GWS 2023 – Agenda – Day 1 – Test
All delegates are welcome to join the Welcome Reception on Monday 8th May, 17:30 – 18:30pm. Take this opportunity to grab your badge before the conference starts the next morning, and to network with other eager attendees.
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.
Climate change and economic growth are the two biggest challenges facing the world in 2023. It is the conceit of this year’s Global Water Summit that water holds the key to both. Investment in water technology and infrastructure is at the heart of our response to climate, while at the same time this investment opens the way to new directions for economic growth. Join leading thinkers in our inspirational opening session as they talk about the opportunities for our sector.
Moderator:
- Christopher Gasson, Publisher, Global Water Intelligence (GWI)
Keynote Speaker:
- Christiana Figueres, Co-host of the podcast “Outrage & Optimism” and Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Speakers:
- Gunda Röstel, Chairwoman of the Board of German Water Partnership (GWP) and Deputy Chair of the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE)
- Christoph Donner, CEO, Berliner Wasserbetriebe
- Sabrina Soussan, CEO, SUEZ
- Johan Rockström, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research & Chair, Global Commission on the Economics of Water
- Alejandro Jimenez, Strategy and Business Development Director, Acciona
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.
Cut out the noise and get direct answers to the biggest questions the industry is facing in 2023, straight from the water leaders and influencers best positioned to answer them.
The intense, fast moving roundtable sessions are consistently highly rated by our large constituency of returning delegates. Expert speakers 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.
Riki Mor, Customer Relations and Corporate Responsibility Manager, Mekorot
John Robinson, Partner, Mazarine Ventures
Federico Daonti, Manager of Water Technological Innovation, Gruppo Hera & Umberto Querze, Manager of Aqueduct Systems, Gruppo Hera
Patrick Ty, Chief Regulator, MWSS Regulatory Office, Manila
Johan Rockstrom, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Jan Kwiatkowski, Vice President, Water Authorities, DHI Group
Ross Wilson, Bioresources Process Specialist, Infrastructure Atkins & Peter Vale, Carbon and Circular Economy Architect, Severn Trent
Alex Rappaport, CEO, ZwitterCo
Zouhayr Arbib, Head of Sustainability Area, Aqualia
John Hanula, Senior Vice President, Innovation, Stantec
Liviu Mantescu, CEO, Watergenics GmbH & Boris Greifeneder, Managing Director, German Water Partnership
Jeff Walker, Executive Director, Texas Water Development Board
Margot D\'Ancona-Roesink, Head Sustainable Capital Markets, Rabobank
Kapil Kanugo, Private Equity and Fund Development Manager, Incofin
Khalid Al Habib, Chief of Strategy and Investment, WTTCO
Victoria Delmon, Manager, IFC
Geoff Gage, Managing Partner, Amane Advisors
Slava Libman, CEO, FTD Solutions Inc.
Mariana Concha, Head of Water Stewardship, Codelco
Saada Al-Shukaili, Head of Water Management, Petroleum Development Oman (PDO)
Aditee Dabholkar,Ultrapure Water/Wastewater Subject Matter Expert, Texas Instruments
Alejandro Muñoz, Civil Hydraulic Engineer, CMPC
Marta Ceadel, Water and Sustainability Consultant, Danone
Abas Abdullah, Acting CEO, Air Selangor
Chayawee Wangcharoenrung, Director of Domestic Wastewater, Pollution Control Department Thailand
Booky Oren, Chairman & CEO, Booky Oren Global Water Technologies
Taqsem Khan, CEO, Dhaka WASA
Monika Weber-Fahr, Senior Advisor, Results & Partnerships, World Bank
Ruan Guoling, Director, The Institute of Seawater Desalination and Multipurpose Utilization, Ministry of Natural Resources of China
Narendran Maniam, CEO, Indah Water Konsortium (IWK)
Juan Miguel Pinto, Director of Sales and Strategy, Energy Recovery
Michael Toh, Director, Industry and Technology Collaboration, PUB
Felipe Aravena, CEO, Ecopreneur & Fernando Velasquez, Development Manager, ECONSSA
Tariq Al Ghafari, President of DTRI, SWCC
Corrado Panzeri, Head of InnoTech Hub, Ambrosetti & Alessandro Vivani, Project Leader, Ambrosetti
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.
