Turf & Field Forum
We have great day planned for you at this year’s Turf & Field Forum, packed with information and an exciting line of up guest speakers and commentators including; FIH CEO Kelly Fairweather, FIH Directors and Staff, as well as guest speakers from England Hockey, SMG, ISA Sport, Signgrass and Musco Lighting Group.
We have also added to the Turf and Field day a special clinic for National Associations wishing to discuss in more detail specific facility questions related to their up and coming projects.
9th November 2016
| 19:00 |
Turf & Facilities Seminar Drinks Reception |
Intercontinental Hotel, Vista Terrace |
10th November 2016
| 09.30 | Welcome |
| 09.35 | Introduction to Hockey Revolution David Luckes (FIH Sport and Development Director) |
| 09.55 | Quality Programme – Review of the First 12 Months Alastair Cox (FIH Facilities & Equipment Manager) |
| 10.20 | Coffee Break |
| 10.40 | FIH Hockey Turf Handbook 2017 Edition Proposed changes and implementation Alastair Cox (FIH Facilities & Equipment Manager) |
| 11.40 | Issues Facing Those Investing In Hockey Fields – a National Association’s perspective Kirsty Goldie-Brammer, (England Hockey Club and Facilities Manager – supported by Notts Sport Ltd) |
| 12.10 | FIH Communication – Opportunities to Promote the Quality Programme and Our Licensees Danny Parker (FIH Communications Manager) |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 13.45 | FIH Sustainability Programme & Our Interaction with IOC Mathilde Grenet (FIH Sports & Events Assistant) |
| 14.00 | Hockey Turf Sustainability Assessment Programme Gert-Jan Kieft (ISA Sport) |
| 14.45 | Innovative Use Of Logos To Create Crowd Funding Opportunities For New Hockey Fields Leon van Zijl & Carin Davits (SignGrass) |
| 15.15 | Tea break |
| 15.30 | Hockey 5s – A New Facilities Opportunity Richard Tattershaw (FIH Business Development Director) |
| 16.00 | Lighting of Hockey Fields Alastair Cox (FIH) Chris Limpach (General Manager, Musco Lighting Europe) |
| 16.30 | Maintenance of Hockey Turf Tobias Owegeser (SMG) |
| 17.15 | Summary and Close Kelly Fairweather (FIH CEO) |
| 19.00 | Hockey Revolution 2 Welcome Reception |
| FIH Preferred Suppliers | |
| ACT Global | Dan Clapham |
| Astroturf | Andy Belles |
| Edel Grass | Ralph Teunissen |
| Edel Grass | Victor Neuteboom |
| Fieldturf | Peter Van Reijen |
| Lano Sports | Stefaan Fey |
| Lano Sports | Chris Vandenborre |
| Tencate Grass | Paul Milton |
| Tencate Grass | Bart Wijers |
| Tencate Grass | Ton Raaphorst |
| Polytan | Markus Deimling |
| Polytan | Paul Kamphuis |
| Polytan | Fred Van Wijk |
| Polytan | Stephen Niven |
| FIH Certified Manufacturers | |
| CC Grass | Liang Zhang |
| Condor | Hein Heerink |
| Grassman | Mike Nobbs |
| Grassman | Kim wai Wong |
| Limonta | Davide Bertoli |
| Sport & Leisure | Philippe Dierkens |
| SIS | David Ball |
| Taishan | Jingyu Xin |
| Taishan | Haisheng Liu |
| FIH Certified Field Builders | |
| ABS Sports Surfaces | Alan Berry |
| ABS Sports Surfaces | Jaun Micheel |
| Resinsa | Rodolfo Schmidt |
| Resinsa | Pablo Gonzalez |
| Spadeoak | Dave Dawe |
| Spadeoak | Gary McIlheron |
| S & C Slatter | Jason Douglass |
| Accredited Test Institutes | |
| Acoustoscan | Grant Humphreys |
| Acoustoscan | Anthony Apparailly |
| ISA Sport | Gert-Jan Kieft |
| Labosport | Colin Young |
| Sports Labs | Richard Nixon |
| Sports Labs | Eric O’Donnell |
| Surface Performance | Callum Reid |
| Uni Gent | Stijn Rambour |
| Speakers (& sponsors) | |
| England Hockey | Kirsty Goldie-Brammer |
| Notts Sport | Nick McLaren |
| Notts Sport | Duncan Bennett |
| Sponsors | |
| SignGrass | Leon van Zijl |
| SignGrass | Carin Davits |
| SMG | Tobias Owegeser |
| SMG | Mariem Mazeni |
| Musco | Chris Limpach |
| Musco | Derek Field |
| Guests | |
| AFN Sports | Ralph Cappelle |
| Floordesign | Michael Lang |
| Mattex Group - Greenvision | Geert Haentjens |
| FIH Organisers & Speakers | |
| FIH | Alastair Cox – Facilities and Quality Programme Manager |
| FIH | Paula Jenkins – Sport Coordinator |
| FIH Speakers | Kelly Fairweather – CEO |
| FIH Speakers | Mathilde Grenet - Sport & Events Assistant |
| FIH Speakers | David Luckes – Director of Sport |
| FIH Speakers | Danny Parker – Communications & Digital Manager |
| FIH Speakers | Richard Tattershaw – Business Development Director |
