Last years’ Conference Sponsors
Conference Dinner Sponsor
Accelerating and ensuring smart meter rollout, delivering data-driven transformation through our Metering as a Service solution
Horizon Water Infrastructure is proud to partner the 25th Annual Leakage Conference at this pivotal moment for the water sector. Specialising in water resource management, we deliver end-to-end smart meter and data asset solutions designed to meet water companies’ evolving challenges. Our Metering as a Service approach provides the expertise to design, implement and manage fully outsourced Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) solutions for new and existing smart water programmes. With guaranteed performance outcomes over a 20-year programme and the lowest total cost for rollout, we take full ownership of solution delivery. By sharing the challenges and driving innovation, we enable water companies to focus on their core operations and the achievement of critical outcomes.
With more than 15 years’ experience in UK smart meter rollouts through our sister company, Horizon Energy Infrastructure, we specialise in delivering comprehensive support to water companies, including smart meter programme design, mobilisation, network communications and data management. Our approach mitigates the risks of programme failures, which ultimately affect customers, while ensuring total programme lifetime costs are minimised.
Our team applies extensive expertise across the water, energy and finance sectors to deliver best-in-class solutions tailored to customer objectives. Collaborating closely with our industry-leading strategic partners, we combine deep sector knowledge with customer-focused strategies to create innovative and sustainable smart water solutions, securing sustainable resources for future generations.
As sponsors of this year’s Conference Dinner, we are excited to collaborate with the 25th Annual Leakage Conference, its delegates and other partners, and we look forward to connecting with everyone. For more information on how our Metering as a Service solution can eliminate operational and financial risks, please visit our stand in the conference’s networking area. Alternatively, after the event, email daniel.reilly@horizonwaterinfrastructure.co.uk or call 07384 543262.
Pre-Dinner Drinks Sponsor
Founded in 1970, RPS is now part of Tetra Tech, a leading provider of consulting and engineering services worldwide. Our experts define, design and manage projects that create shared value to a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world. We are leading water specialists with in-depth technical and operational expertise in solving problems that matter to our clients. In the leakage sector, we excel in everything from strategy to operations, which encompasses WRMP and AMP planning, leakage analytics, network modelling and asset survey field teams, to help our clients drive leakage down – from source to tap. Our Waternet software is at the heart of day-to-day asset management and ensures regulatory compliance.
Dr Joe Sanders
Senior Technical Director
Last years’ Conference Partners
Aqualogic and digital leak detection go hand-in-hand. At this year’s Annual Leakage Conference, we’ll be launching the new state-of-the-art iQuarius iQ100B, the most innovative digital leak detection system ever seen in the UK water sector. The iQ100B is a new mobile leak detection device that offers a quick and simple leak survey to enable complete novices to become advanced leak detectors. The robust design fits onto a standard listening stick to make surveys easy to carry out. Please visit our stand for a working demonstration, or email jonathana@aqualogic-wc.co.uk to arrange a meeting.
Jonathan Adler
Commercial Director
BERMAD are a leading manufacturer of tailor-made water and flow management solutions that include state-of-the-art hydraulic control valves, air valves, advanced metering solutions and digital products. Founded in 1965, we have spent more than 50 years interacting with the world’s major end-users, and accumulating knowledge and experience in multiple markets and industries. We have recently added a support division for our products – a dedicated optimisation, servicing and solutions team, BOSS. Watch our video.
Ryan Pascoe
Managing Director
CLA-VAL are leading suppliers of pressure management control valves. We have served the UK water industry for more than 35 years and have gained a proven track record for precise pressure regulation and exceptional reliability. We will be exhibiting our latest e-Line product range, including datalogging and intelligent valve controllers that perform a variety of tasks, such as advanced pressure modulation and remote flow control. Our ValveFlow package upgrades CLA-VAL valves to an all-encompassing instrumentation system that calculates and records Instantaneous Flow and Totalised Flow (without a flowmeter), including the logging of upstream pressure, downstream pressure and valve position.
David Humphrey
Managing Director
FYLD is an AI-driven digital platform revolutionising water industry field operations. By enabling proactive, data-led decisions, it has proven to reduce leak repair times by up to 40% at just 8% of the average cost, saving millions of litres of water daily while enhancing safety. With real-time site visibility and AI-powered Video Risk Assessments, FYLD boosts productivity, reduces downtime and rework, and mitigates environmental risks. This innovative platform turns traditional fieldwork into efficient, sustainable and compliant operations, empowering leading water utilities to enhance overall performance and achieve long-term results.
Joe Mitchell
Account Director
At Gutermann, we are dedicated to tackling the worldwide problem of water loss in water infrastructure. Gutermann is a global technology leader and innovator in intelligent leak detection technology. We are a third-generation, privately owned, family enterprise with headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, and regional offices throughout the world.
Gutermann has been specialising in the design, manufacture and distribution of all acoustic leak detection equipment for more than 60 years. With a constant focus on innovation, we have often been at the forefront of new product developments in our sector, always pushing the boundaries of water leak management technology. Thanks to our tireless commitment to product quality, functionality and user-friendliness, Gutermann has become a synonym for precision, quality and reliability in leak detection technology worldwide.