Methane represents two thirds of the sector's short-term emissions, the bulk of which comes from onsite sanitation. This finding has the potential to unlock new carbon mitigation finance for developing countries, but how? This is the big question for donors, policy makers and utilities from around the world. Can the answer be found during this year’s Summit? We're bringing them together in Berlin to find out.
Moderator
- Martin Gambrill, Visiting Professor & Independent Consultant, The University of Newcastle / The University of Leeds
Speakers:
- Ella Lazarte, Water Finance and Private Sector Engagement Lead, USAID
- Dr Barbara Evans, Professor of Public Health, Leeds University
- Sasha Kramer, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SOIL
- Prof. V. Srinivas Chary, Professor and Director, Administrative Staff College of India
- Philip Hermann, International Business Group Director, Manila Water
- George Butler, Principal Water & Sanitation Specialist, IFC
- Thomas Van Gilst, Head of the Water Security and Resilience Division, EIB
What are the big ideas that have the potential to change the face of desalination and water reuse? Picking winners at an early stage is extremely difficult but Tech Idol has a remarkable success rate. We bring together five of the hottest ideas in desalination and water reuse and pitch them against each other in front of our judging panel. Which game changer will be crowned Tech Idol in 2023?
Judges:
- Tom Pankratz, Editor, Water Desalination Report (WDR)
- John Tonner, President, Water Consultants International
- Lisa Henthorne, Chief Scientist, Aris Water
- Dorothee Chabredier, Principal and ESG lead, Amane Advisors
- Thomas Altmann, EVP, Innovation & New Technology, ACWA Power
- Tariq Al Ghafari, Acting President of DTRI, SWCC
- Rick Stover, CTO, Gradiant
- Paul Choules, CEO, Water Cycle
Speakers:
- Arian Edalat, CEO, Active Membrane
- Timothy Naughton, Technical Director, Salinity Solutions
- Richard Bruges, CEO, Salinity Solutions
- Greg Newbloom, CEO, Membrion
- Alex Grant, CEO and Co-Founder, Magrathea Metals
- Junghyo Yoon, CTO, NONA Technologies
A staggering 2 million m3/d of water will be required by 2030 to fuel global green hydrogen goals. How can a reliable water supply be secured? Soaring global demand for critical materials is also driving technology development to accelerate recovery rates of metals such as lithium. As decarbonisation ambitions contend with the challenges of water scarcity, join experts to discuss potential synergies and assess how the water industry can ensure the reality of the energy transition.
Moderator:
- Hu Fleming, Senior Advisor, Worley
Speakers:
- Giulia Pizzagalli, Innovation Projects Manager, Anglian Water
- Laurent Bellet, Water & Energy Advisor, EDF
- Hans Brinkhof, Business Development & Project Manager - Germany, VoltH2
- Chris Brace, General Manager of Growth Futures, Yarra Valley Water
- Alexander Fortin, Senior Director, Energy Transition, Worley
- Gabriel Meruane, R&D Project and Process Manager Lithium, SQM
- Matthew Brannock, Water for Future Fuels Lead, GHD
- Lauren Flores, Water Treatment Engineer, Chevron
How should water define investment strategy? Financial institutions understand zero carbon, but they don’t have the same clarity in the transition to a water secure future. And they want it. What message should corporate water users be giving investors to help them understand the link between better management of water risks and shareholder value?
