🎙️ Annyse Balkwill is the Founder of the LuminUS Group, where she crafts event formulas that bring engagement, sharing, and value to a whole new level. She's also the program director for the upcoming BlueTech Forum, happening on the 7 and 8 June in Vancouver. 

Have you ever attended a business meeting that seemed to drain your soul out of your body? Or have you ever happily slept in a water conference to digest the jet lag and be in good shape for the real conference content, aka the late drinks at the bar?

You can change that!

(some have already done it)

Annyse will take us through all the steps with BlueTech forum as a case study. She'll explain why you should attend, and also why not. And she'll give you three very actionable tips that you can apply from your next business meeting on to bring the conversation to a whole new level. 

Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E5 - 3 Crazy Simple Tips to take the Bore out of Business Meetings or Water Conferences"

You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website              

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with 🎙️ Victoria Edwards - CEO & Co-Founder of FIDO Tech 

💧 FIDO AI is a data-as-a-service (DaaS) end-to-end leak detection solution that identifies leaks, sizes them, and tells you where to dig to repair them

What we covered: 

🎵 How water networks sing, and how you can leverage this for leak detection   

💧 How non-revenue water is a threat in a world of rising water scarcity and why we shall fight it 

🔥 How no other industry would actually allow losing 40% of its production without reacting 

🤖 How artificial intelligence can turn leak detection around by drastically increasing accuracy and reducing false positives 

🖥️ How monitoring a leak's evolution is almost as important as detecting it, and why you'd probably not want to repair all of them straight away 

🧰  How despite its power, AI won't replace humans and hence never is a threat but rather another tool in the water toolbox 

🌐 How FIDO ambitions to save the planet one megaliter at a time by taking a disruptive sensor agnostic and AI approach to

🎹 How Victoria’s musical background is an asset in that endeavor, even if she no longer plays Rachmaninov 

🆕 How you need your innovation first to help and solve a challenge, then be transformational, for it to make a dent in the utility world. 

🤙 How being sensor agnostic and adopting an open approach is the best approach. 

🪃 How it all started for FIDO and what step they already underwent 

🤑 How FIDO removes adoption barriers with its CAPEX Free / Data as a Service

🏭 Training on some of the World’s most complex networks, striving even with little knowledge of the network, fixing leaks as an alternative to increasing production capacity, building hardware, pivoting the original concept... and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

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🎙️ Victoria Edwards is the CEO and Co-Founder of FIDO, a data-as-a-service (DaaS) end-to-end leak detection solution that identifies leaks, sizes them, and tells you where to dig to repair them. In this episode, Victoria explains how they pivoted 8 times to give FIDO its current shape, take the market by storm, and solve the daunting non-revenue water challenge.

Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E4 - How to Save Time, Money, and Water thanks to 92% Accurate Leak Detection" in the search bar!

You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website             

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with 🎙️ Katrina Donaghy - CEO & Co-Founder of Civic Ledger

💧 Civic Ledger is an award-winning blockchain company that builds trust layer solutions for the markets of tomorrow

This is the second part of this discussion around blockchain and Water Ledge, where we covered: 

❌ How today's water management often resembles a market failure  

💧 How water markets are often not optimized and hence water doesn't flow to its best use

🦘 How the Australian water markets in particular are an example of a scattered, financialized, and opaque set-up

₿ How blockchain could turn water into a non-fungible token - and how that could be good news

💰 How a crypto exchange platform would look like, and how it would work

💸  How leveraging cryptocurrencies, blockchain and water ledgers, we could decentralize water finance

₿ How Katrina's Bitcoin encounter was a serendipitous moment

🤝🏿 How you can't go 100% blockchain from the get-go and how Civic Ledger splits smart contracts into two

🤲 How integrating water markets with blockchain finally brings 23 markets together with a common real-time source of truth

🚚 How water is non-fungible because of its heavy and hard-to-transport long-distance nature

📟 How the next frontier would be to couple blockchain trading with a hydrologic digital twin (and why)

🔋 How ironic it is to blame blockchain's energy consumption while altogether avoiding the point with gold and physical money

🌎 Interlinking with mineral flows and ESG investment, Competing with centralized trading in this new ESG realm, Working with the World Economic Forum, developing patent NFTs... and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

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with 🎙️ Katrina Donaghy - CEO & Co-Founder of Civic Ledger

💧 Civic Ledger is an award-winning blockchain company that builds trust layer solutions for the markets of tomorrow

What we covered: 

❌ How today's water management often resembles a market failure  

💧 How water markets are often not optimized and hence water doesn't flow to its best use

🦘 How the Australian water markets in particular are an example of a scattered, financialized, and opaque set-up

₿ How blockchain could turn water into a non-fungible token - and how that could be good news

💰 How a crypto exchange platform would look like, and how it would work

💸  How leveraging cryptocurrencies, blockchain and water ledgers, we could decentralize water finance

₿ How Katrina's Bitcoin encounter was a serendipitous moment

🤝🏿 How you can't go 100% blockchain from the get-go and how Civic Ledger splits smart contracts into two

🤲 How integrating water markets with blockchain finally brings 23 markets together with a common real-time source of truth

🚚 How water is non-fungible because of its heavy and hard-to-transport long-distance nature

📟 How the next frontier would be to couple blockchain trading with a hydrologic digital twin (and why)

🔋 How ironic it is to blame blockchain's energy consumption while altogether avoiding the point with gold and physical money

🌎 Interlinking with mineral flows and ESG investment, Competing with centralized trading in this new ESG realm, Working with the World Economic Forum, developing patent NFTs... and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

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🎙️ Katrina Donaghy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Civic Ledger. This week, she explains how blockchain can be leveraged far beyond its usual image to improve water management, and water efficiency and solve water markets. Could this turn water somehow into a non-fungible token (NFT)? And would that be good news? (spoiler: probably, yes!)

Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E3 - What would it Empower, if Water Actually Became a Non Fungible Token?" in the search bar!

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with 🎙️ Christopher Gasson - Owner of Global Water Intelligence and authority on water finance and markets 

💧 Global Water Intelligence is the leading publisher and events organizer serving the international water industry.

What we covered: 

💰 How there are two international things in water: money and technology.  

👬 How taking off Global Water Intelligence involved focusing on those two ends of the market 

🤑 How still, it is quite controversial to associate water and money (and why it is not a positive sign)

🤪 How people associate a list of terrible mental models to that very water-finance link

💧 How water is capital intensive, and how much you'll have to invest to get $1 of revenue

☠️  How this water industry feature leads to innovation inhibition and major hurdles for water entrepreneurs

🤯 What drives utilities in their infrastructure investment approach

😕 Why SDG 6 targets are stranded for exactly this same missing link between water and finance

🤝 How we shall tell the World about water's profitability (and try to shine the right light on sanitation to make it look the same)

🍏 How the ESG investment wave can be a blessing, assuming we create the opportunities for ESG money to finance the right projects 

🧱 The challenges utilities have to overcome, so finance trust them and bets on their future development plans

💧  How it is about time to connect the dots in the scattered water industry to power a triple win

🍎 How a whole load of people talks about saving the world while skipping the thing which really matters: the money to save it 

🍎 How climate change brings a third international compound in water 

⭕ How describing water consumers as stakeholders is wrong (and why)

💸 How the link between money and water can be proven by the absurd, whenever you deprive the latter of the former

📗 How GWI was a 162-subscriber struggling magazine 20 years ago, how it evolved into today's world reference, and what that changes and enables 

👏 Predicting the future and how it's impossible, being catastrophically wrong, needing the sound of two hands clapping to be successful, the SUEZ-Veolia drama, desalination... and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

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🎙️ Christopher Gasson is the owner and editor of Global Water Intelligence, a leading magazine and insight company in the Water Industry. In this week's episode, he explains how only two things are universal in water (with a third starting to appear). And how it would be "Global Water Stupidity" not to try to bring these global water business fields together, as an industry media and thought leader. 

Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E2 - How to Systemically drive Money into Water and escape Global Water Stupidity" in the search bar!

You can also find the full episode materials on the (don't) Waste Water website           

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with 🎙️ Reinhard Hübner, CEO of SKion Water, 2021's Water Company of the Year 

💧 SKion Water is an international water technology platform, that aims to empower water technology companies to make a difference. 

What we covered: 

📈 How SKion Water was built from scratch in a decade, to reach about 750 M€ yearly turnover  

🛣️ How building a successful water company all starts with choosing your path (and what the options are)  

🤑 How cheap money comes with drawbacks and how this can be problematic for water entrepreneurs 

🤪 How water market capitalizations totally go through the roof these days (and what to think about it) 

☠️ How there's no magical way to skip steps and how it is dangerous to even try 

💧 How the water industry is segmented, and how important it is to target the right section of the food chain 

🤯 How it might be tempting to see yourself as much more clever than everyone before, and how that can lead to terrible mistakes as a water entrepreneur 

🌳 How trees don't grow up to the sky, and how being reasonable on your business expectations is the best way to really deliver 

🤝 How it might be tempting to see tremendous synergies between various branches of the water industry... and how those rarely (if ever) exist 

🍏 How what matters at the end of the day is less the plan than the way you execute it (and how you might have to go in the trenches) 

🧱 All in all, how Reinhard built the 2021 "Water Company of the Year" 

💧  How Reinhart almost fell into investing by accident 

🍏 The two reasons why one would want to invest in Water (despite all the challenges) 

🍎 How SKion's success was born in early, rapid, and spectacular failures 

🍏 How the focus is not to acquire companies but to serve the real customer needs (and the foolproof trick to always keep that market pulse) 

👝 How the Water Sector's structure is quite unique in terms of company sizes and how a certain one doesn't exist at all 

💰 What's the best way to invest in water companies and why 

🧍 Who are the best water entrepreneur profiles, why, and how they have to take risks 

💸 Water Industry's consolidation frenzy, too much money potentially killing companies, crazy valuations, learning from history, giving atypical companies a chance... and much more! 

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 

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🎙️ Reinhard Hübner is the CEO of SKion Water and the architect behind the incredible path of a company that went from 0 to 750 M€/year in just a decade. The trick? A rigorous methodology, Reinhard shares in this week's episode, along with reflections on the water market, the water industry, and the sector's overall health (in the age of ESG Investing).

Wanna listen to the full episode? Just type "S5E1 - The 7 Secrets of the Water Company of the Year you shall Absolutely Steal!" in the search bar!

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