On Wednesday, November 5, 2025, Current hosted the third seminar in the Third Coast Water Seminar Series, featuring a conversation with Dr. Reshmina William, Senior Project Manager at Isle Utilities. Senior Project Manager at Isle Utilities.
Innovators know the frustration: even game-changing tech can fail to scale. A well-designed proof-of-value trial can help to overcome some of the most common barriers to technology adoption. However, particularly in the traditionally risk-averse water sector, start-ups can risk becoming trapped in a vicious cycle of piloting without procurement.
In this seminar, Dr. Reshmina William highlighted how effective piloting and trials can improve efficiencies, bolstercredibility, and help pave the way for innovative new technologies. Drawing on her experience in federal government and industry, she presented best practices for effective trial design. She also introduced a financial model designed to derisk proof-of-value trials for both technology start-ups and end users, and shared how organizations can leverage this model for their own pilots.
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About Dr. William
Reshmina’s passion is using data science as a multi-disciplinary tool to empower communities to sustainably shape their environments.
She is a technology consulting professional with 5+ years of experience working with clients including academia, non-profits, utilities, technology vendors, and the U.S. federal government. Although her background is in urban flood risk and resilience, her work with Isle has encompassed topics as broad-ranging as water workforce training and education, technology commercial acceleration, and market and portfolio assessments. In particular, her work with Isle’s non-profit Trial Reservoir program helps to mitigate risk for utilities seeking to pilot innovative new technologies, particularly in small, rural, and disadvantaged communities.
Prior to joining Isle, Reshmina served as a AAAS Science Technology and Policy Fellow with the Department of Energy, where she provided technical and program management expertise on agency efforts to decarbonize wastewater, water reuse, and desalination efforts nationwide. She was also part of an interagency task-force led out of the White House that aimed to improve the climate resilience of federal infrastructure projects.
