Agenda

11:00 am

Welcome Address and Opening Remark – Steve McKnight, Virginia Tech

11:15 am

Smart One Water ERC Strategic Plan – Sunil Sinha, Virginia Tech

11:30 am

Diversity and Culture of Inclusion – Bevlee Watford, Virginia Tech

11:45 am

Stakeholder Engagement – Jon Greene, Virginia Tech

12:00 pm

Summary and Discussion on Strategic Plan, Diversity, and Stakeholder Engagement

Moderators: Sunil Sinha, Bevlee Watford, and Jon Greene

1:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Break

1:15 pm

Convergent Research (Session I) – Paolo Gardoni, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1:30 pm

Governance & Implementation (Session II) – Meghna Babbar-Sebens, Oregon State University

1:45 pm

Workforce Development (Session III) – Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech

2:00 pm

Innovation Ecosystem (Session IV) – David Dzombak, Carnegie Mellon University

2:15 pm

Breakout Sessions Instructions – Sunil Sinha and Kathleen Laskowski

2:30 – 3:30 pm

Smart One Water Breakout Sessions – I, II, III, and IV (Breakout Rooms)

• Convergent Research (Session I) – Moderators: Paolo Gardoni & Sunil Sinha

• SOW Implementation (Session II) – Moderators: Meghna Babbar-Sebens & Edgar Westerhof, Arcadis

• Workforce Development (Session III) – Moderators: Glenda Scales & Melissa Meeker, Water Tower, GA

• Innovation Ecosystem (Session IV) – Moderators: David Dzombak & Ken Thompson, Jacobs

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm

Break

3:45 - 4:45 pm

Smart One Water Report from Breakout Sessions – I, II, III, IV, & V

Moderators and Group Leaders will report the key discussion points related to each breakout sessions

4:45 pm

Summary of Activities and Discussion on Path Forward for NSF-ERC-SOW

Moderator: Jon Greene, Strategic Planning, Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS), VT

5:00 pm

Workshop Wrap-Up

11:00 am

Smart One Water

Sunil Sinha, Professor and Director

11:15 am

Federal Initiatives

USGS, Pierre Glynn, Branch Chief

US ACE, Joe Manous, Director

US EPA, James Horne, Manager

US DHS, Steve Cauffman, Div. Chief

ORNL, Arjun Shankar

NIST, Ken Harrison, Resilience Div.

12:45 pm

Session Discussion (Moderator: Celine Hyer, Arcadis)

1:15 pm

Break

1:15 – 1:30 pm

Sponsor Speaker

1:30 pm

Organization Initiatives

River Basin Commission – Chad Pindar

US One Water Alliance – Emily Simonson

WRF – Walter Graf, Program Manager

WEF – Lisa McFadden, Manager

NAWC – Robert Powelson, President

Smart Cities Council – Philip Bane, MD

3:30 pm

Session Discussion (Moderator - Jim Cooper, Arcadis)

3:30 pm

Break

3:30 – 3:45 pm

Sponsor Speaker

SOW Governance, and Policies

3:45 pm

Expert Panel Discussion (Moderator: Edgar Westerhof, Arcadis)

3:50: Miami-Dade – Debbie Griner

4:05: OSU – Meghna Babar-Sebens

4:15: Panel Discussion, Panelist:

Katherine Hagemann, MDC Office of

Resilience, Florida

Chad Pindar, Delaware River Basi

Kees van der Lugt, Waternet

Amsterdam

5:15: Panel Wrap-up

5:30 pm

SWIM Award Ceremony

5:35 – 6:30 pm

Happy Hour!!

11:00am

National Water Initiatives

Sunil Sinha, Professor and Director

11:15 am

Utility Initiatives

DC Water – Salil Kharkar

Clean Water Services – Ting Lu

NYDEP – Jennifer Garigliano

MMSD – Kevin Shafer

HRSD – Anas Malkawi

American Water – Jim Chelius

12:45 pm

Session Discussion (Moderator: Peter Kraft, Xylem)

1:15 pm

Break

1:15 – 1:30 pm

Sponsor Speaker

SOW Workforce Development

1:30 pm

Expert Panel Discussion (Moderator: Melissa Meeker, Water Tower)

1:35: MNWD – Joone Lopez

1:50: Virginia Tech – Glenda Scales

2:05: Panel Discussion, Panelist:

Joone Lopez, MNWD Utility

James Horne, USEPA

Kenji Takeuchi, Mueller

3:15: Panel Wrap-up

3:30 pm

Break

3:30 – 3:45 pm

Sponsor Speaker

SOW Innovation Ecosystem

3:45 pm

Expert Panel Discussion (Moderator: Ken Thompson, Jacobs)

3:50: Houston Water – Fazle Rabbi

4:05: CMU – David Dzombak

4:15: Panel Discussion, Panelist:

Shannon Dunne, Houston Water

Adriana Felix-Salgado, US EPA

Jovita Nsoh, Microsoft

5:15: Panel Wrap-up

5:30 pm

SWIM Industry Award

5:35 – 6:30 pm

Happy Hour!!

11:00am

WATERiD & PIPEiD Database

Sunil Sinha, Professor and Director

11:15 am

Industry Initiatives

ARCADIS – Jim Cooper

XYLEM – Albert Cho

JACOBS – Raja Kadiyala

GHD – Shashank Ramanan

MICROSOFT – Jovita Nsoh

Mueller – Kenji Takeuchi

12:45 pm

Session Discussion (Moderator: James Carolan, CDM Smith)

1:15 pm

Break

1:15 – 1:30 pm

Sponsor Speaker

SOW Stakeholder Engagement

1:30 pm

Expert Panel Discussion (Moderator: Jon Greene, Virginia Tech)

1:20: WSSC – Fred Pfiefer

1:35: UIUC – Paolo Gardoni

1:45: Panel Discussion, Panelist:

Anas Malkawi, HRSD Utility

Pierre Glynn, USGS

Barry Matthew, VA Dept. of Health

2:45: Panel Wrap-up

3:30 pm

Break

3:30 – 3:45 pm

Sponsor Speaker

SOW Activities & Path Forward

3:45 pm

Expert Panel Discussion (Moderator: Walter Graf, WRF)

3:50: Stanford ERC –Richard Luthy

4:05: Virginia Tech – Sunil Sinha

4:15: Structured Panel Discussion

5:15: Panel Wrap-up

5:30 pm

SWIM Student Award

5:35 – 6:30 pm

Happy Hour!!