May 30th Archives - BlueTech Forum

NASA Space Research and Experiments Yield Water Technology Applications for Planet Earth

NASA is the forefront of researching advanced life support and closed water systems for deep space exploration, and for expanding the frontiers for long-term human colonization of space. The focus on water has led to inventions and applications that we commonly use in... Read More

BlueTech Showcase: Biotechnology – The Next Tech Frontier for Water Treatment

Biotechnology has delivered huge advances in many spheres of human life including medicine, biofuels and food production. Biotechnology is fundamental to water treatment and represents one of the next technological frontiers for the industry. There is also a new level... Read More

Tectonic Shifts in the Water Industry – an exploration of M&A Activity in the Water Sector and what it all means.

The last 12 months has seen an incredible amount of M&A Activity in the water sector ranging from acquisitions of some of the worlds largest water companies, to exits by Venture Capital and private equity funds. The team on the stage have been personally involved... Read More

Cocktail Reception

2012 BlueTech Research Awards

Companies taking part in the BlueTech Showcase are eligible for the The BlueTech Research® Awards. The BlueTech Research® ‘Disrupt-o-meter Award’ and ‘Go-to-market strategy Award’ will be judged by the Forum attendees. This year a subscription to the BlueTech... Read More

Afternoon Keynote: Re-inventing Sanitation for the Bottom of the Pyramid Market

Inspiring and Challenging Inventors and Innovators to Reinvent the Toilet Inventors and tech innovators stand up and take notice. The challenge of our decade: invent a better solution to sanitation. The world needs a new toilet to replace the flushing porcelain pot, a... Read More

Innovation from three of the World’s Leading Water ‘Hubs’: Israel, the Netherlands, and Australia

Many of the water technologies in use today originated outside the corporate structure and outside the USA. It’s quite likely that some of the solutions that will become mainstream in the near future are being developed today in water research institutes and... Read More

30-minute Networking Break

Models for Success: How they Did it – The Clean Process Technologies Story

Norit Clean Process Technologies is one of the most successful water technology companies in recent years. The company provides a fascinating case-study of the commercial life of a water technology company. Norit CPT went from technology start-up, to IPO, being... Read More

Urban Water Systems for the Future – New Models and Macro Trends

Urban water systems of the future are evolving now. New designs and implementations will need to integrate other aspects of municipal economy and services such as energy, industrial ecology, materials recovery in addition to traditional public health and environmental... Read More

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