – are teaming up to present how a standard modelling approach to bathing water quality could be used to better inform the UK public.
- Caitlin Perry [Atkins Realis] takes a closer look at how breakwaters affect nearshore currents that influence reef stability with the help of a coupled MIKE 21/3 model. The audience will gain insight into what ecological considerations play into coast development projects.
- Bala Palananthakumar [Atkins Realis] digs deeper into how groundwater flow contributes to coastal flooding. This FEFLOW approach promises to spice up the discourse around coastal development design considerations in the context of climate change mitigation.
- Jack Unsworth [Intertek], returning symposiast, also takes a look at water quality of transitional coastal waters with a review of how MIKE 21 modelling contributes to Chemical Investigations Programme (CIP)and how MIKE software helps his team deliver projects under the AMP programmes.
- Shilpa Swaraj [Intertek] also contributes to the discourse around the AMP8 programme in a presentation of how Intertek is using MIKE+ to provide forecasting services of inland bathing water in the UK.
- Kristen Goseine [University of Plymouth, Ph.D. candidate] is poised to discuss how MIKE 21 hybrid 2D / one-line models – in particular slope-dependent mesh discretisation – improve computational efficiency of simulations of sandy coastlines.
- DHI’s own Zeeman Yang Zongyan addresses wave transmission over submerged breakwaters in the context of MIKE 3 wave FM modelling.
- Teresa Chu [Mott MacDonald] uses MIKE 3 FM to investigate what the impacts of water and power plant outfall pipe design parameters can be on temperature and salinity dispersion in environmentally sensitive areas in the Arabian Gulf. Her postprocessing results will highlight the strengths of the python MIKE IO package.
- Further confirmed speakers include Jacobs’ Giulia Mancini, Mott MacDonald’s Adrian Wright, WSP’s Germano Piccirilli, and ABPmer’s Adam Fulford.
ANY QUESTIONS
Please contact DHI’s UK & Ireland Team: mike.uk@dhigroup.com