Registration & Breakfast 

Welcoming Remarks

Dean Jack Nowlin | Texas Tech School of Law, Dean and W. Frank Newton Professor of Law

Water Updates from the Courts and Legislature

Emily Rogers | Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP, Managing Partner

Hope Wells | San Antonio Water System, Vice President Legislative and Regulatory Affairs 

Leah Martinsson (moderator) | Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts, Executive Director

Break 

The Local Water Landscape

Aubrey Spear, P.E. | San Jacinto River Authority, General Manager

Drew Satterwhite, P.E. (moderator) | Canadian River Municipal Water Authority, General Manager

Jason Coleman, P.E. | Manager, High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1

Kody Bessent, M.S. | Plains Cotton Growers, Chief Executive Officer 

Break/Lunch

Lunch Conversation with Senator Perry

Texas Senator Charles Perry | Texas Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs, Chairman

Sarah Schlessinger (moderator)| Texas Water Foundation, Chief Executive Officer 

Break 

Beneficial Reuse of Produced Water

Amy Hardberger (moderator)| George W. McCleskey Professor of Water Law; Director, Center for Water Law and Policy

Cloelle Danforth, Ph.D. | HEI Energy, Senior Scientist 

Ryan Hall | NGL Energy Partners, Director, Technical Operations

Shane Walker, Ph.D., P.E. | Professor, Director of the Water Resources Center, Texas Tech University 

Break 

Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production Presentation

The Future of West Texas Ag Water

Dr. Krishna Jagadish, Ph.D. | Professor; Thornton Distinguished Chair; Davis College Water Center Director 

Pursuit of Water Solutions for Rural Texas (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) 

Carlos Rubinstein | RSAH20 LLC, Principal

Closing Remarks