About this Event
Water is one of our most precious natural resources, it is at the very heart of our daily activities and a key element for global well-being and sustainable economic growth. We need to accelerate progress to face critical challenges such as growing scarcity along with rising demands due to factors such as drought, overuse, leaking pipes; lack of access to safely managed drinking water and sanitation services, wastewater treatment and reuse, etc.
The efficient and sustainable management of water distribution systems is not an easy task if we want to ensure safe and reliable freshwater supply to consumers while maintaining efficiency at a low cost, something which is fundamental in almost all industries, from farming to robotics.
Nowadays, a wide range of advanced tools and strategies are used to address pressing challenges in the water sector: from water quality simulations to modeling of water distributions systems, the water domain has not yet reached a satisfying level of maturity when tackling digitization challenges such as fragmentation, lack of a holistic vision, or integration and standardization of the technology.
The objective of the session is to analyse how to overcome those challenges from different perspectives, how we can do more with less water in a sustainable manner, from Innovation in technology to financing, business models, partnerships and policy as main enablers for society and businesses to make effective change happen.
This free virtual experience will also invite FIWARE Community experts to discuss how Open Source technology and key standards are contributing to the ability and speed to address urgent challenges and the needs of society and the world as a whole.
THE AGENDA
14:00 – 14:05 — Opening and Introduction (E.G. Nadhan, Red Hat Chief Architect and Strategist, North America)
14:05 -14:15 — Global Overview – The Need to Digitalise Water (Robert Brears, Founder of Our Future Water and Author of Urban Water Security, The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus)
14:15 -14:30 — Keynote Speech – General trends on Digitalization – Digitalisation in the Water Sector (Prof. Dragan Savic – CEO of KWR Water Research Institute)
14:30-14:45 — Expert Session – Intelligent Water Networks as a core for digital transformation (Frédéric Charles, Intelligent Water Networks, Directeur Stratégie Digitale & Innovation – SUEZ Smart Solutions)
14:45-14:55 — Expert Session – FIWARE Value Proposition- Integration and standardization of ICT solutions and Smart Data Models for the Water Domain – Alberto Abella – Data Modelling Expert FIWARE Foundation, Juanjo Hierro – CTO FIWARE Foundation
14:55 – 15:05 — Expert Session – Linking EPANET to FIWARE – Chris Sweetapple – Research Fellow at University of Exeter and Fernando López – FIWARE Cloud and Platform Senior Expert
15:05-15:20 — Q&A Session
15:20-15:30 — Case Study 1: FIWARE4Water – Water – A Global Issue, Local Solutions – Kate Baker, PhD Research Fellow, Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter – Ben Ward, Drinking Water Asset Manager, South West Water
15:30-15:40 — Case Study 2: FIWARE in NAIADES Smart Water Platform (Dr. Eunsook Eunah Kim, Head of Research and Development – UDG Alliance)
15:40-15:50 — Case Study 3: aqua3S: Innovative technologies for Safety and Security in existing water networks (Dr. Anastasios (Tasos) Karakostas, PhD, Computer Scientist Centre for Research and Technology Hellas)
15:50-16:00 — Case Study 4: DWC (Digital Water.City) – Early Warning System and Match-Making Platform for Safe and Optimized Integration of Wastewater Treatment and Agriculture Irrigation – (Adriano Mancini, Ph.D. Researcher in Computer Science, Università Politecnica delle Marche )
16:00-16:10 — Case Study 5: SCOREWater (Arjen Hof, Director of Civity, Member of the SCOREwater Consortium)
16:10-16:20 — Q&A Session
16:20-16:30 — Closing Remarks (Ulrich Ahle, CEO FIWARE Foundation and Cristina Brandtstetter, CMO FIWARE Foundation)