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8:30-10:00
The needs of North American municipal and industrial end users are beginning to merge: the ability to plan for an increasingly unpredictable climate, to finance and construct reliable and efficient infrastructure, and the foresight to stay ahead of changing regulations are all pushing the water industry toward holistic planning.
The Opening Plenary brings perspectives from the forefront of stormwater planning, industrial operations in a drought ridden climate, and a top-level perspective on federal priorities in water.
Christopher Gasson, Publisher, GWI.
Rana Foroohar, Columnist, Financial Times
Grant Page, CEO, Magna Imperio Systems
Kyle Dreyfuss-Wells, CEO, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
Yvonne Forrest, Deputy Director, Houston Water
Matt Barnard, Co-founder and CEO, Plenty
10:00-10:30
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10:30-12:00
Insight leaders from across the industry chair tightly focused roundtable discussions addressing the “20 Most Pressing Questions for the American Water Industry”. Every delegate will be able to participate in four 20-minute discussion groups in which they can lend their expertise to drive the discussion or quietly absorb the exchanges between the sharpest minds in the business.
12:00-1:30
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1:30-3:00
If digital systems are a game changer for water, then that game is so fragmented that the scores cannot yet be tallied on a global scale. This session will introduce the findings of a major piece of research on how to accelerate the digital utility launched at the AWS.
Christopher Gasson, Publisher, GWI.
Robert Montenegro, Executive Vice President, Grundfos USA
Roger Bailey, General Manager, Central Contra Costa
Torri Martin, Interim Deputy Commissioner, Office of Information Management, City of Atlanta.
James Reyes, Vice President, Aquatic Informatics
Galit Sasson, Senior Engineer, Mekorot
Improving stormwater management is becoming a top priority to mitigate the impacts of extreme weather and address water quality concerns – and federal and state governments are now beginning to take the issue seriously. However, as an expense that often lacks a revenue stream, bridging the stormwater funding gap requires creative thinking.
Ted Chapman, Senior Director, S&P Global Ratings Municipal Infrastructure Group
Dominique Lueckenhoff, Chair, NCPPP Water Institute
Seth Brown, Storm and Stream Solutions
Kevin Shafer, Executive Director, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Tom Entsminger, Manager of Program Administration, Texas Water Development Board
James Schlaman, Director of Planning, Black & Veatch
Kayed Lakhia, Director, Hazard Mitigation Division, FEMA
Transforming the performance of the water sector requires making change at scale. This session uncovers the opportunities for making more than 50,000 sub-scale utilities safe and successful.
George Hawkins, Founder, Moonshot LLC
Group 1
Chad Rupe, Administrator of the Rural Utilities Services, USDA
Andrew Sawyers, Director, Office of Wastewater, EPA
Sam Wade, CEO, National Rural Water Association
Sarah Buck, Director of Regionalisation, Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP)
Group 2
Brien Sheahan, Commissioner, Illinois Commerce Commission
Rebecca Roose, Federal Environmental Policy Expert , New Mexico Environment Department
Eric Koch, State Senator, Government of Indiana
Group 3
Rade Ray Kljajic, Managing Director, American Public Infrastructure Ltd
Stephen Auton-Smith, Managing Director, Ernst & Young Infrastructure Advisors, LLC
Chris Shaffner, Senior Vice President, Rural Water and Community Facilities Banking, CoBank
Jeff Baudier, Managing Director, Bernhard Capital Partners
Group 4
Amir Peleg, Founder and CEO, TaKaDu
The LUOW is a global network of the world’s most successful and innovative water and wastewater utilities. Since the initiative’s launch in 2017, 44 Gold Standard utilities have been inaugurated, and now six new nominees will present their outstanding innovations and 5-year plans to be inaugurated into the network. Attend this session to hear the best and brightest international utilities share their success and plans.
Howard Neukrug, Global Water Leaders Group and Leading Utilities of the World
Biju George, Executive Vice President, Operations and Engineering, DC Water
David Johnson, Deputy General Manager of Engineering and Operations, Las Vegas Valley Water District and Southern Nevada Water Authority
Martin Adams, General Manager, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)
Lucia Cade, Chair, South East Water, Australia
Joke Cuperus, CEO, PWN
Diane Taniguchi-Dennis, CEO, Clean Water Services
Timothy Thomure, Director, Tucson Water
Randy Hayman, Commissioner, Philadelphia Water
George Theo, CEO, Unitywater, Australia
Michael Markus, General Manager, Orange County Water District
Sue McCormick, CEO, Great Lakes Water Authority
1:30-3:00
Identifying innovation and best practices are becoming essential strategies as industries continuously seek to improve their water strategy performance to create tangible and intangible business value. The complexity and cost of identifying and deploying innovative solutions can be prohibitive, given the rapid pace of innovation, the need to demonstrate the business case, and mitigation of operational risks for deployment.
