See a fantastic lineup of speakers, events, and networking sessions in the Innovation Showcase & Theater and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Theater in the Drinking Water Pavilion at WEFTEC 2024

The WEFTEC 2024 exhibit hall presents another year filled with though-provoking speakers and networking opportunities.  Take a look below for a detailed list of sessions taking place at the Innovation Showcase & Theater and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Theater.

The IP and SDG theaters in the exhibition hall provide valuable, easily digestible water sector-related information, while located right next to the exhibitors featuring other latest innovations.  Below we provide highlights of the upcoming sessions, and you can download the full schedule for both theaters.


  Innovation Theater  SDG Theatre 

Innovation Theater - Booth 1053

The Innovation Showcase & Theater area hosts exhibitors who have earned the WEF Innovative Technology Award.  BlueTech Forum Innovation Award, or been named imagine H20's select portfolio companies.  Complementing these award-winning technologies throughout the Innovation Pavillion are additional exhibitors included those in the Discovery Zone and Distributed infrastructure Zone. 

The Innovation Theater provides a lineup of programming spotlighting how an innovative mindset helps move our business-as-usual thinking forward into something better -more cost-effective, more sustainable, more user-friendly.

A big thank you go out to ALTRA,, the overall sponsor of the Innovation Showcase & Theater this year.

Monday Highlights

9:30-10:00 AM Water Stressors in the U.S. Today
10:00 - 11:00 AM A Four of the 2024 Innovation Pavillion
2:00 - 3:00 PM XPRIZE Water Scarcity
3:00 - 4:30 PM Croctank: Advancing Startups
4:30 - 5:30 PM Innovation Pavillion Reception Sponsored by ALTRA

Tuesday Highlights

9:30 - 9:30 AM Partnering for Innovation in PFAS Treatment Solutions
9:30-10:00 AM        EPA Clean Watersheds Needs Survey Outcomes
3:30-4:00 PM          1+1=3: De-risking Technology Adoption through Corporate Start-up Synergies
4:00-5:00 PM Croctank: BlueTech Research

Wednesday Highlights

10:00-10:30 AM Harnessing AI for Water Sustainability
11:00-11:30 AM Unleash the Power of Sewer Innovation: A Fireside Chat for Utilities
12:00-12:14 PM Sewer Solutions: Prima Country's Award-Winning Approach to Corrosion Control

 

Download the Innovation Theatre Schedule

 

Don't Miss the Innovation Pavilion and SDG Theater Speakers

SDG Theater - Booth 2953

As a proud partner to UN-Water, WEF continues to support the United Nations’ efforts toward completing the Sustainable Development Goals. The theater programming highlights all aspects of integrated water resources management and circular economy, by featuring topics such as diversity, equity, and inclusion, ESGs, global sanitation, and stormwater.

Monday Highlights

11:00-11:30 AM Wastewater Surveillance in the US and Globally
11:30-12:00 PM Women Driving Change
12:00-12:30 PM ESG Task Force
3:00-3:30 PM Comparative Study of Biogas Agricultural Feedstocks
4:00-4:30 PM Water Circularity and the Carbon Connection

Tuesday Highlights

9:00-9:30 AM Water Resources and Resilient Transportation Infrastructure: AASHTO/USDOT Resilience Coalition
12:30-1:30 PM Distributed Infrastructure Task Force
2:00-2:30 PM From Crisis to Clean Water: Pandemic-Driven Collaboration in Rural Malawi
4:00-5:00 PM MS4 Awards

Wednesday Highlights

9:00-9:30 AM Sustainable Water Filtration Systems
10:30-11:00 AM Cybersecurity Threats to the Water Industry
12:00-12:30 PM Addressing SDG 6: The Role of Industries and Partnerships

 

Download the SDG Theatre Schedule

 

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