Moderator:
- Christopher Gasson, Publisher, Global Water Intelligence
Speakers:
- Klaus Kunz, VP - Head of ESG / External Engagement and Performance Reporting, Bayer
- Lydia Whyatt, Managing Director, Resonance Management LLP
- David Henderson, Managing Partner, XPV Water Partners
- Ariane Coulombe, Associate Director Corporate Relations, CDP
- Francis McAllister, Vice-President - Land, Water & Liability Management, Freeport McMoRan
- Sophie Tremolet, Europe Freshwater, Director The Nature Conservancy
- Elisabeth Goos, EMEA Leader - Sustainability Services, IBM
The key government agencies in the Saudi water sector present their strategies and plans and explain what they expect from international partners.
Moderator:
- Tom Scotney, Editor, Global Water Intelligence
Speakers:
- Nemer Al-Shebel, CEO, National Water Company (NWC)
- H.E Khaled Al-Qureshi, CEO, Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC)
- Abdullah Al Zowaid, Deputy Governor, Production Affairs, Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC)
- Khalid M. AlHabib, Chief Strategy Officer, Water Transmission and Technology Company (WTTCO)
65 Gold Standard utilities have already been inaugurated into the LUOW Network. Glimpse the future of utility operations, joining both old and new members as they share their outstanding achievements, and discover what this global network of cutting-edge providers plan to do differently over the next 5 years.
Moderators:
- John Ringham, Chair, Leading Utilities of the World
- Howard Neukrug, Co-Chair, Leading Utilities of the World
Speakers:
- Michael Webster, Executive Director, Water and Sanitation, City of Cape Town
- Andrea Aliscioni, COO, MM Spa, Italy
- Marco Blazina, CEO, Wastewater, MM Spa, Italy
- Shaunna Berendsen, CIO, Anglian Water
- Anselmo Collins, Senior Assistant General Manager - Water System, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
- Harry Sachinis, CEO, Athens Water (EYDAP)
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.
To truly reach net zero carbon emissions, utilities need a complete rethink in the way they invest in their infrastructure, and both utilities and suppliers need to get to grips with scope 3. It's an urgent priority: as the impact of infrastructure is long term, the sooner utilities can make procurement carbon-conscious the bigger the positive impact will be. How can utilities build the manufacturing, construction and lifecycle carbon footprint of their investment into their procurement decisions? How can the supply chain support them to achieve low carbon within budget?
Moderator:
- Amanda Lake, Head of Carbon and the Circular Economy, Jacobs
Speakers:
- Mads Leth, CEO, VCS Denmark
- Neil Brennan, CEO, Seqwater
- Gauke Reitsma, CEO, Eliquo
- Jenny Astrom, Sustainability Manager, Sydvatten
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Alexis de Kerchove, Senior Director, Client Sustainability, Europe, Xylem
- Chris Thurston, Head of Sustainability, Watercare
- Svetlana Yelchaninova, Director Commercial Sustainability and Global Markets, Alcoa
The market for desalination is growing beyond the GCC, and development finance institutions are playing a bigger role in financing new capacity. They are taking a much more activist approach to ensuring that plants represent the best value for money for the end users. Here we bring together some of the leading DFIs and desalination off-takers to agree the new rules for desalination, laying the foundations for future growth.
Moderator:
- Paul Choules, CEO, Water Cycle
Speakers:
- H.E. Khaled Al Qureshi, CEO, Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC)
- Charafat Afailal El Yedri, Former Minister in Charge of Water, Government of Morocco
- Rami Ghandour, Managing Director, Metito Utilities
- Joerg Dux, Team Leader Water Team Northern Africa, KfW Development Bank
- Khalid Tahri, Technical and Engineering Senior Manager, Office National de l'Electricité et de l'Eau Potable (ONEE)
- Bastien Simeon, Managing Partner, Amane Advisors
- Edoardo Borgomeo, Water Resource Management Specialist, World Bank Group
- Gastón Astesiano, Public Private Partnership Team Leader, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
- Mario Guido Valverde Herrera, Deputy Director of Timely Execution of Investment, ProInversion
- Victoria Delmon, Asia Infrastructure Upstream and Advisory Manager, IFC
16:00 - 16:45: Project Showcase - Egypt
Egypt aims to award deals over the next year to build 21 water desalination plants. It is the first $3 billion phase in one of the world's most ambitious desalination programs. Hear from Egyptian financing institutions and others involved in implementing the program as they outline their projects and update the Summit on their status. What is Egypt looking for from the international water community?
