Registration is now open for Spring Accelerator 3’s Ambition Surgery.

Sitting inside WIS2050 Theme 3: Protecting and Enhancing Natural Systems, Spring Accelerator 3 is looking for innovative solutions to help us understand, monitor, and take action about the challenges and opportunities in raw water sources and their surrounding land to better protect source water health. And the Ambition Surgery is the first step.

Ambition Surgeries are our problem-definition and challenge-setting mechanism. We bring together water companies, suppliers, academia, regulators and experts from adjacent sectors for a half-day event to dive into an Ambition from the Water Innovation Strategy 2050, defining and refining a specific challenge statement for the Accelerator to focus on.

In this session, we will discuss the context behind the Ambition, look at it from multiple angles, and lessons learned from past efforts in the area. The output of this mini conference is a Call for Innovation, a document outlining the problem we’re looking to solve, and an invitation to innovators to solve it.

SA3 is proudly sponsored by ECAS – Environmental Compliance and Services Ltd.

Event details:

  • Date: Monday 29th January
  • Location: held remotely (Microsoft Teams)
  • Time: 10:00 – 14:00
  • Duration: 4 hours
  • Agenda: to come

Who should attend?

The Ambition Surgery is a free, online event that is open to all.

Joining the Ambition Surgery is an opportunity to be among the first to hear the challenge area, explore the context behind it, and contribute to its development into something specific, achievable, and productive.

For water companies:

  • Help shape the direction of the challenge to suit your business needs.
  • Engage with the supply chain; telling them what you want / don’t want and why.

For innovators and the supply chain (both in and out of sector):

  • Learn more about the challenge area and water company priorities.
  • Begin thinking about how your product / business might fit the challenge.

For academia:

  • Inform others of potential alignment with academic work.
  • Highlight knowledge gaps and help tailor the challenge.

Learn more about Spring and our Accelerator.

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