 we are fully dedicating to discussions about our standing committee. And besides talking about the elections and how is the the procedure should be nominated. We also have some of the current members of the committee here and they will be able to answer some of our questions and help you in this process of nominating yourself to to be part of the steering committee. Emily, can you pass to the next slide? Before starting presenting the agenda today, I want to present myself. My name is Zabala Espingola. I am the membership engagement officer here at the IWA responsible for the young water professionals community. And I'm also the one responsible for the process of this nominating process that we launched it. And what we are doing today, so we are going to discuss what is the young water professionals during committee, the emerging water leaders that we call them. We are doing the subcommittee introductions. And then we have this committee on roles and elections. So here are the photos, some of their members are here. So we have Emily, Farouk, Nes, Nieti, which is also here. And I think that Pavel, Jacob and Hagmar will be joining us later. Some of you might already know this, some of you might be new to IWA and you might be also interested in knowing what is the steering committee. So it's a representative body of all the young water professionals that are members of the International Water Association. And the main responsibility of the committee is to provide advice to the organization about young water professionals. So what are the perspectives about the sector and also about the strategies that IWA has. And they're also responsible for encouraging and enhancing all the ways that we have to engage new generations of water leaders. And of course, supporting the professional development of the young water professionals in all activities in the national and international level. And I would say also in the regional level. So here we have a picture of the IWA structure. So we have the secretariat here in the London office by Ayan right now. But we also have the regional office in India and the office in Nanjing, China. And I feel searched in the below part of the slide to have the young water professional committee and also the chapters. These are the main bodies that the young water professionals can be part of. They can be part of IWA. They can interact with us and they can guide us in this process of developing and creating opportunities for young water professionals. Here I have another image about how the young water professions they fit within IWA structure. So we have the IWA board and then we have the national and international level. In the national level, we have the government members and they're really connected with the country chapters. So if you are in a country that has a government member that is representing IWA in the country, your chapter is connected to this government member. And the steering committee that works in this international level they interact a lot with the secretary yet, but also with the strategic council. So they have high level discussions, trying to advise the association in terms of attracting and empowering young water professionals. And here are the secretary yet. What we do, we try to engage all of these levels of young water professionals that they are acting within IWA and creating opportunities for them and also giving support. So if you want to start a chapter in our country, you can have the support not only from me, from the secretary yet, but also from the steering committee. We have a subcommittee that is dedicated to this. So we have all the ways, all the tools to help you in this process. But this is just an example about how we work with the young water professionals. And if you are wondering about, okay, so where are the chapters of IWA? This is one of the newest images that we have in terms of where the chapters are located. So we have chapters all over the world. And we are looking forward to create new chapters and creating this platform, this community to support and engage young water professionals all over the world. So I've talked too much. I think I will give the spotlight to the members of the committee, because they are the ones that will help you in this process. So we can start going with our first subcommittee. So Farouk and Iti, the floor is yours. Thank you very much. Welcome, everyone. I'm so happy to see so many people are here interested in this great committee. And before I go to the details of what we have done, I just need to let you know that don't miss this opportunity, because we enjoy it and we don't want to leave. But it's just the process, because you will enjoy a lot of this committee. Well, typically, especially in our subcommittee, this is my favorite. Obviously, that's why I signed up for this. I'm Farouk. I'm representing a Canadian or North American chapters of young professionals. And Mia and Iti served as chapter coordinators. And it was such a great work and rewarding, because first, you can broaden your network internationally so fast. You meet so many great people. You connect in personally levels even, although you're so far away, but there's so many things to do in there. In terms of the events, we have done many things, but it's up to you how much you want to do, of course, but this is what we did. So we have global coordination calls where along with IWHQ, we organize calls that gathers all the young professional chapters around the world. And we talk about a specific topic that's needed for the young professional chapters. And this happens quarterly. So you would lead and coordinate the call and help the IWD to implement this. So that's one thing. And also, we have another call, which is called regional