One Water: Building Climate-Resilient Infrastructure through Water, Sanitation and Subsurface Intelligence

This session will explore how digital twins, predictive analytics, and subsurface intelligence can enable governments, utilities, and businesses to make smarter, climate-resilient decisions about water and infrastructure. Thought leaders and practitioners will discuss how geospatial insights, combined with hydrogeological and subsurface modeling, can support adaptation strategies that protect communities, secure water supplies, and reduce climate risks.

Proposed Discussion Themes:

1. Water Resilience as Climate Resilience – why water security is foundational to achieving adaptation goals.

2. Digital Twins for Water Systems – enabling real-time risk monitoring and long-term planning for cities and basins.

3. Subsurface Intelligence for Climate Adaptation – understanding groundwater, soil stability, and hidden risks that influence water resilience.

4. Cross-sector Collaboration – how utilities, governments, insurers, and industry can co-create resilience strategies with digital and geoscience insights.

Programme:

Welcome & Scene Setting (5 min):

• Julio Issao Kuwajima, Bentley

Theme 1 – Water Resilience as Climate Resilience (10 min):
(Foundational framing: why water security is central to adaptation)

• Suchismita Mukhopadhyay, CDRI
• Luana Siewert Pretto, Instituto Trata Brasil

Theme 2 – Digital Twins for Water Systems (10 min):
(Real-time risk monitoring, long-term planning, and integrated management)

• Karin Formigoni, Arcadis

Theme 3 – Subsurface Intelligence for Climate Adaptation (10 min):
(Understanding groundwater, soil, and hidden risks)

• Paul Bauman, BGC

Theme 4 – Cross-Sector Collaboration for Resilience (10 min):
(Connecting utilities, insurers, engineers, and governments)

• Liz Henderson, Aon

Moderated Open Discussion (15 min):

• Julio Issao Kuwajima, Bentley

Closing Remarks (5min):

• Julio Issao Kuwajima, Bentley