BAYWORK Water Industry Summit 2025

This year’s Summit, held in Pleasanton on February 27th, offered 120 staff from local water/wastewater agencies an opportunity to learn about strategies for addressing cybersecurity and climate change resilience.

The summit relied on critical input from workers across agency functions—Operations, Maintenance, IT/OT, Engineering, Planning, watershed/lands management, environmental compliance, human resources, organizational development, and more. 

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 

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• IT/OT best practices
• Collaborating with state and federal agencies
• Adapting to extreme weather patterns
• Workforce training implications
• How infrastructure investments contribute to resilience

CYBERSECURITY SESSION 1

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SPEAKERS: 

• Andrew Ohrt, Moderator (West Yost)
• Don Hester (US Department of Homeland Security)
• Bill Johnson (East Bay Municipal Utility District)
• Cecil Lawson (Valley Water)
• Raphael Okubo (Contra Costa Water District)

CLIMATE CHANGE SESSION 2

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SPEAKERS: 

• Catherine Curtis, Moderator (San Francisco Public Utilities Commission)
• Eric Dunlavey, Pedro Hernandez (City of San Jose)
• David Glukowski, Sarah Plummer (East Bay Municipal Utility District)
• Anna Roche (San Francisco Public Utilities Commission)
• Sasha Ponomareva, Dale Roberts (Sonoma County Water Agency)
• Sunshine Julian, Kirsten Struve (Valley Water)

WATER SUMMIT SURVEY

We would greatly appreciate your feedback on the Summit, as it helps us improve our marketing efforts and plan future events. If you haven’t completed the survey yet, please take a moment to share your thoughts with us!  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VYW2P37

CE HOURS

For those attendees who checked in at the Summit registration table, you should be receiving a BAYWORK certificate that you can use for CE hours.  If you attended the event and DID NOT check in at the Summit registration table, please contact Sesa Pabalan at spabalan@jvs.org.

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