Time;Topic;Speaker

;<b>FORUM OPENING</b> 09:00 – 09:30;Registration of forum participants; 09:30 – 09:35;Opening remarks by the organizers;Tabigat Zeynullkabden – Chairman of the Kazakhstan Water Association (Moderator); 09:35 – 09:40;Welcome address Committee for Construction, Housing and Utilities Infrastructure of the Ministry of Industry and Construction of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Implementation of the National Project “Modernization of the Energy and Utility Sectors of the Republic of Kazakhstan”;Timur Ernatovich Kosymbaev, Chairman of the Committee for the Regulation of Natural Monopolies, Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan 09:40-09:55;Welcome Address. Technical Operator of the National Project “Modernization of the Energy and Utilities Sectors of the Republic of Kazakhstan”;Nurlan Kozhakhmetovich Soltanbekov – Chairman of the Board, Kazakhstan Center for Modernization and Development of Housing and communal Services JSC; 09:55 – 10:10;Automation of water utilities;ФИО. LLP “Water Resources-Marketing”, Kazakhstan’s operator in water supply and wastewater; 10:10-10:25;MEKS financing.;World Bank ;<b>Tariff regulation</b>; 10:25– 10:40;Tariff regulation in water supply and wastewater sector;Head of the Water Supply and Wastewater Regulation Department, Committee for Regulation of Natural Monopolies 10:40 – 10:55;Incentive-based tariff setting. Experience of Rudny Vodokanal LLP;Irina Yuryevna Voropaeva – Head of Planning and Economic Department, Rudny Vodokanal LLP; ;<b>Panel Session:</b> Institutional reboot of natural monopoly entities in water supply and wastewater – not only modernization of infrastructure, but transformation of management, regulation and accountability models.; 10:55 – 11:55;Systematization and automation of natural monopoly entities in water supply and wastewater;Erzhan Ismagelov, Kazakhstan Center for Housing and Utilities 10:55 – 11:55;Rules for the use of measuring instruments and their impact on resource loss control;Zhanat Begaidarov, Kazakhstan Center for Housing and Utilities 10:55 – 11:55;Domestic manufacturers: challenges of market localization;A.A. Raufov, Kazakhstan Center for Housing and Utilities ;<b>Digital Technologies in Water Supply and Water Consumption</b>; 11:55 – 12:05;Digitalization and artificial intelligence: barriers to implementation in the utilities sector and proposed solutions;Rolan Tleubergen – Sales Director, WAVIoT LLP 12:05 – 12:15;Innovative IoT technologies in water supply: economic impact and development prospects;Maratovich Mailin – Water resources management expert, Director for Strategic Development, Comfortable City LLP, Astana 12:15 – 12:30;Polymerkonstruktsiya (Belarus): Development and production of equipment and implementation of modern technologies for treatment of natural and wastewater in various industrial sectors and utilities;Evgeny Ivanov, Executive Director of Polimerkonstruktsiya Unitary Enterprise 12:30 – 12:45;Wilo Water AI and Water Academy - Digital Technologies in Water Supply and Water Consumption;Wilo Group. Speaker to be confirmed 12:45 –13:15;Annual General Meeting of the Kazakhstan Water Association members;Speaker TBC