Smart Wastewater & Sewage Systems

Speakers Include:

Jon Yates, Head of Delivery, Clean Rivers & Seas Task Force, Southern Water

Alex Rosenbaum, PR24 Portfolio Strategy Manager, Anglian Water

Jon Yates, Head of Delivery, Clean Rivers & Seas Task Force, Southern Water

Ronny Goossens, Head of Digital, Aquafin (Belgium)

Jon Yates, Head of Delivery, Clean Rivers & Seas Task Force, Southern Water

Jo Vertigan Head of Digital, Data & Innovation, Anglian water @one Alliance

Adam Anyszewski, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Continuum Industries

Jo Vertigan Head of Digital, Data & Innovation, Anglian water @one Alliance

Adam Anyszewski, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Continuum Industries

Phil Ashton-Briggs, Digital Squad Lead, Anglian Water @one Alliance

Jo Vertigan Head of Digital, Data & Innovation, Anglian water @one Alliance

Adam Anyszewski, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Continuum Industries

Steve Blanks, Emerging Tech & IS Innovation Lead, NWG

Rev'd Dave Walker Global Future Trends Director, Detectronic

Garry Stewart, Account Manager, Continuum Industries

Rev'd Dave Walker Global Future Trends Director, Detectronic

Jonathan Stokes, Head of Yorkshire Storm Alliance, Yorkshire Water

Sofie Thorgaard, Project Manager, Aarhus Vand (Denmark)

Alex Shore, Waste Networks Spills Lead, Severn Trent

Sofie Thorgaard, Project Manager, Aarhus Vand (Denmark)

David Moore, Smart Systems Manager, Watercare (Auckland, New Zealand)

Spills Are Now In the Headlines - How To Deliver Against The New Performance Scorecard

Unlocking A Strategic Checklist For The Key Innovations

Discover How AMP8 Implementation is Already Reshaping Utility Priorities

By the time this event takes place, UK wastewater utilities will be six months into AMP8 delivery—with real outcomes, growing urgency, and evolving constraints. This conference focuses on the practical, field-ready innovations and deployment strategies already shaping AMP8 performance—and gives international utilities a lens into what short-cycle transformation looks like under regulatory pressure. What can be deployed in 18 to 24 months' time is one key question.

Learn How Utilities Worldwide Are Tackling the Same High-Stakes Challenges

While AMP8 is a UK regulation, the performance pressures are global: from storm overflows to phosphorus targets. International utilities will also benefit from the frontline lessons of AMP8, while UK leaders will hear what others are doing under similar constraints. For instance, hear actual examples where a company has used AI or ML to solve a specific wastewater problem.

You’ll gain insight into:

International case studies of phosphorus and PFAS compliance strategies
Monitoring innovations for storm overflow and spill reporting
Global benchmarking of utility strategies under similar time-to-impact pressure

Creating A Takeaway Checklist Guide For Wastewater Utilities Starting A Digital Transformation Journ

All insights from this conference will be captured in a fully comprehensive post-event report, distilling the most actionable strategies, implementation lessons, and leadership priorities. It will serve as a best-practice guide—a reference framework for any utility beginning or accelerating its digital transformation journey.

You’ll come away with a working roadmap—some honest visibility into what the long-term journey to smarter wastewater management under AMP8 could look like. Even if the full path isn’t defined yet, understanding the early priorities, potential costs, and where the big risks are to give you something tangible to build upon. Figure out how to modernise based on what you already have.

See How Utilities Are Integrating AI and Sensor Data to Predict, Detect, and Act

Utilities are moving from fragmented SCADA and telemetry systems toward a unified digital infrastructure. The aim: integrate sensor data, regulatory feeds, and operational metrics into a single digital view that supports both immediate decisions and long-term planning.

Expect practical case studies on:

AI-enabled models from applications as diverse as phosphorus detection and asset risk prediction
Aggregation of SCADA, telemetry, and regulatory data for smart decision support
Dashboards and interfaces that bridge operations, compliance, and executive oversight

Learn How to Break Vendor Lock-In and Standardise for System-Wide Performance

Utilities are wrestling with legacy projects built on bespoke vendor systems—resulting in fragmented interfaces and costly, siloed data. This event shows how leading wastewater utilities are moving toward standardised platforms with consistent architecture and integrated dashboards for actionability and decision making.

