AQUATECH INNOVATION FORUM:
Celebrating Water’s Changemakers
6 NOVEMBER 2023 IN AMSTERDAM
This year's Innovation Forum will be on the 6th of November 2023 in Amsterdam. Get ready for another edition of the Forum, meet other water professionals and listen to the changemakers.
The programme including the list of speakers will be announced soon!
Why a Forum
The one-day interactive conference was added to strengthen the Aquatech Amsterdam activities in 2021.
Based on the principle of Roman city ‘Forums’, which were the centre for social, economical and political activities, the Innovation Forum was designed to disrupt the conventional conference model.
The Innovation Forum will be the third piece of the Aquatech puzzle and completes the trifecta of events taking place in the same week, also including the Aquatech Innovation Award ceremony and large scale, water focused exhibition.
Why Changemakers
Often the discussions focus on the solutions: the hardware and software as the only solutions. We accept that technological solutions will help us get some of the way yet, without an accepting company culture and environment, innovations will struggle to scale, to be accepted and implemented to enable long-term water sustainability.
We want to celebrate the people and organisations making this change happen. From utility innovation managers, to start-ups, investors and corporate water managers, the Forum will unite the industry to share their positive and honest stories in a unique, creative and free-flowing festival atmosphere.
We want to celebrate the people and organisations making this change happen. From utility innovation managers, to start-ups, investors and corporate water managers, the Forum will unite the industry to share their positive and honest stories in a unique, creative and free-flowing festival atmosphere.
DELEGATE TICKETS
Exclusive package
Including invitation to Exclusive 'Water F**ck up night', kick-off breakfast,
executive lunch, Innovation Award dinner and exclusive network opportunities.
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(Ex. VAT)
The Benefits
Business package
Including kick-off breakfast, networking lunch, Innovation Award dinner and exclusive network opportunities.
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The Benefits
Innovator package
Including kick-off breakfast, networking lunch and exclusive network opportunities.
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The Benefits
These companies attending Aquatech Innovation Forum:
WHEN YOUR ARRIVE AT RAI AMSTERDAM
SAFE AQUATECH TOWN
PLAY THE SERIOUS GAME
Dr Mehdi Khoury, a senior research fellow at the University of Exeter, will run a serious gaming workshop.
Water companies are increasingly using Serious Games to help in their strategic future planning and strategies, helping to link decision support systems, interactive visualisations and data science. Visitors can actively participate in “Aquatech Town”, a virtual community comprising 300,000 inhabitants. Through a series of correct decisions on the water cycle, players can help the town overcome water stress by implementing circular, energy-efficient solutions.
KEY THEMES
Digital transformation
Embracing culture change
Net Zero targets
Decentralised innovations
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Solution interoperability
Advanced asset monitoring
Corporate water innovations
Remote plant monitoring
Big Data
FORUM GOLDEN RULES
To make sure the Innovation Forum will be a truly interactive and engaging experience, we set the following Golden Rules:
1) Sessions will be no longer than one hour
2) Everyone participates and
3) Zero tolerance on sales pitches: Innovation Forum speakers are there to tell, not sell.
MASTERS OF WATER
Do you have what it takes to be a Master of Water? Find out and meet some of the global water leaders who have spent their careers progressing the industry with their proactive adoption of new ideas, technologies and ways of thinking. To make sure you will get what you want out of the Forum, you will help set the content with the free flowing agenda format.
BATTLE OF THE GLADIATORS
Who can find the best Aquatech changemaker?
Our anonymous changemaker “scouts” will search for what they think is the biggest “changemaker” at the Aquatech Innovation Forum. This could take the form of an individual, a project, solution, ambition or investment.
We’d like to hear of their scouting experiences. How did they find their changemaker? What first impression did they gain? How did they choose their champion?
And then let the battle commence. The chosen changemakers (one per scout) fight it out in the colosseum in their quest for eternal glory. Final judgement and the crowning of the triumphant champion gladiator will be passed by Will “Caeser” Sarni.
