The Water Resilience Stage - Policy, Capital, and Technology for a Water-Resilient Capital
🌐 Language: English
♿ Wheel-chair accessible
💶 Free of charge
🎟️ Hosted by: The Water Foundation
Water is at the heart of climate. It is where climate risk becomes real and where the next generation of solutions must begin.
At the inaugural Munich Climate Week, The Water Foundation puts water at the centre of the climate conversation. As part of our mission, Water Independence for 1 Billion+ People, the Water Resilience Stage brings together decision makers, scientists and philosophers to explore how we move from water risk to implementation.
Water is moving to the top of the global agenda. TWF brings water users, standard setters, investors and technology together, creating the conditions for successful water action at scale. How can we connect policy, capital and technology to alleviate water stress and turn water risk into action? Across eight panels, we connect geopolitics, capital, prediction, engineering and transformation - from global water security to the decisions that cities, companies, investors and individuals can take today.
Expect live demonstrations, honest debate and the launch of TWF’s Water Stewardship Initiative for Cities. We will explore water as an investable opportunity capable of market-rate returns, how AI and prediction can help us act before water risks become crises, how competing demands from cities, energy, AI and industry can be reconciled, and how circular engineering can turn even difficult industrial water streams into resources.
Programme · 20.10.2026 Afternoon
14:00 — Welcome by Christoph Schwager and Verena Sturm
14:10 — Dialogue · On Water
14:20 — Live demo · Water Footprint Tracker
14:25 — Panel I · Building an institutional allocation to water, then TWF on Boundless and the Fund of Funds
15:05 — Panel II · Liquid Engineering: closing the industrial water loop, with Rotreat × Hydreatio
15:35 — Keynote · Water is Life: Humanitarian Action from Root Causes to Symptoms, SOS Humanity
15:50 — Break
16:00 — Panel III · Water security is security, with the launch of TWF’s Water Stewardship Initiative for Cities
16:30 — Panel IV · Water and family office investment, opening with The Artesians
17:00 — Spotlight · Exploring the World’s Waters: Big Rivers, with Florian Wagner
17:25 — Break
17:35 — Panel V · From prediction to purification, with a live AquaPredict demo
18:05 — Panel VI · One water, competing demands: energy, water and AI
18:35 — Panel VII · From awareness to action: making Munich water-resilient, with Comcepta and a preview of Droppy
19:20 — Talk · Cross-organisational collaboration: The Blue Icon Alliance, with Henrik Will
19:30 — Networking and party with DJ Erica De Lalor (Watch Me)
Who you meet
150–200 decision makers across capital, technology, policy, industry and water. Networking is part of the programme — creating connections across sectors that rarely meet, but need each other to drive change.
October 20, 2026 · 14:00–19:15
SUPER* Neo Brasserie & Bar, Herzog-Max-Straße 4, Munich
Stay for networking and the party with our DJ from 19:15.
Seats are limited.
We look forward to exploring this with our stakeholders.
Please note that photographs and video recordings will be taken during the event for documentation, reporting, and public communication purposes; for online events, this includes recordings of the session and screenshots. If you do not wish to be included in such recordings, please let us know on site or, for online events, at the start of the session (e.g. via chat) – you are also welcome to keep your camera switched off. We will take this into consideration.