calls that Mia and Iti initiated this round. It's up to you to continue it or not, but this is something that's happening. Every month, we would have a call for a region that's geographically close to each other. For example, one call would be for South Africa, one would be for North America. So the countries that are close to each other can connect in person a little. And not only that, we also had great other opportunities. I'm not going to talk about all of them. I'm going to let Iti take on this. But thank you so much, everyone. If you have any questions, we're here to answer your questions, but I can talk forever. Iti, pass it to you. Thanks, Faruk. I'll add to the amazing things Faruk has already mentioned. I totally agree with her. It's an amazing opportunity that gives you a platform to, of course, build your network globally, regional level engagement, as well as within your country, it gives you a lot of visibility. I'll talk personally about myself. I've got so much visibility in my water professional networks as well. And that has helped me collaborate with different stakeholders working on water at different levels, including the central government in India. And globally, amazing opportunities came my way. Just to give you one example, the Denmark's water challenge events have been an annual event now. And I've got a way to gain some leadership experience in these initiatives where I've mentored the various teams from all over India. And those engagements have been amazing, connecting with the young energy and learning, you know, their perspective. And that also brought along options for me to connect with people working from or studying different subjects, including electronics to, you know, civil engineering, things like that. So it has been a great contribution to expanding my event, helping me connect with the right people, as well as experience sharing in the sense that connecting at global level can, you know, help you learn very quickly what has been successful for others and how you can improvise quickly without having to go on trying things yourself in your work related to water. So yeah, I can go on and on. But I think I'll also have to stop here. But yes, as Park said, please connect with us any time. And we will surely start dropping in our contact information in the chat very soon. So very, very happy to engage here. Yeah, I'll stop speaking there. Thank you for making it for doing this overview about your civic committee. And then we can go to the next one. Hi, everyone. Yeah, it is. Hey. Well, again, great to have so many here. I will try to be very specific on on what the work has been or the focus on the specialist group. So basically, from the presentation that you heard, we do have a set of specialist groups. There are quite a lot over 30, where either way allows people who are, you know, nerds about a specific topic to be invited to two groups or as a volunteer, you can just join and follow out of your interest or because you actually want to be an active engager and create activities around a specific topic. And that is mostly done through the IWayConnect channel. I don't know if you are aware of that. So so I would strongly invite you to to join the IWayConnect. It is currently being revised the its version. And we hope to to bring you very new features very soon. So the role of the specialist groups of the emerging world that is responsible for the specialist groups is to support the revision and the implementation of strategies to enhance the engagement of young work professionals in those specialist groups. So what did we do? We contacted all the YWPs that were engaged in boards of specialist groups and we asked them about their expectations and we ran a little survey to understand how we could support them because we felt that some specialist groups were very active and others were not. And we needed to understand if there was something that we could do to help. We did actually move on with that and had a formal meeting with some of them online, of course, where we were discussing what makes a strong YWP in a board, what tools do they need, and we realized that what is actually very important is to have seniors that understand that young work professionals need to be supported and highlighted. So based on that, then our next move was to actually decide to act on the emerging, the specialist groups forum. And that one will happen on the World Water Congress in Exhibition 2022 in Copenhagen. And the idea is that we will be helping the organization of that event so that we promote the recognition of YWPs and we connect the YWPs as well, not only within their own specialist groups, but also across specialist groups. You will also see that there has been the start of a newsletter sent by for specialist groups. So if you are involved in any specialist group, you are probably receiving an email with news. So that's also a way for you to engage further and get to know more of the work that each specialist group does and get some ideas of what you can do in a specialist group. So it's rather interesting. I think I mentioned more or less what were the considerations. I will also like to bring a little bit of the challenges and I'll do that in 20 seconds. And the reason for that is that when I applied for working with the specialist groups, I was full of hopes and dreams, which is great. And I still have other hopes and dreams, but they are just adjusted to the reality, which is also fine because that makes them possible. So the idea is that there was a lot of lack of data, like, you know, questions I would ask, okay, how many wider piece do we have in boards or how many, you know, and all of that data needed to be collected still. So we took like half a year to almost