Paul Chandler
UK Sales Manager
Horizon Water Infrastructure is delighted to become a partner of the 25th Annual Leakage Conference at this pivotal moment for the water sector. Horizon specialises in all things ‘smart’, offering end-to-end smart meter and data asset solutions. With innovative financing models that spread programme costs over 10 to 20 years, we help water companies deliver seamless, high-performance smart meter and smart network rollouts. As a Meter Asset Provider (MAP), we provide comprehensive Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) funding models that mitigate risks, and allow water companies to focus on delivering exceptional service to their customers while meeting UK Government and Ofwat mandates, such as reducing leakage by 50% and lowering per capita consumption (PCC) to 110 litres per day by 2050.
By combining our team's expertise, exemplary processes and technology with specialised financing for smart meter solutions, we will address the challenges faced by water companies in delivering a seamless, integrated, high-performance solution throughout the programme rollout and for years in the future. The Horizon team looks forward to collaborating closely with conference delegates and partners. Contact Daniel Reilly to learn more about eliminative financial and operational risks, and delivering optimal results.
Daniel Reilly
Managing Director
HWM are experienced and respected manufacturers of monitoring and telemetry equipment for water, wastewater and gas networks, together with telemetry AMR and facilities optimisation products. Having serviced the water industry for nearly 40 years, we have combined advanced cellular communications technology with rugged, purpose-designed hardware to deliver a variety of robust and efficient network monitoring solutions. Our recent acquisition of Invenio Systems has seen HWM enter the customer-side leak detection market, traditionally seen as a difficult area of the network to survey. A global leader in leak reduction, HWM delivers a compelling network monitoring value proposition to our customers.
Jonathan Smith
UK Sales Manager
Ovarro’s innovations enhance operational efficiency and achieve significant reductions in non-revenue water (NRW) losses. Our latest technology, EnigmaREACH, is designed to combat water loss on a large scale. With rapid, high-accuracy alerts for active leak detection and pinpoint precision locations, EnigmaREACH optimises manpower with accuracy, efficiency and the complete automation of results. Our comprehensive leak detection portfolio empowers global infrastructure to maintain critical operations and deliver clean water to millions. By monitoring flow and acoustic noise, our solutions provide reliable, real-time leak detection, as well as addressing NRW loss and protecting vital water resources.
Tony Gwynne
Global Leakage Solutions Director
– UK Water
SME Water is an expert in clean water network analysis and demand modelling. The team specialises in using contemporary analysis and data science techniques to deliver complex projects, and use their extensive subject knowledge of water network behaviour and engineering insight to ensure projects deliver sustainable benefits for their clients. SME Water’s flagship product, Paradigm, is currently taking the water industry by storm and is the largest demand analysis model in the UK, currently covering over 70% of properties in England. This allows water companies to learn from each other’s data sets, derive valuable insight into network anomalies and drive the industry forward towards its 2050 leakage reduction targets.
Stuart Mawditt
Managing Director
SUEZ is a global leader in water and waste management, offering innovative solutions to optimise water resources. In the UK, SUEZ specialises in advanced water network management, focusing on reducing leakage. Their expertise includes state-of-the-art technologies, such as real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, satellite leak detection and pressure management to enable the rapid detection and repair of leaks. SUEZ's solutions enhance the efficiency and sustainability of water networks, and help utilities reduce water loss, improve service reliability and meet regulatory requirements. Their commitment to innovation ensures responsible water resource management, safeguarding the environment and communities.
Synthotech is a leading supplier of own brand and branded location, survey and detection equipment for the utilities industry, including grey, black and potable water. As exclusive UK distributors of SebaKMT and FASTgmbh equipment, Synthotech can supply acoustic, gas leakage and in-pipe leak detection systems. Synthotech’s own brand in-pipe potable water and dirty water CCTV systems, along with the Easysight Crawler integrated with iTouch, provides total survey solutions. All products are provided with knowledge, sales, training, technical support, repairs and maintenance. A number of our products are available for hire or hire to buy.
Craig Duthie
Director for Water
For over 40 years, Technolog Group has been a leader in providing comprehensive monitoring and control solutions for water distribution networks worldwide. Our innovative products integrate seamlessly with existing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, enhancing their capabilities effortlessly. Technolog Group is one of the world's largest collectors of machine-to-machine (M2M) data, boasting over 450,000 deployments. We offer a complete, end-to-end solution that includes product supply, installation and data services, ensuring efficient and effective network monitoring.
Technolog has vast experience in pressure management and leakage reduction, and our teams protect hundreds of mega litres per day of leakage globally through the provision of our advanced products and services.
Luke Thornton
Director
Founded in 1970, RPS is now part of Tetra Tech, a leading provider of consulting and engineering services worldwide. Our experts define, design and manage projects that create shared value to a complex, urbanising and resource-scarce world. We are leading water specialists with in-depth technical and operational expertise in solving problems that matter to our clients. In the leakage sector, we excel in everything from strategy to operations, which encompasses WRMP and AMP planning, leakage analytics, network modelling and asset survey field teams, to help our clients drive leakage down – from source to tap. Our Waternet software is at the heart of day-to-day asset management and ensures regulatory compliance.
Dr Joe Sanders
Senior Technical Director
The UK Water Report is a monthly publication launched in 2014 in response to UK water market reform. It is available in print and/or as a PDF emailed to your inbox. We focus exclusively on the UK water and sewerage industry, providing reports and in-depth research and features on topical issues. We specialise in covering policy and regulation in the body of the magazine and have a dedicated section, Competition Watch, to keep readers up to date on retail and upstream competition developments. Every Monday, we provide an online bulletin, The Week in Water, which reports on the week’s top stories in water sector regulation, policy and competition.
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