Get clarity on how to:

Integration approaches to unify data from SCADA, PLCs, and vendor platforms
Cross-vendor telemetry consolidation for real-time control room visibility
Tools and strategies for scaling without duplication or rework

Hear Which Solutions Delivered—And Which Didn’t

You asked for unfiltered utility insights on the new technology adoption: what vendors were selected, what outcomes were delivered, and where the integration gaps emerged.

The conference will reveal:

Vendor-by-vendor performance insights from utility deployment teams
What went right, what failed, and what would be done differently
Tools for evaluating vendor fit across telemetry, analytics, and edge devices

Discover What Wastewater Can Learn from Aerospace and Defence Engineering

Aerospace and defence sectors have already pioneered resilient sensor systems, rapid prototyping, and real-time analytics.

Hear Case Studies From Hi-Tech Industries Outside Wastewater:

How aerospace-style data fusion is being applied to wastewater telemetry
Examples of rapid deployment frameworks for accurate and reliable sensor and control systems

Master the Foundations of Cyber-Resilient Wastewater Infrastructure

The growing threat environment demands that cybersecurity be treated as a core design layer, not a postscript. This event puts cyber at the center of system architecture.

See exactly how utilities are:

Integrating cybersecurity considerations into control platforms, telemetry, and remote access
Case studies of proactive risk management and cyber incident response
Cross-sector approaches to embedding resilience into physical-digital infrastructure

Learn How to Optimise Spill Measurement With Fewer Sensors and More Accuracy

Sensor deployment can’t be everywhere—but accuracy, traceability, and uptime can be. Speakers will show how utilities are maximising spill insight with fewer devices, smarter maintenance, and better sensor placement.

These discussions will focus on:

Spill monitoring frameworks with reduced device footprint
Sensor reliability tracking and predictive maintenance protocols
Placement strategies based on hydraulic modeling and risk exposure

Understand How to Monitor Pressurised Rising Mains In A Reliable Way

Rising mains are both difficult to monitor and critical to performance. Under AMP8, their failure rates demand new thinking. This event will show what monitoring setups are effective, scalable, and cost-justified.

Discover the tools and frameworks used for:

Data modeling strategies to detect early-stage failure risks
How to build clean data sets for these high-consequence assets

Discover What It Really Takes to Deploy AI and Machine Learning for Asset Risk

Properly deployed AI can work—but only with clean, accessible, and well-structured data. These use cases go deep on the foundations: what kind of data you need, where to get it, and how to build it into a system that supports useful AI deployment.

Get under the hood of:

Success stories on building training sets for predictive models around asset health
Aligning AI projects with utility decision-making cycles

Build a Real-World Roadmap for Your Digital Twin Strategy

Digital twins are moving from concept to control room reality. These sessions offer a grounded roadmap to build and operationalise a wastewater twin—from modeling to actionable dashboards.

Gain firsthand perspectives on:

Step-by-step guidance to scope, model, and deploy a wastewater digital twin
Hydraulic overlays, pollution layers, and asset risk visualisation
Integration of live telemetry into dynamic simulation environments

Executing Under AMP8—and Learning from Global Performance Regimes

Solutions such as high-resolution, precision-calibrated Event Duration Monitoring (EDM), advanced sewer-level sensors, and operational digital twins have moved from innovation pilots to strategic deployment priorities. UK utilities are actively embedding these tools into AMP8 delivery frameworks. Across Europe, regulatory pressure—driven by EU directives and outcome-based performance standards—is accelerating similar adoption at scale.

Designed for Wastewater Leaders Who Must Deliver To Meet Higher Performance Standards

This is a conference for strategic clarity—focused on what’s delivering measurable outcomes. The emphasis is on operational systems that are actively shifting the dial on regulatory compliance, spill mitigation, and network intelligence.

The Execution Gap: From Technology to Results

Conversations with senior wastewater leaders have made one thing clear: the technology landscape is no longer in question. The sector understands what’s available. The real challenge now is execution at scale. Utilities are asking whether smart systems—beyond controlled pilots—can deliver meaningful, repeatable performance improvements under real operational conditions.

