(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

S10E1 - How to Foster Innovation and Agility when you're the World's Largest Water Company


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with 🎙️ Glenn Vicevic - CTO at Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions 

💧 Veolia WTS provides Industry-leading water technology and process expertise to solve the toughest water, wastewater, and process challenges


What we covered:


💦 Why the Membrane Filtration Sector is a Thrilling Space and What's to learn from its evolution across the past three decades 

🏭 What it Takes to Drive Innovation in the Water Industry and what we can learn from A Peek Inside Veolia's R&D 

💼 How Building a Career in Water Treatment Can Lead to Impactful Work, and what we learn from Glenn Vicevic's Journey from Zenon to Veolia through GE Water and SUEZ, all without switching company 

🌍 Why The World Should be Paying More Attention to the Role of Water in Climate Change (and How) 

🧑‍🔬 How Researchers are still Pushing the Boundaries in Membrane Science - and how the next big thing seems to revolve around MABRs  

🚰 What Veolia's Smart Water System Teaches Us About the Future of Water Management 

📈 Why Veolia's ‘Digital Twin’ Could Be a Game Changer for the Water Sector - and to which extent 

💼 How Veolia's Organizational Structure is Setting It Up for Future Success - in the packed context of a long M&A history, especially on the once Zenon part of the business 

🏞️ Why Zenon's Water Treatment Project in Indigenous Communities is an Unforgettable Experience 

🚀 Glenn's special trick to Leap Out of His Comfort Zone to Drive Innovation at Veolia (and how you can apply this to your team TODAY) 

📊 Why Traditional Wastewater Indicators May Not Be Enough in the Modern Age 

🤝 How Collaboration and Communication are Vital for Success in the Water Sector: Lessons from Glenn Vicevic 

👨‍💻 Remote Work, using your own medicine, micropollutants, micro-electronics, What Halloween and Water Treatment Have in Common, Stage and Gates, the high cost of failure as a Water Giant... and much more! 


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


🔗 Come say hi to Glenn on LinkedIn 

🔗 Check Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions' website

➡️ Check out the entire article on how the World's Largest Water Company fosters innovation 

➡️ Reach out to me: [email protected] 


Suggested episodes:

🚀 My interview with Glenn's first boss and founder of Zenon: Andrew Benedek 

🔋 Glenn's colleague and Lithium Refining guru: Jim Rieke 


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