Day 1
12.30pm Registration & Networking Lunch
2.00pm
Conference welcome
Geoff Darch, Head of Strategic Asset Planning, Anglian Water and Non-Executive Director, Water Resources East
POLICY AND INDUSTRY INITIATIVES
2.15pm
Reforming the water industry: The water resources policy landscape
Jon Chappell, Head of Water Resources and Planning, Water UK
2.35pm
Leakage reporting: An update from Ofwat
Ian Pemberton, Principal Engineer – Asset Management and Operational Resilience, Ofwat
3.05pm
Leakage routemap: Next steps for AMP8
Glen Mountfort, Director of Technical Consulting, WRc
3.25pm
Ofwat Innovation Fund: Five years on, what next? Growing the fund and supporting implementation
Marc Hannis, Principal, Ofwat (Innovation Fund)
3.45pm
UKWIR update
Jeremy Heath, Innovation Manager, SES Water
4.05pm Networking & Refreshments
CUSTOMER SIDE LEAKAGE
4.35pm
Customer side leakage: Addressing the challenges in the new age of AMI, working towards best practice and harmonising the offering to customers
Chaired by Hannah Wardle, Managing Director, FIDO Tech
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Simon Goodyear, Principal Research Engineer, Thames Water
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Martin Pipe, Customer Leakage Regional Delivery Manager, South West Water
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Doug Spencer, IMA Smart Metering Lead, Anglian Water
5.40pm
Boundary boxes: The challenges of an ageing asset class
Jamie Worthington, Head of Strategy and Transformation, Anglian Water
SOAPBOX CHALLENGES
6.00pm
What happens when you give water data back to customers?
Gareth Thomas, Commercial Manager, Watergate
6.15pm
So, you think you know leak sealing?
Beyond conventional approaches
Kat Lennox, Managing Director, RW
6.30pm
Close
6.35pm Networking in the Leakage Lounge
7.00pm Pre-Conference Dinner Drinks, sponsored by Tetra Tech RPS
7.30pm Conference Dinner, followed by networking
12.00am
Close
Day 2 Operational and technology developments
MORNING
8.15am Registration & Networking
9.00am
Introduction
Bob Taylor, Chief Executive Officer,
Portsmouth Water
PREVENT (PALM)
9.15am
Pressure management: Where to next?
Chaired by Tanya Dady, Smart Solutions Director,
Dayworth Consulting
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Adam Bose, Pressure Management Technical Specialist – SMART Networks, Yorkshire Water
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Joshua Davies, System Planning Lead,
Thames Water
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Akshat Sharma, Strategic Business Planning and Programme Manager, Thames Water
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Ross Stokes, Head of Strategic Water Networks, Severn Trent Water
10.25am
Ground conditions, climate change and leakage
Tim Farewell, Director, Maplesky
AWARENESS & LOCATE (PALM)
10.50am
To BABE or not to BABE? Now is not the question, but what’s the answer?
Ken Cartwright, Senior Associate Engineer, AtkinsRéalis
11.15am Networking & Refreshments
11.45am
Eliminating the impossible in a troublesome DMA
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Andrew Blenkharn, Technical Policy Manager, Northumbrian Water
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Randal Lavery, Principal Consultant – Smart Leakage Solutions, Crowder Consulting
12.10pm
‘Shadow water’: How to quickly reduce leakage through two little-known and largely untapped opportunities
Ben Beattie, Director, Highlow Water
12.35pm
Data insights: Helping field teams achieve their leakage detection potential
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Matt Foley, Contracts Manager, PN Daly
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Wayne Novelli, Leakage and Network Strategy Manager, Southern Water
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Daniel Woodworth, Smart Solutions Director, Dayworth Consulting
AFTERNOON
1.00pm Networking lunch
2.10pm
Welcome back
Bob Taylor, Chief Executive Officer,
Portsmouth Water
2.15pm
Ofwat Innovation Fund: No dig leak repair update
Tim Evans, Lead Water Network Scientist – Research, Development and Innovation, Thames Water
AWARENESS & LOCATE (PALM)
2.35pm
Infrastructure monitoring infrastructure:
Can dark fibres find leaks?
Ofwat Innovation Fund: Dark fibre 2 update
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Ed Austin, Founder and Managing Director, Focus Sensors
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Darius Bristow, Senior Project Manager,
Severn Trent Water
2.55pm
Opportunities from fibre sensing
Raj Jayawardena, EVP - Business Development and Transformation, FibreSense
MEND (PALM)
3.15pm
Origin NoDig – A trenchless repair technology. Development, deployment, learnings and the future
John Marsden, Founding Director,
Origin Technology
3.35pm
Special Leak Services
Jason Harvey, Head of Innovation – Drinking Water Operations, South West Water
Jeremy Heath, Innovation Manager, SES Water
3.55pm
Conference close
Bob Taylor, Chief Executive Officer,
Portsmouth Water