Blue Tech Forum

Slav W. Hermanowicz

BlueTech — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:10:04 +0000

Slav Hermanowicz has been at the University of California at Berkeley since 1983 where he has conducted research and teaching in the area of environmental protection with special emphasis on physical sustainability, water and wastewater treatment, and water management. The focus of his research is on metrics of sustainability, integrated water management, water reuse, biological processes in water and wastewater, membrane bioreactors, and biostability of drinking water. At the same time, he consulted for public and private clients including utilities, venture capital, engineering companies, attorneys, governmental and supranational organizations in the US, EU and Asia. His visiting appointments include Nishihara Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Hokkaido University, Japan, Gaspar de Portola Scholar at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Universitat de Girona, Spain. He was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Sustainability at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna (Fall 2008-Spring 2009) and has been a Distinguished Guest Professor at BOKU in the following year. In 2011, Professor Hermanowicz was invited to lead a six day seminar on water and soil as critical resources at the Alpbach Forum in Austria. He has been educated in his native Poland (M.Sc.) and at the University of Toronto (Ph.D.).

Agenda Item: Urban Water Systems for the Future – new models and macro trends

Adam Blunn

BlueTech — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:57:33 +0000

Adam has 18 years professional experience in chemical processing, analysis, and technology development, and was the original founder of ABR. Adam has specific experience in hydrometallurgy, chemical analysis, electrochemistry, technology development and commercialization, and industrial production.

Agenda Item: BlueTech Showcase: New Water Technologies Treat Problem Contaminants by Removing the “Unremovable”

Venkata Kambala

BlueTech — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:31:09 +0000

Venkata is an experienced environmental professional specializing in the fields of contamination assessment and remediation with a specific experience in the development of modified natural material based commercial products for groundwater, greywater, waste water and storm water. He has strong experience in the development of low cost material filtration products for drinking water.

He has knowledge of broad range of environmental remediation issues. Through employment working with a range of consultants, companies, government clients and exposure to many experienced professionals, Venkata has acquired experience in all facets of environmental contamination, remediation, validation of technology development and reporting.

In the last few years he has successfully developed and validated few natural material based technologies which are currently patented and adopted by clients nationally to manage soil and waste water contamination.

Venkata is the developer of Australian FIRST and Award winning technology for the remediation of water and soil impacted with persistent fluorinated surfactants (PFOS and PFOA) present in Fire Fighting Foams. The technology has been trialled and validated on field scale for both water and soil.

Specialties

Cost effective and sustainable technologies for wastewater treatment. Transformer and Edible Oil Purification, Jet Fuel Refining

Agenda Items: BlueTech Showcase: Releasing Energy from Water

Hydrasyst

BlueTech — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:21:59 +0000

In today’s world, being responsible for a commercial or industrial facility requires you to be aware of the latest improvements in water and Energy management. Hydrasyst is an Australian and Singapore based company, having developed a revolutionary commercial Waste Water Recycling System, which boasts the operating costs, high energy efficiency and smallest footprint available on the market, The Grey Box™. The Grey Box™ is a modular waste water treatment system available in several sizes which can be coupled together to scale up to any throughput volume. Due to the unit’s relatively small footprint it can be fitted in situ and retro fitted to existing facilities.

Join us at: www.hydrasyst.com

ABR Process Development

BlueTech — Tue, 08 May 2012 14:00:46 +0000

ABR Process Development was founded in 2004 to develop, add-value and commercialise improvements in industrial processes. ABR successfully developed and patented a technology for the production of several value added food acid chemicals and alcohols. Subsequent to this development ABR has focussed on acid recovery and metal removal from aqueous process streams.

One of our patented technologies enables a major process shift in Nickel hydrometallurgy, licensing of this technology to an Australian mine is in progress.

This technology is also being adapted to effluent treatment for Coal Seam methane processing offering >90% recovery of Caustic Soda and Hydrochloric acid, and effluent volume reduction of 90%, at a very attractive NPV.

Another patented technology covers a novel biomass based sorbent that has excellent cation removal properties to low ppb levels, while maintaining a neutral pH. We are currently adapting this to the removal of oxyanions such as Arsenic and Selenium.

ABR Process Development also undertakes contract work primarily in the arena of chemical process development and IP transfer with a range of applications such as hydrometallurgy testing for mine site development and waste treatment application testing for contaminated site remediation.

ABR offers extensive laboratory and pilot testing facilities underpinned by established and developing relationships with key players in the global industry.

Join us at: www.australianbiorefining.com.au

James Lancaster

BlueTech — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:06:43 +0000

James Lancaster is currently CEO and Chairman of Ecolyse, Inc. With an extensive background advising entrepreneurs and early-stage companies, James has co-founded three technology companies and the Research Valley Funds, a family of investment funds. He was the founding General Manager of the Research Valley Innovation Center and has served as executive, board member and advisor to other start-up businesses. His entrepreneurial experience includes bootstrapped, angel investor and venture capital-backed businesses and includes successful exits by acquisition to large software and consulting companies.

Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, he spent almost a decade with Deloitte Consulting, with Fortune 500 clients such as Alcatel, Allied Signal, Ericsson, Bridgestone/Firestone, Haliburton, Herman Miller, Honeywell and Sonoco.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Texas A&M and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

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

Mark Sholin

BlueTech — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:27:53 +0000

Mark Sholin is founder and CEO of Arbsource, a wastewater treatment biotech company founded in 2011 licensing technology from Arizona State University (ASU). He was formerly a PhD student and Graduate Research Associate at ASU, serving an integral role developing precursors to the latest Arbcell scalable design concept. Past work experience includes multiple water treatment projects at Arcadis US and Infilco-Degremont (subsidiary of Suez Environment), process control debugging with Honeywell, and precious metals recovery from industrial waste recycling at World Resources Company.

He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona in 2010. Mark has extensive business development training from the Venture Catalyst program at ASU, using these skills as an independent consultant for two other startups. Technical papers featuring Mark as an author are published in Bioresource Technology and Water Science & Technology.

Agenda Item: BlueTech Showcase: Releasing Energy from Water

Arbsource

BlueTech — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:22:13 +0000

Arbsource uses biotechnology to transform wastewater treatment from a costly energy liability into a valuable resource for the food and beverage industry. Breweries, dairies, and other food or beverage processors worldwide spend millions of dollars per facility annually to operate and maintain energy-hungry wastewater treatment infrastructure. With our patent-pending Arbcell bioreactors, we cut treatment costs up to 50% while at least matching the speed and effluent quality of competitors. Hydrogen gas at 99% purity is generated as a value added byproduct as well.

This system uses naturally-occurring Anode Respiring Bacteria, or A-R-B, in conjunction with state-of-the-art bioreactor design concepts and process control innovations. Our systems are assembled with low-cost materials, enabling a two year payback for typical customers. Arbsource owns the exclusive license for this technology from Arizona State University and are building off of extensive bench-scale work conducted in their labs over the past several years. We are bringing our proof-of-concept pilot online in summer 2012 at an Arizona brewery.

Join us at: www.arbsource.us

Patrick Curran

BlueTech — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:32:51 +0000

CEO and founder PM Curran is an experienced engineer and manager that has led the development and commercialization of many novel processes and products over his 25 year career at companies such as 3M, American Racing, Exide Technologies, and his first start-up providing engineering services. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University and numerous awards including 7 issued and pending patents, 3M Corporate Quality Award, and the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Agenda Item: BlueTech Showcase: Desalination Driving Down Energy Costs and Ready to go Mainstream

True North Partners Joins as Premiere Sponsor of the 2012 BlueTech Forum

BlueTech — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:07:19 +0000

True North Venture Partners is the premiere sponsor of the 2012 BlueTech Forum, a one-day, high-level event featuring innovative technologies in water and wastewater, and thought-provoking perspectives on industry issues, opportunities and challenges.

True North Venture Partners (TNVP) leads a $300 million venture capital fund that seeks to identify exceptionally talented entrepreneurs with the vision, drive and business potential to significantly improve the world, and to help them realize their dreams by providing capital and expertise. The firm invests in and supports early stage businesses in energy, water, waste, and agriculture that have the potential to transform, expand and lead global industries.

“The BlueTech Forum is an ideal venue to connect to innovative water technologies, companies, and experts from around the world,” explains Steve Kloos, Partner at TNVP. “We are pleased to lead the sponsor slate and look forward to engaging in the water innovation ecosystem at this event.”

Presented by O2 Environmental under the leadership of CEO Paul O’Callaghan, the BlueTech Forum is THE industry event that brings together water industry leaders, tech professionals, investors, and start-ups to address the development, financing and commercialization of innovative water technologies. This year’s impressive group of speakers and panelists will address emerging markets, new technology solutions, new models, and water in the green building arena.

The BlueTech Forum Technology Showcase, a differentiating feature of water tech events, showcases companies with disruptive ideas and strong go-to-market strategies. Company CEOs will outline their technology, target market, business strategy and company stage (e.g., alternative desalination; oil and gas industry water treatment technologies; energy and resources from water; bottom of the pyramid technologies, agricultural water/wastewater treatment; and biotechnology and IT solutions applied to water/stormwater).

Register today. Attend the BlueTech Forum, May 30, 2012 in San Francisco for fresh perspectives on familiar issues and challenges, investment opportunities, networking, and new water strategies and technologies.

Registration is Now Open

Sponsorship and Media Partner Opportunities Available

Media Note: Accredited members of the media may attend the BlueTech Forum at no charge. However, they are required to register with Donna Vincent Roa, Managing Partner & Chief Strategist at Vincent Roa Group. Limited seats available.

Prior to and during the Forum, Paul O’Callaghan, CEO of O2 Environmental, Water Technology Experts, and other speakers will be available for interviews at the event.

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS AND VENUE LOCATION:

San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront

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Burlingame, California 94010 USA

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Donna Vincent Roa, PhD, ABC, CSR-P

Managing Partner & Chief Strategist

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donna@vincentroagroup.com

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