a year for that data to get to our hands because the IWI organization in the headquarters also changed a lot from 2020 to 2022. And that's a little bit the process. And it was hard. And then then there was also this, I was working, well, I'm working with Yuji. And, you know, she's on the other side of the world, which makes things really fun. But also comes with challenges that we need to realize, like in the beginning, we were setting meetings, but it wouldn't work the platform, the technology wouldn't work or things like that. So we needed to adjust and find the right ways. And I think that brought me to or raised some awareness, you know, that we need to adjust our ways of communicating. And when we want to talk with the rest of the world. So that was a good eye opening, I think for me. And what else? Well, an overall COVID, you know, but that was, I guess, with everyone, because the need to connect with people requires some human connection as well. And even though we tried with live events, I cannot wait to see all of this team together, you know, but that is it from my side. I'll be, of course, here till the end of the session. So if you have any more questions, just, I mean, thank you, Inez. So we can go to the next subcommittee. So I think Mikhail and Leon Miller unable to join us today, but they have kindly put together a bit of information about what the events and communications subcommittee does and what their goals are. So I can present on their behalf. So hi, Emily, I'm the chair of the committee. But yeah, so the events and communications committee are subcommittee are a really crucial part of the steering committee in terms of leadership of the major events that our group delivers on and also in terms of giving a voice in other major events that the association delivers. So as an overview, the three main goals are bringing YWPs together by supporting those online and in person events, supporting the organization, supporting representation of YWPs more critically at broader events like non YWP specific events, and then giving support to other subcommittees and extending their and improving their communication. So for example, in helping to prepare communications materials linked in content, things like that for reaching out to the wider YWP network. So some of the things that the events and communications subcommittee have contributed to in the past two years over their term. There's the flagship event, which was the IWA Emerging Water Leaders Virtual Forum, which we held in 2021. That was sort of an offshoot of an event that's normally held in person at the World Water Congress, in which we will be having in person this year in Copenhagen. They helped contribute to a session that we collaborated on with other young or youth water networks at the World Water Forum. And yeah, like I said, they're helping to lead the the planning of our Emerging Water Leaders Forum session at the World Water Congress coming up this year, and we'll be helping in some of the communication materials and the lead up to that as well. So you can keep your eyes and ears tuned for those coming up soon. Thank you Emily for being in the discussion about events and communication. And as I said, we are planning for the next the forum, and we have a lot of ideas to bring the best for the forum. So we can go to the next slide and next subcommittee. And also Jacob. Okay. Hi, my name is Hagi Mar and I'm the member of the Career Building Subcommittee. The core of it is Leanne, who you can see on the picture and myself and Jacob, who's our secretary, he joined for some of these parts as well. And that's why we added him onto the slide. Just to give you an idea what we do or what we did, it's obviously we were kind of challenged or not kind of but severely challenged by COVID and all of those issues that arose from it, lack of travel, in-person meetings and so on. So we also are initial plans for the Career Building Subcommittee were kind of hijacked by this pandemic. And therefore we kind of had to reschedule and re-plan. And the result was now the Port of Friday initiative, which is showcasing what we do to use social media to promote career development. And we interviewed a few of our fellow steering committee members. And then we also, for Leanne and Volter, save a lot in the South African YWP chapter with the Focus on Career Building. I supported the Building of Bridges event series, which was driven by the German YWP chapter. So our home chapters essentially. So you can already see that you can focus also on your home chapters or you're naturally going to involve your home chapters into the work of your career building or the subcommittee you're going to work with. And lastly, now we're planning for the hopefully in-person meeting in September to design a workshop with the Focus on Career Building, which we already obviously did and now we just have to see where it fits into the program. And obviously I'll also stay on for the remainder of the call and I'm happy for any questions or any also inspiration regarding Career Building. Thank you. Thank you, Agmar. So we can go to the next subcommittee. I think that we have Pavel here. Yes, thank you. Please, thank you all. First of all, let me share you that what IWA makes a very good association is that the members create their own reputation and their own future through organization of many activities. And this group, Young Water Professionals, is one of these very strong groups, not only with this chapter, I mean, not only with this strength committee, but with all specialist groups and subcommittees in different areas. In this case, in the strategic council, Emma and myself try to promote the formal participation of two Young Water Professionals, emerging water leaders