Future Water Networks 2020 Programme – Day 1
Wednesday 18th November 2020
| 9:30am | Welcome - Paul Horton - CEO, Future Water |
| SESSION 1 - Impact of COVID 19: what has it taught us about smart networks and is it transformational? Chair: Dr Piers Clark - Chairman, Isle Group |
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| COVID‐19 and the water sector: understanding impact, preparedness and resilience in the UK through a sector‐wide survey Dr Sarah Cotterill, Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, University College Dublin |
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| The status of global wastewater based epidemiology Dr Jo Burgess - Senior Technology Consultant, Isle Group |
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| How metering has helped manage/understand water use (normal & COVID-19) Andrew Tucker - Demand Reduction Strategy Manager, Thames Water |
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| The impact of COVID-19 on water demand Dene Marshallsay - Owner & Director, Artesia Consulting |
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| Changing nature of leakage operations Joe Sanders - Technical Director, RPS Group |
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| Q&A session | |
| 11:00am | Close of session |
| 11:30am | Welcome - Paul Horton - CEO, Future Water |
| SESSION 2 - Making our sewers smarter Chair: Iain Naismith - Senior Research Fellow, IKT Institute for Underground Infrastructure |
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| Monitoring the health and locating critical underground assets Dr Jameel Marafie - Co-Founder & CEO, Headlight AI |
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| Digitising CCTV using Deep Learning Amanda Siquiera - CEO & Co-Founder, VAPAR |
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| Event duration monitors for compliance assessment Andy Godley - Senior Consultant for Flow Measurement & Metering, WRc |
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| World-first pilot of a sewer nervous system Dr Paul Dickenson, Technical Director, Nuron |
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| Centaur - automatic control of holding water back in sewers Dr James Shucksmith - Senior Lecturer of Water Engineering, University of Sheffield |
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| Robots in sewers - the latest research Prof. Simon Tait - Professor, University of Sheffield |
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| Q&A session | |
| 1:00pm | Close of session |
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