The registration process has now opened to apply for tickets for Northumbrian Water’s Innovation Festival in which takes pace at Newcastle Racecourse between 7th-10th July 2025.
Registration will close on Sunday 29 June and tickets this year are limited - the water company is urging people to apply in plenty of time to make sure of a place.
As with previous years, the Festival includes a series of Sprints, Hacks and Daily Dashes - a series of workshops each focussed on their own unique challenge, purpose and desired outcome -each with a dedicated NWG sprint lead.
Sprints include:
- Grey to Green - Aqua Consultants, Jacobs and Stantec
- What's the Risk? - Autodesk
- Circular Economy - Avove and Costain
- Over the Hedge - BAM and Farrans
- Carbon Culture Club - Esh Stantec and Galliford Try
- Back to the Data: Fix the past to unlock the future - Microsoft
- Storming for Efficiency - Mott MacDonald Bentley
- See it, Say it, Scan it, Send it - Qualitest
- Ripples of Impact - Story Contracting
- Ever Decreasing Circles - FairWater
- Cutting Bills, Changing Lives - Northumbrian Water Group
- Dude, Where's My Hoverboard? - Medallia and Wordnerds
- All Systems Growth - Ordnance Survey
- Project Groundwater Northumbria - Arup, Axia and Enviro-Warriors
- There is nothing as sure as poo! - AtkinsRealis
- Subsurface Unlocked - British Geological Survey and Project Groundwater Northumbria
- AI for Water: Adopting Innovation - Cognizant
- AI-Powered DWMP: Teaming up with Agents - Cognizant
- Spill Intelligence - GHD
- Ingress-Ception - Jacobs and Stantec
- Virtual Reality of Climate Change: From Apples to Pineapples - National Trust
- GeoSentinel - Sensat
- H2 Oh! - Siemens
- Robo-sho - Pipebots / University of Sheffield
- Innovate to Eliminate - Xylem
- Flowing Forward: Redefining Leadership for a Regenerative Future - Additive Catchments
- SkillSprint: A Daily Dash for Regional Innovation - North East Institute of Technology
- Workforce 2030: Skills to Pay the Bills! - Northumbrian Water Group
- Northumbrian Water Group
- STEMpowered: Designing a Future Workplace Women want to stay in - Womens Utilities Network
- Designing for FAIR-ness: The Design Sprint - Aiimi, Esri, Microsoft, RPS Tetra Tech, Sand Technologies and Stream
- Aiimi, Esri, Microsoft, RPS Tetra Tech, Sand Technologies and Stream
- Data Never Sleeps: The Global Hackathon - Aiimi, Esri, Microsoft, RPS Tetra Tech, Sand Technologies and Stream
- Playing for the Future - Aqua Consultants and Turner & Townsend
- Unlocking the value of NUAR - Department of Science, Innovation & Technology
- Connected Intelligence - Fujitsu
- The Return of the Sewer: Breathing Life in to the Sewer Network - Hydrodigital and Schneider Electric
- Droning on and on about Water Quality - Makutu
- Data Data Everywhere - Softwire
- Agentic AI & Video Clinic - Vyntelligence
- Total Recall - CK Delta
- Acceler-Reg31 - Ofwat Innovation Fund
- Teaching Water to Talk - Siemens
Click here for more information and to register
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