Registration and refreshments
08:45 to
09:30
Chair’s welcome and opening remarks
09:30 to
09:40
Speaker:
Paul Horton.
CEO.
Future Water Association.
Part 1: Identifying and delivering the infrastructure required to meet demand
09:40 to
10:45
Delivering the vision and ensuring delivery of required water infrastructure
09:40 to
10:05
- Ensuring development of water infrastructure
- Increasing resilience
- Joined up thinking on water resources and flood management
Speaker:
Kate Kendall.
Director, Future Assets and Resources.
Ofwat.
Panel discussion: Achieving the balance of supply versus demand, to ensure adequate resources and understand what further infrastructure is needed to support this
10:05 to
10:45
- What further water resource is needed?
- Working with ageing water systems and creating resilience
- Timelines for new infrastructure to be delivered
- How can demand be reduced? Where is the gap?
- Including waste water in the water resource conversation – recogonising limitations of the current system and why a whole system approach is needed
Speakers:
Lee Dance.
Organisational Director.
Water Resources South East.
Tania Flasck.
Non Executive Director.
British Water.
Morning refreshments
10:45 to
11:15
Part 2: Planning for new infrastructure and meeting environmental requirements
11:15 to
13:15
Navigating planning routes and implications of the Water NPS
11:15 to
11:45
- Water infrastructure as a NSIP
- NPS and making your case
- Planning routes for new infrastructure
- Plans to speed up the NSIP process
- Resources and impacts of multiple water NSIPs
Speaker:
Francis Tyrrell.
Partner.
Addleshaw Goddard.
Progress to being carbon neutral by 2030 and next steps
11:45 to
12:15
- Initiatives underway to achieve net zero
- Timelines and next steps
Speaker:
David Riley.
Head of Carbon Neutrality.
Anglian Water.
Networking lunch
12:15 to
13:15
Part 3: Asset management and reducing leakage
13:15 to
15:50
Asset Management - improving resilience of existing infrastructure
13:15 to
13:45
- Maximising asset health
Speaker:
Yessenia Pineda Barrientos.
Water Networks Asset Strategy Manager.
Affinity Water.
Reducing leakage – successfully meeting leakage reduction targets
13:45 to
14:15
- Progress so far
- Further plans
Speaker:
Simon Dray.
Managing Director.
Hydrosave and SSI Services (UK).
Afternoon networking and refreshments
14:15 to
14:45
Panel discussion: Ensuring pipeline of projects is deliverable – practically moving schemes forward
14:45 to
15:30
- Steps needed to start moving projects from concept to delivery
- Supply chain and industry capacity for pipeline of projects
- Risks faced in delivery and who carries these
- Establishing contracts
Speakers:
Steve Williams.
Director.
Turner and Townsend.
Philip Dupres.
Partner – Infrastructure, Projects and Energy.
Addleshaw Goddard.
Nina Pindham.
Barrister.
Cornerstone Barristers.
Chair’s closing remarks
15:30 to
15:40
Close of conference and networking drinks
15:40 to
17:00