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PROGRAMME

SCHEDULE AND LOCATIONS

Implementation of integrated solutions by cities, industries, utilities and financiers:

from cases to bankable projects

AIWW Conference 2019

The AIWW Conference is designed to provide a platform for professionals from across the water sector, as well as water-related fields such as agri-food, energy and nature, to build connections and scale up solutions.

Energy transition and resource recovery

Circular business models open the way to incorporate multiple principles for value creation. Beyond financial values, also environmental and social values are taken into account. Advanced integrated solutions to complex challenges are needed to create impact on resource recovery and energy transition for a better climate and to realize the SDG’s for a better-balanced world. This theme also focuses on how to structure projects and make them bankable.

Intergrating water and resource management

Worsening droughts and polluted water sources call for improved planning and decision-making processes, better coordination and sustainable use of resources while minimizing conflicts among users. There is a need for increased cooperation among resource user groups to balance the economic, environmental and social needs of society. Also, there is a need for integrating water solutions in innovative ways and for a common understanding and appreciation of benefits in local catchments, cities and/or industrial zones. Challenges of emerging concern are contaminants, recreation

related to urban water and a growing need for food production. Part of the solution can be found in the area of a river basin approach, open data, improved collaboration with local (public and private) stakeholders and alignment with local public policy objectives. ICT & DATA: artificial

intelligence and smart robotica

New ICT & Data solutions can be a game changer in water management and offer huge opportunities to combine data with artificial intelligence and smart robotica. Digital solutions are the key drivers for innovation in the water sector to cope with challenges like creation of new services, need for new competences and management tools.

Blue-green solutions for (urban) resilience

Growing challenges of climate change ask for continued collaboration to build more resilient communities. Innovative solutions can be found in the area of: • next generation green flood inundation maps; • resilient critical (green) infrastructures &

aligning (urban) objectives; • protecting existing infrastructure and other

capital and social assets by building resilient and blue-green solutions to extreme weather events and increased variability.

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Implementation of integrated solutions by cities, industries, utilities and financiers: from cases to bankable projects

Conference programmeMONDAY 4 NOVEMBER

09:30 - 10:00

PLENARY OPENING KEYNOTES CONFERENCEForum Room

10:30 - 11:30

ROUND ICITY LEADERS FORUM*E102

ROUND IUTILITY LEADERS FORUM*E103 - E104

ROUND IINDUSTRY LEADERS FORUM*E105

FINANCIAL MODELS FOR WATER MANAGEMENTE107

ENERGY TRANSITION AND RESOURCE RECOVERYE108

POLLUTION PRESSURE AND SMART WATER ALLOCATIONG104

SMARTER AND GREENERSOLUTIONS FOR URBAN WATER SYSTEMSE106

11:30 - 11:45

COFFEE BREAKForum Lounge / Ruby Lounge

11:45 - 13:15

ROUND IIINTEGRATEDROUNDTABLES 1*E102

ROUND IIINTEGRATED ROUND TABLES 2*E105

ROUND IIINTEGRATED ROUND TABLES 3*E103 - E104

ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES AND REUSE STRATEGIESG104

BUILDING MORE RESILIENT COMMUNITIESE107

HOW TO DESIGN AND FINANCE CLIMATE AND WATERPROJECTSE108

WATER SCARCITY RELATED RISKS; CHALLENGES FOR COMPANIES AND INVESTORSE106

13:15 - 14:45

LUNCH BREAKForum Lounge / Ruby Lounge

14:45 - 16:15

PLENARY INTEGRATED LEADERS FORUMForum Room

16:15 - 17:00

WALK-IN AIWW OPENING CEREMONYAuditorium

17:00 - 18:30

AIWW OPENING CEREMONYAuditorium

19.15

DEPARTURE RAI TO SCHEEPVAARTMUSEUMAmsterdam

20.15 - 22:15

AIWW CONFERENCE DINNERScheepvaartmuseum Amsterdam

*By invitation only with limited access for a number of selected delegates.

