Accelerating Digital Transformation - Workshop

Smarterwater Product and Technical Manager, AU/NZ

chris.miller@hynds.co.nz

027 801 5574

With 30 years’ experience in the three waters industries, Chris also has extensive experience in hydro generation, pulp & paper, petrochemical and food & beverage sectors.

Chris brings a wealth of both technical application knowledge, and commercial understanding to his role of Smarterwater Product & Technical Manager. His breadth of experience includes working in hazardous area training and application in Singapore, instrumentation and process control throughout New Zealand, sales, product category, and inventory management,

Delivery of diverse customer-based solutions is prominent in Chris’s planning and believes people and skills are the most important assets in business. Protecting both through superior health & safety practises and business development initiatives is a responsibility he values. Chris enjoys leading his talented team, as they focus together on delivering world class results.

Smart Water Product Lead

Nasrine.Tomasi@mottmac.com

021 178 1071

Eric.Skowron@ProjectMax.co.nz

Eric is a Three Waters Network Strategy Executive for ProjectMax, a New Zealand based strategic consulting firm specialising in helping clients create strategies to maintain their communities’ potable water, wastewater and storm water infrastructure. Based in Wellington, he has 23 years of engineering experience in New Zealand, Australia and the United States for both government and consulting entities.

He helps water utilities make better informed infrastructure investment decisions through development of strategic monitoring and renewal programs, network planning, criticality assessments and implementation of innovative solutions. Eric supports innovation initiatives in the water sector in the Asia-Pacific Region, participates in the WaterNZ SWIG and is co-chair of the SWAN APAC Alliance Partnerships Committee.

Principal Water Engineer

christine@watercycleconsulting.co.nz

022 512 3553

Christine is an independent consultant and director at Water Cycle Consulting and has over 25 years of experience in asset management planning and strategic water supply planning and demand management. Christine has worked across New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Asia and the Pacific region. She is passionate about improving the sustainability of water infrastructure and strongly believes in the power of story-telling to encourage people to care about engineering topics. Christine has chaired the Water Efficiency and Conservation Network, a Water NZ Specialist Interest Group for the past three years. She is also one of the co-authors of the 2023 update of the New Zealand Water Loss Guidelines.