Infrastructure Symposium
Join us in South San Francisco, at the heart of innovation and ingenuity, for the 2026 ASCE California Infrastructure Symposium (CAIS) – a high-energy, content-packed gathering of the people shaping what’s next for our state’s built environment. Whether you’re designing it, funding it, regulating it, building it, or maintaining it, this is the room you want to be in.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
TOM MAGUIRE
Chief Megaprojects Officer
Valley Transportation Authority
JOAQUIN ESQUIVEL
Chair
State Water Resources Control Board
WEBSTER LINCOLN
Mayor
City of East Palo Alto
TECHNICAL SESSIONS
Track 1: Water & Environment
Beyond Storage – Anderson Dam Seismic Retrofit
Engineering the Future of Direct Potable Reuse – Designing Pure Water Silicon Valley’s Two Phase Purification System
Conveyance and CEQA – Delta Conveyance Project
Pollutants, Projects, and Policy – PFAS
Track 2: Transportation & Development
Eastridge to BART Regional Connection Update – Extending Light Rail, Expanding Access: Precision Engineering for a Connected Silicon Valley
One Corridor with Many Routes – Planning Seamless Movement of People and Goods on a Constrained Peninsula
Emerging Transportation Technologies
Track 3: General Infrastructure & Sustainability
Infrastructure and End-to-End Digital Delivery: A Reimagined Workflow for People, Process, and Technology
Climate Adaptation in Action – Regional Leadership and Implementation by OneShoreline and Port of San Francisco
Scaling for AI Infrastructure
The 2025 California Infrastructure Report Card and Sustainable Future Funding
CONTACT INFORMATION
For more information about the CA Infrastructure Symposium, reach out to the ASCE San Francisco Section using the information below:
KEY EVENT ORGANIZERS
Ruwanka Purasinghe, PE, MS, ENV SP, M.ASCE (Co-Chair)
LADWP (Program Management)
Josue Vaglienty, PE, M.ASCE (Co-Chair)
OCTA (Sr. Project Manager, Capital Project Delivery)
Yazdan Emrani, PE, M.ASCE (Region 9 Director)
Town of Woodside (Director of Public Works/Town Engineer)
Rune Storesund, D.Eng., PE, GE, F.ASCE (Region 9 Web Magic)
Storesund Consulting (Consulting Engineer)
Christine O’Brien, PE, M.ASCE (Region 9 Awards Chair)
Wood Rodgers, Inc. (Project Engineer)