07.00 – 08.45 |
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</strong >
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 – 10.30
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Opening Plenary: Water-Positive, Zero Carbon
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10.30 – 11.15 |
Networking Coffee Break
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10.35 – 11.05 |
One-to-One Networking Meetings
Your facility to book key appointments during the Global Water Summit</strong >
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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11.15 – 12.45
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Roundtables – 35 tables with 4 x 20 minute rotations
The intense, fast moving roundtable sessions are consistently highly rated by our large constituency of returning delegates. Expert speakers lead tables of 10-12 in tightly focused discussions on what is new and trending in the international water industry.
- 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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12.45 – 14.00 |
Lunch
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13.00 – 14.00 |
One-to-One Networking Meetings
Your facility to book key appointments during the Global Water Summit</strong >
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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14.00 – 15.30
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Session Strands
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Industrial Corporate Water Strategy
Defining Water Positive (Part 1)
Despite major businesses committing to being water positive, there is no official definition of what it means. This double session workshop convened by the Corporate Water Leaders Group brings together corporate water leaders from around the world to agree a standard. Part 1 comprises:
- Introduction and Overview
- Survey Presentation
- Case Studies
- Defining the Alternatives
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Desal
Water Technology Idol
What are the big ideas that have the potential to change the face of desalination and water reuse? Picking winners at an early stage is extremely difficult but Tech Idol has a remarkable success rate. We bring together five of the hottest ideas in desalination and water
reuse and pitch them against each other in front of our judging panel. Which game changer will be crowned Tech Idol in 2022?
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Digital
The Smart Way to Zero</strong >
It is impossible to make sense of zero carbon strategy in the water sector making it part of a broader digital performance strategy. The synergies between the two are too big to miss. How are the most forward thinking utilities marking the most of this opportunity? What can the leading technology companies in the sector contribute? Here we map out how the smart technologies are defining the race to zero and vice versa.

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Finance
The SDG 6 Challenge
The climate imperative has overwhelmed the development finance sector. It is a huge opportunity for all those involved in delivering SDG 6 for water and sanitation. How do we use it to overcome the long standing obstacles to delivering improved water and sanitation. This four part interactive workshop brings together all the most important players in a goldfish bowl format to identify the most effective ways ahead.
- Part 1 – What is the opportunity in climate finance?
- Part 2 – What is working now?
- Part 3 – Addressing bankability
- Part 4 – Working beyond the network

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Leading Utilities of the World
Inaugurating New Members
The Leading Utilities of the World is a global network of the world’s most successful and innovative water and wastewater utilities. Since the initiative’s launch in 2017, 49 Gold Standard utilities have been inaugurated, and now four new nominees will present their outstanding innovations and 5-year plans to be nducted into the network.

An Initative of:

Foundation Partner:

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15.30 – 16.00 |
Networking Coffee Break
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16.00 – 17.30
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Session Strands
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Industrial Corporate Water Strategy
Defining Water Positive (Part 2)
The workshop continues with the objective of reaching an agreed standard and definitions by its conclusion. Part 2 comprises:
- Standards and reporting
- Facilitated debate
- Voting
- Communiqué
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Desal
Accelerating Desal Alternatives
As reverse osmosis matures, the focus of innovation have moved to new applications and configurations of the technology. The biggest challenge for all of them is scaling up rapidly. How can investors, owners and lenders engineers and end users help accelerate the deployment of these technologies while still managing their risks?
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Digital
The Next Digital Frontier</b >
Governments and water agencies are starting to think on a massive scale about the potential for digitising the water cycle. Israel and Saudi Arabia are developing national smart grids, while Dubai’s water authority has put a satellite into space for a similar purpose. This panel session brings together the proponents of this projects with some of the leading thinkers in the industry to understand the benefits of thinking big.

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Finance
The SDG 6 Challenge
The climate imperative has overwhelmed the development finance sector. It is a huge opportunity for all those involved in delivering SDG 6 for water and sanitation. How do we use it to overcome the long standing obstacles to delivering improved water and sanitation. This four part interactive workshop brings together all the most important players in a goldfish bowl format to identify the most effective ways ahead.
- Part 1: What is the opportunity in climate finance?
- Part 2: What is working now?
- Part 3: Addressing bankability
- Part 4: Working beyond the network

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Leading Utilities of the World
Leadership Roundtables
What makes the ‘Leading Utilities of the World’ innovation network different is the development of a truly innovative culture within and across utilities. In this session, the speakers from the first innovation session will receive prepared and structured feedback on their presentations from the Advisory Board of the ‘Leading Utilities of the World’ innovation network. Attend this session to join with the leaders of the world’s most innovative utilities at roundtables, and hear their insights on how the water sector can progress to an even higher level of performance, both as individual organizations and through collaboration.

An Initative of:

Foundation Partner:

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17.30 – 18.00 |
One-to-One Networking Meetings
Your facility to book key appointments during the Global Water Summit</strong >
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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19.00 – 23.00
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Global Water Awards Gala Dinner
Celebrating excellence across the international water industry at the La Quinta de Jarama.

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