The Rising Smart Water Professionals (RiSWP) Workshop on May 20th featured an interactive and engaging session giving young professionals the opportunity to learn data science skills you can take home and apply, including:
- How can a good dashboard help to break down silos?
- How can vendors best collaborate with utilities to achieve common goals?
- Divide into teams to build your own data model based on challenge statement
Led by Jade Pereira, Water Resources Engineer (Jacobs) & RiSWP Leadership Chair
Introduction & Presentations
Featuring:
- Prashank (Pierre) Mishra, Analytics & Data Engineer (Carollo Engineers) “Data Engineering for Scalable and Open Digital Architecture Helps Smart Water Utilities Exploit Big Data”
- Kedar Dabhadkar, Staff Data Scientist (KETOS) “Using LLM for content creation”
- Lucas Djehdian, Senior Optimisation Engineer (WCS Engineering)“Sewer blockage sensor placement optimisation and prioritisation using AI, advanced data analytics, and ArcGIS Online dashboards”
Group Activity
Based on utility challenge statements:
- What problem are you trying to solve?
- Identify what type of data you need to solve the problem
- What type of analysis would you do to get the data into this format?
- How would you present this in a dashboard?