Moderator:
- Javier Sierra, Egypt Country Manager, Aqualia
Speakers:
- Karim Badr, Chief Executive Officer of the Utilities & Infrastructure Subfund, The Sovereign Fund of Egypt
- Nicola Saporiti, Water Lead, Transaction and PPP Advisory, IFC
16:45 - 17:30: SWCC Project Spotlight
SWCC is changing its procurement strategy opening out opportunities for new partners. This is a must-attend session for those involved in the desalination and transmission supply chain.
Moderator:
- Javier Diaz, Saudi Arabia Country Manager, Aqualia
Speakers include:
- Sharekh Al Sharekh, Deputy Governor Technical Affairs and Projects, Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC)
- Mohammed Al Ghamdi, Executive Manager, Business Manager, Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC)
- Ahmed Aldwimr, Director, Production Projects Eastern Region, Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC)
Beauty & Personal Care manufacturers are facing multiple operational challenges in a progressively water-stressed world. Onsite water circularity offers a route to resilience in a changing climate, yet many obstacles stand in the way of widespread adoption. A pioneering group of multinational manufacturers have joined forces to illuminate the industry’s path towards water reuse and recycling.
Moderator:
- Menno Holterman, CEO, Nijhuis
Speakers:
- Jacques Euler, Beauty Division – Manufacturing Sustainability, Procter & Gamble
- Hans-Ulrich Buchholz, Environmental Compliance Manager, L'Oreal
- Cecilia Coates, Climate & Water Lead, Colgate-Palmolive, Colgate-Palmolive
- Sam Ridler, Global SHE Capabilities Manager Water, Unilever
With $47 billion to invest across the water cycle from water treatment to sludge management, the National Water Company (NWC), Saudi Arabia, is looking for dynamic partners who can deliver innovation at scale.
Moderator:
- Walid Khoury, General Manager, Desalytics
Speakers:
- Mansour Abuthnain, VP Projects and Technical Services, NWC
- Khalid Alhmoud, GM Supply Chain, NWC
- Alexander Jovcic, GM environment, NWC
- Saad Alghamdi, GM Strategy, NWC
What are the big ideas that will shape the future of the utility sector? Here we present 10 of the best from across the world. Some are organisational, some are technological, some redefine the responsibilities of utilities, but all of them are customer led and set to reshape the dynamics of water providers around the world.
Moderator:
- Antoine Walter, Senior Business Development Manager Wastewater Treatment, GF Piping Systems
Speakers:
- Sai Wai Chau, Deputy Director of Water Supplies, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
- Adel Hagekhalil, Chief Executive and General Manager, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
- Yossi Yaacoby, VP for Engineering, Technology & Strategic Planning, Mekorot
- Ari Raivetz, CEO, Transcend
- Kristina Bognar, Director Water & Wastewater, Schneider Electric
- Jelle Hannema, CEO, Vitens
- Karsten Lumbye, Head of Business Creation / Chief Innovation Officer, Aarhus Vand
- Franziska Meinzinger, Head of the Water Management Cooperation Unit, Hamburg Wasser
- Bhavik Barochia, Digital Consultant, Arup
- Victoria Edwards, Founder and CEO, FIDO
Each year, the coveted Global Water Awards are presented at the Global Water Summit. In 2023, we will be celebrating excellence across the international water industry, announcing our 2023 winners at the Estrel Convention Center, Berlin.
Each person attending the Summit will be invited to the Awards Ceremony and Dinner, and all those who registered before the early bird deadline can make their voice heard, voting on companies in each category. It's a celebration of all that is best about the water industry and we can't wait to invite you to it.
View the full 2023 Global Water Awards Shortlist here. Voting is closing on April 20th at 21:00 BST.
