IDWS 2025 Agenda

Excuting Strategies For Innovation & Results

Smart automation and digital solutions for efficient water operations and network optimization

A strategic overview of global water security challenges and evolving water strategies, including mega-projects, desalination advances, and the emergence of regional hubs driving water technology excellence across different continents.

Telling the story of how Avon Lake became the first to implement this technology in partnership with South Korean company Techwin. Discuss drivers for the pilot, including global supply chain challenges and addressing inefficiencies with previous water treatment solutions.

A new understanding of drinking water and the standards that BWF develops and brings into the global space through worldwide partnerships, educational programs, and technological innovations. The focus lies on the fundamental human right to water, on health, and on access to water. On this basis, BWF expands access to high-quality water resources, grants source-quality certifications, establishes water sommeliers, awards breakthrough technologies, modernizes the hospitality program, connects countries across the world, and uses data and AI platforms to support decision-makers. By integrating these activities, BWF significantly enhances the future of drinking water worldwide.

Cyclic Sequencing Activated Sludge (CSAS) system, Envirocare’s proprietary biological treatment technology

Insights into how water and energy efficiency go hand-in-hand with water-first innovation driving circular value chains, recovering heat, recycling water, and reducing waste across sectors.

Equatic’s seawater electrolysis technology, which couples permanent carbon dioxide removal (CDR) with green hydrogen production and Floating Desalination Unit (FDU)

Executed by SSEM focusing on innovative execution and advanced engineering solutions that have been implemented across both water and energy.

Approach to integrating AI-powered analytics, IoT-enabled infrastructure, and advanced digital platforms to address the challenges of water scarcity and environmental sustainability while exploring the role of these technologies enabling smarter resource allocation, predictive maintenance, and enhanced customer experiences

How Coca-Cola is empowering over a 1,000 farmers across Saudi Arabia to help replenish 1.2 billion liters of water by 2034, using technology for soil moisture monitoring with the help of Flowmeters and daily Satellite images

Staff Competencies and People Management as a regulatory need for safe drinking water

Certalink is a digital platform that enables end-to-end carbon tracking across the full value chain. It ensures transparent, verifiable emissions data from source to final product, supporting informed decarbonization decisions and compliance with sustainability standards.

Transition from “patterns in ML” to “patterns in AI.” Followed by demonstrations how foundation models trained on global imagery and text can rapidly adapt to water-sector on problems—without requiring coding expertise. Focus on Coastal erosion, Flood inundation and Crop efficiency

Explores innovative approaches to leveraging desalination brine as a resource for carbon dioxide (CO2) removal, addressing two critical environmental challenges simultaneously: freshwater scarcity and climate change.