Featuring senior speakers from...
27 November 2018
Registration, refreshments & exhibition
WHAT DOES INNOVATION LOOK LIKE IN 2018?
What impact will PR19 have on investment decisions?
- Making Investment decision in PR19
- Introducing new technologies into business-as-usual
- Planning for long-term innovations
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Sarah McMath
Managing director, strategic planning & investment - Thames Water
Providing a platform for research and innovation
- Shaping the innovation agenda
- Bringing our operational assets into real time
- A collaborative approach to innovation
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Steve Kaye
Chief executive - UKWIR
Making data innovation a reality
- What is data innovation?
- How can you create data innovation?
- Collaborative innovation – the journey from hackathon to reality
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Claire Thomas
Utilities sector director - Hitachi Consulting -
Michael Hull
Intelligence & analytics manager - Northumbrian Water Group
Building an innovation culture: systems, processes and people
- Creating cultures and environments that allow change to take hold and work in practice
- Encouraging and fostering both top-down and bottom-up innovation
- How innovations are managed and tracked, and some of the problems encountered
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Jeremy Heath
Innovation manager - Sutton and East Surrey Water
Snap poll, questions and answers
Refreshments, networking & exhibition
INNOVATION IN PRACTICE
Ofwat and the deployment and development of technology
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Carl Pheasey
Director, strategy and policy - Ofwat
Collaboration case study
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Dr James Chong
Royal society industry fellow/Senior lecturer, Department of Biology - University of York -
Jon Brigg
Manager of innovation - Yorkshire Water
Smart water
- Overcoming the different challenges which water managers are faced with
- Developing effective solutions to overcome them
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Andrew Welsh
General manager - Xylem
Unlocking the potential of digital to transform the customer experience (outside-in perspective)
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Rebecca Dibb-Simkin
Marketing and product director - Octopus Energy
Introduction to the design sprints
The mini design sprints will see delegates and a series of expert hosts tackle some of the key challenges facing the water industry. The co-hosts will facilitate a debate and a workshop discussion with the aim of working towards answering the questions posed in each topic area.
This pre-lunch session will be an opportunity to be introduced to the challenge, various hosts, and the other delegates.
Challenges:
- Leakage: How can the water industry achieve zero leakage?
- Customer experience: How can water companies match Amazon for customer service?
- Sludge & energy: How can water companies become energy neutral in their operations?
- Water resources: How can we ensure the UK has enough water in 2050?
- Partnerships: How can the water industry embed innovation as business-as-usual?
Buffet lunch, networking & exhibition
MINI DESIGN SPRINTS
Delegates can choose one design sprint to participate in. Feedback from all of the sessions will be given to the entire conference in a later session.
3:00 pm
Refreshments, networking & exhibition
3:30 pm
Sprint feedback
DISRUPTION AND DIGITISATION
INNOVATION SHOWCASE
Vote on your favourite innovation in this Dragon’s Den style session where start-ups, disruptors and SMEs will showcase their cutting-edge solutions.
Collaborate to innovate
- The importance of looking outside the water sector
- Co-creating digital solutions with customers and stakeholders
- Rapidly developing and testing solutions
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Elin Williamson
Research & development manager - Southern Water
Combining new ways of thinking with new technologies
- Digital catchment management via Entrade
- AI & machine learning – reflecting on the discovery phase
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Dan Green
Head of sustainability and innovation - Wessex Water