members in the strategic council of the IWA. The strategic council of the IWA is a group of maybe 30, 35 members from different subcommittees through the growth IWA association. So a role there is try to set up the emerging water leaders agenda that used to hear and most hear the Young Water Professionals needs. So for us, it's very important to hear what are the initiatives from each subcommittee, try to organize them through the objectives and key results to see in the near future or in the middle term. So for us, I believe that it has been a very good experience, not only connecting with other professionals. More than that, I think that is very important to hear and to feel the needs, the current needs and the future needs of the Young Water Professionals. I believe that a role was important and can be very important in the future because we try to figure out what are the next steps addressing the powering of Young Water Professionals, learning capacity, probably professional development and that is stuff that may enhance the experience of the Young Water Professionals and the professional development. So thank you all. Thank you Pavel. Emily, can you move to the next slide? So it's fine. Now I'm not sure if we've got Jacob on the call today but Fisher let us know he wouldn't be able to join but this is just about, I don't know, we don't have a formal name for our subcommittee but it's the chair vice chair and secretary and we work together fairly closely but essentially we have kind of distinct roles. So the chair and the vice chair work together in support of each other. So the three main objectives being to support YWP strategy development and implementation. So we work quite closely with Emery and Pavel, our strategic council reps on that and making sure we're consistent with broader IWA strategy. We help coordinate the different subcommittee activities so we maintain a bit of an oversight of what the different subcommittees are doing and we coordinate or Jacob, our secretary schedules those meetings and I will chair them and finally we represent the IWA YWP community at different events and meetings so if they need a sort of a representative of the YWP body frequently we'll be called on to represent and then we're also actors the sort of main contact point between the committee and the secretariat for more sort of administrative matters and different functions and questions. So and like I said Jacob as our secretary so he schedules coordinates reports on committee meetings which sounds like a fairly standard task but it is a huge undertaking and Jacob does an excellent job of that. He also helped to establish different communication processes within the committee and supports different sort of managerial activities and making sure that yeah we're all working together properly as well. So as an FYI to people who are new to the YWP steering committee and looking to nominate the chair role is only open to people who sat on the committee previously so I was the secretary in the previous committee but the vice chair and the secretary roles are open to to any new applicants. So yeah just as a general overview two of the big activities that the three of us were involved in the past two years the first being the coordination of that virtual EWL forum so like I said we worked closely with the events and communications of committee and then the coordination of the strategic plan for the EWL steering committee which is our former name it's changing to YWP steering because I understand but yeah we coordinated the creation of the strategic plan so revisiting that and iterating on that over the years and working again closely with the strategic council. So I've committed to make sure that that's aligned with association goals and things. So those are the general responsibilities of the chair vice chair and secretary just as a sum up I'll say I've been on the committee for four years now and it's been an incredible opportunity in terms of I think like others have said the networking opportunities you get to really squeeze every penny out of your IWA membership in this kind of role because you are meeting and working with people from every chapter from different specialist groups from different parts of the association you never would have interacted with otherwise and also it's just a fantastic learning opportunity as a young professional you're taking on a leadership role within the YWP community as being part of the steering committee and really giving having a chance to give a voice to YWP members and make sure your opinions heard so through association activities and through directing the strategy of the group so I strongly recommend if you if you want to take a more active role in the association to to consider putting in a nomination but I think this brings us to info from from Isabella thank you Emily for for doing the final part of the presentation about the the subcommittees and the roles of each of the members they have with the committee so the main information about today that we launched the call for the new steering committee I will add the link to the chat and what I want to present here is the timeline that we have so we launched the call for the nomination and it will be open until the end of April early May we'll be doing the check of the eligibility so we have the criteria and we're just going over all the nomination that we receive it to check if they are eligible or not should be part of the committee then we also have the nominations committee they will put forward the voting and we need to we will ensure like gender geographical age and background diversity during this and the voting period will be until the end of May and then we will collect the results and we will present