Bluetech Research Podcast Channel

BlueTech joined the stars at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, in which a normally understated Swiss town transforms into a form of travelling road show and cocktail party for the global business and political elite. Join us on this episode where we discuss our discovery that large corporations are, perhaps surprisingly, leading the way in focussing on environmental and sustainability issues and agreeing common standards, in some cases far beyond what any one sovereign regulator would impose. We also delve into the world of sensors, where hardware companies are weighing the advantages and disadvantages of adopting to software-as-a-service (Saas) business models. What does this mean for the future of the industry?--Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

A very Happy New Year and welcome to the first TalkWater episode of 2019!  As trailed in our End of Year Web Briefing, BlueTech is about to publish a report on opportunities in Point of Use and water treatment monitoring – an area of increasing interest as newer technologies and products are combining with shifting customer demands to send the market in a new direction. Tyler Algeo, the report’s author, shares some insights on how trends such as companies offering tunable water and awareness of micro-pollutants will affect the market in the coming years. --Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

December is about both endings and beginnings. The BlueTech team have been hard at work the past few weeks planning BlueTech’s editorial calendar for 2019. In this episode we share updates on what we have seen in 2018 and point to thematic shifts in water and trends to track in 2019. We will make reference to insights shared by our TAG team at our end of year webinar 2018 and you can find the recording on our intelligence platform. Sending wishes to you and yours for a beautiful Holiday Season and a peaceful New Year.Merry Christmas from the BlueTech office!--Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

You may familiar with the term FANG stocks, a term coined by Jim Cramer on CNBC’s Mad Money to describe the four biggest tech giants in terms of stock valuations - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google.   At BlueTech we took this concept, applied it to water and asked – who are the ‘big four’ investors in water tech?   In this month’s podcast, we also review the latest addition to our book club - “Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think.” The book reminds us the importance of verified insights and research and how powerful it can be in changing perception--Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

In October’s podcast, BlueTech explores the opportunities to test for drugs in wastewater using real time sensing and monitoring. The data can be valuable, allowing scientists and law enforcement to quickly track drug use and measure the impact of drug policy strategies; but is it ethical? IOT-based Asset Performance Management (APM) tools are being specifically developed to improve the life of critical assets while reducing ongoing operating costs. TAG member, Judith Herschell Cole, speaks to us about the latest developments in this area. --Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

In this month's podcast, we focus on WEFTEC, one of the water sectors largest conferences, which will take place in October in New Orleans. BlueTech are once again proud to host the Innovation Pavilion at WEFTEC in conjunction with Imagine H20 and WEF. The Pavilion puts the spotlight on water sector innovation and provides access to the leaders and the technologies making it all happen. Our September podcast will focus on some of companies participating this year and outline their technology, what problem it aims to solve and value proposition.--Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

In our August podcast, we speak to Bill Toffey, a member of BlueTech’s Technology Assessment Group, on recent innovations in Sludge Dewatering. Bill specifically investigates opportunities within IoT and looks at how sensors and automatic controls are being used to handle wastewater solids. We also turn our attention to Snipe the sniffer dog, United Utilities latest recruit!--Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

BlueTech Forum 2018 was held on 6th & 7th June in Vancouver. The programme featured a series of thought leadership roundtables, led by prominent industry representatives and BlueTech TAG Experts. These were discussions around key themes including the circular economy, reuse, next generation membranes and point-of-use technologies among many others. We speak with three TAG Experts to provide their takeaways from the discussions they led at the event. We also catch up with Chief Editor, Rhys Owen, on BlueTech’s research highlights for July.--Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

There has been a lot of buzz in recent months about water quality and consumer perception. But ultimately, it all points to the same thing, which is lack of trust in municipal tap quality and the desire for more control over the quality of water consumed. There is a dizzying array of technologies available in the market today, however as a consumer how do I decide which product to go for?Also, Chief Technology Officer of Fluence Corporation, Ronen Shechter shares updates on the merger of RWL Water Group and Israeli company Emefcy and shares updates on their MABR technology.--Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

This month, we speak with Christina Copeland from Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) about what it means to be on the CDP ‘A list’, what drives the companies to disclose their data, and the growing trend of environmental reporting. Additionally, we look at the implications of the upcoming PR19 for the UK water industry and the initiatives undertaken by the UK water utilities to face the change and bridge the divide between innovation and resilience. Paul O’Callaghan, CEO, BlueTech Research, shares his latest insights. --Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

April’s podcast looks at the topic of decentralized water. The industry is generally accepting of the fact that decentralized, modular treatment is a solution to meet the ever-growing physical and financial infrastructure gap. The drivers are clear but when does going ‘off-grid’ make sense? What technologies will support decentralized water re-use and what service models are these companies offering to differentiate themselves? How can we go beyond the basic water reuse model and explore schemes that will truly contribute to the circular economy movement. April’s podcast looks at the topic of decentralized water. The industry is generally accepting of the fact that decentralized, modular treatment is a solution to meet the ever-growing physical and financial infrastructure gap. The drivers are clear but when does going ‘off-grid’ make sense? What technologies will support decentralized water re-use and what service models are these companies offering to differentiate themselves? How can we go beyo

