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

This is of course very subjective. But how did we go from "hardly treated" to "treated hardly" in a bit over a century? Because it was the right thing to do, sure. But also, because of some pioneers! I made a top 5 - but I'm also sharing the ones, that could have made it to the top, and didn't do by a nose. So, here are our 5 most influential people, according to my book: 5️ The Man who defied a U...

with 🎙️ Abdulla Alshehhi, Managing Director of National Advisor Bureau Limited, CEO of Q2 General Cleaning, and Business Support Section Head at GASCO   💧 National Advisor Bureau Limited leverages creativity and innovation to be a leading Consultant Firm For start-up businesses & Established Companies What we covered: 🌱 How to green a desert, you need a magical substance: Water!  🍏 How an I...

National Advisor Bureau Limited carries an ambitious project for the United Arab Emirates: harvesting and towing an Iceberg to crush it for its water, and eventually green a desert on the long run. 🎙️ Abdulla Alshehhi, Managing Director at National Advisor Bureau Limited, shares the ins and outs of his iceberg project, from the rationale to the actual plan, through the obstacles to overcome and th...

with 🎙️ Alexander Loucopoulos, Partner at both Sciens Capital Management and Sciens Water  💧 Sciens Water is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood opportunities in the water sector that are hence undercapitalized.  What we covered: 🌱 How Water - maybe against the odds - is a very big growth market!  🍎 As teased in the title: the 3 main c...

Sciens Water is a research-driven investment fund that identifies uncovered, under-researched, or misunderstood opportunities in the water sector that are hence undercapitalized.  🎙️ Alexander Loucopoulos, Partner at both Sciens Capital Management and Sciens Water, shares how he aims to solve the three major challenges the US Water Market currently faces. To discover the full interview, type "S3E1...

With Global Warming around, the Idea of Iceberg Towing to produce Drinking Water sounded to me as - at best - opportunistic. That's where I was wrong! What if I told you, that out of the wide array of possible options, the one consisting of towing an iceberg from Antarctica to the aridest places of the World (Dubai, Perth, Cape Town...) may well be much less insane than what you thought? Seriously...

with 🎙️ David Lloyd Owen, Managing Director of Envisager, Columnist for Global Water Intelligence, Advisor on several boards, and author of "Global Water Funding."  💧 In his Global Water Funding book, David Lloyd Owen discusses global progress towards fulfilling SDG 6, proposes alternative solutions to lack of funding, and examines the reasons why countries are failing at implementing safe and su...

SDG 6 was supposed to be reached in 2030. It's currently progressing at 25% the speed it should if we were to reach it. 🎙️ David Lloyd Owen, Managing Director of Envisager, Columnist for Global Water Intelligence, Advisor on several boards, and author of "Global Water Funding," shares some ideas to speed things up, and finally, reach the sustainable development goal number six! To discover the ful...

with 🎙️ Lea Im Obersteg, Head of Global Design Thinking @ GF Piping Systems  💧 GF Piping Systems is the leading flow solutions provider across the World. What we covered: 🌱 How Design Thinking is a powerful approach to problem-solving  💡 How it can help companies of all sizes to beef up their innovation  🍏  A walk through the stages of a Design Thinking project   💥 A counter-intuitive demonst...

Design Thinking is a methodology and a tool in the toolbox. But beyond the tool, it's about the execution: how you do it, how you prepare the playground for your teams to go crazy.  🎙️ Lea Im Obersteg, Head of Global Design Thinking @ GF Piping Systems shares how a 219 old company implemented Design Thinking, and what you can learn or adapt from it. To discover the full interview, type "S3E12 - De...

You may be the world's two largest Water Companies, yet have quite a terrible track record when it comes to Mergers and Acquisitions. 😅 What's your favorite Fail: - When Veolia divided its M&A money by 10 in 4 years? - or when SUEZ did twice the same move, 20 years apart, for hopefully a different outcome? - or when "Jean-Marie Messier, Me, Myself, Master of the World" took his nickname a bit...

with 🎙️ Gilles Toussaint, Founder @ GT Impact and Host of the "Mission First - Entrepreneurs for Future" podcast 💧 GT Impact strives to help Greentech companies to increase their revenue with efficient growth marketing sprints and data-driven content marketing What we covered: 🌱 In a nutshell: the ins and outs of marketing and growing a Greentech Company  🍏 How you cannot have an impact if you...

