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| Dr. R.K Gupta | Shri G Asok Kumar | |||
| Chairman & Ex-Officio Secretary to the GoI | Director General, NMCG, New Delhi | |||
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| Shri Ashwin B. Pandya | Shri Rajiv Ranjan Mishra | |||
| Secretary General, ICID | Former Director General, NMCG, New Delhi | |||
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| Dr. Eng. Luca Brocca | Shri Sonam Wangchuk | |||
| Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council of Italy | Founding Director, Himalayan Institute of Alternatives | |||
| Title of Talk: Innovative Methods for Exploiting Satellite Observations in Hydrological Applications | ||||
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| Prof. Artemi Cerdà | Prof. Yutaka Matsuno | |||
| Soil Erosion and Degradation Research Group, University of Valencia, Spain | Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Kindai University | |||
| Title of Talk: Soil and Water Conservation: Problems and Solutions | Title of Talk: Development and Assessment of Models for Prediction of Small Reservoir Water Level using Deep Learning Applications | |||
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| Dr Ilias G. Pechlivanidis | Prof Andrew Blakers | |||
| EFAS Dissemination Centre, SMHI / Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Research and Development / Hydrology, Sweden | Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering, Australian National University, Australia | |||
| Title of Talk: Hydro-climatic extremes along the Ganges river regime under present and future conditions | Title of Talk: Pumped Hydro Energy Storage and 100% Renewable Energy | |||
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| Prof. Bruno Merz | Prof. Alan E. Fryar | |||
| Institute for Environmental Sciences and Geography, University of Potsdam | Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, USA | |||
| Title of Talk: Disastrous River Floods: Causes and Impacts | Title of Talk: Isotopic Evidence of Paleorecharge to Regional Confined Aquifers in the Continental USA | |||
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| Prof. Srinivasulu Ale | Prof. Piet Lens | |||
| Texas A&M AgriLife Research (Texas A&M University System) |
Department of Environmental Engineering and Water Technology of IHE Delft | |||
| Title of Talk: Crop Simulation Models, Big Data, and IoT based Approaches for Enhancing Agricultural Water use Efficiency | Title of Talk: Nature based solutions to improve the water quality of rivers and lakes | |||
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| Prof. Chittaranjan Ray | Prof. Saurav Kumar | |||
| Nebraska Water Center, Water for Food Daugherty Global Institute, University of Nebraska | Texas A&M AgriLife and Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at El Paso | |||
| Title of Talk: Water Productivity: A Meaningful Way to Address Water Sustainability in Indian Agriculture | Title of Talk: The promise of aerial imagining for water resource management | |||
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| Prof. Vijay P. Singh | Prof. Axel Bronstert | |||
| Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering & Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University | Institute for Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam |
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| Title of Talk: Homotopy-Based Methods for Solving Nonlinear Equations in Water Engineering | Title of Talk: Erosion and sediment transport: an underated threat to water security in semi-arid and mountainous regions | |||
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| Prof. Daniel D. Snow | Prof. Alison Parker | |||
| Nebraska Water Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE | Cranfield Water Science Institute, Cranfield University at Shrivenham, Swindon, UK | |||
| Title of Talk: Conserving Groundwater Quality Under Intensified Agriculture | Title of Talk: Managed Aquifer Recharge as a method to increase water security | |||
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| Prof. Saskia Keesstra | Prof. Karrie A Weber | |||
| Wageningen Environmental Research, Netherlands | School of Biological Sciences, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska–Lincoln | |||
| Title of Talk: The role of soil and water in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals | Title of Talk: Microbial activity and geogenic groundwater uranium contamination | |||
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| Prof. Francisco Munoz-Arriola | Dr. Howard Wheater | |||
| Hydroinformatics and Predictive Analytics, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE | Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK | |||
| Title of Talk: Climate-resilient water resources and the quest to achieve local-to-global security and sustainability | Title of Talk: Managing trans-boundary water: some recent experience of inter-state disputes | |||
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| Prof. Nicola Fohrer | Prof. Ashish Sharma | |||
| Director, Institute for Nature and Resource Conservation, University of Kiel, Germany | Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW | |||
| Title of Talk: Anthropogenic pressures on rivers: A holistic ecohydrological assessment and mitigation strategies | Title of Talk: Sustaining Water Resources under Climate Change | |||
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| Prof. Jörg Dietrich | Prof. Biswa Bhattacharya | |||
| Institute for Hydrology and Water Management, Leibniz University Hannover | Hydroinformatics, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands | |||
| Title of Talk: Simulating irrigation water demand at catchment scale under different climatic conditions by using the models SWAT and SWAT+ | Title of Talk: Understanding Morphological Changes in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Rivers using Multi-Spectral Landsat Images in the Google Earth Engine | |||
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| Dr. V. Ramaswamy | Prof. Robert Boes | |||
| Director, NOAA / GFDL, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey | Director, ETH Zurich, Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), Switzerland | |||
| Title of Talk: Water and Climate Change | Title of Talk: Sustainable hydropower as an enabler of the energy transition | |||
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| Prof. Alena Bartosova | Dr. Fabio Masi | |||
| Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Research and Development in Hydrology, NORRKÖPING | Technical Director - R&D, Vice-president, Global Wetland Technologies Chair, IWA TG "NBSs for Water and Sanitation", IWA Fellow |
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| Title of Talk: Understanding the Interplay between Sediment Regime and Water Management Structures at a Large Scale | Title of Talk: Ten years of experience in the application of Nature Based Solutions for a circular economy based approach to the water and wastewater management in the Indian context | |||
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| Prof. Dr. Nidhi Nagabhatla | Prof. Thomas Grischek | |||
| Senior Fellow and Cluster Coordinator-Climate and Natural Resources, United Nations University-CRIS, Belgium Co-Coordinator-UNU Climate Reslience Initiatve & McMaster University, Canada |
Division of Water Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany | |||
| Title of Talk: Cross border Water Governance and Agenda 2030 | Title of Talk: Riverbank Filtration for Water Quality Management | |||
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| Prof. Alan MacDonald | Dr. Anik Bhaduri | |||
| Lead for Groundwater Resilience and Protection IMP3 Research Scientist |
Director, Sustainable Water Future Programme, Future Earth Expert Consultant, FAO(Land and Water Division), Griffith University |
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| Title of Talk: 150 years of groundwater variation in the transboundary Indo-Gangetic basin | Title of Talk: Role of Green and Grey Infrastructure in Achieving Water security | |||
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| Dr. Manish Kumar Goyal | Prof. Rabi H. Mohtar | |||
| Dept. of Civil Engineering, IIT Indore | Director, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Research Group, Texas A&M University | |||
| Title of Talk: Flash drought and its impact on the ecosystem | Title of Talk: Developments in the Water – Energy – Food Nexus | |||
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| Prof. David M. Hannah | Prof. Wouter Buytaert | |||
| School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK | Hydrology and Water Resources, Imperial College London | |||
| Title of Talk: Water in a changing world | Title of Talk: Developing and implementing locally-relevant solutions to global water security | |||
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| Prof. Arup Kumar Sarma | ||||
| B.P.Chaliha Chair Professor of MoWR, India(2009-2018), IIT Guwahati | ||||
| Title of Talk: Impact of Climate Change on Freshwater Ecosystems |