Partnering for Impact: 2020 Water Forum
Hosted by:
Nevada Water Innovation Institute
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Atlantis Resort and Spa
Reno, Nevada
Partnering for Impact: 2020 Water Forum
Will focus on implementation of innovative practices and methods leading to greater adoption of OneWater principles and sustainable water management practices.
2020 Program Themes
Visionary Leadership to Accelerate Results
Driving Innovations in Water Research and Technology
Achieving Goals through Innovative Partnerships
Agenda
9:30 a.m.
Check in and Morning Refreshment
10:00 a.m.
Welcome
Krishna Pagilla, Nevada Water Innovation Institute
Cliff Lawson, Nevada Department of Transportation
Leadership from the University of Nevada, Reno
10:20 a.m.
Welcome Keynote
Ralph Exton
Chief Commercial Officer
SUEZ Water Technologies and Solutions
10:40 a.m.
Inspirations
Jeff Kightlinger
General Manager
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Norma Camacho
Chief Executive Officer
Valley Water
Robert C. Ferrante
Chief Engineer and General Manager
Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County
11:30 a.m.
Visionary Leadership to Accelerate Results
Norma Camacho, Valley Water
Ralph Exton, SUEZ Water Technologies and Solutions
Robert Ferrante, Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County
Jeff Kightlinger, The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
12 (noon)
Luncheon – Sponsored by SUEZ
12:30 pm
Luncheon Keynote
Nancy Vogel, Director of Governor’s Water Portfolio Program
California Natural Resources Agency
1:15 p.m.
Afternoon Keynote
David Sedlak
Professor at UC Berkeley
Deputy Director, Reinventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure
1:40 p.m.
Driving Innovations in Research and Technology
Cristina Ahmadpour, Isle Utilities
Christabel Ferguson, The Water Research Foundation
Daniel Gerrity, Southern Nevada Water Authority
Jeff Mosher, Carollo Engineers
Paul Westerhoff, Arizona State University
2:30 p.m.
Networking Break
3:00 p.m.
Achieving Goals through Innovative Partnerships
Leo Drozdoff, Drozdoff Group
Mark Foree, Truckee Meadows Water Authority
Jackie Jarrell, City of Charlotte (NC), and WEF President
David Johnson, Southern Nevada Water Authority
Alise Porto, Switch
3:50 p.m.
Future Actions
Cristina Ahmadpour, Isle Utilities (invited)
Eric Hansen, Silicon Valley Clean Water
Jeff Mosher, Carollo Engineers
Krishna Pagilla, Nevada Water Innovation Institute
Marisa Tricas, City of Roseville
Rick Warner, Nevada Water Innovation Institute
4:30 p.m.
2020 Inspirations
Ralph Exton, SUEZ Water Technologies and Solutions
Krishna Pagilla, Nevada Water Innovation Institute
Rick Warner, Nevada Water Innovation Institute
5:00 p.m.
Adjourn
6:00 p.m.
Icebreaker Networking Reception
California Water Environment Association
Nevada Water Environment Association
About Partnering for Impact: Water Forums
Partnering for Impact: Water Forums are a conversation about what is possible when water leaders collaborate to better serve the water industry. Headed into its 5th year, this annual event creates the opportunity to generate and share new ideas and recognize current and future collaboration opportunities. The water sector and our communities continually look towards visionary leadership to create innovative and impactful solutions for increasingly complex water challenges. Our belief is that by working together with focused intent, we can accelerate the creation of ideas and implementation of results.
Partnering for Impact events began in 2016 in San Francisco, California with over 45 delegates from 12 national professional water organizations, including: WEF, Bluetech, Imagine H2O, US Water Alliance, AWWA, IWA, NWRI, WRF, WRA, and SFPUC. The group met to answer the simple question “how can we accomplish more by working together?”. Since that initial inspirational meeting, follow-up national Partnering for Impact: Water Forums occurred in Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington DC. In 2017, a shoot-off event occurred with a NEXGEN group led by Fidan Karimova of The Water Research Foundation.
Partnering for Impact: Water Forums continue to bring together key water influencers to explore how they can work more collaboratively to reach water sustainability and resiliency goals, drive economic prosperity, develop the next generation of water professional, and build innovation and research capacity. The fundamental goal is to enable a dialogue between leaders of the public sector, private organizations, and research institutions to seek out each other's needs and establish common objectives that will have a meaningful impact on the water environment right now, as well as create success in the future.
Since 2017, the Nevada Water Innovation Institute at the University of Nevada, Reno is the institutional home for Partnering for Impact: Water Forums.