“Blue Tech”Innovation and

Opportunities in the Water Cycle

10 August 2017

• Distilling Strategies

• Sharing Cultural Values

• Stirring up new collaborations

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Common Challenges Shared Values

The Dutch experience in Water

1. Natural and Built Environment

I. Components and Strategies

II. Planning, Design, Construction, O&M

2. Integration and ScaleI. Across disciplines

II. Over time: pilot, refinement, finance, replicate, sustain

3. Knowledge and InnovationI. Public initiatives

II. Triple- and quadruple helix of knowledge, business, government, and citizens

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“Blue Tech” Blue Commons, Shared Values

Blue Tech, 10 August 2017

Agenda

Welcome: Mr. Dolph Hogewoning, Consul General of the Netherlands in New York

Part 1. The Water Cycle: Innovation and Challenges in NYC and the Netherlands

• Overview of NYC Water Treatment system

• Overview of Water Management in the Netherlands

• Abbreviated presentations from the International Resource Recovery Conference

• Collaborative projects and organizational models from the Netherlands & Europe

Break

Part 2: “Blue Tech” Roundtable discussion

Informal Lunch

Blue Tech, 10 August 2017

“Blue Tech”Innovation and Opportunities

in the Water Cycle

10 August 2017

• Distilling Strategies

• Sharing Cultural Values

• Stirring up new collaborations