outcome results to the government uh the governance and nomination committee of IWA and in June we will present this recommendation to the IWA board and the first meeting of the new committee will be doing the the forum and the congress in September in Copenhagen so this is a general timeline that we are working with okay next slide so now is the part that you can ask all the questions that you have it so Emily maybe we can uh you can stop sharing your presentation so everyone can see our faces and please feel free to type in the chat if you're not comfortable with but if you're okay just open your camera and your mic and you can ask the questions to any of the members including myself including if you have questions about like the nomination process or yeah filling out the forms or if you're not sure about trying to choose between one role or another in the in the application or anything like that yeah let us know. Good afternoon I'm Stephen the bottom from Belgium and I have a question about the implication the procedure is it possible to contact one of you while doing the application because within aqua field we still need to decide who is going to apply and it will be probably in the next week I think yeah probably next week is it possible to contact one of you for specific questions concerning the application. Stephen hi so general questions regarding the the nomination process you can send them to me I will type in the chat later and if you want to know more about the role and about the subcommittee you can send them emails to Anderson about what they're doing the challenges and the objective of the subcommittee. Okay perfect thank you very much thank you I think we had a question in the chat as well from Chateau do you need references to apply no you don't you just you self nominate and write some sort of I mean it's good maybe having a friend or a colleague to like review your your nomination if you like I had a friend look over mine I think when I applied but no you don't need references yeah we didn't have friends in this all the information about the nomination of the documents I already shared the link here so you can go over and check if you have any other questions and the applications they're all online via this link that we have on SurveyMonkey and you just need to upload your CV also there and reply to all the questions that we put in the forms can can I make a like a question yeah to the audience can I switch that a little bit could I hear a little bit about like how did you get in touch with IWA or if you have a chapter that you started to work with or what happened like if anyone I'm through because the most amazing thing is that you find people that are incredible because you know everyone is driven by something and you realize that you're not alone in the water sector and there's something in common but this the stories that bring us to IWA are always very interesting for me so if anyone would feel comfortable with just sharing what is the motivation or how did you get in touch with IWA that would be great for me to hear maybe I can jump in and give so my name is Avinash I have to admit I'm new to IWA I just joined IWA as a member just three or four days ago but overall I have been in the water industry for like six years now so I work with our management consulting firm very much focused on the water sector so we normally work with investors financial investors in water NGOs your inter-development organizations and all the commercial so I'm very much coming from a commercial side of the water industry and it was very exciting to see this whole other world of on the ground technical experts students learning about water so for me it's more about exploring how we could at least for me I could bring these two worlds together because coming from I worked with a lot of water companies as well so it's it's very funny to see a lot of my clients and colleagues in the IWA governing bodies and starting companies as well so yeah where are you sitting so I'm based in Paris in France yeah yeah perfect yeah I'm working for a private company I did a PhD in chemistry and then and now I'm working in the private sector and it's really cool this merging between the two worlds is the most crazy and I have to admit in as I've looked up some of the history and I have to say your current employer is a current client of mine very well yes well I hope you're well treated if you need anything let me know if I can help anyway because you know and that's another thing we really extend our network and on top of that we just you know there's a lot of things about water that you know businesses that were created that considered a way to look at water that was based simply on a traditional economic base and and now our generation has a further understanding of the values of water and also how water touches across different sectors and different industries and and stakeholders and I feel like somehow when we communicate at our level our generation everything just becomes simpler you know we're just more transparent overall we're more honest we don't have much more to lose we just see how it is and and that's a great thing so Evan as if it comes to anything that I can see that I can help you with or that we that you need to like talk about just let me know I think that's the biggest opportunity because a lot of the walks of the clients that we walk with we always bring people from the commercial side of the industry walking with companies or people who actually take decisions of building treatment plans or scaling up technologies but we never we rarely bring in the other side of multi-level government stakeholders from the ground point of view so that level of decision making or the stakeholder impact is always