Keynote Speakers

General Session

Chua Soon Guan, PUB National Water Agency, Singapore
Title: Singapore’s Integrated Urban Water Resources Management Strategies

Marielle van der Zouwen and Wim van Vierssen, KWR Watercycle Research Institute and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Title: Knowledge Networks and Innovation in Water Sciences

Alexander Zehnder, NTU Singapore, AI-EES Alberta, and tripleZ Ltd., Zurich
Title: Role of Microbes in Shaping Sustainable Cities

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Urban water management to increase sustainability of cities

Ana Deletic, Monash University, Australia
Title: A water sensitive approach to building cities of the future

Herbert Dreiseitl, Atelier Dreiseitl, Germany
Title: Waterscape Landscape Cityscape - from nature to extreme urbanism: The art of consensus

Doulaye Kone, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Title: The reinvented toilet – A 21st century technology for all

Richard Luthy, Stanford University, USA
Title: Re-inventing urban water infrastructure for semi-arid regions

Wolfgang Rauch, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Title: Urban water management under change - drivers, systems and frameworks

Bernhard Truffer, Eawag, Switzerland
Title: Industrial challenges of urban water management transitions

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Microbial ecology of water and wastewater treatments

Martin Ackermann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Title: A single cell perspective on bacterial interactions

Katherine McMahon, University of Wisconsin, USA
Title: Eco-systems biology of EBPR sludge communities

Ken Nealson, University of Southern California, USA
Title: Using extracellular electron transport in redox processes for the treatment of wastewater

David Richardson, University of East Anglia, UK
Title: Microbiology of nitrous oxide emission in nature

Stephan Schuster, SCELSE, Singapore and Penn State University, USA
Title: Major lessons from metagenomics for microbial ecology

Sanjay Swarup, SCELSE and National University of Singapore, Singapore
Title: Integration of omics and engineering approaches to understand microbial processes in urban waterways

Michael Wagner, University of Vienna, Austria
Title: The nitrifiers revisited - new members, physiologies, and evolutionary links