Earlier this month, Stephen Colbert on the Late Show joked about the recent ‘raw water’ phenomenon. For those of you not yet familiar, this is a new fad in which the public is invited to pay for water that is ‘unfiltered, untreated and unsterilized.’In March’s podcast, Divya Inna speaks to BlueTech CEO Paul O’Callaghan about his thoughts on the “raw water” phenomenon. The podcast also features short 1-minte pitch style interviews with some of the BlueTech Forum Innovation Showcase companies. Solutions offered range from bio-electrochemical treatment and ceramic membranes to newer trending themes such as 3D printing, hydrothermal sludge processing and DNA sequencing.--Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

The Circular Economy dynamic offers a framework that is both resilient and restorative for generations to come and also a mechanism for transitioning growth into a positive trend for the environment, the economy and the society. “Managing Water in the Circular Economy” is our theme for BlueTech Forum this year. Over the past year, a number of different corporate end users have shared with us their water challenges. On today’s episode we speak to Walmart, an American multinational retail corporation about its role in water and discuss the key innovation challenges in its businesses. We also discuss an upcoming report that BlueTech is working on 1,4-Dioxane. This is a new unlegislated emerging contaminant who’s physical and chemical properties and behavior is creating challenges for treatment. --Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

Over the last few years, our ability to make sense of biological information has increased in sophistication. Today, we can predict the 3-dimensional structure of an enzyme, simulate activity and optimize the molecule using computational biotechnology tools. The cost of biological information/data has also dramatically declined. In the podcast we speak with Jens Kolind from Novozymes on what all this means for water going forward and the challenges in implementing biotechnology on a wider scale in water treatment. We also focus in on industrial Stormwater and speak to Ryan Janoch from Mapistry. The interest in this area is fast growing at both a public and company level. For a company, industrial stormwater presents both an environmental and financial risk. The Clean Water Federation Act offers an opportunity for citizens to file a complaint against non-compliant companies on behalf of public and regulatory agencies. The rate of lawsuits filed against organizations in California has increased to 30 a month a

The holiday season is almost here and as we draw the year to a close, BlueTech are finishing the year with our End of Year “Water Almanac” web briefing.We speak to a panel of 12 water experts on 3 key notable ideas / trends that they have seen in 2017 and what they expect for 2018. You can register here.Rhys Owen, BlueTech’s Research Editor, reviews our December Intelligence Briefing. Following on the heels of WEFTEC and AQUATECH Amsterdam, we speak to Research Analyst Erin Partlan about the latest innovative companies BlueTech has come across as part of our ongoing technology scouting exercise.Finally, we speak to our guest speaker for this month, Will Sarni – Founder and CEO of Water Foundry. Water Foundry is an organization that supports US and international water technology companies and non-governmental organizations in developing and implementing market entry and growth strategies. We catch up with Will on the topic of Corporate Water Strategy and Value. We are also delighted to announce that Will Sarni

In 2016 BlueTech looked at emerging technologies in the nutrient removal space like MABR technology. We spoke to vendors offering this technology and are closely tracking its development through technology installations and we present this information through our in built technology S Curves and interactive maps which you can find on the BlueTech platform. This year we are looking to take our analysis a step further and we are conducting a benchmarking exercise to assess the competitiveness of the MABR technology. For this exercise we are working with our subject matter expert and TAG member Dr. Glen Daigger and here our Research Analyst Divya Inna discusses our ongoing research with Dr. Daigger. --Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

Divya Inna speaks with membrane technology expert, Dr Graeme Pearce on the upcoming market report on NanoFiltration. The report will cover current trends and market opportunities of this technology. We also speak with Grundfos on BlueTech’s upcoming webinar on Hospital Wastewater Treatment. The webinar will set the scene, discuss on-going market activity and the tightening of legislation in this area. And finally, Paul O’Callaghan explains the 4th Industrial revolution and how that relates to the water sector and the BlueTech Forum.--Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

Divya Inna, Research Analyst, BlueTech, speaks with Irish technology company Oxymem who speak about their technology and participation in BlueTech Forum 2017. We also speak with Michael Mickley, BlueTech’s desalination expert on our upcoming Brine Management Insight report. --Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

The BlueTech tasting menu includes an interview with Rhys Owen, Editor-in-Chief about February’s Monthly Intelligence Briefing. Divya Inna, Client Relations Manager, BlueTech also speaks with Feng Hu from China Water Risk about the upcoming China Power Industry Insight Report. --Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world

This week on the BlueTech tasting menu, Divya Inna, Water Technology Research Analyst speaks with Glen Daigger, our nutrient expert, on Hitachi’s Pegasus Technology. Divya also speaks with our Produced Water Expert John Veil. John will be holding a roundtable at BlueTech Forum on the beneficial use of produced water covering both the challenges and opportunities. --Presented by BlueTech Research®, Actionable Water Technology Market Intelligence. Watch the trailer of Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. Get involved, and learn more on the website: braveblue.world