GWS 2023 – Agenda – Day 2 – Test

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Day 2
07:00 - 08:45
Registration
08:00 - 08:45
One-to-One Networking

Your facility to book key appointments during the Global Water Summit

The Global Water Summit is the largest gathering of influential senior executives and water leaders, inviting an unrivalled group of project proponents, industrial end-users, utility leaders, financers, and technologists year after year.

Networking sessions are your chance to build the connections your business needs. As a registered delegate to the Summit, you'll build your professional profile, access accounts of those attending, and send requests for structured One-to-One appointments with your target delegates. No more missed opportunities. You arrange it all beforehand and we make it happen.

09:00 - 10:30
Opening Plenary: Water Leadership Panel

The global water industry is facing pressure from all sides. The global economy is moving in frightening new directions. Floods and droughts are reaching unpredictable new extremes. Markets are convulsed with uncertainty.

But is there reason for optimism? How can we use the water climate nexus to solve all these challenges at once? We’ve brought together some of the most influential CEOs in the industry to discuss where the greatest opportunities lie for water in 2023. 

Moderator: 

Speakers:

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
One-to-One Networking Meetings

Your facility to book key appointments during the Global Water Summit

The Global Water Summit is the largest gathering of influential senior executives and water leaders, inviting an unrivalled group of project proponents, industrial end-users, utility leaders, financers, and technologists year after year.

Networking sessions are your chance to build the connections your business needs. As a registered delegate to the Summit, you'll build your professional profile, access accounts of those attending, and send requests for structured One-to-One appointments with your target delegates. No more missed opportunities. You arrange it all beforehand and we make it happen.

11:00 - 12:30
Industrial
12 Technologies for Industrial Water Reuse

Which water technologies can effectively accelerate recovery and maximise process efficiency within industrial facilities? Industrial end-users are facing a multitude of challenges: operations in water-scarce regions, ambitious reuse targets and the rising costs of off-site waste disposal. Join a selection of the most cutting-edge technology providers to find out which innovations can boost your recovery rates, slash energy consumption levels and beat the brine management challenge.

Moderating:

Featuring:

  • Erik Roesink, CTO & Founder, NX Filtration
  • Boaz Shitzer, CEO, ROTEC
  • Mike Dixon, CEO, Synauta
  • Riina Salmimies, CEO, Sofi Filtration
Utility Futures
Utility Technology Testbed: The Mekorot Experience

Israel styles itself as the “start up nation”. It means its national water carrier has become a leader in piloting and adopting new technologies. Now with Israel facing ever greater water resourcing challenges it is reaching out globally to technology partners who can help. What are its needs? What can other utilities learn from its experience?

Featuring:

  • David Balsar, General Manager of Innovation and Ventures, Mekorot
Big Plans Roundtables
Roundtables:
Asia Pacific
Where are the opportunities for international companies in Vietnam's wastewater program? | est. $10-15 billion
Middle East / Africa
Can TAWA's multi-billion dollar water transfer projects provide water security to Southern Africa? | est. $96 billion
Middle East / Africa
Aqaba Amman Water Conveyance Project Update
Middle East / Africa
How will Cape Town's New Water programme avoid a future day zero?
Americas
How will Peru meet its $2 billion water PPP procurement schedule? | est. $2 billion
Americas
How is AZ WIFA planning to ensure Arizona's water future?
Americas
What is Paraguay's pipeline of DFI funded water and wastewater projects?
Americas
Why is the City of Baltimore upgrading its WWTPs for resource recovery?
Americas
The Delta Water Conveyance Project
Americas
The Pereira WWTP Project | est. $80 million
Europe
How will the planned Köln-Merkenich sludge incineration plant project respond to environmental regulation in Germany?
Europe
What water and wastewater projects are in the EIB's funding pipeline?
Europe
How will Tunisia's PPP program climate proof Tunisia's water future?
The Future of SDG6 Finance

The UN Water Conference in New York is a landmark event in the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals for Water and Sanitation. How will it change the financial equation? With the key financial institutions and their government and utility clients around the table, this interactive discussion aims to bring clarity and direction.

 Featuring:

  • Joel Kolker, Program Manager, Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership, World Bank
  • Sylvain Migan, Managing Director, Benin National Rural Water Supply Agency (ANAEPMR) and National Water Company of Benin (Soneb)
  • José Enrique Bofill, MENA and Asia Director, Aqualia
  • Patrick Ty, Chief Regulator, MWSS
12:30 - 13:45
Lunch
One-to-One Networking Meetings

Your facility to book key appointments during the Global Water Summit

The Global Water Summit is the largest gathering of influential senior executives and water leaders, inviting an unrivalled group of project proponents, industrial end-users, utility leaders, financers, and technologists year after year.

