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WATER SUMMIT III
"Understanding the True Costs and Opportunities of Water"
Thank you so much for your support!
Our capacity crowd heard from speakers with a variety of water-related backgrounds from around the world and worked on strategies and opportunities for Milwaukee's water future. A full account is below.
Our friends at Foley & Lardner LLP shared with attendees highlights from the Water Technology U.S. Patent Landscape Annual Report, which you can download a copy of here. 
Video
Part 2 of Water Summit III: The second panel and a report from Water Council co-chair Rich Meeusen
Part 3 of Water Summit III: UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago and Governor Jim Doyle
Part 4 of Water Summit III: Keynote speaker Assaf Barnea (also pictured and linked below)
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Assaf Barnea, Kinrot Techologies
Joel Brammeier, Great Lakes Alliance
Jud Hill, Global Summit Capital
Jeff Ripp, Public Service Commission
The Milwaukee 7 Water Council's Water Summit III: "Understanding the True Costs and Opportunities of Water" took place in the beautiful Pilot House at Discovery World on July 20th, bringing together over 200 people from across the region, nation and world.
Senator Russ Feingold(left) and Governor Jim Doyle(right) each addressed Water Summit III attendees and voiced their support for Water Council initiatives. Complimenting GMC President Julia Taylor's opening welcome to the audience, Mayor Tom Barrett voiced Milwaukee's support for the work of the Water Council and commented on the city's UN Global Compact City status.
Left photo: Morning presenters were Joel Brammeier(left), Acting President & CEO of the Alliance for the Great Lakes and Jud Hill(center), a Managing Partner with Summit Global Management. They presented and then answered questions from moderator Mike Gousha, as well as the audience.
Right photo: Morning panelists also included (left to right) Felix Carabello from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Mark Eiswerth from the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater; Jeff Ripp from the Public Service Commission; and Jim White from the Cuyahoga River Remedial Action Plan.
The morning panelists provided views and insight from their perspectives as applied to the Water Summit's theme this year: "Understanding the True Costs and Opportunities of Water." All in all, our morning guests represented viewpoints from the business, environmental, policy, research, technology and investment sides.
During this time, a number of media outlets, including newspapers, TV and websites,took notes and interviewed Water Summit hosts. Patrick Paolantonio from Channel 12 WISN-TV interviewed A.O. Smith Chairman/CEO and Water Council Co-Chair Paul Jones(left), along with panelists Joel Brammeier and Jud Hill. Click here or on the picture to watch the video.
UW-Milwaukee Chancellor Carlos Santiago discussed the School of Freshwater Sciences just ahead of Governor Doyle's remarks. After lunch Water Council co-chair Rich Meeusen introduced keynote speaker Assaf Barnea, CEO of Kinrot Ventures, an Israel-based technological incubator dedicated to water technologies. Mr. Barnea discussed his company's involvement in water issues and investments from a worldwide perspective and shared his views on what Milwaukee and our World Water Hub.
Keynote speaker Assaf Barnea talks with Julia Taylor (pictured at left). One of them played college basketball for Seton Hall in the 1980s.
The afternoon breakout session featured roundtable discussions covering water topics from 12 different angles. In that spirit, here are the people below from Table 12. They discussed water as it pertains to Manufacturing & Business.
Thank you to all who participated. We look forward to Water Summit IV on July 19, 2010. Details to come!
