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ICDSME2025 is organised by MYCOLD

Paper submissions have been closed. Please get in touch with our secretariat for further information.

Theme

Operation, Maintenance and Emergency Management

  • Operation and Maintenance procedures
  • Cost benefit analysis of O&M and emergency management
  • Resources and capacity building for O&M
  • Disaster and emergency management (prevention, preparedness, response and recovery)
  • Integration of operation, maintenance and emergency management and Emergency Action Plan (EAP)

Dam Rehabilitation and Other Risk Reduction Measures

  • Structural Rehabilitation design
  • Refurbishment of gates
  • Dam rehabilitation and construction management
  • Investments outside the dam: upstream and downstream planning
  • Risk communication
  • Dam decommissioning and Life Extension Program for Hydropower
  • Comprehensive dam safety reviews

Surveillance, Data Monitoring and Evaluation

  • Hydro-meteorological and seismic systems
  • Geotechnical, structural, hydro-mechanical and communication systems
  • Real-time monitoring and data Instrumentation for hazard assessment
  • Surveillance Innovative technologies, knowledge application
  • Dam surveillance, and Data processing: Design, construction and operation
  • Big Data and Predictive Analytics

Best Practices in Dam Safety Management & Governance

  • Legislation and regulatory framework
  • Technical rules
  • Guidelines and best practices
  • Portfolio management
  • Integrated flood risk management risk governance
  • Human resources and capacity building
  • Technological needs and Integration of policies
  • People and processes
  • Risk-informed assessments decision making
  • COBRA

Integrated Water Resources Management

  • Water resources management challenges
  • Water quality and ecology
  • Climate Change Adaptation in Water Resource Management
  • Sustainable Water Resource Allocation and Management
  • Integrated River Basin Management
  • Monitoring and Evaluation in IWRM
  • Hydrology & Hydraulic

Sustainable Dam and Reservoir Management

  • Optimization of reservoir operation and integrated reservoir management
  • Reservoir sedimentation
  • Social and environmental impact assessment and management
  • Dam break modelling
  • Flood forecasting and flood modelling and Artificial intelligence for sustainable dam management

Advancing Sustainable Hydropower

  • Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) in Hydropower Development
  • Smart Grid Integration & Digital Transformation in Dam Operations
  • Innovative Financing and Policy Mechanisms for Energy Transition
  • Pump storage
  • Floating Solar PV

Dam Safety Assurance Under Climate Change

  • Climate change impacts on dam safety
  • Flood risk management
  • Design flood review and managing revised floods