Aquatech Amsterdam 2023

Aquatech Amsterdam is the world’s leading water trade show for process, drinking and wastewater. Connect with water professionals from over all over the world, in the exciting city of Amsterdam. Meet face-to-face with over 20,000+ water professionals, expand your knowledge, discover new technologies and start-ups, meet existing and new customers.

Aquatech Amsterdam attracts policy-makers, top-level businesses, specialists, and those who apply the technology in practice to gather for 4 days of lively and inspiring networking in the exciting city of Amsterdam. We invite you to join the Netherlands Pavilion and connect with water professionals from all over the world.

Connect with water professionals at Aquatech Amsterdam 2023

Aquatech is the world’s leading trade exhibition for process, drinking and wastewater! At Aquatech Amsterdam, you can meet face-to-face with water professionals from all over the world, in the exciting city of Amsterdam. From the 6th to the 9th of November, you will be able to expand your knowledge, discover new technologies and start-ups, and meet existing and new customers.

22,000+ water experts and 800+ exhibiting companies will meet at Aquatech Amsterdam. As you explore the exhibition halls, you will discover a diverse range of innovative products, solutions, and services from industry-leading companies. From water treatment and purification systems to wastewater management, desalination, and water reuse technologies, our exhibitors are at the top of driving efficiency, sustainability, and environmental stewardship. Make the most out of the 4 days of networking and sharing knowledge with your industry peers. Attend educational and inspirational seminars and presentations about the latest trends and developments in the industry.

The new four Aquatech Worlds are groundbreaking focus areas that embrace the current trends in the water industry, providing attendees with a comprehensive experience tailored to their specific interests and challenges. Through its distinct realms of Clean Water World, Waste Water and Resources World, Industrial and Corporate Water World, and Digital World, Aquatech Worlds clusters content, challenges, and solutions, enabling visitors to navigate their way toward the right solutions and partnerships. By shifting from a product-focused approach to a challenge and solution-focused mindset, this event embodies innovation and serves as a hub of educational and inspirational sessions, fostering efficient and effective learning from peers, technology experts, and knowledge partners. The Aquatech Worlds offers a comprehensive platform to improve businesses and discover innovative solutions in the water technology sector.

Innovation Forum
This year’s Aquatech Innovation Forum will be co-located with Aquatech Amsterdam on the 6th of November 2023. Get ready for another edition of the Forum, meet other water professionals, and listen to the changemakers. At the Forum, we will accelerate water agility together! Aquatech offers a platform to explore the latest trends, products, and services all under one roof!

Visit the Netherlands Pavilion!

The Netherlands Pavilion at Aquatech Amsterdam showcases Dutch water technology expertise. The expertise of the Dutch water sector on Water Technology covers the complete water cycle: from source to use and from pre-use treatment to reuse.

In this year’s Netherlands Pavilion you can find the following Dutch exhibitors who can’t wait to present their innovations, technologies, products and services during Aquatech Amsterdam:

Participants

• Acquaint: Multiple inline inspection
• Avic: Data delivery with maintenance-free IoT devices
• Desah: Climate resilient decentralised sustainable wastewater treatment
• Eliquo Water: Wastewater and sludge solutions for sustainability and climate protection
• Ferr-Tech: Water and wastewater treatment using Ferrate(VI)
• Inter Primo Group: MBBR & MBR water filtration profiles for optimal water treatment
• Hubert Stavoren: Water intake systems – designed, engineered and manufactured in-house
• HULO: Disruptive AI technology for leak detection
• Jotem water solutions: Smart water solutions, end-to-end management of water treatment processes
• Landustrie Sneek: Products used for handling wastewater and surface water, and generating renewable energy (hydropower screws)
• Norit Nederland: Activated carbon products & uses
• PB International: Hollow fibre ultrafiltration solutions
• Process Design Center: Supporting the process industry to come up with new and improved production processes
• Pro Water: Wastewater consultancy
• Purgatoria: ICABUS – to remove toilet paper from wastewater
• Quasset: Modern asset integrity management solutions
• Smartvatten: Monitoring, measuring, analysing water consumption and leak detection in buildings
• Solisenz: TSS measuring solution for sludge treatment plants
• Spatial Eye: Geospatial, data ingestion, and business intelligence products
• Van Remmen UV Technology: UV disinfection systems
• Water Campus/Water Alliance: The water technology innovation

The Netherlands Pavilion is created especially to highlight Dutch companies and organizations active in the water sector. The Netherlands Pavilion offers a strong brand attracting visitors and special buying delegations to visit the companies and organizations participating in the Pavilion. 

Water Alliance @ Aquatech Amsterdam: Holland Innovation Park

Water Alliance realises the Holland Innovation Park (HIP)* at Aquatech Amsterdam, it is the location to showcase your water technology innovation to the general public. Rightfully an eye-catcher within the Netherlands Pavilion. It is the spot to get to know start-ups and ground breaking Dutch innovations.

Meet the HIP companies!

