PhD in Civil engineering, Professor of Hydraulics and Hydrology at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC), Scientific Advisor of AQUATEC (AGBAR – VEOLIA Group) and Coordinator of EU ICARIA project (Improving Climate Resilience of Critical Assets). Author of almost 200 papers published on peer reviewed journals and international conferences proceedings in the field of flood risk management, urban drainage and climate resilience.

Dr.-Ing. Pascale Rouault pursued her studies in Grenoble and has held several positions, such as lecturer and deputy head of department at TU Berlin. Between 2007 and 2022, she was actively involved with KWB, where she rose to become head of department and an authorized signatory. Over the past two years, she has been leading water management and neighborhood development at Hamburg Wasser. As of 2024, she serves as Managing Director of KWB.

Jeroen Langeveld successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Interactions within wastewater systems’ in 2004. The main drive in his career is to further develop and apply knowledge in the field of Urban Water, with urban drainage being the focal point for activities. In 2014 he founded the company ‘Partners4UrbanWater’, where he is mainly involved in (applied) research projects. Since September 2010, he holds the part time (0,4 fte) position of Associate professor Urban Drainage. His research projects cover the broad field of urban drainage and linkages to many related fields such as urban flooding, asset management, public health, ecology, modelling and monitoring.

Studied Security Management and International Security Management at the HWR Berlin. Worked as consultant and wrote emergency concepts for several districts in Germany. Since 2023 working for the BWB as crisis manager. Developing contingency plans to minimize risks. Enable the crisis team to handle unforeseen events.

Frédéric Guyomard is an expert research engineer at Electricité De France (EDF-R&D-Lab Paris-Saclay) with 20 years of experience in telecom and digital security. He holds a degree in Electronics Systems and a Master’s in IT Security and Cybercrime from Troyes University of Technology. Over the past 15 years, Frédéric has specialized in digital security and the assessment of industrial environments, contributing to large-scale projects within the EDF Group, including AMI, nuclear systems, transport, monitoring, renewable energy, smart grids, and smart charging.

Since 2019, he has worked closely with European Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) initiatives and contributed to IPCEI concerns. Frédéric coordinated the H2020 PRAETORIAN project, a 23-partner consortium across seven EU countries, addressing combined cyber and physical threats to critical infrastructure. As Senior Project Manager, he leads the EXERA Cybersecurity Technical Committee, is an active member of ECSO and ENCS, and authored the Cybersecurity Research Roadmap for EDF Lab.

Chiyan Peng is an expert in water resource management and sponge city planning with over 30 years of experience. He is currently the CEO of Wasser Hannover GmbH in Hannover, Germany. His career spans Germany, China, the Netherlands, and other countries, with a focus on sustainable stormwater management, ecological restoration of urban river systems, drainage system upgrades, flood management, pollution control, and water environment improvement.

Peng addresses the unique hydrological, climatic, and ecological conditions of each project using an integrative approach to solve urban water system challenges. Under his leadership, multidisciplinary teams have successfully completed projects such as the Leidsche Rijn project in Utrecht, the Sponge City project in Changde, the ecological restoration of the Guitang River in Changsha, and the water system planning for Central Park and Airport Town in Hefei. These projects integrate water systems to manage flood risks naturally, promote biodiversity, and enhance urban water resilience, reflecting significant progress in water cycle management and ecological restoration.

Rita Ugarelli is Chief Scientist at SINTEF Community and adjunct professor at NTNU, Norway. She holds a PhD in Civil Engineering, specializing in Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM) for urban water systems. She coordinated the H2020 STOP-IT project, led cybersecurity and interoperability tasks in the Digital Water City project, developed a “water smartness” framework in B-WaterSmart and leader of the data analysis in the HE EU-CIP project. Rita is Associate Editor of the Urban Water Journal, Board Director at Water Europe, Vice President of Water Europe’s Executive Committee, and a member of the European Commission expert group on critical infrastructure protection.

Tim Moss is a Senior Researcher at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Honorary Professor at the Leibniz University Hannover. Tim’s research is distinctive for connecting historical studies of infrastructure with contemporary debates on sociotechnical and urban transitions. He draws on relational and socio-spatial concepts from urban geography and science and technology studies to analyse past infrastructural trajectories, setting an example in theoretical grounding for historical research. Conversely, he uses analysis of the past as a source of historical contextualisation and critical reflection for scholarship on current transitions to urban networked infrastructures. He is particularly interested in the processes by which energy and water infrastructures reflect and reproduce the multiple geographies, power relations and socio-materialities of a city.

Manfred Kleidorfer holds a PhD in Engineering (2009) and serves as a Professor of Sustainable Urban Water Infrastructure since 2020 and Dean of Studies since 2021. With a background in civil engineering, he specializes in urban water management, climate change adaptation, and stormwater management. As Chairman of the IWA/IAHR Joint Committee on Urban Drainage since 2024, he contributes to advancing knowledge and practice in sustainable urban drainage systems. His work bridges academic research and practical solutions, addressing pressing global challenges in urban water resilience, flood and drought management, and infrastructure development.

Dr. Scott Jeffers’s career focuses on urban water resources and green infrastructure collaborating with major municipalities internationally to address modern challenges in water, wastewater, and stormwater systems. Scott brings over 13 years’ experience in the water resource industry specializing in site and regional hydraulic/hydrologic modeling, capital improvement master planning, optimization/prioritization for asset management, IoT deployment, and a background in novel digital water techniques.  Scott is a leading expert in EPA SWMM modeling and teaches as an adjunct professor at Drexel University.