A Nature-Positive Future

About the OrganisersArupArup is the creative force at the heart of many of the world’s most prominent projects in the built environment and across industry. Working in more than 140 countries, the firm’s designers, engineers, architects, planners, consultants and technical specialists work with our clients on innovative projects of the highest quality and impact.Working with an international network,  Arup’s water team work in 90 countries, collaborating across over 50 related technical and advisory disciplines. This is how we’re able to respond to such a wide range of water projects and programmes, from water treatment works in Australia, to physical engineering of the new intake tunnel under Lake Mead in Colorado. We use consultancy, engineering, and research to bring the most insightful approaches to water projects wherever they are in the world.(www.arup.com)WRcWRc is an Independent Centre of Excellence for Innovation and Growth. We operate across different sectors including Water, Environment, Gas and Resource Management. Our clients include regulators, water and gas utility companies, governmental organisations, NGOs, trade organisations, industrial manufacturers and waste management companies. Building on a legacy in the international water and environment sector stretching back over 90 years, combined with the knowledge of approximately 120 staff based in Swindon, we bring a shared purpose of discovering and delivering new and exciting solutions that enable our clients to meet the challenges of the future.(www.wrcgroup.com)Introducing Wet NetworksSome of you may already be familiar with the name as Wet Networks have been running successfully in London for over 14 years and now run in partnership with Arup and WRc.Through the regular hosting of invitation only events, we are developing a sustainable business ‘eco-system’ that will allow water technology companies to share ideas and business relationship opportunities with leading users, entrepreneurs, vendors, advisors and funders. We hope that our deep and longstanding expertise in the sector, combined with the energy and commitment of the invited companies will make our Wet Networking Series a driver for growth and innovation.

Arup and  WRc presents Wet Networks

We are delighted to host our fourth in person and virtual Wet Networks along with WRc

Arup - In Person and Virtual

Now in its sixteenth year, Wet Networks showcases new ideas and technology to help transform the way we manage water.  Join us on 13th July 2023 at our next Wet Networks event, in person at Arup, London or virtually.  The theme will be A Nature-Positive Future.5.00 pm – 8.30 pm with refreshmentsArup, 8 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 4BQArup and WRc are proud to stage the Wet Networks series of event, supporting new collaborations to enable a broader innovation ecosystem. For more information on Wet Networks, please contact Joanna Britton (joanna.britton@arup.com) or to catch up with previous Wet Networks conversations.Agenda 5:00 pm Introduction to Wet Networks 5:05 pm Chair’s Introduction 5:15 pm Keynote presentation 5:30 pm Innovation presentations 6:30 pm Charity presentation6:40 pm Chair’s close6:50 pm Networking / Refreshment's 8:30 pm Event closeGuest Chair – Carmen SnowdonCarmen Snowdon, a Chartered Environmentalist, is the Water Research Centre’s Director of Commercial Services, and formerly a Principal Consultant in Demand Management. With eighteen years’ experience at WRc Carmen is passionate about the water sector and delivering positive environmental outcomes through all the work she herself delivers and supports others in delivering. She is very active within a number of industry bodies, including as a fellow of the Institute of Water, and as a member of the Efficient Urban Water Management committee for the International Water Association.K﻿eynote speaker:D﻿ani Jordan - People and Nature Dani has worked for over 15 years at the nexus of social science and nature. Now the Behavioural Science Lead at WWF, Dani’s team uses behavioural and social science with deep audience research to understand, influence and enable individuals to create positive change for nature and climate – through their own behaviours, as community members, and as active and engaged citizens. Much of Dani’s career has had a water focus, from policy to programme management, specifically on protecting and restoring UK rivers with WWF. Most recently Dani has set up Sewersmart, a small NGO taking a collaborative, solutions-focused approach to achieving a sewerage network fit for people and the environment.WWF is the world’s leading independent conservation organisation. Our mission is to create a world where people and wildlife can thrive together. To achieve our mission, we're finding ways to help transform the future for the world’s wildlife, rivers, forests, and seas; pushing for a reduction in carbon emissions that will avoid catastrophic climate change; and pressing for measures to help people live sustainably, within the means of our one planet. We’re acting now to make this happen.Innovation presenters:T﻿om Godfrey - Wholescape Innovation: Improving the quality of Water by building high value ecosystems As managing Director of Earth Change, Tom has operated at CEO/Board levels for the last 22 years. He has spent his career marketing, selling, and delivering new, purpose-driven concepts and programmes to different local marketplaces on a global basis, that involve public, private and third sectors delivering commercial and community benefit to all.  Earth Change, part of the Land and Water Group, are pioneering an innovative habitat restoration approach that we call Sustainable Self-Financing Enhanced Habitat Creation which optimises the natural capital of old problem land. We partner with the landowner to realise more revenue from their land over 50-80 years with little or no investment on their part. Gregg Brill - NBS Benefits Explorer toolGregg is a Senior Researcher with the Pacific Institute and Technical Lead for the United Nations Global Compact CEO Water Mandate. His current work focuses on developing and scaling the private sector's awareness and investment in nature-based solutions (NBS). This work includes developing and implementing a standardized method, guide, and tool to demonstrate stacked water, carbon, biodiversity, and socio-economic benefits associated with NBS for watersheds worldwide. His technical support stretches across water resilience, net positive water impact, water access, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), and target setting. Gregg has 15 years of experience in corporate sustainability, ecological infrastructure/nature-based solutions, conservation, economic water resilience, and stakeholder engagement. He has worked in the public and private sectors, for NGOs, and in academia. Andrew Brown - Managing surface water runoff for multiple outcomes Andrew Brown is a Director of HR Wallingford Ltd with responsibility for the company’s water and flood management business and has over 27 years of experience in the hydraulic modelling and software sectors of the civil and environmental industries. Andrew has experience of technical delivery and management of a wide variety of global projects including wastewater collection system analysis, urban drainage design, river engineering and modelling, flood inundation and mapping, flood forecasting and warning, sustainable drainage and surface water flood risk management systems, water supply and coastal hydraulic engineering. Drawing on our unique capabilities in science, technology, and engineering, we invest in knowledge to deliver insight and innovation. We harness research, intelligent data, and the power of our collective expertise to design smarter, more resilient solutions to address future challenges and opportunities in, on and near water. As independent experts, we aspire to being the global leaders in how to live and work sustainably with water. Charity presentation:M﻿inni Jain - Water Positive globally- with Communities locally For over 25 years Minni Jain has been working with communities to regenerate their landscapes and lives. She is the Operations Director of The Flow Partnership, working on community-led management of droughts and floods across Africa, India and Europe. To share and make available this community knowledge and their simple, successful, low-cost, methods of landscape water resilience, Minni is working on a strategy with communities that combines Water literacy and Water retention implementation simultaneously. The Flow Partnership, a UK based NGO, works with global partners to rejuvenate landscapes and counter the increasing threat of floods, droughts, soil erosion, habitat loss at their source. They provide a crucial link between communities, government, business, scientists and landowners, empowering local communities to implement simple, low-cost landscape measures as part of an informed, holistic, catchment-based strategy

Agenda

Introduction to WET Networks 

Chair's introduction

Keynote presentation

Innovation presentations

Charity presentation

Chair's close

Networking / Refreshments 

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