Metropolitan Climate Crisis-impacts Adaptation, Resilience-building & Eco-security (C.A.R.E.) Management Challenges facing Extreme Events

Purpose

The purpose of the W-SMART 2019 International Workshop on “Metropolitan Climate C.A.R.E. Management Challenges” is to promote experience sharing among governments’ officials, water utilities’ executives and the research community on climate change impacts on water security challenges, crisis management, adaptation strategies and resilience capacity building of local governments and metropolitan utilities. Focusing on lessons learned from recent events its goal is to provide a discussion forum for interactive assessment of their current climate impacts adaptation, crisis management, and resilience capacity-building strategies facing challenges of extreme events.

Organization

The Workshop is hosted by the C.I.L.E. Water Company of Liege, and is co-organized with the W-SMART Association with the support of its member utilities and the participation of Local Governments and Research institutions. It will precede the UNESCO “Metropolitan ECO – RISE R2020” Colloquium, which will be hosted by UNESCO at its H.Q. in Paris, on November 7 & 8.

Main Workshop Themes

The workshop will include a Cyber Attack Crisis Management Exercise, and a Post-Exercise panel discussion on crisis management, cyber security and recovery challenges. Focusing on lessons learned from recent events its goal is to promote experience sharing on crisis management and recovery challenges, including corporate preparedness, public education and assessment of current capacity building programs of local governments and metropolitan utilities to face growing climate change impacts and urban water security challenges, including:

• Upgrading crisis management capabilities and preparedness for extreme events, including corporate preparedness, regulatory measures, customer-system interaction, cyber-security challenges, inter-agency coordination, inter-state collaboration, public education, etc.;
• Planning and Implementing urban infrastructure resilience building programs to ensure water service eco-security facing extreme events, river floods, sea-level rise, other eco-risks;
• Monitoring, assessment and forecasting climate change impacts on water and wastewater utilities operational challenges and their adaptation measures for sustaining water service, quality, safety and eco-security;
• Post-Disaster environmental impacts assessment and recovery challenges – lessons learned from recent events – the way forward on local level and regional scale;
• Promoting innovative technology solutions and smart management and control systems to improve eco-resilience capacity building in “smarter” cities, upgrade wastewater treatment process control for water reuse and energy recovery, and address other eco-security issues;
• Upgrading cyber-security to meet new regulatory measures and ISO requirements;
• Improving integration efficiency of renewable and recovered water and energy resources facing water stress situations and challenges of eco-sustainable energy-water-food security;

November , 5th

Location: Château de Colonster http://www.colonster.ulg.ac.be/
Transportation from the Hotel to be courteously provided by CILE

Agenda

• Welcome & Workshop Agenda
• Crisis Management Exercise with W-SMART Observers
• W-SMART General Assembly Meeting

Registration

Welcome Session
8:30 – 9:00 am

• Welcome – Alain PALMANS, CEO, CILE
• Workshop Agenda – Bruno NGUYEN & Prof. Ilan JURAN
• Organization of the Crisis management Exercise – William De ANGELIS, Cyber Security Officer, CILE;

Crisis management Exercise
7:30 – 12:00 pm

Crisis Management Exercise – including Cyber Security challenges with invited W-SMART members as Observers

Post Exercise Meeting of invited W-SMART Observers with CILE Officers;
12:00 – 13:00 pm

W-SMART General Assembly & Planning Meeting
14:00 – 16:00 pm

CILE – W-SMART Post Exercise Summary & Next Year Planning Meeting
16:00 – 17:00 pm

Welcome Diner – Mr. Marc MINET Resilience Officer of the City of Liege
Welcome Introduction – Mr. Alain PALMANS, CEO, CILE

19:00 pm

November , 6th

Location:

VAN DER VALK Hotel, Esplanade de l’Europe 2, 4020 LIEGE

Morning Sessions

Registration
8:00 am

Session 1: Crisis Management– Post Exercise Lessons learned & Experience Sharing;
8:30 – 10:00 am

Chair:

Eric ADAMSE, Security Policy Officer, VITENS;

Panel Experts:

• CILE Crisis Management Exercise – Key Lessons Learned –
  • Alain PALMANS, CEO
  • William De ANGELIS, Cyber Security Officer
  • Crisis Management Exercise – Planning, Execution & Lessons Learned – Bruno NGUYEN, President, W-SMART & Erich SHAW;
• Corporate Awareness Building & Exercise Planning –
  • Alexandra CRISTOVAO, Director, Sustainability Division, EPALProceeding
  • Eric ADAMSE, Security Policy Officer, VITENS;Proceeding

Session 2:
Cyber Security, Emergency Response & Resilience Building Challenges

10:20 – 11:40am

Chair:

Avraham Ben Yossef, Deputy CEO, MEKOROT;

Panel Experts:

• Cyber Security Challenges & Regulatory Measures –
  • Georges ATAYA, Professor, Academic Director (Solvay.edu/it), Vice President of the Belgian Cyber-security Coalition
  • Jozef van BRUSSEL, Program Manager Cyber-security, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water, Netherlands;Proceeding
  • Ehud ROTH, Cyber Security Expert, MEKOROTProceeding
• Operation: Tejo River 2018 – Unpolluting the Waterbody
  • Alexandra CRISTOVAO, Director, Sustainability Division, EPAL;Proceeding
• Societal Resilience Building Challenges of a City in a Conflict
  • Dr. Benny VAKNIN, Former Mayor of the City of Ashkelon Proceeding

Lunch with Mr. Marc Minet, Resilience Officer of the City of Liege
Introduction: Alain PALMANS, CEO, CILE;

11:40 – 13:00 pm

Session 3:
Climate Change Impacts Monitoring & Adaptation Strategies

13:00 – 14:20 pm

Chair:

Prof. Ilan Juran, Executive Director, W-SMART Association

Panel Experts:

• Patrick FAUVET, Director, Regional Development, SIAAP;Proceeding
• Avraham BEN YOSSEF, Deputy CEO, MEKOROT;

Proceeding

• Laurent BRUNET, Technical Director, SUEZ Eau France;

Proceeding

• Laurna KAATZ, Director, Climate Science Program, Denver Water

Proceeding

• Amit CHANAN, Director, Infrastructure, City of Sydney

Proceeding

• Resilience Benchmarking – Peter DANE, Benchmarking Foundation, NL;

Session 4:
Innovation Workshop on R&D Challenges for Smart Eco-Resilience Building:

14:40 – 16:00

Panel Experts:

• Urban Agriculture – Jean Michel TIBERI, Business Partner Middle East-Africa & Italy, Development, Innovation & Markets Department;Proceeding
• Drinking Water Restrictions facing Water Scarcity– Robin van LEERDAM, National Institute for Public Health & Environment, Netherlands;Proceeding
• o Towards Smart Optimization of Waste Water Treatment Management – Olivier ROUSSELOT, Director, Laboratories & Environment, SIAAP;Proceeding
• Urban Energy-Water Nexus Challenges for Data Science & Energy Recovery Innovation – Dr. Josh SPERLING, US-DOE, NREL, Colorado;
• From Defense Applications to Smart Infrastructure Management – Brig. General (Ret.) Doron GAVISH;‏‏Proceeding

Concluding Remarks

116:40 – 17:00 pm

• Alain PALMANS, CEO, CILE
• Bruno NGUYEN, President, W-SMART Association