Agenda
Category: Panel
All sessionsUrban Water 2030: Water Solutions for Resilient Cities Facing Climate Change
Cecilia Correia, Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Vetter, Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Grünig, Dr. Scott Jeffers, Gerhard Hauber, Prof. Günter Müller-Czygan
Thursday November 28, 2024 13:15 - 14:15 CET Main Stage
Panel, Main Stage
Moderated by Prof. Günter Müller-Czygan, Professor of Water Infrastructure and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Water Systems (inwa) at Hof University of Applied Sciences, this panel discussion will address the urgent need for urban transformation to tackle the challenges posed by extreme weather and foremost rainfall events.
Resilience and Critical Water Infrastructures
Nina-Sophie Giertz, Dr. Ir. Jereon Langeveld, Dr. Rita Ugarelli, Frédéric Guyomard, Prof. Benjamin Russo, Prof. Dr. Timothy Moss, Dr. Nicolas Caradot
Thursday November 28, 2024 15:30 - 16:30 CET Main Stage
Panel, Main Stage
The panel explores strategies to enhance the resilience of vital water systems against both environmental and technological threats. Moderated by Nicolas Caradot this session addresses key questions around the nature of resilience in contrast to sustainability, the defining traits of resilient systems and various methods for understanding and simulating resilience.