We are excited to announce the dates for BlueTech Forum 2023 which will be held May 17th and 18th in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Mike Adkins, Technology Assessment Group (TAG) Member

Mike Adkins, Technology Assessment Group (TAG) Member
Mike Adkins is a professional engineer with over 40 years of experience in the fields of water and wastewater treatment and environmental engineering. He recently led AECOM’s global water treatment practice and was responsible for the technical direction and strategy... Read More

Dr. Greg Newbloom, founder and CEO of Membrion

Dr. Greg Newbloom, founder and CEO of Membrion
Dr. Greg Newbloom is the founder and CEO of Membrion, a start-up company focused on lowering the cost of water desalination through novel membrane technologies. In 4 short years, Greg has brought his innovation from idea to commercial product while building a 9-person... Read More

Membrion

Membrion
Membrion developed ceramic ion exchange membranes made from SiO2 that can replace other ion exchange membranes in electrodialysis (ED) and electrodialysis reversal (EDR) applications. Membrion can outperform conventional cation exchange membranes and is cheaper to... Read More

Hu Fleming, Technology Assessment Group (TAG) Member

Hu Fleming, Technology Assessment Group (TAG) Member
Dr. Hubert Fleming is former Head, Water Management, Anglo American. Prior, he was Global Managing Director of Hatch Ltd. Hu holds MS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from Cornell University and is a graduate of Harvard Business School, Executive Management... Read More

Hachem Agili, co-founder and CEO, Geosapiens

Hachem Agili, co-founder and CEO, Geosapiens
Hachem Agili is co-founder and CEO of Geosapiens, a company specialized in flood risk analysis and management. Holding a Master’s degree in Geomatics, Hachem has worked for more than five years as a research assistant at the Institut national de la recherche... Read More

Chris Morrison, Technology Assessment Group (TAG) Member

Chris Morrison, Technology Assessment Group (TAG) Member
A recognized sustainable technology executive and team-builder with an extraordinary history operating from the trenches to the boardroom. A transformational leader with a proven international track record of digging into impactful technologies, extracting maximum... Read More

Naysan Saran, Co-founder & CEO, CANN Forecast (CANN)

Naysan Saran, Co-founder & CEO, CANN Forecast (CANN)
Naysan Saran is the co-founder and CEO of CANN Forecast (CANN), a startup that leverages Machine Learning to help municipalities transition towards a proactive approach to water management. CANN was founded by the winning team of the 2016 AquaHacking challenge and is... Read More

Jim Cosman, Technology Assessment Group (TAG) Member

Jim Cosman, Technology Assessment Group (TAG) Member
Jim Cosman is a highly skilled strategic marketer with extensive marketing and market development experience in the water industry. He has had in-depth involvement in the market development of three new UV disinfection water treatment technologies (Municipal Drinking... Read More

Graham Symmonds, Technology Assessment Group (TAG) Member

Graham Symmonds, Technology Assessment Group (TAG) Member
Graham has more than 25 years’ experience in water utility operations, regulation, policy and finance as well as in the commercialization of smart water technologies. He provides expert analysis and insight into the relevance, viability and applicability of technology... Read More

Electroscan

Electroscan
Designed and manufactured in compliance with the ASTM F2550-13 our sewer and water leak detection products represent a new framework for condition assessment and evaluation; integrated to our CriticalSewer® and CriticalH2O® cloud applications that are revolutionizing... Read More

Conrad Hopp, Senior Research Analyst, BlueTech Research

Conrad Hopp, Senior Research Analyst, BlueTech Research
Conrad Hopp is a senior research analyst at BlueTech Research. Conrad holds a BASc. from the University of Toronto. Conrad previously co-founded an advanced electrochemical wastewater treatment company focused on providing electrocoagulation solutions to the mining... Read More

Mark Nelson, Chairman of the Institute of Ecotechnics

Mark Nelson, Chairman of the Institute of Ecotechnics
Dr. Mark Nelson is Chairman of the Institute of Ecotechnics and has worked for several decades in closed ecological system research, bioregenerative space life support, ecological engineering, restoration of damaged ecosystems, desert agriculture and wastewater... Read More

Geosapiens

Geosapiens
Geosapiens provides a web-based solution that simulates floods and their impacts at the building scale for real time events or three days in advance. This solution, called, E-NUNDATION, assesses accurately of the consequences of a flood on the population, buildings... Read More

Cann Forecast

Cann Forecast
CANN Forecast uses predictive modelling to prevent breaks and leaks in water pipes. Data taken into consideration relates to the network structure, properties and history of pipes and previous issues. The data is fed into the AI-based algorithm of InteliPipes to... Read More

Aqua Metrology Systems

Aqua Metrology Systems
Aqua Metrology Systems, Ltd., (AMS) offers monitoring and treatment of contaminants together with predictive analytics and digital twinning. The products can be used in drinking water and wastewater and are based on electrochemistry and colorimetry. AMS offers... Read More

Evoqua Water Technologies

Evoqua Water Technologies
Evoqua Water Technologies is a leading provider of mission-critical water and wastewater treatment solutions, offering a broad portfolio of products, services, and expertise to support industrial, municipal, and recreational customers who value water. Evoqua has... Read More

BlueTech Forum 2019 Feedback

BlueTech Forum 2019 Feedback
We hope to see you at BlueTech Forum 2020 which will take place in June. Full details will be released shortly. Please find below the Innovation Showcase and keynote presentations from BlueTech Forum 2019. Innovation Showcase Casestudies Download Presentations End... Read More

Winners of BlueTech innovation prizes announced

Winners of BlueTech innovation prizes announced
• Technologies for surface water monitoring and mains assessment take awards • Major global corporations and utilities share their challenges • Brave Blue World documentary trailer premiered A floating buoy that can monitor algal blooms using satellites and a... Read More

Industries closing the loop on water resilience

Industries closing the loop on water resilience
As large industrial water users join BlueTech Forum in London in June, their leaders tell BlueTech Research chief executive Paul O’Callaghan that water resilience goes well beyond technology into whole catchment management and deep community engagement. A shift in the... Read More

Takashi Kato, Co-founder & CEO of Fracta, Inc.

Takashi Kato, Co-founder & CEO of Fracta, Inc.
Takashi Kato is Co-founder & CEO of Fracta, Inc. Fracta uses machine learning and big data to optimize infrastructure investments – starting with a water main pipe replacement prioritization solution for U.S. water utilities. Fracta got acquired (50.1%) by... Read More

Guillaume Binet, LyRE – Head of Networks, Suez

Guillaume Binet, LyRE – Head of Networks, Suez
Guillaume Binet has 20 years’ experience in the water sector, during which he has developed expertise in various topics such as modelling, asset management and real-time operation. He is currently in charge of the Urban Drainage department of a SUEZ R&D center,... Read More

Andre Shortell, Partner, GP Bullhound

Andre Shortell, Partner,  GP Bullhound
Andre joined GP Bullhound as a Partner in 2010. He has specialised in investments in sustainability including the water sector. Previous transactions in water include Bluewater-Bio, NewLisi and Voltea. He has also published several research reports on investing in... Read More