a dab so that's the overall really cool to understand yeah. Evan Ash I had a question for you and I hope I don't put you in corner but I was just interested to know that you're quite new to IW and what position interested you to come to this call and and hear to us and I think it's okay if you don't want to share but I think for everyone it's okay to share which position you're interested to because we're all here to help you to coach you to to tell you what we did so you know whether you sign up signing up for because sometimes you you know you sign up for something to give you something but end up doing something else so feel free to say that. Well I mean I would love to admit I haven't decided on applying for any questions given that I'm quite new to IWA and not entirely sure what it entails and and I don't even think that I fit your criteria of having a one year of member in with IWA so I think yeah I think that's the first thing so I haven't given a thought about it but IWA I think one of I think one of the board member or your strategic committee member of IWA itself is one of the partners or managing directors of the company that I'm working with as well so okay no more of IWA I've known of IWA for many years but never really got into it I always join programs I don't know if you guys know of global water intelligence this is the commercial side of the water industry so I'm very active on that side of things but not on the on your the what you guys are doing about you but with that internal with that sorry with that internal contract I'm sure we will see when coping again then it's really easy for you to pull out the arguments for that yeah I've been very in bro quite a lot quite a lot of time I've been staying many of the water clients in Denmark very well I mean that's but it's good that you joined us so you can know more about the community what we are doing what we want you doing the future and also to get engaged in new opportunities that we have so we mentioned here about the forum that we start planning and in this just mentioned again about the congress so yeah you have opportunities to to be part of it there's also opportunities over the longer term so some members of our committee joined because sometimes the subcommittees recruit other members of the YWP community to support in their activity so I know Jacob was involved with the previous steering committee because he worked as part of the subcommittees of the career development group before joining the committee formally so yeah there's lots of different pathways to join even if yeah you don't get elected in this round and that keeps sending a lot of amazing opportunities for just mentioned before we start so almost like every week I have like some something new that I want to share with you some opportunity that that it can be part of so I know that we have the call for volunteers to be part of the climate smart committee of practice meeting so we have things coming up so I do recommend that you sign up for the newsletter also because I put everything there yeah blessing you had a question yeah so I joined the IWA a little over a year ago and that was the first time I was actually coming across the IWA and I thought I should register so I'm from Nigeria and I work in the water industry in a hospital actually with the dream implants in a hospital but currently I'm in the UK I mean I'm studying master's in water and with society engineering so I learned about the volunteering for the forum the organizing currency of the imagine water leaders and I applied for that so I got offered the position of the secretary which I applied for so I want to know if there is any role on this that like can I apply for another role will it clash will I have you know so I just I've been trying to figure that out because I really want to expand my network in the water industry and I'm just open to a lot of possibilities and you see as volunteer you can take as much as you want you know and and it's it's actually and you learn different skills on both things so so it's it makes sense okay thank you that's yes everyone wanted to say yes we're like this so blessing just for you to know so Emily Farooq and each they are also part of the the organizing committee and we also have a question here he's also part of the organizing committee for the forum so we have our own all meeting later yeah but yeah you can apply it okay yeah yeah and in fact as like a as a member of the AWOL sorry as a member of the YWP steering committee you'll be involved with different elements of the forum as well so it's all it's all integrated in once you're once you're in the the wall embrace of the YWP community you'll be involved in plenty of things so as long as you volunteer there is a second part of the question actually yeah okay which is so the condition attached to the this the first volunteering position I'm holding the organizing committee so the mail I got from you from Isabella I got a mail from IWA that says the IWA is not responsible for transporting accommodation and substance so I wanted to ask because you said you'll give us a later to ask for external funding but is the IWA responsible for the registration for the program or not for the what was the congress no we are not responsible for that also okay and then I have your letter ready and I'm going to send it this week okay thank you all right your sponsors or your employers are responsible for for for the forum and also for this committee probably if you haven't paid attention there will be two main events for for the whole entire terms of two years that you would get your employers or supervisor approval to sponsor you to attend to these two events so this is something great that you get commitment beforehand