"I find it crazy to spend 50'000 euros to go on a trade show, and not spend at least 5'000 euros in digital marketing in parallel!" 🎙️ Gilles Toussaint, Founder @ GT Impact and Host of the "Mission First - Entrepreneurs for Future" podcast, shares his surprise, seeing how companies market themselves. To discover the full interview, type "S3E11 - A 5% Boost on This Growth Funnel Step Easily Makes 9...

with 🎙️ Jim Lauria, VP Sales and Marketing @ Mazzei Injector Company 💧 Mazzei Injector Company is a global leader in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of venturi injectors, flash reactors, and other high-efficiency mixing technologies and ozone diffusion systems. What we covered: 🍏 How Jim and his team at Mazzei went on a quest to find out how to optimize ozone diffusion to maximize wat...

How can it be, that Bottled Water will surpass Tap Water in 2034? Believe it or not, the World will soon spend more on #BottledWater than on #UtilityWater. But where does this come from? How did a sector that was supposed to die at the beginning of the twentieth-century recover and boom in the 1970s? And how is all of this linked with the global inability to align ourselves towards #SDG6? 00:00 Bo...

with 🎙️ Hasmik Barseghyan, President of the European Youth Parliament for Water, among other strategic roles at the World Water Quality Alliance, the World Energy Council, the International Secretariat for Water, or Woman in Climate and Energy.  💧 The EYPW aims to promote youth involvement in the water sector by increasing their awareness of water resource management issues and by fostering an un...

with 🎙️ Denise E Mall, Managing Director of EnsO Earth  💧 EnsO Earth focuses on the intersection of living futures, biomimicry, circularity, and ecological design thinking to go beyond sustainable towards regenerative solutions. What we covered: 🍏 How we can learn from nature and apply the best of what it developed through 3.8 million years of R&D  🍏 What Biomimicry is all about, and how do...

How big is Sustainable Development as an opportunity? Well according to a United Nation's study, tremendous: - $12 trillion/year of created value (10% of the World's Economy!) - 380 Million new Jobs - 90% of these being in developing countries BUT WAIT! We might well miss that terrific chance if we don't act now... 00:00 The Usual Narrative on #SDG6 00:30 What are the UN SDGs? 01:17 Sustainability...

with 🎙️ Meena Sankaran, CEO and Founder of KETOS.  💧 KETOS ambitions to transform how water operators measure, manage and forecast water quality and efficiency in Industrial, Agricultural, and Municipal applications. What we covered: 🍏 How digitization is everywhere but in the Water Industry, and how that may be swiftly changing  🍎 How Water Quality and especially Heavy Metal Ions is still a bl...

with 🎙️ Alice Schmidt, MBA lecturer, Adviser to the European Commission, and non-profit organizations like Extinction Rebellion, Protect our Winters, and Chair of the Board of Endeva e. V.  with 🎙️ Claudia Winkler, CEO, and co-founder of Goood Mobile, Europe's first B-Corp Certified telecom provider, and a Founding Partner of Adjacent Possible Network.  💧 Alice and Claudia are the Authors of "the...

in this new #Water101 Segment, we go back to the roots of Ozone Treatment! How was it discovered? By whom? Who first domesticated it? For what? Why is it used in Water Treatment? How did Technological Evolution help its market penetration? What else shall you know about ozone? *** ➡️  Do you like this short format, answering one key question/topic? Let me know on LinkedIn!  ➡️  Get the Full Podcas...

with 🎙️ Florian Heeb & Julian Kölbel - Researchers @ the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) in Zürich 💧 CSP is an academic research and teaching institution at the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich. What we covered: 🍏 The two types of Impact - and what Impact Investing can trigger  🍏 How Impact Investing can grow green companies  🍏 How Susta...

with 🎙️ Navkaran Singh Bagga - Founder & CEO @ Akvo Atmospheric Water Systems  💧 Akvo produces Water from Air, aka Limitless Water from Unlimited Air What we covered: 🍏 How water may be a bit less scarce than we all thought, considering there are 140 trillion liters of water up in the air at any point in time  🍏 How the decentralized nature of Water from Air is an enabler for the solution t...

with 🎙️  Paul O'Callaghan, Gaetane Suzenet, Megan Glover (& Antoine Walter) Hypergrowth is everywhere in today's world! 🚀 Never in history have unicorns been created at a similar pace. Right now, there are over 700 of them. 🦄 And among those 700+, how many in the Water Sector? Well... 0 . You can enlarge it to the entire environmental sector, it's still 0 . How is this even possible? 🤔 Are...

with 🎙️ Paul O'Callaghan - Founder & CEO @ BlueTech Research  💧 BlueTech Research analyzes innovative water technologies to transform your company.  💧 Paul is also the executive producer & co-director of Netflix's "Brave Blue World."  💧 ... and as he noticed, that he still had some time on Saturdays, he just completed a Ph. D. on the Dynamics of Water Innovation!  What we covered: 🍏 Ho...