The event, dubbed the Resilient City Symposium, marks the first in a series of six to be held over an 18-month period as part of the Tomorrow Together program.

Kathryn Pugh, an environmental scientist with the council who took part in the day, said she heard a range of questions about how information is shared with and by the council, along with concerns from those in the community.

"We had a lot of questions about water but also development and how we develop as a city," Ms Pugh said. "The issue of wood smoke and our inversion layer came up again - as I suppose an old issue reemerging."

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"It's actually really great for us to get a broad sweep of how the community feel about a whole range of issues. That's the intent of today ... there's lots of overlapping issues between the themes that we're presenting."

The council's infrastructure services director Shane Eberhardt said the program was an attempt to build interaction with the community and receive more effective feedback as a result.

"It's to try something a little different to how we normally engage," Mr Eberhardt said.

Tasmania Police Northern Commander Brett Smith spoke to residents about the lessons learned from the 2016 flood response and the need for preparation and planning from individuals as much as authorities.

"How do you actually get about your daily lives when half the city has been cut off?" he asked those in the auditorium at Inveresk's Queen Victoria Museum. "We've all got a role in this to do our own planning."

Other sessions included NRM director Dr Rebecca Kelly on the future of kanamaluka/the Tamar River estuary and Just Waste Consulting director Justin Jones discussing waste and recycling. Future events will focus on design and development, the economy, transport, and social services.

In the foundation document, the council's general manager Michael Stretton says information gleaned from the process would be "carefully recorded" and considered across the year to help inform its work and agenda.

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