DIGITAL-WATER.CITY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Head of Industry Development and Strategy, Water & Wastewater at Siemens - Germany
Christian Ziemer is in charge of the global Industry Development & Strategy for Water & Wastewater at Siemens AG / Process Industries & Drives Division.
Over several years he was responsible for international Sales and Strategy Consulting, Market Research and Business, and Account Development in the Water Wastewater market. He is in charge of new fields within the company such as digitalisation in the water & wastewater sector. C. Ziemer represents Siemens interests also in German and European Water & Wastewater associations (GWP, DWA & EWA).
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Consultant and / or Adviser
David Kay has acted as consultant and/or adviser on water quality and standards for recreational and drinking water to WHO, EU, USEPA, NERC, EPSRC, DEFRA, DWI, HPa, Scottish Government, Environment Agency, SEPA and WRc. He acts as specialist adviser to the House of Lords, European Communities Select Committee enquiry into the revision of the EU Bathing Water Directive and as consultant to EU-DGENV and WHO on revised standards for bathing waters world-wide and throughout the EU.
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- Head of Smart Services at Aqualia - Spain
Eva Martinez is responsible for the Smart Services Area of the Innovation and Technology Department at Aqualia, where she coordinates R&D projects and is in charge of strategy and partnerships in Europe within the ICT and smart technologies in the water field. She represents Aqualia in leading networks such as SWAN or EIP Action Groups, and managed large projects such as FP7 and H2020 run4life project.
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- Department Head at the Agency for Water and Wastewater Services - EurEau - Norway
Kari Elisabeth Fagernæs has 25 years of expertise in ecological, social and economical aspects of resource management, program development and implementation and the communication with a broad spectrum of stakeholders. She has experience from several international teams with varied cultural backgrounds through assignments as Norway's representative in EurEau Commission 3, IWA, National expert, National Focal Point (EU research), Vice Chariman at GRID-Arendal and through international work in an NGO.
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- Programmes Manager at IWA - Netherlands
Katharine Cross has extensive experience in water resource management from global to local scale, with a background in engineering, development, governance and policy. She manages IWA's strategic programmes, and she is the lead on IWA's Basins of the Future including development of the Action Agenda for Basin-Connected Cities. She previously worked for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
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- IBM 's Worldwide Industry Leader - IoT for Energy, Environment & Utilities - USA
Rebekah Eggers has responsibility for IBM's Global Water Business and is a trusted utility industry professional based in Los Angeles with a 15 year track record of strong solution leadership. She mobilizes the IBM global capabilities to create business value, leveraging experiences managing complex initiative design when operating in intense, results focused environments.
Rebekah is known for creating sustainable GTM and portfolio leadership for solutions that leverage data and analytics, improve operational efficiencies, and deliver customer satisfaction that enable high performance teams.