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07.00 – 09.00 |
Registration
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08.00 – 08.45 |
One-to-One Networking Meetings
Your facility to book key appointments during the Global Water
Summit
Meet the people you want to meet using our One-to-One networking facility. No more
missed opportunities. You arrange it all beforehand and we make it happen.
As a registered delegate to the Global Water Summit, you will be able to upload your
professional profile, see the list of registered delegates and send requests for structured
One-to-One appointments with your target delegates.
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09.00 – 10.15
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Opening Plenary: Global Counter Currents
Radical movements and new voices in the form of entrepreneurs, technical innovators and
social actors are reshaping international discourse on issues as diverse as climate change,
renewable energy, social media, and AI. Why is it then, that within the global water business, we
continually accept the same narratives? These tell us that populations are set to
explode, and political tensions are escalating, causing ever greater challenges for water and
wastewater management at local, regional and global scales. The future will be one of constrained
resources, of making do with less. Access to finance will be restricted, forcing maintenance bills
to rise.
The 2020 Global Water Summit sets out to question these assumptions. Could the
long-term trend for populations be one of decline? Will energy be so cheap and plentiful that new
business models proliferate, along with new technologies? Will new trends in finance lead to a boom
in projects? Might the circular economy bring about a new era of stability? Can corporate water
strategies towards 2030 redefine sustainable and prosperous relationships with the environment?
In order to grow our businesses and identify opportunities, this session questions our
received wisdom, and asks where the assumptions we make about the future of water are wrong.
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10.15 – 10.45 |
Networking Coffee Break
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10.15 – 10.45 |
One-to-One Networking Meetings
Your facility to book key appointments during the Global Water
Summit
Meet the people you want to meet using our One-to-One networking facility. No more
missed opportunities. You arrange it all beforehand and we make it happen.
As a registered delegate to the Global Water Summit, you will be able to upload your
professional profile, see the list of registered delegates and send requests for structured
One-to-One appointments with your target delegates.
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10.45 – 12.00
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Session Strands
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Technologies
Un-invented Technologies
Is the water industry making enough effort to listen to the voice of the customer?
The question of whether the water sector is too conservative and risk-averse or if it’s just the
market’s lack of understanding what utilities are looking for is hovering in this session.
Uninvented Technologies is held for the eighth time, moderated by Booky Oren, a renowned
technology implementation specialist. The session empowers utility leaders to share their
unsolved challenges with technology vendors who have the chance to get exposed to their
customers’ needs. A first glimpse of potential solutions addressing the utilities’ needs will be
presented.
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Desal
Reuse tipping point
Is public resistance to potable water reuse finally crumbling? With projects in
preparation around in major cities the world, there is a sense that there is no going back. Can
we leverage the experience of some of the cities leading the way to show that drinking recycled
water is the new normal?
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Wastewater
Leading the Sludge Revolution
Sludge management is no longer tucked away at the wrong end of a wastewater
treatment plant. It is becoming an industry in own right with a whole new set of income streams,
and increasingly its own balance sheet. With little public opposition to private ownership, it’s
ready to break free from its traditional position in the value chain to develop synergies in the
broader world of waste to value. This session maps out the future of sludge as the revolution
progresses.
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Finance
Water investment strategies
Water is an ever more attractive asset class for retail investors – so much so that
it is easier to raise money than to deploy it. This session brings together the proponents of
the water investment strategies: infrastructure, technology, equities, wet water and impact to
examine what will be driving value in future.
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12.00 – 12.30 |
Networking Coffee Break
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12.00 – 12.30 |
One-to-One Networking Meetings
Your facility to book key appointments during the Global Water
Summit
Meet the people you want to meet using our One-to-One networking facility. No more
missed opportunities. You arrange it all beforehand and we make it happen.
As a registered delegate to the Global Water Summit, you will be able to upload your
professional profile, see the list of registered delegates and send requests for structured
One-to-One appointments with your target delegates.
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12.30 – 13.45
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Session Strands
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Technologies
20 Technologies for the Circular Economy
The value from waste proposition is gaining traction as never before, and as it
gains momentum, the technologies which make it happen are evolving fast. Here the Isle Utilities
team presents its top picks for the value from waste proposition.
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Wastewater
Accelerating Sanitation
As major cities push towards universal sanitation services, massive wastewater
investment plans are being added to the drawing board. The bills are going to be eye-wateringly
large. This session brings together some of the proponents of major urban wastewater programmes
to discuss how best to deliver affordability as well as environmental protection.
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Finance
Global Water Market- GWI Insights
Join the GWI team as we discuss the latest trends shaping the international water
sector, including a region by region breakdown of global municipal spending, trends in water
pricing and technology investment, and recent M&A analysis.
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Next Generation Water Futures
The future of the water industry depends on the aspirational visions of next
generation utility leaders. This session gives you the opportunity to be at the forefront of
industry development as these next generation utility leaders, who were matched with a utility
mentor prior to the event, present their vision of a water utility in the year 2050.
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13.45 – 15.00 |
Lunch
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13.45 – 15.00 |
One-to-One Networking Meetings
Your facility to book key appointments during the Global Water
Summit
Meet the people you want to meet using our One-to-One networking facility. No more
missed opportunities. You arrange it all beforehand and we make it happen.
As a registered delegate to the Global Water Summit, you will be able to upload your
professional profile, see the list of registered delegates and send requests for structured
One-to-One appointments with your target delegates.
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15.00 – 16.30
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Big Plans Roundtables – 15 tables with 4 x 20 minute rotations
A tightly focused roundtable session highlighting the context and emerging
opportunities within key markets including Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
- Choose a topic and join the table
- Meet the host and table guests
- Participate in an intimate, face-to-face exchange of ideas
- After four table rotations, you’ll leave the session with a new set of contacts, a meeting set
up for later that day and a step towards your next deal.
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16.30 – 17.30
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Closing Plenary: 2020 Visions
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17.30 – 18.30 |
Closing Reception
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