Kavan Applegate

Director, GB-Architects, Australia

Kavan is the Chair of the ICPA Planning and Design Network and Director of Guymer Bailey Architects, specialising in specialist in justice and correctional architecture – therapeutic environments that facilitate rehabilitation, empower behavioural change and create a sense of hope to ultimately reduce recidivism rates and create a better, safer community for all.
Knowing that our environment has a profound effect on us, his passion is in harnessing the transformative effects of architecture to help people live better lives. Through the creative and sustainable use of building form and materials and the rehabilitative effects of daylight, Kavan believes architecture can significantly change the quality of life for those inhabiting its space. It is this ‘architecture of hope’ that he seeks to provide each day by delivering well planned, operationally effective and delight-filled masterplanning and building solutions.
Over the last 25 years, Kavan has led the design of many of Australia’s most innovative and iconic justice and correctional projects alongside our team including Hopkins Correctional Centre, Ravenhall Correctional Centre, Western Plains Correctional Centre, Rivergum Residential Treatment Centre, Southern Queensland Correctional Centre (St2), Southern Remand Correctional Centre, and the Thomas Embling Forensic Hospital Expansion as well as works in numerous other secure facilities.
As a Director of Guymer Bailey Architects, Kavan leads the exceptional architecture, landscape architecture and interior design team across our Melbourne and Brisbane Studios and overseeing our large-scale correctional projects.

Stephen Carter

Executive Vice President, CGL Companies, United States

Stephen Carter is the Founder and Executive Vice President of CGL. Mr. Carter is personally involved in technical studies in the areas of needs assessment, operational and architectural programming, design review, program management, and policy evaluation, among others. In the area of international justice, Mr. Carter has advised the Governments of Argentina, Australia, Aruba, Bermuda, Canada, Ecuador, Israel, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Peru, United Kingdom, Romania, United Arab Emirates, the Republic of South Africa, the Republic of Georgia, Singapore, Trinidad Tobago, and Venezuela. Mr. Carter was a founding Board Member, and past Treasurer of the International Corrections and Prisons Association. He has served as Chairman of the American Correctional Association Facility Design Committee, as Chairman of the ACA Exemplary Practices Council, and was Chairman of the ICPA Planning and Design Network. Mr. Carter writes a regular column on trends in corrections for the Correctional News periodical and is a frequent contributor to the AIA Knowledge Communities periodicals. He continues to serve as a guest speaker or lecturer in a variety of academic, professional, and international forums. Mr. Carter received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Clemson University and his master’s degree in urban design and planning from the Architectural Association, London, England. Additional post-graduate studies were completed in Economics at the London School of Economics, in Transportation Planning at Imperial College, and in Sociology at the University of South Carolina.