AUDIENCE PROFILE
Approx. 230 attendees are anticipated from the following groups
Start-ups and Entrepreneurs
Utilities
Investors and financiers
Corporate water professionals
Engineering consultancies
Solution providers/
OEMS
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Our sponsorship opportunities provide you with different ways to engage with delegates. Showcase your brand and expertise in the field of water technology in front of a high level audience including: Chief Technology and Innovation & Digital Officers, Engineering Consultants and Business Development Managers.
MEET THE AQUATECH INNOVATION FORUM ADVISORY BOARD
Andrew Walker
CMO
Evove
Evove
Annette Bos
Director Water Global
RAI Amsterdam
Avishek Chaudhuri
Water industry advisor
Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services
Dr Benjamin Tam
CEO
Isle Utilities
Isle Utilities
Gaëtane Suzenet
Co-Founder
European Water Tech Accelerator
European Water Tech Accelerator
Emma Weisbord
Innovation Lead, RHDHV Digital
Royal
HaskoningDHV,
Eva Martinez
Head of smart services
Aqualia
Frank Zamora
Director of technology & IT
Acciona
Jan Gooijer
Innovation manager
Vitens
Mark Kaney
Managing director
Ipsum
Matt Rolls
Vice President of Business Development
Specific Energy
Miguel Angel Sanz
Independent water consultant
Paul Fleming
Founder
Water Value LLC
Paul O'Callaghan
CEO
Bluetech Research
Prof Dragan Savic
CEO
KWR Water Research Institute
Slavco Velickov
Global Asset Performance Director
Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems
Sivan Zamir
Vice President
Xylem Innovation Labs
Wayne Byrne
General Partner
Burnt Island Ventures
Will Sarni
Founder & CEO
Water Foundry, US
Tom Freyberg
Content director
Aquatech Global Events
Yossi Yaacoby
Director
WaTech Mekorot
Focus on discussions
Discussions will focus on innovation and practical solutions to challenges that exist; not unnecessary rhetoric and hyperbole.
Highly interactive
The high-level Forum will be fully integrated with the Aquatech Innovation Award in an interactive format: audience members will get to hear exclusive presentations and content on ‘not yet to market’ technologies.
Best in class speakers
Speakers will be individually selected to deliver targeted, actionable and practical content that address the application of innovative technologies.
PLEASE CONTACT US WITH ANY QUESTIONS OR IDEAS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH US!
Danielle Meester
Manager Aquatech Innovation Forum
EXCLUSIVE HEADLINE SPONSOR
Idrica is an international company that specializes in providing services and solutions for water utilities.
Through its GoAigua technological solution, Idrica optimizes processes and improves efficiency in asset management, water use and energy consumption. The company drives resilience and digital transformation in utilities by leveraging over 130 years of experience helping municipalities in their water operations and maintenance, and over a decade digitally transforming the industry.
The smart water platform GoAigua combines both business intelligence and analytics to provide a holistic, detailed view of drinking water, wastewater and irrigation processes.
Through its GoAigua technological solution, Idrica optimizes processes and improves efficiency in asset management, water use and energy consumption. The company drives resilience and digital transformation in utilities by leveraging over 130 years of experience helping municipalities in their water operations and maintenance, and over a decade digitally transforming the industry.
The smart water platform GoAigua combines both business intelligence and analytics to provide a holistic, detailed view of drinking water, wastewater and irrigation processes.
SPONSOR F**K UP NIGHT
DuPont Water Solutions is the global leader in sustainable separation and purification technology, helping customers across industries and countries make real progress in ways that not only improve productivity, efficiency and profitability, but also reduce waste, energy consumption and environmental impact. We help make water safer and more accessible, food taste better, pharmaceuticals more effective and industries more efficient. We offer a broad range of ion exchange resins (IX), reverse osmosis and nanofiltration (RO & NF) membranes, ultrafiltration (UF) membranes particle filters, Membrane bioreactor systems (MBR), Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactor (MABR), Closed Circuit Reverse Osmosis (CCRO), and electrodeionization (EDI) products.
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