The New Benchmark: Accuracy, Integration, Impact

EDM infrastructure is already in place across most major UK utilities—deployed during AMP7 to meet baseline compliance. But implementation alone is no longer the benchmark. As one wastewater director recently put it to our Head of Research: “Coverage isn’t necessarily the main problem anymore—it’s what we’re doing with it that really counts.”

Insight Without Action Is the New Risk

So it’s not just about whether high quality data is being captured —it’s also whether the right people, processes, and decision standards are in place to act on it.

Accuracy, insight resolution, and system responsiveness now define success. Making it all work requires more than smart technology; it demands embedded change management, operator training, and a new operational culture built around real-time data, not retrospective reports.

Reskilling and Integration: Barriers You Can’t Ignore

Fresh off delivering the Smart Metering 2025 conference in London, we’re seeing striking parallels between smart water supply and wastewater transformation. The same integration headaches, the same organisational friction around change management and workforce re-skilling, and the same critical uncertainty: which technologies genuinely deliver ROI, and which don’t.

What You’ll Learn at Smart Wastewater Sewage Systems 2025

This conference is purpose-built for wastewater leaders who are no longer asking what to do—but how to do it. You’ll learn how to translate AMP8 strategy into action, under real-world constraints. Through UK case studies and targeted European comparisons—including insights from the Netherlands and Germany’s evolving compliance landscape—you’ll gain the operational know-how to make smarter, faster, and more accountable decisions.

The focus of the learning is on how to:

Deploy intelligent systems that actively reduce risk and environmental harm
Build EDM frameworks that meet new expectations around accuracy, granularity, and response time
Evaluate which technologies actually deliver under pressure—and which don’t
Understand how your peers are embedding smart systems into control centres, maintenance routines, and audit processes
Move from “monitoring” to real-time, predictive control that anticipates and diverts overflow risk

AMP8 has made one thing clear: the clock is ticking. What you decide in 2025 will define your regulatory performance by 2028. This event gives you the tools to get it right.

Wastewater Utilities Require Outcomes, Not Overviews

Through our consultation phase, the signal from utilities was unambiguous: they’re no longer interested in generic digital roadmaps. They want tested, scalable systems that deliver spill reduction, real-time situational awareness, and auditable outcomes. The focus is shifting hard toward deployment, integration, and performance under pressure.

Solutions that:

Improve the speed, accuracy, and transparency of EDM reporting
Reduce the volume and frequency of sewage spills
Deliver ROI within the AMP8 regulatory window
Enable proactive, AI-assisted decision-making in control rooms
Integrate seamlessly across legacy infrastructure and modern platforms

Coastal, Rural, Urban: Finding the Right Fit, Not Just the Right Tech

Investment decisions are being driven by context: network size, geography, rainfall intensity, legacy asset condition, and regulator pressure.

Learn How to Design for the Next Generation of Non-Biological Contaminants

Legacy systems weren’t built for today’s threats. PFAS, microplastics, and pharmaceuticals demand new monitoring and mitigation strategies. These sessions show what’s working—and where to start.

Benchmark your approach against:

Sensor platforms that detect PFAS, plastics, and pharma residues
Monitoring frameworks that address new pathways and concentrations
Rethinking treatment readiness for non-biological loads

Get Ahead of Microplastic Migration and Surface Water Monitoring

Runoff, surface water, and microplastic migration aren’t afterthoughts—they’re front-line challenges. We’ll explore how to track contaminants outside the pipe, and how to integrate that intelligence into your system view.

We’ll map out the real-world path to:

Catchment-level sensing strategies
Microplastic tracking methodologies
Integration between surface and in-sewer data feeds

Explore How Wastewater is Becoming a Tool for Public Health Intelligence

Wastewater is now a lens into population health. From COVID-era epidemiology to future outbreak monitoring, this event shows how utilities can position themselves as strategic public health partners.

See exactly how utilities are:

Use cases for wastewater in disease surveillance
Inter-agency data sharing models
Infrastructure readiness for health monitoring at scale

Leave With Actionable Frameworks, Real-World Insights, and a Plan

We’ve designed every session to deliver decision-ready insights—tied to systems, infrastructure, and investment realities. If you lead wastewater strategy, engineering, or digital delivery—this is your September priority.

