Águas do Tejo Atlântico organizes another edition of the Innovation Pathway 2020, an event dedicated to innovation in the water sector, aiming to discuss the future of water and sharing and presenting innovative case-studies. This edition, the 4^th, will be online through a series of webinars from September 22^nd to the 24^th.

The theme this year will be Water Sustainability. The panel on the 22^nd will be dedicated to “Sustainable Cities” and on the 23^rd to “Wastewater in pandemic times”. On the last day, September 24, it will be presented the “The Challenge to Innovation 2020/2021” and circular economy will be the focus of the panel “eCircular”.

To join the “Innovation Pathway” please enroll here.

 

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Innovation Pathway 2020 – online event

Local : online

Dates and schedule:

September 22, from 9.30am to 10.45am - Sustainable Cities panel

• Ana Silveira, Chairman of Águas do Tejo Atlântico;​
• José Sá Fernandes, Councillor of Lisbon City Council;
• João Pedro Matos Fernandes, Minister for the Environment and Climate Action;
• Xavier Romero Hidalgo, Biologist and Environmental Officer at Granollers City Council;
• Sandy Scott-Roberts, Project Manager for the Groundwater Replenishment System Final Expansion Project at the Orange County Water District;
• Graham Colclough, UrbanDNA Partner.

 

September 23, from 9.30am to 10.30am - Wastewater in pandemic times panel;

• Marta Carvalho, AdP Corporate innovation area coordinator, at Águas de Portugal Services;
• Pedro Simas, Head Researcher at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular-João Lobo Antunes and Professor of Virology at Faculdade de Medicina Universidade de Lisboa and Universidade Católica Portuguesa
• Goreti Sales, University of Coimbra
• Bilge Alpaslan Kocamemi, Marmara University

 

September 24, from 5.00pm to 5.30pm – The Challenge to Innovation 2020/2021;

 

September 24, from 5.30pm to 7.00pm – eCircular panel

• António Torres, Moinhos Água e Ambiente
• António Carriço, Lince
• Joaquim Pedro Torres, Valinveste

 

N.B.: all times in BST (GMT +1)

 

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Xavi Romero 

Biologist and environmental officer in Granollers City Council.

Manager of the non potable water system of Granollers, which includes a water reuse network.

Great experience on European projects and international cooperation programs about nature preservation and green infrastructure.

Nowadays is working in the projects CEMOWAS2, LIFE Alnus and INTERLACE.

 

 

 

 

 

Sandy Scott-Roberts

Sandy Scott-Roberts, P.E. is the GWRS Program Manager at the Orange County Water District. She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental and Civil Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She has 17 years of experience in project management of the planning, feasibility, design and construction phases of water treatment facilities, including pipelines, pump stations, recharge basins, and injection wells. She started her career as a consulting civil engineer and has been at the Orange County Water District since 2006. She is the Project Manager for the Groundwater Replenishment System (GWRS) Final Expansion Project which will increase the treatment capacity of the facility from 378 ML/day to 492 ML/day. 

 

 

 

Graham Colclough

Global is the red thread that runs through Graham's career, having enjoyed living in multiple cultures and working in all continents: with Shell, Gemini Consulting, and Capgemini where he addressed transformation of major corporates, then turning to 'public good' improvements as global VP for Cities and executive sponsor for the group’s activities with the European Commission.  Now, as founding partner of UrbanDNA, Graham and his team seek to cause transformation of, and resolve the critical gaps in, the cities market globally.

 

 

 

 

 

Pedro Simas

is Head Researcher at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular-João Lobo Antunes. He is Also Professor of Virology at Faculdade de Medicina Universidade de Lisboa and Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Holds a PhD on Virology from Cambridge University, where he initiated research in understanding basic molecular mechanisms involved in herpes virus infections associated with forms of cancers like lymphomas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marta Carvalho

 

 

 

 

Bilge Alpaslan Kocamemi

is an Associate Professor in  Department of Environmental Engineering  at  Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. She received her B.S and M.S degree  in Environmental Engineering from Marmara University and Ph.D in Environmental Technology  from  Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey.

She is the scientific advisor and principal investigator to a project group conducting a SARS-CoV-2 surveillance work in wastewater nationwide as per the instructions from the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. She is also a member of COVID-19 Scientific Committee of Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

 

 

 

 

Goreti Sales

Is an Associate Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department of the Faculty of Technology Sciences at University of Coimbra and coordinates the research group BioMark sensor research/UC, developed together with theCentre of Biological Engineering of the University of Minho, dealing with biomimetics and biosensors of optical and electrical materials for monitoring biomarkers of social interest in the context of health, environment and food.

 

 

 

 

 

 

António Carriço

Telecommunications Engineer. Over his professional life has worked mostly on Marketing and Innovation at telecommunication companies: Marconi, PT and Vodafone.

After retirement, in 2015, has decided to change his life and founded with a friend the company Lince, an artisan brewery at Marvila.​