The 3rd International Water Association New Developments in IT in Water is an official IWA Conference that will be taking place on 1st-3rd November 2016 in Telford, UK. It will be a joint conference with the already well established Water, Wastewater & Environment Monitoring Conference & Exhibition (WWEM).
Information Technology and its integration with the global water industry is a key factor in how the Water Industry operates on a day to day basis. The current Water & Wastewater Industry would be quite different were it not for the development of IT infrastructure and computing in the modern Water Industry.
The nature of the IT infrastructure is changing with developments such as Big Data & the Internet of Things and this presents both opportunities that need to be realised to address the constant drive for better environmental quality standards whilst mitigating the risk that the industry faces.
WWEM is already well established and is now on its 7th occurrence at the Telford Exhibition Centre and the two conferences are complimentary to each other with WWEM concentrating on instrumentation and the IT & Water Conference concentrating on Data, Information and its application within the Water Industry.
| Time | Speaker | Presentation | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Bas Boorsma | Keynote: A Digitized Society – Trends, Fundamentals, Impact | CISCO Systems | the Netherlands |
| 09:40 - 11:00 | "Session 1 - The Value of Smart Systems (Room 1)” | |||
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Ajay Nair | The Practical Application of the Internet of Things : Delivering tangible benefits on the road towards a disruptive digital water utility | Accenture | United Kingdom |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Alan Cunningham | Demonstrating value in self learning Intelligent Event Detection Systems | Servelec Technologies | United Kingdom |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Antonio Sanchez Zaplana | Real Time Water Demand Forecast with Big Data: Alicante experience | Aguas de Alicante | Spain |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Question & Answer Session | |||
| 11:20 - 13:00 | "Session 3 - Modelling & Control - Potable Water Systems (Room 1)" | |||
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Ana Sancho | Water and environmental monitoring: how IoT is changing these markets | Libelium | Spain |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Cyrille Lemoine | Securing Drinking Water Network against accidental or voluntary contamination | Veolia | France |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Amanda Scott | Improved Jar Testing Optimization with Organics Monitoring | General Electric | United States |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Mathieu Lepot | Benchmark of outlier detection methods for spectral data | TU Delft | the Netherlands |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Question & Answer Session | |||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch, Networking & Exhibition | |||
| 14:00 - 15:20 | "Session 5 - Data & the Network (Room 1)" | |||
| 14:00 - 14:20 | George Heywood | Applying UK best practice Asset Management Optimisation to the International Water Sector | Servelec Technologies | United Kingdom |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Mike Everest | Challenges of integrating 'Big Data' with water industry operational data. Includes a Case Study using real time rainfall data | Meniscus Systems Ltd | United Kingdom |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Taleb Odeh | Modelling a complicated hydrogeological system: The case study of Wadi Zerka Ma'in - north east of Dead Sea | The Hashemite University - Arid Lands Academy | Jordan |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Question & Answer Session | |||
| 15:40 - 17:00 | "Session 7 - Decision Support Systems (Room 1)" | |||
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Andrew Welsh | Life cycle cost benefits with Cloud based systems for sewer networks | Xylem | Sweden |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Chaim Kolominskas | Valuing the financial benefits of decision support systems for environmental management - Case studies from rapid response and proactive odour management in wastewater treatment | Pacific Environment | United Kingdom |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Wolfram Franke | Secured network technology for controlled dosage systems in sewage application | Yara International ASA | United Kingdom |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Question & Answer Session with Close | |||
| Time | Speaker | Presentation | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:40 - 11:00 | "Session 2 - Modelling & Control - Wastewater Systems I (Room 2)" | |||
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Heli Gong | Neural Networks for Wastewater Treatment Process - A Review | University of Calgary | Canada |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Le Hong Quan | Experimental Design For Wwtp Data Evaluation By Setting Up Linear Mass Balances | Ghent university | Belgium |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Jin Liu | Statistical modelling AD for process optimization and bench-marking - A case study of E. coli inactivation across all Thames Water conventional sewage sludge treatment sites | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Question & Answer Session | |||
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee, Networking & Exhibition | |||
| 11:20 - 13:00 | "Session 4 - Modelling & Control - Wastewater Systems II (Room 2)" | |||
