Critical Insights on the Global Water Ecosystem

Investing in Climate-Resilient Water Systems

The 13th annual World Water-Tech Innovation Summit returned to London, gathering global disruptors in the water sector. Against a backdrop of rising weather extremes, aging infrastructure, and emerging contaminants, the summit aimed to accelerate collaboration, investment, and innovation.

Scheduled for February 20-21, the event brought together progressive water enterprises, regulatory bodies, engineering firms, technology giants, investors, and visionaries to address the decade’s most pressing challenges. Discussions focused on proactive asset management and circular solutions as the industry seeked to increase its resilience to climate events.

Through a partnership with the UK Department for Business and Trade, the summit attracted diverse delegations from Europe, Asia, North America, South America, the Middle East, Africa and Australia. These delegates assembled to share knowledge, showcase project opportunities, and foster enduring business partnerships.

Featuring interactive panel discussions, executive briefings, focused roundtables, and one-on-one meetings, the two-day agenda encouraged dialogue and impactful collaborations.

2024  Key Themes: 

• Sustainable Financing: Maintaining Investment Momentum
• Circular Energy Systems: Closing the Self-Sufficiency Loop
• Emerging Contaminants: From Monitoring to Destruction
• Nature Based Solutions: Effective Catchment Management
• Smart Asset Monitoring: From Reactive to Proactive Management
• Hydrogen Strategies: A Battle to be Fought or Joined
• Addressing Scarcity: Reducing NRW And Elevating Recycling
• Flooding: Enhancing Capacity for Extreme Weather Events
• Adaptation and Mitigation: Towards Net Zero and Climate Resilience
• Regulatory Frameworks: Global Approaches to CSOs and Pollutants

All these companies and more joined the summit on February 20-21, 2024:

The summit partners with FRANK Water, a UK charity which aims to encourage water security and alleviate water poverty by improving the way that people across the world understand and use water. Since 2005, FRANK Water has provided safe water, sanitation and hygiene training (WASH) to nearly 400,000 people across India and Nepal. In the UK, it encourages sustainable consumption of drinking water via its Refill schemes for events, restaurants and other public spaces.

Launched in London in 2012, World Water-Tech has established itself as an essential water forum for international stakeholders focused on advancing the commercialisation of advanced water and wastewater solutions.

Rethink summits are created by experts in the water, waste and agri-food tech industries to address the issues most crucial to investors and developers in these sectors. Through extensive research and our global network of industry advisors, we produce highly-focused, topical summits with hard-hitting agendas and featuring the industry’s most influential figures. The summits gather all the right people together in one room for powerful debate and networking opportunities to share ideas, find solutions and identify new business opportunities.

We are committed to providing the world-leading platforms for knowledge-sharing, debate and networking for business leaders, featuring the leading experts and gamechangers from across the global ecosystem. Our goal is to promote diversity and inclusion, with particular effort to phase out all-male speaker panels to ensure balanced representation and promotion of women in technology and business.

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