USP's For Wastewater Utilities: Clarify Your Next Investment Step To Meet New Regulatory Targets

A Programme Solely Built Around Smart Wastewater Networks —Not Squeezed In Around Drinking Water Network Topics 

The agenda is dedicated solely to wastewater and sewer network challenges—without dilution from drinking water, smart metering, or broader digital themes. It’s designed to help you focus on the investments that will deliver the greatest near-term performance gains in AMP8, while also shaping longer-term strategy with clarity.

For international utilities, the programme offers a concentrated view of how UK operators are aligning digital deployment with regulatory pressure—insight that can inform your own planning and compliance strategies.

Sessions Shaped by Utilities, Not Dominated By Commercial Interests

The agenda has been shaped through extensive strategic conversations—around 80% with wastewater utility end users and 20% with vendors and consultants. That balance ensures the programme stays grounded in frontline operational priorities, while still incorporating valuable market insight and innovation. 

Speakers Who’ve Deployed, Not Just Designed

Presentations are led by practitioners with hands-on experience, not theoretical frameworks. Attendees can expect to hear about what worked, what didn’t, and why.

Technology in Context—Not in Isolation

You won’t just hear about what the sensors do—you’ll hear about where they failed, how they interacted with existing assets, and how teams adapted around them. Whether it’s how to prevent beavers dismantling river sensors or handling signal loss in deep interceptors, the sessions explore the practical realities that operators actually face in deployment.

A More Targeted Event Enabling  Specific Conversations

Because every attendee is involved in some aspect of wastewater transformation, networking is more relevant. Meaning every discussion—from coffee break to roundtable—is grounded in shared technical and regulatory context.

Case Studies with Mixed Results—Not Just Polished Successes

Utilities want to benchmark against what’s happening on the ground—and which technologies are genuinely delivering. That’s why the agenda includes sessions where deployments didn’t go to plan, along with the lessons that followed. You also asked for commercially sophisticated presentations that address implementation realities, including obsolescence—while keeping the balance firmly in favour of utility speakers.

Honest Conversations, Not Marketing Hype 

Attendees tell us they value the candour that comes when no one’s being pushed to ‘sell the success’. That tone has been deliberately protected and is integrated into all of the panels and sessions.

Peer-Led Learning

Most panels and roundtables consist of utility practitioners themselves, so the discussions stay strategic and/or technical, not promotional. Vendors that get involved will talk through actual results and case studies.