(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

BlueTech Forum 2022's Theme was straightforward: Radical Collaboration for Regeneration. For two packed days, the Vancouver convention center hosted the hottest and most insightful discussions on the fate of our Water World. Keynote speakers, start-up founders, end-users, industry experts, investors, and civil society gathered under the flag of "Radical Collaboration" I was blessed with a spot nex...

with 🎙️ Andrew Benedek, Executive Chairman of Anaergia, founder of Zenon and CEO for 26 years, a former member of the IWA board, and the inaugural recipient of the Lee Kwan Yew Prize. 💧 Anaergia aims to convert waste into useful resources, protect the environment, and sustain life for generations to come. Where some see waste, they see resources. What we covered:  💰 How Zenon created the $4Bn/ye...

🎙️ Andrew Benedek is the Executive Chairman of Anaergia after having founded and led Zenon for 26 years. He's a former member of the IWA board and the inaugural recipient of the Lee Kwan Yew Prize. There's a fine line between genius and madness. Between visionary and crazy. Between confidence and vanity. So when we look back at Andrew Benedek's path, I can say he is a genius that was confident eno...

with 🎙️ Benjamin Sparrow - CEO and Co-Founder at Saltworks Technologies 💧 Saltworks provides innovative products and solutions for industrial wastewater treatment and desalination. What we covered: 🤔 How we will need a lot more lithium to cover the World’s needs over the next decade – and how conventional sources might not be sufficient 💰 How a lot of money and investments flow to the battery p...

Benjamin Sparrow is CEO & Co-Founder of Saltworks Technologies Lithium Mining is expected to deliver the lithium-ion battery industry 500’000 metric tons a year. Sure, conventional lithium supply will grow by 300% over the next decade but that will still not be sufficient! Hence, it might be an opportunity to get creative and to look for lithium in… water. How? Let’s review. Hosted on Ausha. S...

The carbon impact of the water industry is an intricate topic.  Over the past days, we've been reviewing different aspects of the race to Net Zero: S5E7 - Austin Alexander   S5E8 - Stephane Bessadi   S5E9 - Maria Manidaki   S5E10 - Susan Moisio   Today, I tried to summarize in a short format everything you'd like to know about the transformation of the water sector to cope with the new carbon pled...

with 🎙️ Susan Moisio - Global Water Director at Jacobs, where she leads a team of 9,000 water professionals across all regions.   💧 Jacobs pledges to push the limits of what's possible, continually challenging today to reinvent tomorrow. What we covered:  💧 How Jacobs' 9'000 water professionals build for a "One Water" Team - and what it involves in the company's market approach  🌎 How Susan swi...

🎙️ Susan Moisio is the Global Water Director at Jacobs, where she leads a team of 9,000 water professionals across all regions. Susan names them a one water team, which you'll discover to be a key concept in today's discussion! Back in Season 3, I had a discussion on that microphone with the authors of the Sustainability Puzzle , Claudia Winkler and Alice Schmidt. And I couldn't help but think of...

with 🎙️ Maria Manidaki - Net Zero Technical Lead and Principal Water Investment Planning Advisor at Mott MacDonald  💧 Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy, that places social outcomes at the center of all it does. What we covered:  🧭 How social outcomes are a north star to guide all carbon actions  🌎 How the full concept of a good net-zero outgrew carb...

🎙️ Maria Manidaki is Net Zero Technical Lead and Principal Water Investment Planning Advisor at Mott MacDonald. Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy, that places social outcomes at the center of all it does. You know the saying: smoke is a good proxy to determine if there's a fire. Well, it turns out that the same applies to greenhouse gases. Studies demo...

with 🎙️ Stephane Bessadi - Senior Procurement Specialist for the Asian Development Bank  💧 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) commits to a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and Pacific Region.  What we covered:  🌎  How to build more efficient, inclusive, and climate friendly water and wastewater projects  ⚡ How water challenges often come hand in hand with energy struggles -...

🎙️ Stephane Bessadi is Senior Procurement Specialist for the Asian Development Bank. ADB - its short name you'll hear quite a lot in the next minutes - commits to a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and Pacific Region. Urbanization ticks at a high pace in the Asia Pacific region, with 65% of the population that's expected to live in cities. Water and Wastewater infrastructures...

with 🎙️ Austin Alexander - Vice President, Sustainability and Social Impact at Xylem  💧 Xylem is a leading water technology company with the famous "solving water" motto - and a finalist for this year's Net Zero Carbon Award at the Global Water Summit What we covered:  🌎 How climate change is the overarching concern for many further challenges  🦶 How the supply chain's carbon footprint is a nic...

