IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 2024
The IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition brings together stakeholders and key contacts within the conventional water sector and beyond. It brings together core water sector groups, such as those focused on urban water and urban water services, as well as participants from industry and agriculture, architects and urban planners, soil and groundwater experts and hydrologists, social scientists, the ICT sector, the financial sector, and others. With a strong representation and contribution from Canada and North America, the IWA Congress & Exhibition is a vital opportunity to learn about the North-Atlantic water challenges and solutions, including through technical site visits. The IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 2024 follows the resounding success of the 2022 World Water Congress & Exhibition edition held in Copenhagen, Denmark. With a remarkable turnout of nearly 8,900 participants, it was a truly celebrated event.
- Event Type:
- Trade Show/Exhibition
- Date:
- Aug. 11-15, 2024
- Venue:
- Metro Toronto Convention Centre
- Location:
- Toronto , ON , Canada
Event Overview
The IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition is the global event for water professionals covering the full water cycle. As the Congress rotates through cities and countries each event has an extra emphasis on issues of specific interest to the region.
The Congress attracts thousands of leading professionals and companies from across the water sector, including thought leaders from within and outside the water sector. Together they create new insights into how pioneering science, technological innovation and leading practices shape water management.
Focusing on leading practice, innovation and solutions, the Congress & Exhibition provides new networking and business opportunities, and ensures maximum exposure between participants, exhibitors and sponsors. It connects attendees with the right people and the right solutions, and has a track record of fostering new collaborations and partnerships, and providing a platform for exhibitors and sponsors to raise their profile amongst leading water professionals and companies. Organised by the International Water Association, this is the global event on water solutions that brings together thought leaders, decision makers, leading researchers and business representatives.
Destination
The next edition of the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition will take place in the dynamic metropolis of Toronto, the capital of the province of Ontario, Canada, on 11-15 August 2024. The venue will be the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Olivia Chow, Mayor of Toronto, is delighted to invite you to visit and explore Toronto. The Congress will be an excellent occasion to explore the beautiful Toronto area, with your family and friends too!
Copenhagen 2022 Congress in numbers
- 8900 PARTICIPANTS
- 500 Posters
- 162 Tech Sessions
- 300+ Exhibitors
- 102 Countries
Shaping Our Water Future
Under the WWCE series theme of ‘Shaping our Water Future’, the 2024 edition will present opportunities for innovation and action across a comprehensive range of important topics. Hosting the IWA WWCE in Toronto in 2024 provides an outstanding opportunity to bring together water professionals and the wider stakeholders needed to secure progress on water in a unique global forum, allowing participants to network and to share insights and experience on the latest trends in best practice, innovative technologies, and management approaches.
Programme
The IWA WWCE 2024 is expected to bring together over 10,000 people – a global audience of utility and industry practitioners, government officials, NGO representatives, technology and service providers, consultants, media, and others.
Under the WWCE series theme of ‘Shaping our Water Future’, the 2024 edition will present opportunities for innovation and action across a comprehensive range of important topics.
The event will feature keynote addresses by leading sector figures, specially invited to share their experiences in shaping and delivering solutions. The programme will also provide a unique platform for water professionals to present and share their recent findings and insights. This will give you an opportunity to:
- Contribute with your work to shape the global water agenda.
- Connect with leading professionals from within and outside the water sector.
- Learn and grow professionally through early access to the best content.
- Network with some 10,000 delegates and visitors from over 100 countries worldwide.
- Call for content opens 1 June 2023
- Call for content closes 10 November 2023
- Registration opens 1 February 2024
- Close of review process 2 February 2024
- Presenters notified of acceptance 12 February 2024
- Deadline for presenter confirmations / registration 8 March 2024
- Publication of advance programme 28 April 2024
Topics & Thematic Tracks
Contributions are sought on global best practice, applied research, policy developments and solutions relating to a comprehensive range of water-related themes. The full scope is set out in the Call for Content, with prominent anticipated topics and the programme’s six broad thematic tracks listed below:
TOPICS
- Circular economy and resource recovery
- Climate-smart approaches to water and wastewater
- Digital transformation
- Innovation in technology and policy
- Wastewater surveillance
- Inclusive urban sanitation
- Nature-based solutions
- Inclusivity and equality
- Indigenous peoples
- Partnerships and multi-stakeholder collaboration
THEMATIC TRACKS
- Water utility management
- Wastewater and resource recovery
- Drinking water and potable reuse
- City-scale planning & operations
- Communities, communication & partnership
- Water resources & large-scale water management
Focus Areas
- Innovations in membrane technologies for desalination and water reuse.
- Non-revenue water management with a focus on solutions and technologies for smart metering, pressure management, active leakage control.
- Pipe infrastructure with a focus on asset renewal & replacement and application to emerging economies.
- Business opportunities and models for the recovery of water, nutrients and energy from wastes.
- Systems and technologies that promote effective industrial wastewater reuse in water-scarce regions.
- Smart utility network infrastructure to support smart cities in emerging economies.
- Adaptation approaches to ensure urban resilience and sustainability, in response to global change pressures.
Who will Exhibit?
- Technology solution providers
- Product manufacturers
- Service providers
- Water & Wastewater utilities
- Knowledge & research institutes
- Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
- Consultants
- International organizations
- International, regional and local trade media.
Bridging the space between industry, business, technology, innovation, practice and science to share knowledge and develop networks that will shape the water agenda for decades to come.
The event is promoted to a worldwide network of more than 50,000 water professionals through multiple digital channels and international, regional and local media partners.
Partnership
All exhibitors can take advantage of unique, sponsorship and partnership opportunities, tailor-made to meet their needs and enable them to make an impact and play a leading role in an event.
Networking
All exhibitors can take advantage of unique networking facilities. These include matchmaking programmes for exhibitors, meet the delegations programmes, Business Forums and more.
Excellent Reputation
The International Water Association is a trusted professional association with an excellent reputation and track record for delivering high-profile international events around the world.
Lunch and Coffee
All Exhibitors will be located in the main Exhibition hall where all lunch and coffee breaks will be served. The hall will also host other social functions and receptions, enabling full integration between Exhibition and Conference.
Target Audience
The key audience for the exhibition are the congress delegates, water professionals from across the full water cycle from more than 100 countries worldwide. In addition to the congress delegates, the exhibition will attract local, regional and international trade visitors. IWA expects over 10,000 participants from the global water sector.
The networking hotspot
The international Exhibition floor will be the networking hotspot during the event. All lunches, coffee and tea breaks will be served in the exhibition hall providing key opportunities to showcase your brand and to network with Congress delegates.
Exhibitors can benefit from a discount on the Congress registration fee. This enables exhibitors to attend all sessions and with that direct and wider networking opportunities.
Host a business forum
The Business Forums are a component of the Congress Programme and provide a series of sessions where delegates can interact with national delegations, commercial and noncommercial organisations to discuss and learn about the innovations and new developments (projects, services,
research, challenges, and strategic direction) of single companies and countries. Sponsors and exhibitors of the World Water Congress & Exhibition can apply for session timeslots in the Business Forum programme.
You can reserve your space by submitting a completed
application form. To obtain the application form, please e-mail
the IWA Exhibition Management at info@iwa-exhibitions.com.
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