Marcel Costa Sanches

Marcel Costa Sanches holds a degree in Civil Engineering, with specialization in public services regulation from the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida (USA), the London School of Economics and Political Science – LSE (United Kingdom), Instituto Superior Técnico at the Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), and the Florence School of Regulation (Italy). He is a CP3P®-F certified professional in PPP and public service concession modeling by APMG/World Bank.

A career employee at the Companhia de Saneamento Básico do Estado de São Paulo – SABESP, he has a professional trajectory focused on the formulation, implementation, and monitoring of public policies in the areas of basic sanitation, urban infrastructure, and housing. In his most recent executive position, he served as Superintendent of Regulation at the company from March 2016 to June 2024, with highlights including coordinating contractual processes with municipalities, technical and economic regulation, regulatory oversight, and tariff reviews. He is a Governor of the World Water Council, National President of ABES - Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental, and a member of the Conselho Estadual de Saneamento – CONESAN/SP. Since July 1, 2024, he has served as Executive Assistant to the Operations and Maintenance Directorate at SABESP.

Marcelo Kenji Miki

Civil Engineer and Master’s Degree holder from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP), specializing in wastewater treatment plant optimization and expansion projects, with a particular focus on the solid phase of treatment. Currently working on the application of the External Sludge Hydrolysis Process in Mesophilic Anaerobic Digesters, aimed at process intensification for optimization and resource recovery. Coordinator of the Cooperation Agreement between Sabesp and the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) through the PITE program (University-Industry Cooperative Research) from 2009 to 2022, supporting technological innovation in the field. Editor of the Portuguese version of the book "Biological Wastewater Treatment" by the International Water Association (IWA).

Marcin Głodniok

Head of Environmental Technologies Laboratory at the Central Mining Institute - National Research Institute.

Expert in environmental protection and environmental biotechnology.. Main areas of interest and research activities concerns waste management in line witch waste to product and circular economy idea. As a researcher, was a leader of scientific projects regards post industrial wastes management and production of safe immobilized waste based granulates, industrial waste stabilization as well as fertilizer from organic wastes and mineral additives. In his work he is mainly focused on technologies development and implementation.

For the last 14 years he is employed in Central Mining Institute of Katowice, GIG Poland, working in Department of Water Protection (DWP). He graduated his Ph.D. in 2014. Doctor Głodniok is a Head of Environmental Technologies Laboratory, author and co-author of several dozen of research works and R&D project, including implementation projects and service works for industrial partners (e.g. wastewater plants operators and municipal enterprises) especially in the field of wastewater, wastewater sludge and waste management and circular economy.

Main author of several solutions for the processing of sewage sludge into fertilizer products (Patent Pl:P.420420 and Patent applications: P.431113, P.419181, P.423664). Doctor Głodniok was involved in realization of a dozen EU founded projects, like: MANAGER, LoCAL, AMIIGA, Gi-Mine etc.