SESSIONS

Women in Fire panel

PRESENTER(S)
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Yvonne Pengally

Director, Myown Constructions

Yvonne holds a Bachelor of Technology (Engineering), and has worked within the construction industry for the past 35+ years, including as a government executive, board member, managing director, regional manager, and project superintendent in trade contracting, contract administration, project management, design management, and development management.

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Tracy Gurnett

Director, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Tracy Gurnett is the Director of the Air Quality Emissions Standards Section within the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Tracy has responsibility for program policy administering the permit schemes for the refrigeration and fire protection industry under the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989. Tracy has significant experience spanning over more than two decades working within the Australian Public Sector and has led teams as a Director since 2007 on a range of program and policy work including development of the 2020 Mental Health Bushfire Recovery Package to support front line workers, as a member of the National COVID-19 Taskforce working to support people with disabilities and leading a range of teams reforming Aged Care. Tracy has a double degree in Arts (political science) and Laws, and holds a Graduate Certificate in Management.

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Christina Knorr

Founding Director, CJK Fire & Safety

Christina Knorr is the founding director of CJK Fire & Safety and CJK Fire & Safety Education, which is a boutique fire engineering consultancy in Queensland. Christina is an accredited fire engineer, she is also a special expert witness, accredited meditator, entrepreneur, mother and generally a superstar!

Christina is well known in the fire protection and fire safety industry and is a member of various committees, such as Engineers Australia, External Advisory Committee on two courses at the Western Australia University and the IBQC. In addition to being a special expert and fire engineer, she is an interviewer for chartered fire safety engineers, a guest lecturer at universities and the preferred fire engineering consultant at QBCC.

She believes in raising awareness of fire safety and offers her time to speak at conferences and seminars around the country and overseas.

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Anita Kingdom

General Manager, Total Concept Industries

Over the last 10 years as General Manager of Total Concept Industries, Anita Kingdom has continually advocated for the greater Fire Protection Industry to work towards achieving a balance between legislated standards, safety and liveability. With more than 10 years experience within fire protection, Anita brings a wealth of leadership and management experience from a variety of industries that enable her to walk the fine line between technical and consumer language thus supporting TCI’s clients in gaining a better understanding of their properties, their responsibilities and their long term building management potential.

As someone who firmly believes in driving change within the industry, over the last 3 years Anita has been on the steering committee of the FPAA’s National Fire Protection Month, is instrumental the development of education pathways between the Fire Protection Industry and the public education system to have it recognised as a viable career option for school leavers and is a vocal member of the NSW State FPAA Committee.

Total Concept Industries is a niche company providing a full fire protection service offering covering design, construction installation and refurbishment and asset management across a wide variety of industries including Health, Education, Child Care and Residential.