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The issues facing the water sector are growing more complex. A focus on collaboration and innovation is essential to create lasting solutions.
Climate resilience. Digital innovation. Nature-based solutions. And sustainable water management. They are all part of the solutions we need now.
Meet our team and join our presentations to see how we’re helping clients create lasting value for communities and the environment.
Wednesday 7 October
Workshop, Future Ready Wastewater Systems—This session explores how utilities are transforming wastewater planning to address climate change, population growth, and ageing assets. It will focus on long-term strategies, nature-based solutions, and resilience.
Presenter: Elliot Gill
Poster Presentation, Transformation and Change Through Collaboration to Deliver a Challenging Environmental Improvement Programme In Scotland—Hear how collaboration, integrated delivery, and behaviour change transformed the Improving Urban Waters programme. This improved ways of working and environmental outcomes of the project.
Presenters: Stantec's Mahesh Iyer, Lynsey Lennon, Scottish Water
11.00–12.00, UK Pavillion: TED Talk, The Future Belongs to Collaborative Minds/The Human Side of Systems Thinking—Today’s challenges require more than expertise. This talk explores how trust, curiosity, and systems thinking enable collaboration. It helps organisations turn collective intelligence into better outcomes.
Presenter: Jen Rutherford
Poster, Delivering Climate Change Adaptation Through Business Change Within a Water Utility—Scottish Water has developed the Climate Change Adaptation Hub. It’s a centralised resource designed to embed climate adaptation into core operations by consolidating knowledge and empowering staff.
Presenters: Stantec’s Drew Brown, with Scottish Water and Mott MacDonald
15.00–15.45, UK Pavillion: Panel Discussion, Community Collaboration
Chair: Mike Morris
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