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Join senior leaders from across the global water sector for an exclusive networking evening at the pre-summit International Reception, organised by British Water. The reception offers a valuable oppor …
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The sector is preparing for risks it can't fully forecast, and the policy direction set now will shape how innovation takes hold. Where is policy heading? How can government back innovation as conditi …
09:20
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Resilience, cyber, PFAS, decarbonisation and affordability are all drawing on the same budgets and management attention. How are leaders deciding what goes first, what gets deferred, and what stays no …
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Fast forward twenty years. Networks are increasingly predictive, water reuse is embedded in supply portfolios, and resilience is managed across energy, water and digital systems rather than in isolati …
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Connect with utility leaders, engineers, contractors and technology providers tackling the biggest infrastructure investment cycle the sector has faced in decades. Explore how utilities are renewing a …
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Connect with utilities, industrial water users, technology providers and regulators advancing the next generation of water supply. Explore how organisations are scaling reuse, tackling PFAS and emergi …
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The investment, workforce and delivery pressures shaping the next decade of infrastructure renewal. Where are the greatest needs for new capacity, technology and delivery partners, and what will it ta …
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Examining the trends reshaping treatment investment: emerging contaminants, tightening drinking-water standards, water scarcity, reuse and rising treatment costs.
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At current replacement rates, pipes laid today would need to last two centuries. The easy leakage gains have largely been captured, leaving utilities with tougher decisions over renewal, risk and inve …
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As treatment requirements grow and destruction technologies move towards deployment, utilities face difficult decisions over cost, energy use, liability and investment. Everybody agrees PFAS should be …
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As capital programmes grow, utilities are rethinking how projects are planned, procured and delivered. One utility-contractor partnership explains how earlier collaboration, shared incentives and join …
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Direct potable reuse is moving from regulation to construction as river allocations shrink and supply margins tighten. Without an aquifer or reservoir in between, how do operators prove the water is s …
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Inflation, supply-chain constraints, planning delays and competition for labour are testing delivery assumptions across AMP8. How are utilities re-sequencing work, protecting delivery confidence? What …
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No single source is enough. How are utilities balancing reuse, desalination, conservation, transfers and storage?
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Where is technology proving its value, and what turns pilots into network-wide contracts? Explore the data, skills and decision-making utilities need to scale - and the whole-life value buyers need to …
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Resilience is becoming a core operational capability rather than an emergency response function. Connect with utility leaders responsible for protecting critical services under increasing pressure.
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AI is moving from experimentation to operations. Which use cases are generating measurable value, where are utilities seeing returns, and what barriers still prevent wider adoption?
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How are operators identifying vulnerabilities, stress-testing critical assets and prioritising resilience investments in the face of increasingly severe disruption?
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What does bringing dozens of plants, vast networks and millions of data points onto one platform mean for staffing, operations and business decisions? Explore the investment, implementation challenges …
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Under Chatham House Rule, utility leaders and cybersecurity specialists discuss real incidents, near misses and recovery lessons. What vulnerabilities are causing the greatest concern? Which resilienc …
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What must utilities do now to deliver major infrastructure programmes while transforming operations at scale?
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Join focused discussions around specific investment and operational needs, from asset renewal and advanced treatment to digital deployment and industrial water supply. Compare priorities, explore impl …
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Growth-stage water-tech companies are reaching meaningful revenue, and strategic buyers are acquiring proven platforms. Recent deals show where acquirers are placing their bets and the capabilities th …
16:20
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Series A+ innovators put their businesses to the test, demonstrating how they perform against real-world constraints: cost, procurement, regulation, integration and ultimately, revenue. Through fast-p …
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The tables are turned: founders put investors in the hot seat. What drives conviction beyond the pitch deck, and how do investors assess teams, weigh risk and commit capital? Once the deal is done, wh …
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Join for a morning of meaningful networking and conversations celebrating the women driving innovation across water. Through real stories and candid discussions on mentorship and inclusive networks, w …
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Population growth, industrial development and climate pressures are reshaping how water is valued and managed. What will it take to secure reliable water supplies while supporting economic opportunity …
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A water outage rarely starts or ends at the treatment works. Power, transport, industry, and catchments depend on each other, and climate shocks, cyber incidents and supplier failures cascade across t …
10:05
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Every AI query runs on servers that need cooling and power, and both draw on water, sometimes where supply is already tight. How much water does AI infrastructure require, where is demand concentrated …
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A real-world example of collaboration between utilities, industry, government and communities. How was the project funded, how were delivery partners selected, and how were costs, risks and benefits s …
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Explore where industrial water demand is creating opportunities for new treatment capacity, reuse, supply infrastructure and long-term service partnerships. Understand how utilities, industrial users …
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Water resilience increasingly depends on assets, partnerships and decisions that sit beyond any single organisation's control. Explore how catchments, landscapes, communities and industries can streng …
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Which industrial sectors and locations are driving the greatest additional water demand? What treatment, reuse and supply infrastructure will they require, and how can providers distinguish near-term …
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Catchments influence water quality and natural infrastructure can reduce flood risk before water reaches a treatment plant. Who pays for the benefits, how are outcomes measured, and what contracting m …
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Industrial water demand is rising faster than many utilities can expand supply. As data centres, manufacturers and other major users look for faster delivery, new funding and partnership models are em …
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Energy systems, catchments, agriculture, transport and industry all influence water resilience. Where are collaborative approaches delivering measurable resilience benefits, and what does shared respo …
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Which projects and partnerships can move forward next? What commitments are needed from utilities, industrial users, funders and technology providers to turn demand into deliverable infrastructure wit …
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When energy, food, transport and water are exposed to the same shocks, the data that shows the shared risk sits with different owners. What would it take to unlock it? And what could we plan different …
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A technology that works at one site has only passed the first test. Taking it across a whole network is a different challenge, with new budgets, procurement routes and operations teams to bring along. …
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After decades of privatisation experiments and renewed calls for nationalisation, policymakers face a difficult question: are ownership structures the real problem, or are regulation, funding and exec …
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As the sector embarks on one of the largest investment cycles in its history, how should costs be shared between customers, taxpayers, industry and investors? How can the sector turn long-term investm …
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