🎙️ Austin Alexander is Vice President, Sustainability and Social Impact at Xylem, a leading water technology company with the famous "solving water" motto.  What if solving water actually involved solving Carbon and leading the race to net zero? As Austin will explain in a minute, Xylem believes that if we don't tackle Carbon in the Water Sector, it will make all our other challenges much more com...

with 🎙️Jon Freedman - Senior Vice President - Global Government Affairs at SUEZ WTS  💧 SUEZ WTS provides industry-leading water technology and process expertise to solve the toughest water, wastewater, and process challenges What we covered:  🇺🇸 How the US federal government just put out a National Water Reuse Action Plan (WRAP)   👑 How among the 55 action items, Jon holds one that's especially...

🎙️ Jon Freedman is the Senior Vice President - Global Government Affairs at SUEZ WTS; he's teaching about the future of Water at the University of Pennsylvania. Starting next spring, he'll also be conducting a class on the business and governance of water at the Wharton School.  What levers can you play on to promote greater water reuse? Well, you can act on the money side of the equation, for ins...

with 🎙️ Annyse Balkwill - Founder of the LuminUS Group and Program Director for the upcoming BlueTech Forum  💧 The LuminUS Group crafts an events formula that has participants engaging, again and again, sharing with their colleagues and offering this feedback. Wanna see it applied? Make sure to attend the upcoming BlueTech Forum ! What we covered:  🔺 How the company's pyramidal shape is disappea...

🎙️ Annyse Balkwill is the Founder of the LuminUS Group, where she crafts event formulas that bring engagement, sharing, and value to a whole new level. She's also the program director for the upcoming BlueTech Forum, happening on the 7 and 8 June in Vancouver.  Have you ever attended a business meeting that seemed to drain your soul out of your body? Or have you ever happily slept in a water confe...

with 🎙️ Victoria Edwards - CEO & Co-Founder of FIDO Tech  💧 FIDO AI is a data-as-a-service (DaaS) end-to-end leak detection solution that identifies leaks, sizes them, and tells you where to dig to repair them What we covered:  🎵 How water networks sing, and how you can leverage this for leak detection    💧 How non-revenue water is a threat in a world of rising water scarcity and why we sha...

🎙️ Victoria Edwards is the CEO and Co-Founder of FIDO, a data-as-a-service (DaaS) end-to-end leak detection solution that identifies leaks, sizes them, and tells you where to dig to repair them. In this episode, Victoria explains how they pivoted 8 times to give FIDO its current shape, take the market by storm, and solve the daunting non-revenue water challenge. Wanna listen to the full episode? J...

with 🎙️ Katrina Donaghy - CEO & Co-Founder of Civic Ledger 💧 Civic Ledger is an award-winning blockchain company that builds trust layer solutions for the markets of tomorrow This is the second part of this discussion around blockchain and Water Ledge, where we covered:  ❌ How today's water management often resembles a market failure   💧 How water markets are often not optimized and hence w...

with 🎙️ Katrina Donaghy - CEO & Co-Founder of Civic Ledger 💧 Civic Ledger is an award-winning blockchain company that builds trust layer solutions for the markets of tomorrow What we covered:  ❌ How today's water management often resembles a market failure   💧 How water markets are often not optimized and hence water doesn't flow to its best use 🦘 How the Australian water markets in partic...

🎙️ Katrina Donaghy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Civic Ledger. This week, she explains how blockchain can be leveraged far beyond its usual image to improve water management, and water efficiency and solve water markets. Could this turn water somehow into a non-fungible token (NFT)? And would that be good news? (spoiler: probably, yes!) Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E3 - What would...

with 🎙️ Christopher Gasson - Owner of Global Water Intelligence and authority on water finance and markets  💧 Global Water Intelligence is the leading publisher and events organizer serving the international water industry. What we covered:  💰 How there are two international things in water: money and technology.   👬 How taking off Global Water Intelligence involved focusing on those two ends o...

🎙️ Christopher Gasson is the owner and editor of Global Water Intelligence, a leading magazine and insight company in the Water Industry. In this week's episode, he explains how only two things are universal in water (with a third starting to appear). And how it would be "Global Water Stupidity" not to try to bring these global water business fields together, as an industry media and thought leade...