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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
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ICDSME2025 CFP Poster (A4)

Submission guideline

  • All submissions must be original, unpublished work and must not be under concurrent consideration by any other journal or conference.
  • You will be notified via email of any acceptance or rejection of your paper submission.
  • Full Paper should be submitted online by 30th June 2025
  • All submitted papers will undergo a Technical Committee’s review.
  • Papers should be in English.
  • Click below to download the Paper Template

  • If you need assistance with full paper submission, please contact us at submission@mycold.com.my
  • Papers should be submitted only via the below “Submit your paper” button.  

Publication opportunity

We’re delighted to announce that accepted and peer-reviewed papers presented at the conference will be published in the following:

  • ICDSME2025 Conference Abstract Book (digital format)
  • ICDSME2025 Conference Proceedings, to be published in a Springer Nature book series currently indexed by Scopus (subjected to publisher review)

call for reviewers

We are inviting reviewers for this conference who are able to deliver quality assessments and assist authors with constructive feedback on their submissions. To join us as a reviewer kindly click on the link below:
Reviewer URL

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