Our Future Water Berlin 2018

Location :
Berlin, Germany

On 7 November 2018, Our Future Water is hosting the Our Future Water Berlin Event in Berlin, Germany. 

We welcome you to the Our Future Water Berlin Event that invites all current and future leaders to attend to achieve water security for today's and future generations. This is Our Future Water's first global event that brings current and future leaders together to build a water-secure world. The event, moderated by Karin Helmstaedt, TV host and presenter on Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle, has an array of leading European and international speakers, ranging from the Global Water Partnership to IBM, to the Chief Resilience Officer of Milan, all addressing how we can achieve water security.

The event will include the following topics:

  • Global Water Partnership’s projects to achieve water security
  • Water, policy, and sanitation
  • Water and refugees, early-prevention systems and digitalisation impact on (water) societies
  • Building resilience in Milan
  • ESG, climate change, and water investments
  • Comparison of water services and prices in Europe
  • Entrepreneurship and investment in the water sector
  • Developing sustainable/ethical brands and water management
  • Industrial water management
  • Impacts of climatic extremes on water
  • Building a Water Supply simulation that scales up for a Smart Grid
  • Underground pipes of the future
  • Connecting global water and sanitation providers
  • Social media and marketing communication on water
  • Social businesses and education
  • Sponge cities
Our Future Water is a Partner Institution of the Berlin Science Week, which is an international gathering, bringing together people from the world's most innovative scientific institutions in Berlin. In 2017, Berlin Science Week hosted 57 events with more than 15,000 people attending various festivals, conferences, panel discussions or workshops.
 
Our Future Water has itself entered into a Knowledge Partnership with the World Bank's Connect4Climate, a global partnership program launched by the World Bank and the Italian Ministry of the Environment, together with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, that takes on climate change by promoting solutions and empowering people to act.