Plenary Session

Technical Session 1

• Legislation and regulatory frameworks
• Technical rules, guidelines, and best practices
• Portfolio management
• Integrated flood risk management
• Risk Governance
• Human resources and capacity building
• Technological needs
• Integration of policies, people, and processes.

Technical Session 2

• Water resources management challenges
• Water quality and ecology
• Role and benefit of dams
• Optimization of reservoir operation and integrated reservoir management
• Assessment and management of reservoir sedimentation
• Social and environmental impact assessment and management;
• Trifecta: water, energy, food
• Innovative technologies, knowledge application and best practices

Industry Session

Technical Session 3

• Hydro-meteorological and seismic systems
• Geotechnical, structural, hydro-mechanical and communication systems
• Real-time performance monitoring and analysis of data
• Instrumentation for earthquake hazard assessment
• Surveillance and monitoring by latest technologies (Satellite, terrestrial radar, laser-based technologies)
• Recent advances in dam health investigations
• Acquisition, effective analysis and usability of monitoring data
• Data processing: Design, construction, and operation

Technical Session 4

• Operating Rules
• Maintenance procedures
• Cost-benefit analysis of O&M
• Resources and capacity building for O&M
• Disaster and emergency management (prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery)
• Cost-benefit analysis of Emergency Management
• Resources and capacity building for Emergency Management
• Integration of Operation, Maintenance, and Emergency Management

Technical Session 5

• Comprehensive dam safety reviews
• Dam safety standards
• Uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity
• Risk-informed assessments
• Risk tolerability guidelines
• Human-induced risks management
• Incidents and accidents case histories
• Disasters case histories

Technical Session 6

• Foundation treatments
• Structural Rehabilitation design
• Refurbishment of gates
• Dam rehabilitation and construction management
• Re-instrumentation, enhanced monitoring and overall surveillance
• Other dam safety investments
• Risk communication

Technical Session 7

• It will include rehabilitation case studies for ongoing Dam Rehabilitation Programs globally including India. It will also cover issues encountered and lessons learnt during implementation of these Programs.