BlueTech Research is proud to partner with CDP to honor its Water A-List at the BlueTech Forum in Dublin, Ireland on June 6. The Water A-List execs will join the Forum share their experience and discuss how they are applying leading-edge technology and innovative practices.
BlueTech together with CDP will lead two sessions at BlueTech Forum focused around the A-List Companies. The first is a facilitated closed-door discussion to provide a select group of industry leaders with a unique opportunity to connect with their peers, share experience and discuss common challenges in an intimate, not-for-attribution, setting. This will be complemented by an open-forum interactive roundtable format meeting where corporates will be invited to share best practice case studies and also identify key innovation challenges in their businesses with fellow delegates. BlueTech will develop a format and agenda with participating A-list companies to generate innovative solutions for the toughest problems that industry faces in operations today.
BlueTech Forum is a solutions-oriented event where innovators, thought-leaders, end users, solutions providers, come together to build relationships and get a glimpse into the future for water management.
BlueTech together with CDP will lead a facilitated discussion that will show examples and roadmaps of how corporations are increasingly:
1. Turning risk into an opportunity – solving water issues and future proofing the business
Increasingly corporations are moving to creative long term holistic solutions that are strategic, not tactical.
Examples of this include William S. Grant, which has set up a subsidiary company focused on energy generation from by-products from whisky production. A number of Oil and Gas companies are investigating the launch of water divisions, recognising that they produce more water than oil by a factor of 10 in some cases. It is possible to imagine that in a low carbon economy and an era of water scarcity, that an oil and gas company may become a water company.
2. Building the case for water innovation – make it pay
Increasingly corporates are realising that wastewater is lost raw materials and product. The use of better data and analytics allows savings that can deliver short pay-backs.
Opportunities abound to turn a cost-centre into a cost-neutral, or value generating aspect of the business. This ranges from energy generation, recovery of phosphorous, and production of bio-chemicals on-site as part of circular economy initiatives.
3. Moving to water avoidance and water obsolescence
Water Re-use is now the standard main-stream in all new industrial sites. It is a given. As water is re-used one of the challenges it creates is how to deal with contaminants which build up over time and need to be treated or disposed of.
Taking this one step further, upstream processes are being looked at and re-imagined to see if water is truly essential for the process, or if it can be substituted with something else.
Textile companies look to ways to dye materials without using water, solutions such as Xeros reduce water use in laundries by using polymers to absorb dirt from clothes.
There is a continuum of potential solutions that operate across the water paradigm ranging from water reduction, water re-use and right through to water avoidance.
BlueTech Research will map case studies by industry sector and show the technology readiness levels of the potential range of solutions, where they are on the technology curve, who is providing them and where they have been used.
Key Questions We will Answer are:
· What are my peers doing and what can I learn from best-practice in adjacent industry sectors?
· What is the full suite of options I have to choose from to solve water issues?
· How can I compare vendors and balance the desire an need to innovate with the need to manage risk?
· What solutions and practices can directly improve the bottom line and what stage are these solutions at?
Registration is now open for the 7th Annual BlueTech Forum, in Dublin June 6th and 7th.
The conference is being held at the Marker Hotel in Dublin, and the networking dinner will be held in the historic Christchurch Cathedral in the heart of Dublin City. Price includes conference networking dinner, full day event and closing networking drinks and Taste of Ireland experience on the Rooftop Bar of the Marker Hotel. Additional discounts are available for Clients of BlueTech Research. Contact us to obtain this discount code.
