Agenda
Subject to change
Encouraging innovation in the water sector – Ofwat’s expectations for PR19
- Planning for innovation: long-term goals
- Considering customers and costs
- Seizing opportunities
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Empowering customers to influence future innovation and business plans
- Taking customer and community engagement to the next level
- Breaking down barriers to innovation
- Balancing regulatory and funding challenges
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How are we planning for long-term innovation?
- How innovative are we really being?
- Are we willing to take risks?
- PR19 and beyond
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Capturing creativity and facilitating innovation
- Bristol Water’s outstanding innovation award
- The role of people and creative thinking
- What works and why?
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Cross-sector innovation: how the gas sector creates an innovative culture
• How should innovation work in a regulated industry?
• What can we learn from each other?
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Innovation barriers: culture vs strategy
- Are we resistant to technological change?
- De-risking our strategies
- Facilitating the first step forward
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- Comparing big and small innovation
- What can we learn from each other?
- How does the supply chain need to work differently to accommodate both?
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Delegates should choose to attend one breakout session which are designed to be participatory in nature. Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and subject to
maximum capacities.
| DELIVERY OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE | DELIVERY OF TRANSFORMATIONAL TECHNOLOGY | |
| Breakout chair: James Brockett, Editor, WWT Technology innovation to create a water company of the future, today
Nick Sexton, Innovation project manager, Anglian Water |
Breakout chair: Piers Clark, CEO, Isle GroupAdvanced thermal conversion gasification – concept to commercialisation
Jon Brigg, Manager of innovation, Yorkshire Water |
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| Questions and answers
Table discussions: which technology gamechangers are having the most impact on operational improvements?
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The potential and challenges of graphene-based membranes for desalination
Dr Rahul Nair, Professor, University of Manchester Questions and answers |
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Innovation through collaboration – Northumbrian Water’s journey
- New models for working in partnership
- Identifying new opportunities, and making ideas happen
- Sprinting to success!
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Case study: innovative partnerships in action
- Assessing the benefits of collaboration
- Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water’s successes and failures
- What’s next?
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Working with the UK water industry: University of Exeter’s experience
- The motivation for and benefits of working together
- Different means of collaboration and associated modes of funding
- Examples of joint research projects with UK water companies
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