Understand what it takes to implement:

Execution-ready lessons from early AMP8 implementation
Roadmaps for integrating digital, operational, and compliance strategies
Strategic pathways to future-proof against what’s coming next

Early Intervention Over After-the-Fact Reporting

From next-generation EDM platforms that improve audit readiness and move utilities from spill reporting to spill prevention, to AI-driven flow optimisation and smart valves reducing pressure on overloaded assets, the focus is on systems that perform under real conditions.

We’ll compare different types of IoT and low-power telemetry solutions unlocking visibility in remote networks; cloud-native platforms integrating data, comms, and compliance; and digital twins and predictive analytics transforming long-term asset planning.

Whether you’re a coastal utility facing public scrutiny, a rural network grappling with limited visibility, or an urban operator managing legacy infrastructure under AMP8 pressure—this is where you'll see what works, understand where it fits, and ask the critical questions before investing/scaling.

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event duration monitoring (EDM)
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sewage system automation
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CSO (combined sewer overflow) prevention
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smart sewer modelling tools
AMP8 wastewater funding strategy
OFWAT wastewater targets
water utility smart transformation
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The agenda, finalised by late May 2025, will focus on what’s working:

Which technologies reliably detect and enable early intervention?
How are utilities integrating monitoring, modelling, and control in live operations?
What strategies are actively reducing spill volumes—not just recording them?
How are regulatory pressures driving real systems change?
And how can UK utilities manage risk through shared experience?

The conference will also explore:

What defines accuracy, granularity, and real operational value in the AMP8 context?
How are AI, digital twins, and real-time rainfall integration improving responsiveness?
How are utilities linking sensing and action via prompt gates, logic control, and system triggers?

You’ll hear real examples of:

Early-warning systems that anticipate and divert spill risks
What a mature, smart spill prevention system actually looks like—and how to get there.

It will also explore how to:

Scale up EDM and spill reporting without drowning in poor-quality data
Reduce false positives
Automate validation
Align with EA expectations
Integrate EDM into dashboards, control rooms and incident response environments

From Pressure to Performance: This Event Is About Delivery

This won’t be a technical deep-dive for its own sake—and it doesn’t need to be. We know you’re engineers. You know the systems. What’s needed now is clarity: how to turn strategic pressure into operational results. This conference is built around one goal—showing how smart wastewater systems actually work in practice, and how to scale them with confidence.

As one wastewater systems lead put it this week:

"I don’t need another strategy session. I need answers. I’m already accountable for reducing spills, proving compliance, and modernising a network that was never designed to be smart. If your event shows me who’s doing it, how, and where it delivers—I’ll be there. If it’s just theory and vendor promises, I won’t."

This event is designed to meet that standard—and exceed it. We’ll connect you to real examples, real operators, and real lessons from the field. No fluff. No posturing. Just proven insight for those who are already delivering under pressure.

What Does a Resilient Wastewater Network Look Like Under AMP8?

That’s the core question—and the action focus—driving this event.

We'll explore how performance-based regulation is reshaping investment decisions, operational priorities, and technology partnerships.

And we’ll look outward—drawing on lessons from global utilities facing the same transformation imperative: fewer spills, faster decisions, smarter systems.

This will be a high-impact, outcomes-driven gathering for leaders who are serious about delivery. We look forward to welcoming you on 30 September 2025.

Looking for Solution Providers Who Can Help Utilities Operationalise Actionable Data

Engaging Strategic Vendors Ready to Support Scalable, High-Integrity Wastewater Solutions

Through a targeted consultation process with wastewater executives, asset managers, and operational heads across the UK and Europe, we’ve surfaced a consistent set of challenges now shaping AMP8 delivery. The conversations were candid, high-stakes, and practical.

Across the board, leaders are asking not just about which technologies are available—but about what works at scale, under pressure, in live systems. They’re seeking clarity on how to align digital investment with compliance risk, reputational exposure, and real-world performance outcomes.

Our research confirms a sharp shift in executive mindset:

This is no longer a conversation about if smart wastewater systems are needed—it’s about how to make them operationally and commercially viable.

What follows are five live scenarios drawn directly from these engagements, each reflecting a strategic pain point currently being navigated. Alongside them, we highlight the top five solution categories vendors must respond to—each paired with the most pressing questions utilities need answered now.

Scaling EDM from Compliance to Operational Intelligence

Most utilities have achieved baseline EDM deployment—but are now focused on making it actionable. Coverage is no longer the challenge; interpretation and integration are.