About DC Climate Week and WaterCitizen Events

April 28-May 2, 2025 will be the very first DC Climate Week - an initiative led by ClimateTech Investors and Startup Founders (some of whom have participated in WaterCitizen's WaterPitch! Water Startup Matching Extravaganza events).

WaterTech receives less than 3% of ClimateTech investments, which is reflected in the DC Climate Week program which essentiallly leaves Water out of the discussions on 3 critical days of this event:

• Technology & Innovations (Day 1: Mon 4/28)
• Policy & Advocacy (Day 2: Tue 4/29)
• Finance & Economics and Jobs (Day 3: Wed 4/30)

Upon review of this program, we asked ourselves ...

Where's Water???

The few "Water" speakers are included in the DCCW program are confined to Day 4: Nature and Day 5: and Day 5: the "Kitchen Sink" Day (Mobility, Urban Development ... and, oh yeah, Water)

WaterCitizen DCCW Session #1

Water and Climate Innovation and Technology For Water & Industrial Sectors

Monday, April 28, 2025, 1-4:30pm

999 E Street NW

(Boundary Stone Partners)

DCCW Technology & Innovation Day

This Session will feature Speaker Panels, Lightning Sessions/Pitches from Water Entrepreneurs and Innovators, and Facilitated Audience Discussion on technologies addressing water and wastewater utilities as well as the many Industrial water needs for Energy, Manufacturing, Agriculture and other uses, and efforts to avoid, minimize and mitigate impacts on water from these activities.

We will also explore the challenges facing Investors and Startup Founders, what the barriers are to investment in Water Tech, and how to overvcome those barriers.

(Presenters to be announced soon)

WaterCitizen DCCW Session #2

Water, Policy, and Communications on Resiliency and Sustainability During Changing Climates

Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 1-4:30pm

999 E Street NW

(Boundary Stone Partners)

DCCW Policy & Advocacy Day

Water Utilities and Agencies often rely on funding, financing and project permitting and approvals by Federal, State, and Local Governments and Board Members. During times when political climates are changing, the language used to talk about water projects and programs often change to connect with specific audiences while ensuring we fulfill the mission.

This Session will feature Speaker Panels, Lightning Sessions/Pitches from Water Entrepreneurs and Innovators, and Facilitated Audience Discussion on how Water Professionals and Entrepreneurs can address the needs to protect water quality, provide clean safe and reliable water supplies, and increase resilience of water infrastructure in the face of changing weather patterns, more extreme weather events and water-related disasters, while also dealing with changing political climates.

(Presenters to be announced soon)

WaterCitizen DCCW Session #3

Water and Innovations in Sustainable Cities, Green Buildings & Economic Development

Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 4-6pm

1900 K Street NW

(Dentons DC Law Firm)

DCCW Economics & Finance Day

This Session will feature Speaker Panels, Lightning Sessions/Pitches from Water Entrepreneurs and Innovators, and Facilitated Audience Discussion on how City and Regional Planners take an integrated approach to management of water and other resources while also integrating economic development - including changing uses of water such as the addition of new industries (e.g. data center cooling water needs and water for nuclear power plants planned to provide energy to data centers).

We'll discuss the role of Water Utilites as "Anchor Institutions" critical for Jobs and Economic Development, and about Green Buildings and Water in the Home.

(Presenters to be announced soon)