Events

Learn how to fast track innovative solutions with active and committed collaboration

Combining working with your peers in small group exercises with discussion of industry experience and insights, you will learn how to build your innovation checklist and understand the changes required for future success.

• Identify industry priorities and concerns
• Understand how to build trust and create a shared vision
• Gain practical insight to help shape innovation funding applications
• Learn new ways to work with internal and external partners
• Gain new creativity and strategy skills and tools to ensure successful project outcomes

2022 will mark the 16th year of the Water Industry Awards. There are FOUR NEW categories to choose from – Groundbreaker Award, Natural Capital Initiative of the Year, Smart Water Networks Award and Pollution Mitigation Initiative of the Year. These join last year’s new categories, including Water Efficiency Project of the Year, to reflect the changing focus of the sector and highlight the huge scope of water industry achievements.

The awards will take place on Wednesday, 29 June 2022 at Birmingham’s Hilton Metropole, where the whole industry will meet to celebrate the outstanding work of UK water companies and their supply chains.

The deadline to enter the Water Industry Awards is 25 February, 2022. Good luck!

The brand new WWT Pollution Mitigation, Management & Risk Conference will unite the water sector and key stakeholders to assess current and emerging regulation related to pollution incidents including the Environment Act and DWMPs, drive innovation in the performance of overflows, help the industry establish effective customer engagement strategies, and explore the latest technological solutions helping to drive data-led decision making in sewer networks.

Join your peers for this 1-day event to find out what a storm overflows action plan should look like, the role of nature based solutions in tackling pollution, and how AI, smart sensors and predictive analytics are playing their part in moving the industry forward. Plus, find out how your peers are changing the narrative around pollution for customers and stakeholders, and what PR24 will mean for long and short-term investment in pollution prevention.

The 2022 Utility Week Consumer Vulnerability and Debt Conference will help industry to navigate these constantly evolving times, adapt to new vulnerability trends, and harness the power of consumer insight and engagement to support the most vulnerable. It will bring together utilities and their partners to drive truly collaborative strategies, innovate through personalization, data and digitalization, and consider new ways of working to serve and protect the customers most in need of help.