Meet the HIPpers! Purgatoria, Jotem Water Solutions, Ferr-Tech, Process Design Center, SOLiSENZ and HULO will be present in the HIP. Want to know more of the companies? Click the button to go to the special Holland Innovation Park page and read more about their goals and dreams.

Join the exclusive Water Technology trade mission to Amsterdam 6-8 november (WTEX10)

During the Aquatech Amsterdam, a special mission for public utilities, drinking water and wastewater, and industrial end-users from Spain, Portugal, the US and the UK is being organized by Water Alliance. Visits to the exhibition are integrated into the programme. The mission is supported by the Government of the Netherlands and is exclusive for the water industry: public and private utilities, drinking- and waste water services, as well as representatives from various industrial end users . The primary objectives of the mission are to learn about new innovative solutions, make new business contacts, exchange knowledge, discuss future challenges and explore potential solutions in an exclusive setting. Interested?

Worlds: groundbreaking focus area

The new four Aquatech Worlds are groundbreaking focus areas that embrace the current trends in the water industry, providing attendees with a comprehensive experience tailored to their specific interests and challenges. Water Alliance organizes various sessions at the Worlds:

November 7: 14.00-14.45

Waste Water & Resources World
Session: Resource recovery from water: how to solve the challenge of value creation.

Droughts, emerging substances that are harmful for people and the environment, the transition to a circular economy, the energy transition, biodiversity and climate change as a result of CO2 emissions. Water is connected to a lot of world-wide societal challenges. Innovation in the field of Water Technology is key for solving these challenges.  However, the challenges can only be solved by cooperating in the complete value chain. Recovery of nutrients, cellulose and bioplastics from industry and waste water only makes sense if the recovered products have high-end applications (eg. In agriculture, chemistry, construction, etc.). Setting up these value chains is quite a challenge. In this expert interview watertech companies and utilities will share their experience in setting up these value chains.

Speakers:
Maarten Schaafsma (programme manager Waterboard Rijn en Ijssel) and Coos Wessels (managing director Cirtec B.V.).

This session is moderated by Ronald Wielinga, Manager Entrepreneurship WaterCampus

November 8: 13.45-14.30

Clean Water World
Session: Underground fresh water storage, practical solutions to increase water security

The Dutch delta faces enormous challenges in freshwater provision for industry, agriculture and nature during increasingly frequent severe droughts. This requires a major overhaul towards a water system that stores precipitation surpluses instead of discharging it to sea and that uses alternative water sources. 

One of the topics within the Dutch project AquaConnect is brackish water extraction and brine management. The aim is to store fresh water in a brackish water environment.

Thomas Wagner of the Wageningen University & Research will explain the project goals and purpose. Gertjan Zwolsman of Dunea will present about their role in this project and provides more information about their Freshman project to store freshwater under the dunes. Ruben Wentink of FieldFactors will present their view on preventing urban flooding, reducing heat stress, and having sufficient freshwater supply all year round to save on your water bill. The session will be moderated by Water Alliance and includes a panel discussion with the presenting parties. 

Speakers:

• Thomas Wagner of the Wageningen University & Research: ‘AquaConnect: Use of alternative water resources to lower the pressure on valuable groundwater’
• Gertjan Zwolsman of Dunea: Rainwater for domestic use!?
• Ruben Wentink of FieldFactors: Brackish groundwater: a new source for drinking water in The Netherlands

This session is moderated by Water Alliance

November 8: 16.45-18.00

Clean Water World
Session: Het grote watertechnologie verkiezingsdebat (session in Dutch)

Invitation | On November 8, 2023, from 4:45 PM to 6:00 PM, we invite you to ‘Het Grote Watertechnologie Verkiezingsdebat’ at Rai Amsterdam during Aquatech Amsterdam 2023. Hosted by radio presenter Werner Schouten of BNR Radio, this debate provides insight into the positions of various political national parties on crucial water issues in just one hour. 

November 9: 12:45 -13.30

Digital Water World
Session: Data driven predictive asset management

In this session, we discuss the state-of-the-art in Predictive asset management for which we focus on the five maturity levels for asset management and the criticality analysis. The maturity journey can only be followed when data of both sufficient quality and quantity is available, and is stored and transferred in a robust and reliable way. Additionally, asset criticality analysis enables the right selection of technologies for maintenance and asset optimization strategy.

During this session, technology providers Spatial Insight (management of underground infrastructure), Samotics (predictive maintenance and operational optimization for rotating equipment), and DigiGO (national platform for digitalization of infrastructure and built environment) will discuss with the audience how to make steps in this exciting field.

Speakers

• Ignaz Worm, Business developer at Spatial Insight
• Wouter van Daal, manager digiDeals at digiGO          
• Rogier de Groot, Commercial Lead Water and Energy Optimization at Samotics
• Moderator; Harro Brons, manager Business Development at Water Alliance   
      

AquaMatch Company Mission – Meet the Dutch!

The AquaMatch tailor-made company mission will be held on 7- 8 November (9 November optional).