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Andrew Thornton | The Evolution of Real Time Control (RTC) systems for the Application to Wastewater Treatment Processes | Hach | United Kingdom |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Stefan Abelin | Intelligent Wastewater Pumping - A Technological Breakthrough | Xylem Global Services | Sweden |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Michael Dooley | Advanced Control and Optimisation of the Activated Sludge Process | Strathkelvin Instruments | United Kingdom |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Simon Mazier | Frugal Engineering, or optimisation not instrumentation | Perceptive Engineering | United Kingdom |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Question & Answer Session | |||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch, Networking & Exhibition | |||
| 14:00 - 15:20 | "Session 6 - Modelling & Control - Wastewater Systems III (Room 2)" | |||
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Juan Antonio Baeza Labat | Integration of N2O emissions in the ASM2d model | Brunel University London | United Kingdom |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Giacomo Bellandi | Measurements and modelling for developing AI-based DO control for mitigating N2O emissions from WWTPs | DICEA University of Florence | Italy |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Mohamed S. Zaghloul | Biological Processes Modeling for Simulation and Control of Aerobic Granulation Advanced Wastewater Treatment Method | University of Calgary | Canada |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Question & Answer Session | |||
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Coffee, Networking & Exhibition | |||
| 15:40 - 17:00 | "Session 8 - Internet of Things (Room 2)" | |||
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Jez Palmer, Stephen Beadle |
The Industrial Internet of Things: An Evolution to a Smart Connected Enterprise | Schneider Electric, Plant Struxure Software |
United Kingdom |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Annemarie Mink | Mobile Crowd Participation as a Research and Monitoring Tool in Small-Scale Piped Water Supply | Delft University of Technology | the Netherlands |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Thomas Schildknecht | Sensor 2 Web: How to get sensor data onto the cloud | Schildknecht AG | Germany |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Question & Answer Session | |||
| 19:30 - 00:00 | Gala Dinner | |||
| Time | Speaker | Presentation | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Pernille Ingildsen | Keynote - Smart Water Utilities: Complexity Made Simple | Kalundborg | Denmark |
| 09:40 - 11:00 | "Session 9 - Data for Water Management (Room 1)" | |||
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Elizabeth Wambui Mwangi | Reducing Non-Revenue Water as a management decision | Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company | Kenya |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Mike Teller, Brian Lumb |
How Big Data and a Vision Created a Smart Water Utility | Schneider Electric, Anglian Water |
United Kingdom |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Question & Answer Session | |||
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee, Networking & Exhibition | |||
| 11:20 - 13:00 | "Session 11 - Sensing & Analysis in Wastewater (Room 1)" | |||
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Giacomo Bellandi | Image analysis procedure to derive bubble size distributions for better understanding of the oxygen transfer mechanism | DICEA University of Florence | Italy |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Kris Villez | Batch Settling Curve Registration via Shape Constrained Spline-based Image Analysis | Eawag | Switzerland |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Christian Thuerlimann | Nitrite sensing in urine nitrification reactor with in-situ UV-Vis spectrometry | Eawag | Switzerland |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Question & Answer Session | |||
| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch, Networking & Exhibition | |||
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Workshops | |||
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Workshop - The Smart Wastewater Industry (Room 1) | |||
| Time | Speaker | Presentation | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:40 - 11:00 | "Session 10 - Cyber Security (Room 2)" | |||
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Barry Searle | The Evolving Cyber Threat to Utilities and Effectively Mitigating the Risks | Intqual-Pro | United Kingdom |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Thomas Hammond | Mitigating Risk Through Cyber Security in the Water Industry | Siemens Digital Factory | United Kingdom |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Nick McLauchlan | How Safe are you? | Z-Tech Control Systems | United Kingdom |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Liam Stimpson | How Anglian Water delivered a high impact and low cost Cyber Security Awareness Programme | Information Security Analysts - Anglian Water Services Ltd | United Kingdom |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Coffee, Networking & Exhibition | |||
| 11:20 - 13:00 | "Session 12 - Communications Protocols (Room 2)" | |||
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Stuart Combellack | WITS - The Next Generation | WITS PSA | United Kingdom |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Brian Back | Critical Network of Things | Radio Data Networks | United Kingdom |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Laurie Reynolds | Water 4.0, servitisation of water management through open data standards and Internet of Things. | AquamatiX Ltd | United Kingdom |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Question & Answer Session | |||
| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch, Networking & Exhibition | |||
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Workshops | |||
| 14:00 - 16:00 | SWAN Workshop: Insights into Data Integration and Resiliency Planning (Room 2) | |||
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Closing Remarks | |||
