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Insight Exchange – Roundtables
Insight leaders will lead tightly focused Round Table discussion groups on trends and developments in water, wastewater and industrial water treatment, water re-use, desalination, produced water, public-private finance, project delivery, and more. Each delegate will be able to participate in four 20-minute discussion groups to engage with the top minds in the water market.

Topics for Round Tables

1. Evaluating the Impact of long-term investments in water assets by industry: the industrious partnership between ConocoPhillips and Colorado School of Mines
– Professor Terri Hogue, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
– Karl Fennessey, Director, Strategic Engagement, ConocoPhillips Co.

2. Water-energy nexus: the integrated challenge and opportunity space
– Dr. Andrew Benedek, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Anaergia Inc.

3. Commoditization of MF/UF membranes: will it follow the fate of the RO membrane
– Jim Lozier, Global Technology Leader, CH2M
– Guillaume Clairet, Chief Operating Officer, H2O Innovation

4. National efforts to integrate alternative finance in wastewater infrastructure development
– Dr. Andrew D. Sawyers, Director, Office of Wastewater Management, US EPA

5. Trends in technology investment over the next decade: how accelerating technology will change the market and our expectations of it
– Thierry Noel, Founding and Managing Partner, Amane Advisors

6. Which P3 formats would work in the USA: longer-term concession, O&M agreements or others
– Jeff Hughes, Director, Environmental Finance Center, University of North Carolina
– Brian D. Cullen, President, Director and Shareholder, PERC Water Corporation

7. Funding the smart grid for water: innovation in finance and delivery
– Trevor T. Hill, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, FATHOM

8. Impact of drought on water rights market
– Clay Landry, Managing Director, WestWater Research, LLC

9. The role of the mining industry in regional water supply sustainability
– Sandy Fabritz-Whitney, Director of Water Resources, Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

10. Gulf coast desalination opportunities
– Michael J. Irlbeck, Business Development Director, EPCOR Water USA

11. Closing the finance gap for infrastructure growth
– Kent Rowey, Partner, Allen & Overy LLP

12. Insights into long term O&M contracts: Nassau county O&M contract
– Rob Walker, Chief Deputy County Executive, Nassau County
– Patrick R. Cairo, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Suez Environnement North America

13. Key rating factors for private project debt financing of water infrastructure assets
– Christopher Joassin, Director, Fitch Ratings

14. The importance of water quality for agriculture: the case for cannabis
– Dr. Rick Stover, Executive Vice President, Desalitech, Inc.
– Michael Williamson, Co-Owner, Greenhaus Industries

15. Seawater desalination: assessing the new facility standards in California’s Ocean Plan
– Tam Doduc, Board Member, State Water Resources Control Board, California

16. Facilitating the development and application of USBR’s advanced water treatment program
– Yuliana Porras-Mendoza, Water Treatment Coordinator, Research and Development Office, US Bureau of Reclamation

17. Flowing from linear to a circular water economy
– Jennifer Gerholdt, Director, Environment Program, US Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Corporate Citizenship Center
– Snehal Desai, Global Business Director, Dow Water & Process Solutions

18. Economics and regulations: competing drivers in the O&G market downturn
– Drue Ann Whittecar, Director, Environmental and Sustainability Engineering, National Oilwell Varco

19. Water rights for fracking
– Paul L. Noto, Shareholder, Waterlaw – Patrick, Miller & Noto

20. Water policy in Colorado
– Doug Flanders, Director of Policy and External Affairs, Colorado Oil & Gas Association

21. Challenges of communicating the value of water to the ratepayers: Bayonne Municipal Utilities Authority
– Tim Boyle, Executive Director, The Bayonne Municipal Utilities Authority

The American water market is on the brink of dramatic changes. There is greater agreement within the sector that a change in policies, practices and processes is a necessity for water security, sustainability and well-being. The sector has demonstrated great creativity in the past 24 months, developing new approaches to project financing, service delivery and operations and rising to a range of challenges that it faces. For the industry to really thrive, however, it is critical that we can move beyond having to continuously reinvent the wheel. We need to create and adopt scalable solutions.