KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

We have been working behind the scenes to bring together some of the brightest minds and biggest companies from the water management industry. Our goal is to provide you with an opportunity to learn from their experience and gain insights into the market as it continues to grow.

Weds 11.45AM

Keynote Theater 1

This presentation will provide an overview of the Commission’s regulatory jurisdiction of investor-owned water utilities in California. Topics include the Commission’s jurisdictional responsibilities as well as our partnership with other California water agencies such as the Water Board and Department of Water Resources. I will also present on our Division’s priorities and specific actions for meeting our challenges.

Seminar will focus on promoting a culture of collective defense and encourage everyone to understand and take responsibility for their role in securing water as an interconnected and interdependent critical infrastructure.

Thurs 11.00AM

Keynote Theater 1

Thurs 11.45AM

Keynote Theater 1

Cleveland Water Alliance (CWA) has outfitted the Lake Erie Watershed with a telecommunications infrastructure and hundreds of IoT sensors, making it the largest digitally connected freshwater body in the world. This network provides robust, real-time data to industry, utility, agriculture, maritime, research, and recreational interests, and also serves as a testbed for innovators to deploy new technology. As a nonprofit, CWA accelerates solutions and identifies partners to trial cutting-edge freshwater technology.

City of San Luis Obispo & California Polytechnic State UniversityUtilities Deputy Director, Wastewater & Senior Scientist

Public Utility Partnership with University to Prepare for the Future

California Polytechnic State University provides a student-operated research campus onsite at the City of San Luis Obispo’s Water Resource Recovery Facility. Learn how the program has supported the career development of nearly 3,000 future engineers and water professionals, accelerated technology development centered on low-tech/low-energy treatment methods compatible with rural disadvantaged communities, and increased efficacy of the City’s treatment process through information exchange and peer review.

Thurs 12.30PM

Keynote Theater 1

Conner Everts

Southern California Watershed Alliance Executive Director

Applying Supply and Demand Analysis to Ocean Desalination in California

Weds 12:30PM

Keynote Theater 1

Ocean Desalination in California has had a long a rocky road in California cumlilating in the rejection of the Poseidon proposal in Huntington Beach, Orange County, California at The Coastal Commission last year. This seminar will discuss the history of this and other battles over supply and demand of water.

Seating will be on a first come first serve basis, arrive early so that you won’t miss the opportunity to hear from the industry-leading minds!

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