AIWW Conference programme is subject to change

Leadership Programme

Research & Innovation

Cases & Solutions

Workshop

Theme Session

Conference programmeTUESDAY 5 NOVEMBER

9:00 - 9:25

PLENARY KEYNOTES CONFERENCEForum Room

09:25 -10:40

FINANCIAL MODELS FOR INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS E102

BLUE-GREEN SOLUTIONS WITH FOCUS ON INCLU-SIVE CITY MASTER PLANNINGE103

ENHANCING MARKETABILITY OF RECOVERED RESOURCES FROM THE WATER CYCLEE104

MANAGING WATER QUALITY IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS E105

GLOBALCOLLABORATIONE107

AMSTERDAM AGREEMENTSE108

10:40 - 11:00

COFFEE BREAKForum Lounge / Ruby Lounge

11:00 - 12:15

WATER TREATMENT OPTIONS AND DEALING WITH EMERGING SUBSTANCESE102

ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE AND SMART ROBOTICA FOR SMART WATER MANAGEMENT E103

WATER SECURITY: ASSESSMENT AND QUANTIFICATION METHODOLOGIESE104

GLOBAL CHALLENGES, STARTUP SOLUTIONS; WORLDWIDE EXAMPLES OF SMART AND INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR WATER MANAGEMENTE105

WATER AS LEVERAGE AROUND THE WORLDE106

STORMWATER AND WASTEWATER RESILIENCE IN CITIESE107

ADVANCING SDGS IN EUROPE AND BEYONDE108

12:15 - 13:30

LUNCH BREAKForum Lounge / Ruby Lounge

13:30 - 14:45

INTEGRATING WATER AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: RIVER BASIN APPROACH AND NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONSE102

RESILIENT CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND RENEWING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A CIRCULAR APPROACH E103

IMPACT AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FULLY CIRCULAR URBAN WATER CYCLEE104

LATINAMERICAN WATERDIALOGUEE105

INVESTMENT PATHWAYS FOR WATERE107

SOCIAL INCLUSIVENESSE108

14:45 - 16:00

CREATING VALUE OUT OF WASTEWATERE102

DATA MANAGEMENT AND CO-CREATION, SMART OPERATIONS AND ASSET MANAGEMENT E103

SMART WATER SOLUTIONS; POSSIBILITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR THE WATER SECTORE104

SOLUTIONS AND GOALS FOR INTEGRATED CLIMATE ADAPTATION FOR RURAL AREASE105

BENCHMARKING AND NAVIGATION IN PLANNING OF CLIMATE ADAPTATION OF MID-SIZE CITIESE106

SCALING UP NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS FOR WATER MANAGEMENT IN EUROPE E107

WETSKILLS CHALLENGESE108

16:00 - 16:30

BREAK

16:30 - 18:00

PLENARY CLOSING CEREMONYForum Room

AIWW Conference programme is subject to change

AN UNMISSABLE ARRAY OF SPEAKERS

‘Our goal is to accelerate progress with adaptation around the world. Water is at the heart of this.’

Ban Ki-moon 8th UN Secretary General

‘The need for a truly multi-stakeholder approach to water is absolutely key.’

David Nabarro Former UN special adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

‘To meet the challenges on climate adaptation, we need to scale up and speed up. GCA will work on that in close collaboration with the AIWW Global Community.’

Patrick VerkooijenCEO Global Center on Adaptation

‘Climate change has already happened. We have to start by elevating the awareness of leaders.’

Kenzo HirokiCoordinator of the High-Level Experts andLeaders Panel on Water and Disasters

Ecumenical Patriarch BartholomewArchbishop of Constantinople-New Rome

Chrysoula Papacharalampou, Ambassador Future Water Leaders

Veronica ManfrediEuropean Commission, Director for Quality of Life

Henk OvinkDutch Special Envoy for International Water Affairs

Rich SorkinCEO and co-founder Jupiter Intelligence

Pablo BereciartuaSecretary of Infrastructure and Water Policy, Argentina

Roelof KruizeMember Managing Board AIWW Conference 2019 / CEO Waternet

Menno HoltermanChair Managing Board AIWW Conference 2019 / CEO Nijhuis Industries

‘ Measurement provides us with numbers. The natural capital approach helps understand the context of these numbers so we can act upon them.’ Mark Gough CEO Natural Capital Coalition

Bianca Nijhof, Managing Director Netherlands Water Partnership

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