Electric – Water Utility Resilience Summit

Click here to check out Jim Bagian’s TEDx talk on “Addressing Complex Problems”

The University of Michigan Urban Collaboratory and the Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering invites you to a 1-1/2 day summit on Electric – Water Utility Resiliency on February 13 and 14 at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor NCRC campus. Co-sponsors include the Great Lakes Water Authority, Consumers Energy, DTE, and ITC.

This first-of-its-kind summit will bring together key infrastructure providers from Michigan to collaborate on creating regional resilience.

Join us for fascinating interactive discussions and action planning.

Day 1 (February 13, 9 am – 4 pm)

Discussions of resilience challenges and potential among all participants to frame issues and solutions. The session includes a light lunch.

Day 2 (February 14, 8 am – 12 pm). Day 2 is open to Day 1 attendees who can participate in building new collaborations.

Interactive development of cross-organizational teams and action plans to address the key issues raised during Day 1 to increase resilience in Southeast Michigan.
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• create interactive discussions, and information exchanges on best practices and research needs for infrastructure resilience and help foster the transfer of learning and methods between water, sewer, and power utilities.
• develop a collective vision of enhanced resilience for Southeast Michigan to form the basis for increased regional action.
• develop a research agenda to help power, water, and sewer utilities enhance the resilience of their systems.

Sneak preview video available in January.

Register
Limited seating sign up now.
Students before registering, please contact Professor Seth Guikema at sguikema@umich.edu

Day 1

• Keynote Speaker Jim Bagian Executive Director, Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering and former Astronaut.
• Plenary Speaker Organizations: GLWA, Consumers Energy, DTE and ITC.
• Interactive discussions to identify potential solutions to address SE Michigan’s water and utility resilience needs.

Click here to download the Day 1 Agenda.

Day 2

• Develop a collective vision to enhance water and utility resiliency in SE Michigan.
• Create action plans for research-based solutions to enhance the resiliency of power, water, and sewer utilities.

Click here to download the Day 2 Agenda.

Thursday, February 13, 9 am – 4 pm

Location
UM NCRC Campus Building 18
2800 Plymouth Road
Ann Arbor

Dining hall lower level (referred to as the “football”)
Elevator available.

Parking
Free parking for registered attendees in the adjacent parking ramp NC 100. Photo & map at: (https://ltp.umich.edu/lot/?xyz=gP) The Building 18 & ramp NC 100 can also be found on Google Maps.

Friday, February 14, 8 am – 12 pm

Location
Location is the same as Day 1. See Day 1 information above.