Tuesday, May 29th 2012
Registration Opens -Technology Showcase Opens
5:00pm
Register for the event and view the Exhibitor Stands and speak with Exhibitors.
Welcome Reception
6:00pm-7:00pm
Join us for a welcome reception with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.
A moment to assemble with fellow attendees the evening before the conference, in order to make new contacts in a relaxed atmosphere.
Wednesday, May 30th 2012
Networking Breakfast
7:00am-8:30am
An opportunity to connect with peers and industry experts before the conference begins.
Welcome to ‘Thinking Outside the Bubble’
8:30am-9am
Conference Chairman: Paul O’Callaghan, MSc, BlueTech Forum Founder and CEO, O2 Environmental Inc
BlueTech Showcase:Alternative Desalination & Water Remediation
9:00am-9:45am
Moderator: Bill de Waal, PhD, Director Innovation Management at Trojan Technologies and member of O2 TAG
Exhibitors:
Tony Lammers, President and CEO, MAR Systems
Jeffrey Mendelssohn, Vice President, Porifera Nano
Pat Curran, CEO, Atlantis Technologies
Michael Dimitriou, President, Water Remediation Technologies (WRT)
BlueTech Showcase: Energy and Resources from Water
9:45am – 10:30am
Moderator: Dr. Tim Evans, Proprietor at Tim Evans Environment and member of O2 TAG
Exhibitor:
Burt Hamner, CEO, Hydrovolts
Ross Patten, CEO, MaxWest Environmental Systems, Inc
Director, Bilexys, Advanced Water Management Institute, University of Queensland, Australia
30-minute Networking Break
10:30am-11:00am
BlueTech Showcase: ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’ Technologies and Agricultural Water/Wastewater Treatment
11:00am – 11:45am
Moderator: TBD
Exhibitors:
Luncheon
12:30pm-1:30pm
Provides some time to network and connect with fellow attendees and new contacts.
Luncheon Keynote: The Water Technology Opportunity in Green Buildings
1:30pm-1:50pm
Advances in water technology used to reduce building water consumption offer new business opportunities for selling packaged graywater, blackwater and rainwater reclaim systems, technologies and management/monitoring systems to building owners, especially those committed to green building projects. In this presentation, Jerry Yudelson, the most published author chronicling the green building movement worldwide, will profile some of these opportunities for corporate investment and entrepreneurial potential.
Introduced by: TBD
Speaker: Jerry Yudelson, PE, MS, MBA, LEED® AP, Yudelson Associates
Urban Water Systems for the Future – new models and macro trends
1:50pm-2:30pm
Thought leaders come together to discuss the macro changes we are likely to see Urban Water Systems and how this will affect the water technology market.
The Water Industry has traditionally been strongly influenced and led by consulting engineers who design systems based on the standard textbooks.
We will hear from the CTO of one of the leading engineering firms, CH2M Hill and the author of the leading manual for design, Metcalfe and Eddy, on how the water systems of the future are going to be different from the water systems of the last century. Some of the ideas proposed include decentralized treatment and underground aquifer storage, direct potable re-use, nutrient recovery and alternatives to aerobic biological treatment.
Moderator: Joe Zuback, Global Water Advisors (TBC)
Speakers:
George Tchobanoglous, PhD, PE, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California at Davis
Dr. Glen Daigger, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for CH2M HILL and President of the IWA
The Norit Clean Process Technologies Story
2:30pm-2:50pm
A conversation with Menno Holterman, Chairman Netherlands Water Technology Innovation Board & former CEO Norit Clean Process Technologies and Paul O’Callaghan, MSc, BlueTech Forum Founder and CEO, O2 Environmental Inc
Water Technology Merger and Acquisition Activity
2:50pm-3:15pm
Moderator: Graeme K. Pearce, BSc, DPhil, Director at Membrane Consultancy Associates Ltd and member of O2 TAG
Speakers:
Menno Holterman, Chairman Netherlands Water Technology Innovation Board & former CEO Norit Clean Process Technologies
Philip M. Rolchigo, Vice President, Technology at Pentair
Manian Ramesh, Chief Technology Officer Nalco
30-minute Networking Break
3:15pm-3:45pm
Afternoon Keynote: Re-inventing Sanitation for the Bottom of the Pyramid Market
3:45pm-4:10pm
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 relic of the 1700s.
Introduced by: TBD
Frank Rijsberman, PhD, Director of Water, Sanitation & Hygiene, Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
A Glimpse into the Future – Alpha Phase Developments at the World’s Leading Water Technology Centers
4:10pm-4:50pm
Most of the disruptive water technologies of the past decade were developed at the world’s leading water research institutes. Examples include NanoH2O (UCLA), Oasys (Yale) and Ostara (UBC).
Therefore to see tomorrow’s technologies, you have to look behind the scenes at our Water Research Centres today. This is where many of the technological improvements to existing technologies, spin-outs and licensing opportunities will come from. Elsevier report a 30% increase in water research each year over the past decade; we can expect this research to appear on the market over the next decade.
This panel will ask leading Research Institutes to share with us a glimpse into what the future may hold, what inventions they see as holding the greatest potential and some of the keys to successful market led technology development. The panel will also discuss their experience with licensing and technology spin-outs.
Moderator: Steve Kloos, Partner at True North Ventures
Speakers:
Cees Buisman, PhD, Professor in Biologically Sustainable Technology and Scientific Director of Wetsus
John McArdle, MBA, Manager of Business Development, Water Technology at Battelle Memorial Institute
Michael T. Flynn, Head of Water Technology Development Laboratory at NASA Ames Research Center
2012 BlueTech Tracker Awards
4:50pm-5:00pm
Companies taking part in the BlueTech Showcase are eligible for the The BlueTech Tracker® Awards. The BlueTech Tracker® ‘Disrupt-o-meter Award’ and ‘Go-to-market strategy Award’ will be judged by the Forum attendees.
This year a subscription to the BlueTech Tracker will be presented to the winners of each category.
Cocktail Reception
5:00pm
Thursday, May 31st 2012
Field Trip – NASA Ames Research Center
9:00am-1:00pm
- 9:00 AM Meet in hotel lobby and board bus. Please have breakfast before the trip.
- 9:30 – 10:15 AM Travel to NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field
- 10:15 – 10:45 AM Collect badges
- 10:45 – 12:15 PM Tour the following labs:
- Solid Waste Lab
- Air Lab
- Water Lab
- 12:15 – 1:00 PM Return to hotel
Field Trip – Criddle Research Group, Stanford University
9:00am-1:00pm
- 9:00 AM Meet in hotel lobby and board bus. Please have breakfast before the trip.
- 9:30 – 10:15 AM Travel to Stanford University Engineering Building
- 10:30 – 11:15 AM Quick presentations giving a taste for the type of ongoing research (presentations will be tailored for the BlueTech Forum audience)
- 11:30 – 12:30 PM Tour of the labs
- 12:30 – 1:00 PM Return to hotel