Speakers 2022

Rick Warner, President of Warner and Associates

Rick Warner, President of Warner and Associates

Rick Warner, President of Warner and Associates, helps communities solve complex water supply resilience, recycling, and sustainability challenges. Mr. Warner’s professional expertise focuses on partnering, collaborating, intentionality, visioning, strategic planning,... Read More

Brendan Tierney, Managing Director, Head of the Global Water Practice, Raymond James

Brendan Tierney, Managing Director, Head of the Global Water Practice, Raymond James

Brendan Tierney currently serves as a Managing Director and Head of the Global Water Practice at Raymond James, a leading middle market investment bank with over 360 bankers globally. Since 2009, Mr. Tierney has covered the water and wastewater industry and closed... Read More

Peter S. Fiske, The Executive Director of NAWI

Peter S. Fiske, The Executive Director of NAWI

Peter S. Fiske is the Executive Director of NAWI – the National Alliance for Water Innovation headquartered at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab running the Department of Energy’s Desalination Hub, a 5-year, $110M research program to radically cut the cost and energy... Read More

Kim Baker, Sr. Director of Innovation at Elemental

Kim Baker, Sr. Director of Innovation at Elemental

Kim has over 15 years of experience in launching and growing engineered systems into industrial and municipal markets. Kim co-founded an early stage venture and led the market launch of a product line as a Sr. Product Manager for a company through its acquisition.... Read More

Sarah Ichioka

Sarah Ichioka

Sarah Mineko Ichioka is an urbanist, strategist, curator and writer. She leads Desire Lines, a strategic consultancy for environmental, cultural, and social-impact initiatives and organizations. Her latest book, Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency,... Read More