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
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2.15pm
Reforming the water industry: The water resources policy landscape
Jon Chappell, Head of Water Resources and Planning, Water UK
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2.35pm​
Leakage reporting: An update from Ofwat
Ian Pemberton, Principal Engineer – Asset Management and Operational Resilience, Ofwat
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3.05pm​
Leakage routemap: Next steps for AMP8
Glen Mountfort, Director of Technical Consulting, WRc
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3.25pm​
Ofwat Innovation Fund: Five years on, what next? Growing the fund and supporting implementation
Marc Hannis, Principal, Ofwat (Innovation Fund)
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3.45pm​
UKWIR update
Jeremy Heath, Innovation Manager, SES Water
4.05pm Networking & Refreshments
CUSTOMER SIDE LEAKAGE
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​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
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5.40pm
Boundary boxes: The challenges of an ageing asset class
Jamie Worthington, Head of Strategy and Transformation, Anglian Water
SOAPBOX CHALLENGES
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6.00pm
What happens when you give water data back to customers?
Gareth Thomas, Commercial Director, Watergate
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6.15pm
So, you think you know leak sealing?
Beyond conventional approaches
Kat Lennox, Managing Director, RW
6.30pm
Close
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6.35pm Networking in the Leakage Lounge
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7.00pm Pre-Conference Dinner Drinks, sponsored by Tetra Tech RPS
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7.30pm Conference Dinner, followed by networking
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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)
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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
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10.25am
Ground conditions, climate change and leakage
Tim Farewell, Director, Maplesky
AWARENESS & LOCATE (PALM)
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10.50am
To BABE or not to BABE, is now 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
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12.10pm
‘Shadow water’: How to quickly reduce leakage through two little-known and largely untapped opportunities
Ben Beattie, Director, Highlow Water
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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
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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)
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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
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2.55pm
Opportunities from fibre sensing
Raj Jayawardena, EVP - Business Development and Transformation, FiberSense​
MEND (PALM)
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3.15pm
Origin NoDig – A trenchless repair technology. Development, deployment, learnings and the future
John Marsden, Founding Director,
Origin Technology
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3.35pm
Special Leak Services
​Jason Harvey, Head of Innovation – Drinking Water Operations, South West Water
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Jeremy Heath, Innovation Manager, SES Water
​3.55pm
Conference close
Bob Taylor, Chief Executive Officer,
Portsmouth Water