I did that to my supervisor two years ago and now I graduate is still I'm he's gonna pay because that's me right but you can I feel like I feel like he got it he got off scot-free because he didn't have to register you for the the last congress so this is yeah so just something to put in your mind that this is also another great opportunity for you to get sponsored from your employer because because they they will commit for that beforehand um another question I wanted to bring to the audience was that how in the world no one is asking for the time commitment and everyone has so much time or less time or no what is if you're having any particular position in mind you should this is the time to ask about the actual time commitment and distribution and it's totally all right too and there's no competition here by the way if anyone feels like oh I shouldn't say that I'm running for this role and you already asked the question for us yeah but I need someone to ask for a specific position right because I can brag about mine forever but probably no one here would be interested for that so okay um I'm gonna ask about his secretary role Jacob yeah Jacob Jacob your your audio is crashing now you're muted just uh I think he's fixing his input okay I hope that he doesn't say it depends how long the meetings are like how don't scare blessing okay okay can you hear me now yes yeah that's much better yeah so the secretary role is an interesting one um it's uh it's one that makes you know what is happening in every subcommittee so it's interesting and then it helps me to do a little bit of lobbying at the back telling other subcommittees these guys are doing this why don't you try this also advising the the management of the EWO on some of the things that we can do to ensure that everybody is working together properly uh so that that is what's interesting uh writing of the minutes and preparing the agenda setting up meetings is quite tedious actually but it's interesting because it makes you learn a lot of things and then it helps you to improve on your reporting skills and then um you you also get to use that to expand your network so uh if anything our advisor wants to go for the secretary role because you get to enjoy everything and how much time jaco man i'm like time time how much time jaco do you usually use i mean you can tell us if it's only half an hour we know it's more time um let's see if you have a meeting i have to prepare the agenda i have to prepare the minutes i can see maybe two hours in that week for for for that because sometimes you have to go back and listen to the whole meeting again so it's it's two hours it's not that much it doesn't take a lot of time actually and we have meetings like yeah we do meetings like once every six weeks um yeah regular things and i do some of these things lying on my bed during my leisure time so yeah i think i'm biased i was the secretary uh in a past committee as well i i'm biased i tend to agree with jaco it's a great way to um well if you like knowing what everyone's doing it's a great decision to be yeah i never thought about that i'm not what are you doing what are you doing you know i'm now wondering every time that you talk to me i'm wondering what what was really going on um but it's a yeah a very good way to very quickly get across like all of the different parts of the committee and um also a great i think coming back to i think it was a nervous point earlier like that thing about um inclusivity in the way that we communicate and um interact with each other and try to find like what's the right platform or yeah what's the right tool for for working with different people and understanding the real constraint of um making a meeting time that works across as many times as there are on the planet so i see jeff's on the call and i think you're in melvin are you so apologies and we've got actually a bit it is and i've had my camera off half of this time because and at the other end of the spectrum we've got pavel who for i think it's uh just before 7 a.m so um big respect to those of us on the on the fringes of uh acceptable time zones to be awake um but yeah usually the meetings are they started 1 p.m like british time none on time yeah yeah um all right were there any other questions from people yeah about yeah time commitments to different roles any more specific questions while we're still got you here i have got another very concrete one is it possible to apply for two positions at one round you can apply you can while you're like uh filling up your form you can um highlight the one that your first option and then the second option perfect thank but in terms of the time we only discussed that uh jacob's only the secretary we didn't ask about the others to be committed it's about the time so who wants to go first so okay farouk yars sure i mean i can always talk about it um right so it it's i would say with my schedule oh my god it was so amazing because this was the my go-to thing that i i wanted to relieve and have some fun time um and i would say although we did lots of activities but um they did it they were not time consuming i i can tell that in a week it was not more than two hours so in a whole month including the meetings including the the whole committee meeting and everything you wouldn't commit more than 10 hours per month so so that's i would i would say that's that's the maximum to to commit because because it's mainly you know all uh calls for the global coordination you just connect with the people you answer some emails but but mainly it's networking it's being on the call sharing calls and and that's it so i would say the commitment is really really amazing and i really want to know who want to run for it because i want to coach you