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Importance of Innovation for Water and Water Management for Smart Cities - Ashley Roe
1. Importance of Innovation
for
Water and Water Management
for
Smart Cities
Ashley Roe
Chief Executive
British Water
Securing Asia 12th
to 15th
July
2015
Windsor - UK
2. Presentation
• Who are we
• Innovation
• Technology Transfer
• Linking people and Business
3. 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
9. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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