WEFTEC, the Water Environment Federation’s Technical Exhibition and Conference, taking place Saturday, Oct 16, 2021 – Wed, Oct 20, 2021, is largest water quality conference North America.
In lead-up to the event, Global Water Works are running a special collaboration and showcase event, bringing together people from across the industry.
When is it?
Tomorrow, September 23
4:00pm – 5:30pm WEST
Zoom Meeting
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Meet the innovation leaders, and get a sneak preview of the innovations you can discover at WEFTEC 2021, www.weftec.org.
This GWW Collaboration session will be 90 minutes –
What’s the agenda?
0:00-0:05– INTRO and brief tour of Global Water Works OPEN Platform (Mary Eggert and Frank Slovenec)
0:06-0:30 –PREVIEWS with slides (optional):
WELCOME by Barry Liner, WEF Technology Innovation Leaders
- WEFTEC Presentations – Paul O’Callaghan, BlueTech
- Global Pavilion – Milwaukee Water Council’s Dean Amhaus
- WEFTEC for Investors – Mazarine –
John Robinson - INNOVATING WITH UTILITIES and CITIES IN AND BEYOND WEFTEC
- Innovating with Utilities – with WRF TechLink’s Dr Christobel Ferguson
- Channels of Innovation with Isle’s Alex Fairhart
- Water Clusters with Bryan Stubbs of the Cleveland Water Alliance
0:30-1:10 – Facilitated Breakout Groups:
- Research/Innovation – WEF and WRF TechLink
- Tech Commercialization – BlueTech Research and Imagine H2O
- Channels for Innovation – ISLE
- WEFTEC for Investors – John Robinson
- Marketing – Frank Slovenec?
- Incubators/Clusters – Bryan Stubbs
Q&A with the group: All participants in panel introduce themselves, sharing their goals for WEFTEC and give-back to community.
Facilitators share big picture on WEFTEC activities and then support discussion:
- What challenges are you working to address?
- Who has a success story or example of how we have overcome this challenge?
- Where can we learn more about this at WEFTEC?
1:15-1:30 – RAPID RECAP – Group leaders share 1-2 take-aways. We conclude with a toast to the progress possible when smart minds come together!
Learn. Grow. and plan to Lead innovation efforts, starting at WEFTEC.
SEE YOU THERE!
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