guys because me and me too for sure we're a lot better so please let me know who's running for this position i really want to help you guys so far we can need to remember to type your email in the chat so they can they can send you their questions so um the next one that i have here in my screen so pop out how much time in terms of time no so uh we are talking about time consuming so how long do you spend in your subcommittee i don't know maybe uh in average maybe in between four and five hours per week you know sometimes we have the meeting in the emerging world of this committee but the strategic council meetings are super early for me and i need to prepare the context for your the meeting because it's a huge meeting with several points and very accurate points for example try to show to touch topics and board topics very specific as membership engagement for example and and we need to support that so in that in that case i think that is very time consuming uh if we try to to participate in an accurate way so that that that the the reward is very uh it's very good because we honestly we learn other ways to work not only or a scheme to work because we're i'm a assistant professor and i'm in addition i'm an engineer so i'm very straightforward but i need to learn more soft ways to learn and to develop and organize my own work you know that's very important for me too so i think that is time consuming but you can split that time also in kind of time for learning skills and then time to develop and apply your skills so definitely worry thank you pavel then the next one that i have in this yes um so for for me i think that the two hour a week is quite reasonable um there was a lot of planning with the specialist groups and a lot of background work that didn't translate in in a lot of events uh but that was needed for us to you know because for me that's what is more important is to make sure that the one hour that i put to work really translates into a benefit to the to the to the young world professional community uh so for me it wouldn't make sense to organize a workshop or session if i didn't know how many young world professionals we had in in specialist groups or which specialist groups are more active or no things like that so for me it was more about taking time at a strategic level to understand what can i actually do to take the most out of the time that i have to dedicate and i think that two hours a week make makes sense to me thank you in this emily you're talking about your experience while you're secretary but now as a chair yeah so as a chair um so again this one isn't open to people who aren't already on the committee but it's probably the one of the larger time commitment roles um so according to the guidance document it works out to about eight hours a week um which is equivalent to one for working day week but obviously it's spread out you're not just doing it um you know sitting down at your desk and working from nine to five on iwa stuff but um yeah so that could be spread out across yeah being involved in um a webinar like this it could be yeah corresponding with members corresponding with the secretariat around different strategic issues updating strategies working with subcommittees working between the with different associations and things like that so it's a really varied sort of role um you get a lot of different exposure to different types of things and uh so yeah but like it's kind of scattered in that sort of way so um you have freedom and then there's there's ebbs and ebs and flows too like you'll have busy months and quiet months and things months around major events like the forum like the world water congress obviously just like chaos level busy but i think you'll find that with um plenty of different um association roles um or if you've ever been involved in planning a conference before you'll know what i'm talking about um but yeah that's uh you know a vision for some people going forward uh if you if you're if you've got your eyes set on on the chair role in the future um thanks steven and i think we've got a few minutes left there are a couple more slides from isabella so i'll just pop the screen back up for her to share yes there we go so okay so for those that are not members and want to be a member we have the discount code for new members you can also share among your your chapter and your friends and colleagues from the university if you're there and our co-workers maybe and the next one so um until uh 15 of may we have the superior birth rates for the congress so if you're planning to attend and if you're planning to attend the forum you have to sign up for the congress and i do recommend that you sign up as early as possible so you can get um this special rate for for attending the congress and that's all for now that i have thank you emily for sharing the screen thanks everyone for joining it was great getting to hear from a few people who are interested and good luck with the applications are we taking pictures i dressed up yes oh yes yes i got it let me stop sharing again uh there we go it's early morning i so um if you're comfortable with do open your camera um we have this tradition i would say about taking pictures after all the the meeting the young water professional meeting so we have some records yeah okay so i'm taking some uh faruk are you taking also yes i am okay one two three go everyone's looking you know handsome and glamorous and smart i have the morning to midnight yeah all the different types of sounds yeah all right well thanks everyone for joining good to see you all and yeah we'll look forward to seeing the nominations come in and uh who might be on our next next uh why do we feast hearing committee so thank you everyone bye bye bye