BlueTech Forum 2023 | BlueTech Research | 16 May 2023 | Edinburgh, Scotland

Scotland is renowned as the birthplace of many significant scientific innovations that had profound impacts on society. Including the Macintosh raincoat, the steam engine, the telephone, the television, and penicillin, among others. The latter only rivaled sanitation and drinking water treatment in the number of lives saved.

The theme for this forum is Innovation with Impact. We will feature extraordinary and provocative speakers delivering high-quality content, a showcase of innovative and disruptive companies and technologies, and plenty of time for targeted networking.

The agenda will deliver world-class insight, excite new relationships, and spark serendipitous ways of working. We are programming a powerful combination of Mastermind Roundtables, ‘Innovating for Impact’ Box Sprints, 5×5 Partnership Stories and inspiring keynote addresses.

Staying True to our vision to be Vocational, as well as Inspirational. Topics will include:

• Transitioning from energy-consuming to energy-neutral wastewater treatment: The revolution may not be televised, but it’s happening.
• Reducing Water Leakage from 30% to 10%: Equivalent to finding 20% more water, with 20% less energy and carbon emissions.
• Reducing household per capita water from 200 l per person per day to 50 l per person per day.
• Shifting from the mindset of salt disposers to brine-miners at desalination and ZLD facilities.
• Adopting enabling solutions that up-cycle raw materials we are provided with, such as nutrients and volatile fatty acids into products that become part of a circular economy
• Closing the loop on industrial water cycles and embracing decentralized water reuse systems.
• Embracing hybrids of BlueGreen, Grey, and digital solutions.

2023 Sponsors:

• Aquaporin
• Aquatech
• evoqua
• Gingko Bioworks
• Kemira
• Veolia
• xylem
• zwitterco