Importance of InnovationforWater and Water ManagementforSmart Cities

Ashley RoeChief ExecutiveBritish Water

Securing Asia 12th to 15th July 2015Windsor - UK

Presentation

• Who are we• Innovation• Technology Transfer• Linking people and Business

British Water is:• the lead representative and business

development organisation for the supply chain of the UK water industry.

• a not-for-profit Company limited by Guarantee established in 1993 with corporate rather than individual members

• Funded by members and commercial activity

Ashley Roe

Innovation

Population & Technological Innovation

Robert Fogel University of Chicago

Smart Cities

Water Sector Issues

•New Cities

•Existing Cities

Technology Transfer

Developing and Adapting Innovation

•Technologies

•Processes

•Licencing

•Joint Development

•Commercialisation

BIM• First conference - Building Information Modelling

for the Water Industry - with MWH, April 2014• BIM4Water – BW secretariat• BIM for the Water Industry - A practical approach

to making BIM work! – Bentley Academy. 10th December 2014

• 2nd conference - BIM Today, ALIM Tomorrow (Asset Life Information Modelling)- Delivering a Totex Future – with MWH, 14th April 2015

Water Innovations

• Data

• Distributed Services

• Need for networks

• Self sufficient housing

Creative Disruption

Three technological ecosystems that will change our world and the water sector

•The Internet of Things (IoT)

•The sharing economy

•Services shift on line

Innovation Exchange• The first 20 Innovation Exchanges

have delivered• 694 10-minute presentations• in 71 workshops • Putting 1129 individuals from 200

different suppliers • In front of 697 people from to 21client

organisations

• Now seeing over 60% of suppliers having further, fruitful discussions with clients and/or other suppliers about developing or adopting their innovations

• BW innovation search engine• International events planned

British Water innovation search engine

Templates and details of

innovation

BW members

Innovation Search Engine

Connect to internet and search

Interest in innovation

Innovation adopters

Upload by members

Innovations

Results

BWinnovate

searchable by criteria and by word search

Water Innovation

Thank You