with 🎙️ Megan Glover – CEO and Co-Founder of 120Water
120Water runs cloud-based testing and compliance programs that help United States utilities find and remove lead and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from drinking water across 48 US states. The company has raised US$57.5M across four rounds, including a US$43M growth round led by Edison Partners in 2024.
with 🎙️ Jacob Bossaer – CEO and Founder of BOSAQ
💧 BOSAQ is a very ambitious Water Scale-Up aiming to develop innovative and future-proof drinking water solutions.
with 🎙️ Gabi Wolkinson – CEO and 🎙️ Ofir Menashe – CTO and Founder of BioCastle – a microbial encapsulation company.
💧 BioCastle is an environmental biotechnology company that encapsulates nature by developing and marketing an intriguing technology: the Small Bioreactor Platform.
EMG International, founded in 1996, treats food and beverage wastewater with its Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Digester, a sealed reactor that turns industrial effluent into biogas instead of burning power to aerate it. The American firm drew a strategic utility when TransAlta took a 30% stake in 2020 to enter waste-to-energy treatment.
💧 EMG International is a leading company in Anaerobic Wastewater treatments, with a pretty unique take on anaerobic digestion.
with 🎙️ Michael Stanley Gallisdorfer
💧 Michael holds a Ph. D. in Geography and builds upon a unique (and multidisciplinary!) skill set, making him a Global Water expert.
with 🎙️ Ulrike Kelm – Chair of the Women in Water and Sanitation Network
💧 The Women in Water and Sanitation Network is an active ambassador for gender equality, connecting and empowering female professionals, expanding women’s career opportunities, and increasing their visibility.
with 🎙️ Abdelhakim El Fadil – Ph.D. Researcher and Podcast Host
💧 The “Smart Water Solutions” podcast addresses technical hints and industrial expertise to better exploit water treatment technologies.
with 🎙️ Gaetane Suzenet – Co-Founder of the European Water Tech Accelerator
💧 The European Water Tech Accelerator aims to boost European water start-ups to drive sustainable growth in the global water sector.
with 🎙️ Nicola Lei Ravello – Independent investment consultant and founder of White Stag Investing
💧 White Stag Investing is a research platform for responsible investments, focusing on sustainability as a source of value and stability in the long-term.
Jacobs Engineering Group runs water and wastewater delivery on an estimated US$3.7B in annual water revenue, with a consultant engineer working as the catalyst that aligns EPCs, equipment makers, regulators, and municipal clients around one buildable design. The firm has engineered globally since 1947, so delivery turns on client trust and community buy-in as much as on the chosen treatment.
💧 Jacobs was the World’s n°1 Design Firm for the third year in a row as per ENR’s ranking in 2020
with 🎙️ Brian Moloney – Founder & Managing Director @ StormHarvester
💧 StormHarvester is the leading company in smart drainage systems (and more).
StormHarvester predicts sewer blockages and fatbergs before they cause overflows, and raised a $10.2M Series A in 2025 to roll the system out across Australasia and North America. The British firm reads existing network sensors with machine learning and hyperlocal weather forecasts instead of running hydraulic models, and has taken total funding to $12.56M since 2012.
with 🎙️ Jim Lauria – VP Sales & Marketing at Mazzei Injector Company
& with 🎙️ Adam Tank – Director, Software Solutions at Transcend Water
💧 Adam & Jim are the co-hosts of the “Water We Talking About?” Podcast
with 🎙️ Graeme Pearce – Director @ Membrane Consultancy Associates
💧 Membrane Consultancy Associates is a consultancy practice bringing expertise and guidance in membrane technology.
with 🎙️ Steven Kohn – CEO & Founder @ Wisewater
💧 Wisewater aims to provide simple and seamless devices to better conserve our most precious resource, (aka water).
with 🎙️ Gilad Yogev – Product Manager MABR Products @ Fluence
Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactors (MABR) push oxygen through gas-permeable membranes into the biofilm from the inside, cutting wastewater aeration energy to about 0.2 to 0.3 kWh per cubic meter. Fluence builds the technology into containerized Aspiral plants and SUBRE retrofits that hit under 10 mg/L total nitrogen at a confirmed readiness of TRL 8.
with 🎙️ Björn Otto – Business Unit and Marketing Director @ Hager + Elsässer
💧 H+E is one of the world’s leading suppliers of water and wastewater technology with more than 30,000 turnkey plants in over 130 countries around the globe.
with 🎙️ Matthew Silver – Founder & CEO @ Cambrian Innovation
Cambrian Innovation sells treated water and recovered energy by the gallon through its Water-Energy Purchase Agreement, financing the plant up front so industrial customers pay nothing to install and carry no project risk. The model is backed by $17.2M raised in 2019 led by Spring Lane Capital, and the 2020 Baswood acquisition that doubled Cambrian’s installed base.
Elemental Excelerator, now Elemental Impact, is a nonprofit climate-tech accelerator founded in 2012 that channels catalytic capital, drawn from 47 million dollars under management, into early-stage water and climate startups to push them toward commercial scale. Its water portfolio runs through companies like Capture6, Cambrian Innovation, and Verdi, all backed across funding rounds rather than for an equity return.
💧 Elemental is a non-profit Growth Accelerator supporting entrepreneurs who are building world-changing companies.
with 🎙️ Matthew Silver – Founder & CEO @ Cambrian Innovation
Cambrian Innovation raised $17.2 million in 2019 to scale EcoVolt, a bioelectric anaerobic reactor that turns brewery and food wastewater into reusable water and clean energy. The technology, born from a NASA grant for astronaut life support, treats high-strength industrial effluent that conventional plants struggle with.
with 🎙️ Haris Kadrispahic – Head of Innovation @ LiqTech International
💧 LiqTech is a technology company specialized in high-end membrane solutions
with 🎙️ Elango Thevar – Founder & CEO @ NEER.ai
NEER runs a predictive AI platform that scores every pipe in a water network by failure risk, so small United States utilities can aim each replacement dollar at the assets most likely to break. Founded in 2020, the company turns partial maps and sensor data into a ranked capital-planning model, cutting non-revenue water without a full sensor rollout.