Networking sessions are your chance to build the connections your business needs. As a registered delegate to the Summit, you'll build your professional profile, access accounts of those attending, and send requests for structured One-to-One appointments with your target delegates. No more missed opportunities. You arrange it all beforehand and we make it happen.

13:45 - 15:15
Climate
30 Technologies for the Circular Economy

The value from waste proposition is gaining traction as never before, and as it gains momentum, the technologies which make it happen are evolving fast. Here the Isle Utilities team presents its top picks for the value from waste proposition.

Featuring: 

Desal & Reuse
The Great Brine Debate

How bad is brine? Regulators across the world are considering restrictions on seawater desalination plant discharges which could reshape the entire industry. Here we bring together the leading experts and put brine on trial. Is concentrated seawater inherently safe to return to the sea or is it a dangerous pollutant that needs to be tightly controlled? You, the audience, will decide.

Moderator:

Featuring:

  • Mohammed Kayall, Programme Managment Officer, United Nations Environment Programme/Coordinating Unit for the Mediterranean Action Plan - Barcelona Convention Secretariat
  • Olfat Hamdan, Programme Managment Officer, United Nations Environment Programme/Coordinating Unit for the Mediterranean Action Plan - Barcelona Convention Secretariat
  • Corrado Sommariva, Founder & CEO, Sustainable Water and Power Consultants
  • Rafael Palacios Prado, Vice President, ACADES
  • Diego De Vera, BD Global Director, GS Inima
  • Susan Jordan, Executive Director, Californian Coastal Protection Commission 
  • Gavin Van Tonder, Executive Director of Water, NEOM 
  • Roberto Mangano, Managing Director, ILF Consulting Engineers
  • Tomer Efrat, Vice President - Research and Development, IDE Technologies
Industrial
Water for Strategic Industry

How can representatives from semiconductor manufacturing, energy, pharmaceuticals, and multinational technology companies continue to secure growth in an increasingly water-stressed world? Economic development and technological progress are in jeopardy if strategic industries do not get the water they need. A whole new way of thinking is required from operators: hear from the people who will play a critical role in driving water for strategic industries forward.

Moderator:

Featuring:

  • Laurent Bellet, Water Lead, EDF
  • Sandy Fabritz, Director of Water Strategy, Freeport McMoRan
  • Zac Rosenbaum, Facilities Director, Samsung Austin Semiconductor
  • Chris Hayes, Sustainability Operations Director, GSK
Utility Futures
Next Generation Utilities

How will the utilities of the future be different? How will they innovate? What will be their priorities? We need to look to the next generation of utility leaders to find answers. Here we bring together some of the brightest young people from across the global utility sector to outline their visions for the future.

Featuring:

  • Bre Plier, Manager of Sustainability, MMSD
  • Rowan Meikle, Process Scientist, Scottish Water
  • Albert Kramer, Director of Business Services , Bureau of Customer Service, New York DEP
Water Business Outlook

Rising inflation and interest rates, the climate imperative, pressure for localisation, lavish public spending in the GCC and the Middle East, pressure on budgets in Europe and the developing world. What does it all mean for the business of water? Here we assemble some of the key players and the most insightful pundits to turn it all into credible insight.

 

Featuring:

  • Ian Elkins, Editor-in-Chief, Global Water Intelligence (GWI)
  • Reinhard Hübner, CEO, SKion Water GmbH
  • Bill Malarkey, Managing Partner, North America Region, Amane Advisors
  • Samrat Karnik, Managing Partner, Houlihan Lokey
  • Frederick Jeske-Schoenhoven, SVP Strategy, Communication and Sustainability, SUEZ Group
  • Michael Lesniak, VP Partnerships and Net Zero Water, Aquatech International
15:30 - 16:30
Closing Plenary

Year after year, the Global Water Summit closing plenary is a show-stopping conclusion to the conference. Set to address some of the most exciting and controversial conversations in the industry, it's something you won't want to miss. 

16:30 - 17:30
Closing Reception

The final hour of the Summit will be devoted to the Closing Reception on Wednesday 10th May, 16:30– 17:30pm.  All delegates are welcome to join with one last opportunity to network with future partners.