This workshop session will examine corporate strategies, case studies and how cross sectoral collaboration could be an accelerator and to scale innovative technologies, business models, partnerships and financing.
Terry Mah, Founder, Malabar Group
Vetrivel Dhagumudi, Global Program Leader, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Jacques Euler, Beauty Division – Manufacturing Sustainability, Procter & Gamble
August Ritter, Program Director, The Sustainability Accelerator, The Nature Conservancy
Will Sarni, Founder and CEO, Water Foundry
3:00-3:30
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3:30-5:00
The American water market is being asked to do more with less in the face of contemporary challenges from extreme weather events to micro pollutants. This session will present a flash summary of solutions and share perspectives from the end users adopting them.
Cristina Ahmadpour, President – North America, Isle Ltd.
Scott W. Jellison, CEO, Metropolitan District Commission Hartford, Connecticut
Todd Swingle, Executive Director, Toho Water Authority
Karen Pallansch, CEO, Alexandria Renew Enterprises
Tammy Stone, Consultant, Isle Utilities
America has more proposed desalination plants than any other country in the world according to GWI DesalData, but the market has scarcely grown over the past two decades. The cost of meeting tougher regulations on seawater desalination and the difficulty of disposing of brine inland are the two biggest obstacles. This session brings together project proponents with leading desalters to ask how technology could open out the business.
Tom Pankratz, Editor, Water Desalination Report
Darren Thompson, Director San Antonio Water System (SAWS), Water Resources
Yuliana Porras-Mendoza Desalination and Water Purification Research Program Manager, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, USA
Bob Yamada, Special Projects Director, San Diego County Water Authority
Kyle Frazier, Executive Director, Texas Desal Association
Peter Fiske, Director – Water Energy Resilience Research Institute (WERRI), Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
Brent Alspach – Principal Environmental Engineer and Director of Applied Research, Arcadis
Transforming the performance of the water sector requires making change at scale. This session uncovers the opportunities for making more than 50,000 sub-scale utilities safe and successful.
George Hawkins, Founder, Moonshot LLC
Group 5
Bill Teichmiller, CEO, EJ Cooperative
Dan Hoins, County Administrator, Sarpy County, Nebraska
Kelly Graplar, Deputy CEO, Iowa Lakes Regional Water, Iowa
Marc Robert, COO, Water Asset Management, LLC
Tad Bohannon, CEO, Central Arkansas Water, Arkansas
Hector Gonzalez, Government Affairs Manager at El Paso Water, Texas
Jim Maras, Executive Director, Association of Regional Water Organizations (ARWO)
David Stanton, President – Utilities, SUEZ North America
Del Patterson, Chairman, South Delaware County Regional Water Authority, Oklahoma
Bryan Peters, Board Member, Heartville Water Coop, Illinois
Kim Adamson, Director, Liberty Utilities
Ted Henifin, General Manager Hampton Roads Sanitation District, Virginia Beach, VA
Josiah Cox, President, Central States Water Resources
What makes the ‘Leading Utilities of the World’ innovation network different is the development of a truly innovative culture within and across utilities. In this session, the speakers from the first innovation session will receive prepared and structured feedback on their presentations from the Advisory Board of the ‘Leading Utilities of the World’ innovation network.
Howard Neukrug, Global Water Leaders Group and Leading Utilities of the World
Biju George, Executive Vice President, Operations and Engineering, DC Water
David Johnson, Deputy General Manager of Engineering and Operations, Las Vegas Valley Water District and Southern Nevada Water Authority
Martin Adams, General Manager, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)
Lucia Cade, Chair, South East Water, Australia
Joke Cuperus, CEO, PWN
Diane Taniguchi-Dennis, CEO, Clean Water Services
Timothy Thomure, Director, Tucson Water
Randy Hayman, Commissioner, Philadelphia Water
George Theo, CEO, Unitywater, Australia
Michael Markus, General Manager, Orange County Water District
Sue McCormick, CEO, Great Lakes Water Authority
5:00-5:30
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5:15-6:30
6:30-10:00
Featuring New York Times Bestselling Author Seth M. Siegel, who will discuss findings from his new book ‘Troubled Water: What’s Wrong with What We Drink’.
Ralph Exton, Chief Commercial Officer, SUEZ
