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 The Water Foundation
14:10 — Dialogue: On Water
14:20 — Live Demo: Water Footprint Tracker
14:25 — Panel I · Building an Institutional Allocation to Water
15:05 — Panel II · Water Security is Security
15:35 — Keynote · Water Is Life: Humanitarian Action from Root Causes to Symptoms, with SOS Humanity
15:50 — Panel III · Water and Family Office Investment
16:20 — Panel IV · Foundations as Catalytic Capital
16:50 — Break
17:05 — Spotlight · Exploring the World’s Waters: Big Rivers, with Florian Wagner
17:30 — Panel V · From Prediction to Purification, with AquaPredict
18:00 — Panel VI · Liquid Engineering: Closing the Industrial Water Loop, with Rotreat × Hydreatio
18:30 — Panel VII · One Water, Competing Demands: Energy, Water and AI
19:00 — Panel VIII · From Awareness to Action, with Comcepta
19:30 — Panel IX · Water-Resilient Munich: From Assessment to Action
20:00 — Talk · Cross-organisational Collaboration: The Blue Icon Alliance
20:10 — Networking and Party with DJ Erica De Lalor

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
Weisses Bräuhaus im Tal · Tal 7 · 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.