The aim of the event is to establish new connections for fruitful business and technological collaborations to support international development towards sustainable, circular and high-quality water cycle.

The mission is focused on (small) groups of companies (from a country or region) with an interest in the Dutch Water sector. EEN NL partners, Netherlands Enterprise Agency and WaterAlliance will arrange a tailor-made program for the group according to their requests and our capabilities within the Aquatech specific topics (see focus areas).

If the group or companies have a specific interested in Water and Climate adaptation in Urban areas, Flood and Draught Management and other Water Management topics, please let us know. The program could contain: Individual matchmaking, presentations/workshops, exhibition tour, networking drinks, site visits, etc.

More information or application, please send an email to:

• Janine Kaya, Netherlands Enterprise Agency, aquamatch@rvo.nl
• Rixt Sinnema, Water Alliance, r.sinnema@wateralliance.nl

Meet incoming delegations from all over the world at Aquatech Amsterdam (NWP)

Netherlands Water Partnership and Water Alliance are counting down the days to Aquatech Amsterdam and are delighted to host incoming delegations from different continents. All delegations participate in a full programme that starts with a welcome in the NL Lounge, followed by exhibition tours and a variety of networking events such as round table sessions, and match-making activities.

A large number of delegations from Europe have already confirmed their attendance at Aquatech, we are also happy to welcome the delegations from the delegations from Singapore. Both the Singapore Water Association and PUB – ‘Singapore’s National Water Agency’ will be joining Aquatech.

Interested in meeting them?

 

NL Lounge Session: Water climate challenges in urban areas: Perspectives from different countries   

November 7, 2023 | 11:30 AM                                                                                          CLEAN, France Water Team, Foresight and Water AllianceWater clusters all around the world collaborate to collectively address global water challenges, recognizing that country-specific or industry-specific solutions are inadequate. Their efforts involve connecting businesses, sharing opportunities, and rapidly advancing innovative solutions across various sectors. Through various projects and networks, water clusters pursue highly collaborative and internationally oriented work. This session will showcase water innovations in urban areas by SMEs from various countries, leveraging the groundbreaking examples of global water clusters efforts such as the International Cleantech Network (ICN). Participants can expect to see firsthand how water cluster collaboration, as demonstrated via this successful partnership, can lead to remarkable solutions for global water/climate issues in urban areas.

NL Lounge Session: Water climate challenges in urban areas: Perspectives from different countries   

November 8, 2023 | 11:30 AM                                                                                          Kuopio Water Cluster/BEM, Catalan Water Partnership en Water AllianceWater clusters all around the world collaborate to collectively address global water challenges, recognizing that country-specific or industry-specific solutions are inadequate. Their efforts involve connecting businesses, sharing opportunities, and rapidly advancing innovative solutions across various sectors. Through various projects and networks, water clusters pursue highly collaborative and internationally oriented work. This session will showcase water innovations in urban areas by SMEs from various countries, leveraging the groundbreaking examples of global water clusters efforts such as the International Cleantech Network (ICN). Participants can expect to see firsthand how water cluster collaboration, as demonstrated via this successful partnership, can lead to remarkable solutions for global water/climate issues in urban areas.

NL Lounge Session: Resistant Bacterias in Wash Basins, how to avoid them?

November 8, 2023 | 13:00 -13:45 PM

Dissolve pollution of MBR in water at local level
The project ‘ Medicine residues from water North ’ is a collaboration between more than 20 partner organizations where drug residues are extracted from water through prevention and water technology. There are various experiments within the project in which problems where the water is polluted are tackled in an innovative way.

The following experiment will be discussed in this session: Handwashing after medical procedures, saliva, nutridrinks and other nutrient-rich liquids: washbasins in hospitals have a lot to endure. The result: a risk of the growth of (resistant) bacteria in siphons. That is why UMC Groningen is investigating the use of special UV disinfection siphons: “We are on the safe side”. Bacteria can be life-threatening for people with a limited functioning immune system. No wonder hospitals have strict hygiene rules and legionella protocols. Sometimes, however, the risks lie in unexpected places, such as in siphons under washbasins. “ By washing hands, flushing residues of glucose from IV bags or nutridrink or by spitting, a lot of bacteria end up in siphons ”, says Hanneke Lestestuiver, Environmental Advisor at UMCG. “ They can multiply in the standing water and potentially infect patients and personnel via aerosols. We suspect that this has happened in the past.

”The siphons prove to be a good place for bacteria such as E.coli, Enterobacter spp. and Citrobacter spp., which can cause all kinds of infections. In addition, there is a risk of the spread of resistant bacteria. “ When patients are infected with a resistant bacteria and use the sink, bacteria can multiply further in the siphon ”, says Lestestuiver. “ There is a chance that the contamination will continue. Due to the position of the siphon between the hospital and the sewer, there is a chance that these pathogens will also spread to the sewer. This increases the risk of the large-scale spread of resistant bacteria. ”

UMC Groningen wants to minimize the risks. Together with Van Remmen UV Technology, they investigate the use of special UV disinfection siphons.