Summit 2025 Recap - Nueces River Authority

Nueces Basin Long-Range Water Supply Planning – Development of 2026 Region N and L Plans

Kristi Shaw – Senior Water Resources Engineer, HDR
Lauren Gonzalez – Planning & Regulatory Permitting Lead, Water, Black & Veatch

P3 Desalination Solutions and Hurricane Preparedness

Rosana Ramirez –Texas Business Development Director

Innovative Water Strategies and Thinking Outside the Box: Regional Desal

Kelley Gage, Black and Veatch -Western US Water Resources Solutions Growth Leader Scott Maloni, Black and Veatch -Global Desalination Solutions Growth Leader

Delivering Big Water: Construction Management Excellence on One of Texas' Largest Water Programs

Hugh Brightwell – VP Construction Management, Pape-Dawson Engineers
Toby Flinn – VP Project Delivery, Pape-Dawson Engineers

Engaging Minds, Protecting Waters: Stewardship Outreach in the Nueces Basin

Adri Vela – Education Coordinator, Nueces River Authority
Wes Harris – Education Coordinator, Nueces River Authority

Regional Flood Planning–What’s New, Successes from the First Cycle, & What It Means for You

Tressa Olsen, TWDB Project Manager Region 13
Barbara Canales, Region 13 Chair
Travis Pruski, Region 13 administrator - Nueces River Authority

New Flood Modeling Tools to Help Local Stakeholders Mitigate Flood Impacts

GLO

Innovative Approaches in Flood Modeling

Betty Sanders – Senior Principal Operations Leader, Stantec
Matt Hoy – Water Resources Engineering Discipline Leader |
Abhinav Kandpal – Assoc. Water Resources Engineer, Stantec

Stop Me if You’ve Heard this One Before: It’s Always a Water Session in Texas

Julie Nahrgang, WEAT I TACWA

Shared Use Trail Design & Construction

6S Engineering
Rachelle Swaim
Jess Swaim, P.E.
Jose Cantu, P.E.

Clean Water Act Compliance Strategies In a Changing Regulatory Environment

Jason Schindler Senior Project Manager/Senior Biologist - ICF

Automating the Future AI/ML in Compound Flooding and H&H Modeling

Michael Baker International
Maryam Pakdehi, PhD Civil Associate – Water Resources
Shubham Jain, PhD, EIT Civil Associate – Water Resources

Resilience Revved Up: Fund Faster, Implement Smarter

Ashley Bennis – Clean Coast Texas
Charris York – TCWP
Troy Dorman – Halff
Lauren Williams – The Nature Conservancy
Nick Dounak – Doucet – A Kleinfelder Company

Base Level Engineering (BLE) Flood Science and Community Assistance

TWDB

Funding Your Flood Resiliency Projects

Megan Ingram – Funding and Flood Mgmt Specialist, CDM Smith

Rural Water and Wastewater Planning

John Loera, Project Manager - CEC
Austin DeGaish, P.E., Project Manager - CEC

Navigating Texas Funding Opportunities

Stacy Barna –CDM Smith Principal, Funding Discipline Leader Mark Evans – Freese and Nichols Associate, Client Funding Lead