Agenda

12.00

Boris Greifeneder, Managing Director, German Water Partnership e.V. (GWP)

Dr. Pascale Rouault, Managing Director, Berlin Centre of Competence for Water (KWB)

Dr. Severin Fischer, State Secretary, Berlin Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises

12.15

Introductory Keynote | Sponge Cities – A shared responsibility!

Dr. Carlo W. Becker, bgmr Landschaftsarchitekten

Dr. Darla Nickel, Head of Objectives and Strategies for Wastewater Management at Berliner Wasserbetriebe

12.45

Presentation Segment

Henning Larsen (Landscape.Water.Sustainability)

• Gerhard Hauber, Executive Partner at Henning Larsen (Landscape.Water.Sustainability)

Wasser Hannover GmbH

• Chiyan Peng, Managing Director at Wasser Hannover GmbH

13.15

Panel Discussion | UrbanWater 2030: Water Solutions for Resilient Cities Facing Climate Change

Moderator

• Prof. Günter Müller-Czygan, Hochschule Hof, University of Applied Science

Guests

• Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Vetter, German Environment Agency (UBA), section KomPass – Climate Impacts and Adaptation
• Cecilia Correira, Senior Water Solutions Manager at Bentley Systems
• Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Grünig, General Manager at HST Systemtechnik
• Gerhard Hauber, Executive Partner at Henning Larsen (Landscape.Water.Sustainability)
• Dr. Scott Jeffers, Water Resource Engineer at Sempergreen USA

14.45

Introductory Keynote | Resilience and infrastructure: Can we learn from the past?

Will Sarni, Founder and General Partner at Water Foundry,

Practice Lead, Water and Nature at Earth Finance, Inc.

15.00

Presentation Segment

University Innsbruck

• Resilient Urban Flood Management, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Manfred Kleidorfer, Professor of Sustainable Urban Water Infrastructure at University Innsbruck

Xylem

• Climate Resilient Drinking Water Supply in Rhineland-Platinate, Gunnar Brüggmann, Business Development Director at Xylem

15.30

Panel Discussion | Resilience and Critical Water Infrastructures

Moderator

• Dr. Nicolas Caradot, KWB

Guests

• Beniamino Russo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona Tech – UPC
• Dr. Rita Ugarelli, Chief Scientist at SINTEF AS
• Nina-Sophie Giertz, Business Continuity Manager at Berliner Wasserbetriebe (BWB)
• Prof. Dr. Timothy Moss, Senior Researcher at IRI THESys, Humboldt University of Berlin
• Frédéric Guyomard, Research Engineer at Électricité de France
• Dr. Ir. Jereon Langeveld, Associate Professor Urban Drainage and Director Urban Drainage Knowledge Program at TU Delft

16.30

Closing Keynote

Aklilu Fikresilassie (PhD), Director of Cities for Africa at World Resources Institute (WRI)

16.50

Boris Greifeneder, GWP

Dr. Pascale Rouault, KWB