Banco Português de Investimento (BPI) is organizing the “BPI Forum: the future of water”, an initiative that aims to debate the main challenges, priorities and good practices associated with the sustainable supply and consumption of water.
João Pedro Oliveira e Costa, Executive Chairman of BPI, will give the opening speech at the conference, while the closing speech will be given by the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paulo Portas, who will discuss the main conclusions of the panel debates.
In total, the Forum will feature six panel discussions that will take an X-ray of water, analyze investment priorities, good practices in industry, agriculture, tourism, and cities, as well as assessing the need to boost water reuse and define pricing policies adjusted to reality.
The forum is scheduled for the Champalimaud Foundation Auditorium in Lisbon on February 22, from 09h00 to 17h00.
Speakers include former ministers such as Assunção Cristas, Dulce Pássaro and Pedro Siza Vieira, as well as the mayor of Loures, Ricardo Leão; representatives of economic sectors and companies such as Álvaro Mendonça e Moura, president of the Confederation of Farmers of Portugal (CAP), João Mello, CEO of Bondalti, José Theotónio, CEO of the Pestana Group, Alexandra Serra, executive director of Águas de Portugal, and Pedro Perdigão, CEO of Indaqua; and experts such as Inês dos Santos Costa, partner at Deloitte, Joaquim Poças Martins, professor of Hydraulics and Environment at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), and José Eduardo Martins, partner at Abreu Advogados.
Economist Mariana Mazzucato, who co-chairs the World Economic Forum’s Commission on the Water Economy, will analyze the global socio-economic impacts of water scarcity, in a panel that will also include a national view, through the contribution of Jorge Moreira da Silva, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNOPS.
This is organized by BPI, in collaboration with Deloitte, Expresso newspaper and SIC Notícias.
The full program is available here.
