About the Summit

Developing Resilient Water Systems for a Sustainable Future

The 2020 World Water-Tech Innovation Summit is where water utility leaders, start-ups, technology giants, engineers and investors from all over the globe come to find solutions to today’s challenges of digitisation, security, energy recovery and new water resources.

Held in central London on February 25-26, 2020, this is the place to meet start-ups, tech giants, operators and investors.

The summit brings together 300+ water leaders for two days of collaboration, dialogue and deal-making. Networking is made easy, including advance connections with speakers and delegates via a 1:1 meeting system and a dedicated networking hub throughout the summit.

Each year the World Water-Tech Innovation Summit is produced in partnership with the UK Department for International Trade and attracts large delegations from Europe, Asia, North America, South America, the Middle East, Africa and Australasia who come to showcase best-in-class innovation and form lasting business partnerships.

New for 2020: We will host a half-day, in-depth seminar and workshop programme exploring the question: How can the global water industry best meet the challenges of extreme flooding events?

Who Will You Meet?

Leading industry experts who joined us in 2019, included:
Senior industry decision makers attended from 37 countries:

Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay, USA and Venezuela

Charity Partner

The summit partners with FRANK Water, a UK charity helping internationally. In 2019 we donated £3,000 to FRANK Water. This is enough to bring safe water and sanitation to 272 people; transforming lives today and providing hope for the future.

World Water-Tech Series

Launched in London in 2012, World Water-Tech has established itself as a meeting place for international stakeholders focused on advancing the commercialisation of advanced water and wastewater solutions.  Based on the outstanding success of the first two summits, World Water-Tech North America was launched. Find out more 

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Rethink Events

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.

For more information about Rethink, visit rethinkevents.com