AQUATECH ONLINE BREAKOUTS
Aquatech Online BreakOuts, an interactive live event series that is set to shake up the traditional and crowded webinar circuit. Unscripted, live discussions with industry thought leaders. Audience voting and interaction will not be optional but required! Forget passive listening; instead think active engagement.
Latest BreakOuts: Water Quality Monitoring Challenges and Innovations
WHO SHOULD DEFINITELY ATTEND?
- Utilities: Chief Technology / Operating / Information / Innovation & Digital Officers & Asset Managers
- Engineering consultancies: International Operations Directors & Project Managers
- Solution providers / OEMs: Executive Management (SMEs) / Business Development Managers / Chief Strategy Officers / Project Managers
....OR IF YOU JUST LOVE WATER TECH!
We believe in the power of bringing people together and want to continue that with BreakOuts. Aquatech Online is a global hub for water professionals, driven by likeable, shareable and engaging content. The live event series will augment our strong online presence with regular, interactive discussions on key topics.
Annette Bos
Director water, RAI Amsterdam
Avishek Chaudhuri
Water industry advisor, Tata Consultancy Services
Dr Benjamin Tam
Managing director UK, Isle Utilities

Dr Richard Vestner
Senior Director | Digital Cities, Bentley Systems
Emma Weisbord
Digital Water Consultant, Royal HaskoningDHV, the Netherlands
Eva Martinez Diaz
Head of smart services, Aqualia
Frank Zamora
Director of technology & IT, Acciona
Jan Gooijer
Innovation manager, Vitens
Jon McClean
VP of Technology and Innovation, Evoqua Water Technologies
Mark Kaney
Director of asset management, Black & Veatch
Matt Rolls
Regional director, Municipal EMEA, Evoqua Water Technologies
Miguel Angel Sanz
Director of Strategic Development, Suez
Paolo Zacchi Cossetti
Director Open Innovation, Xylem
Paul O'Callaghan
CEO, Bluetech Research
Prof Dragan Savic
CEO, KWR Watercycle Research Institute
Tom Freyberg
Content director, Aquatech Global Events
Will Sarni
Founder & CEO, Water Foundry, US
Yossi Yaacoby
Director, WaTech Mekorot
Discover how new technologies are creating amazing breakthroughs in water technology.
Gain knowledge and insight through the high-level workshops and discussions.
Network and mingle with other water technology thought leaders.
Connect with water technology experts from leading universities and water technology companies.
Water Quality Monitoring Challenges and Innovations
- Huge amounts of money and time are being invested in reducing leakage in distribution networks worldwide. By comparison very little money or time is being spent looking at how we can measure and improve water quality. Why?
- This latest BreakOuts will explore if water quality measurement in distribution networks, as well as at the household level, needs to be given more emphasis and if so how do we do it?
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Resilient Cities: Innovative Urban Solutions for Urgent Challenges
- How can they be redesigned to face water challenges of the future?
- What innovative solutions can be accelerated, scaled and replicated across multiple cities?
- How can we integrate smart water and plan smarter, greener and healthier urban spaces?
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Going Circular: Water & Resource Recovery in the New Normal
- With scarcity increasing around the world, recycling and reusing water makes economical and environmental sense. How will water reuse enable circularity within industries, such as breweries?
- How can water utilities go beyond water recycling to recover resources, such as fertiliser and proteins?
- How are start-ups in the decentralised market disrupting traditional centralised treatment?
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Blockchain in water: the past, the present and the future
- How is blockchain being used to connect the federal governments to communities in securing water quality data?
- How will blockchain ensure water trading and governance is transparent and not opaque?
- What potential does it have for water utilities to secure consumers’ data?
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How Covid-19 is Shaking Up & Transforming Water Innovation
- How will water innovation look in a landscape radically shaken and transformed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic?
- How have digital tools become essential, not optional as communication and monitoring lifelines for water utilities teams being forced to work remotely?
- Progression of digitalisation: what is in the pipeline?
- How are engineering teams progressing infrastructure projects without face to face interaction?
- Is investment into water start-ups being throttled and slowed down?
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Anusha Shah
Director Resilient Cities
Arcadis
UK -
Arnoud Molenaar
Chief Resilience Officer
City of Rotterdam
The Netherlands -
Carolyn DuBois
Director Water Program
The Gordon Foundation
Canada -
Emma Wattie
Director
Atlantic Water Network
Canada -
Emma Weisbord
Digital Water Consultant
Royal HaskoningDHV
The Netherlands -
Jesper Kjelds
Chief Digital Officer
Aarhus Vand
Denmark -
John Gaffney
Product Owner/BDM
Water Quality Analytics
Siemens -
Julia Braune
General Manager
German Water Partnership
Germany -
Katrina Donaghy
Co-founder and CEO
Civic Ledger
Australia -
Katrina Flavel
Technical Specialist
Clean Water Networks
Innovation Team
Yorkshire Water -
Kelly Trott
Vice President
Imagine H20
Canada -
Megan Glover
Co-Founder & CEO
120Water -
Meriem Riadi
Chief Digital Officer
SUEZ Group
France -
Michael Strahand
Consultant at IDT
SWAN Forum Ambassador -
Nicole M. Poncelet-Johnson
Director of Water Quality & Treatment Team
Denver Water -
Orianna Bretschger
Founder & CEO
Aquacycl
USA -
Rik Thijssen
Business Dev. Manager
Vitens
The Netherlands -
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Søren Nøhr Bak
Expertise Director
NIRAS
Denmark -
Yossi Yaacoby
VP of Engineering
Mekorot
Israel