Session #9: AI for Water and Wastewater: Practical Use Cases

Expires Wed May 28 2025.

Overview:

How do Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence algorithms work? Can generative AI simplify your day-to-day workflow and increase your productivity? How can these tools be leveraged to better reach your municipality’s Levels of Service? What are the limitations, and risks, of AI?

This session will cover these questions, and more, along with practical use cases. In the context of increasing pressure on municipal teams to use their budgets in the most efficient possible manner, we will cover how moving towards a proactive, data-driven approach can help your team at different levels, and present some of the limitations of these tools.

At the completion of this one-hour OJT session, participants will be able to demonstrate the following:

- - - - Basics of supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning
      - Basics of generative AI
      - Applications of AI/ML for Water and Wastewater
      - Use cases of generative AI to boost productivity

Facilitator: Naysan Saran

Our facilitator is Naysan Saran, Co-Founder and CEO of CANN Forecast (CANN), a company that helps municipalities to transition towards a proactive approach to water management. CANN was founded by the winning team of the 2016 AquaHacking challenge, and is now collaborating with more than 45 utilities across Canada, California, and France. Prior to founding CANN, Naysan worked as a scientific programmer at Environment Canada, where she participated in the development of a machine learning based approach for the post-processing of numerical weather forecasts. Naysan has a background in both Computer Engineering and Mathematics, and is passionate about using AI to help solve environmental challenges.

Logistics:
These 1-hour virtual sessions are offered every alternate Thursday starting at 2:00 pm. Sessions are complimentary to all OMWA members and the fee for non-members is $30.00 CAD plus HST per person per session.

Questions:
If you have any specific questions regarding this OJT session, please feel free to submit them when you register and we will provide them to the workshop facilitator.

The OMWA will provide a certificate recognizing participation in these On the Job Training sessions. Attendance may also qualify as a Continuing Knowledge Activity for the PEO PEAK program