GWS 2023 – Agenda – Day 2 – Test

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.

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: 

• Dr. Roger Harrabin, Independent Energy and Environment Analyst

Speakers:

• Rohit Aggarwala, Chief Climate Officer & Commissioner, New York City Department of Environmental Protection
• Marta Verde, CEO, GS Inima
• Guillermo Moya, Head of Europe, Aqualia
• Anja Eimer, General Manager, Global Water Industries, Siemens
• Susan Moisio, Global Water Director, Jacobs

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.

It is the biggest opportunity in the water business: delivering water and wastewater infrastructure to the underserved. It is also the biggest challenge. The UN Water Conference brought it to the world’s attention but 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.

Moderator: 

• Joel Kolker, Program Manager, Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership, World Bank

 Speakers:

• 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
• Archie Chiromo, Investment Director, Climate Fund Managers
• Saad Ul Islam, Investment Director, British International Investment (BII)
• Aditi Bhattacharya, Private Sector Infrastructure Finance Specialist, ADB
• Dany Vardi, Global Water Lead, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Connect with over $100 billion of tangible opportunity across a series of bustling roundtables, hosted by the key stakeholders representing the most exciting projects in the international water industry.

Project proponents lead tables of tightly focused discussions on what is new and trending in the international water industry. With 4 rotations, you'll get the chance to make up to 40 new contacts in this session alone.

1. Choose a topic and join the table
2. Meet the host and table guests
3. Participate in an intimate, face-to-face exchange of ideas
4. After 4 table rotations, you’ll leave the session with a new set of contacts, a meeting set up for later that day and a step towards your next deal.

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.

Rising inflation and interest rates, the climate imperative, pressure on budgets, crazy acquisition multiples, corporate reinvention, and the drive for sustainability. 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.

Moderator: 

• Ian Elkins, Editor-in-Chief, Global Water Intelligence (GWI)

Speakers:

• 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 - 16:00 - Water and the War in Ukraine

Ukraine is in the middle of a brutal conflict. Critical infrastructure has seen both under-investment and direct damage leaving water systems with significant engineering and capital needs. What security environment would be needed to facilitate investment in Ukrainian infrastructure? What are the preconditions here, and by what means could they be achieved?

In the first half of this closing plenary, join Valeriy Chaly, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the USA, Ukraine, and our moderator, Lydia Whyatt, Managing Director, Resonance Asset Management, as we answer these questions and more. 

16:00 - 16:30 - Closing Remarks

The Global Water Summit seeks to address urgent questions, critical for mapping out a path for water through the climate crisis. Did we get answers, and where is more work needed? Don't expect feel-good conclusions, as Christopher Gasson, Publisher, Global Water Intelligence (GWI) leaves no stone unturned and no assertion, unchallenged. 

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.