Speakers
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Steve Kaye - Manager of Innovation |
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Anglian Water
The largest water and wastewater company in England and Wales, covering 27,500 square kilometres, representing 18 per cent of the area of England and Wales. They provide water and wastewater services to more than five million domestic and commercial customers in the east of England and Hartlepool.
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Innovation in the Water Industry
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Jon Fosbrook - Service Optimisation Engineer |
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Yorkshire Water
Manage the collection, treatment and distribution of water in Yorkshire, supplying around 1.24 billion litres of drinking water each day. At the same time they collect, treat and dispose of about one billion litres of waste water safely back into the environment. To do this Yorkshire Water operate more than 700 water and sewage treatment works and 120 reservoirs. They look after 40,000 miles of water and sewerage mains - enough pipework to circulate the earth.
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Innovation
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Peter Drake - Director |
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The Water Industry Forum
The Water Industry Forum is a membership business network for suppliers of water and waste water products and services based in the Yorkshire and Humber region. Members supply to both the water industry and/or industrial & commercial users.
With more than 100 member organisations, the Forum promotes trading, networking and the transfer of product, process and regulatory information to enable experiences to be shared, problems solved and the needs for innovation identified.
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TBA
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Gareth Jones - Network Development Manager |
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Water Innovation Network
The Water Innovation Network is a new initiative which aims to stimulate end-user and open innovation within the UK water industry. The Network is a cluster of supply chain companies and academic institutions in the UK which support collaborative R&D, creating much needed solutions for the water utility companies. This presentation will focus on how collaborative R&D and business clustering is good for business, innovation and the water industry.
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TBA
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