Missed any of the WATER MANAGEMENT Smart Class 2025 presentation “Retrospectives”?
Here’s another opportunity to gain valuable insights from our Innovation Sponsors (Project Centre, part of Marston Holdings; BIM4Water at British Water; Brightly, A Siemens Company; Siemens/Siemens Smart Infrastructure; and water@leeds, University of Leeds) and Keynote Supporters (West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme/WYFIP; Leeds City Council; Northumbrian Water/NWG; and Drinking Water Inspectorate/DWI).
If you satisfy our regular delegate qualification criteria* for a Water Management Smart Class but were unable to join us at Nexus, Leeds, for the live in-person event on April 2nd, CLICK HERE and complete the short “Download form” at the bottom of the post to receive a unique link giving complimentary access to all of the presentation video recordings and slides. Alternatively, click on your preferred presentation title from below to re-visit an individual retrospective:
- “The West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme”
- “Enhancing Flood Resilience in Urban Neighbourhoods through Small-Scale Interventions”
- “Driving Digital Transformation of a Sector in Support of the National Digital Twin Programme, with a Key Focus on 4D and Beyond”
- “Riding the Innovation Wave – Northumbrian Water’s Approach to Driving Transformational Change”
- “Combining the Real and Digital Worlds – Increasing your Resilience with Asset Management”
- “Ensuring High Quality and Sufficient Drinking Water through Risk-Based Technical Regulation”
- “Translating Research into Water Solutions”
* Those qualifying to receive the presentation videos and rich media content from this event include commissioning, procurement, innovation, trialling and partnering leads, senior influencers, strategic decision makers, environmental managers, policy makers and planners from UK water companies and utilities, wastewater and sewer operators, lead local flood authorities (unitary authorities and county councils), city/borough/metropolitan councils, district councils, combined authorities, internal drainage boards, regional flood & coastal committees, highways authorities, prime contractors, general insurers, large water consumers, national agencies, central governmental and regulatory bodies (e.g. Defra, DCLG, Ofwat, Environment Agency, DWI, SEPA), independent industry and consumer organisations (e.g. Water UK, CCW), river trusts, NGOs etc.
Here’s what some of our delegates and stakeholders had to say about WATER MANAGEMENT Smart Class 2025:
“Today I had the pleasure of attending the Smart Class on Water Management, an event that was packed with compelling case studies, inspiring keynotes, and open, thought provoking roundtables. Innovation doesn’t just happen in the lab or at a laptop. It happens when people connect, share, challenge and support each other. And today was full of that energy. Thanks to the team at Smart Classes and all the incredible speakers for making today both insightful and inspiring. Here’s to shaping the future of water management, together” – Head of Innovation, Northumbrian Water • “Really enjoyed this session, thanks to Smart Classes for coming to Leeds and bringing so many excellent delegates together. Lots of learning for me personally and things to take back to both my role at Leeds City Council and WYFLIP. Great to see old friends and meet new people doing really exciting things around the country. Very well structured and organised” – Executive Manager – Flood & Climate Resilience, Leeds City Council/WYFLIP Programme Manager, West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme/Board Member, Aire Resilience Company/Member of Leeds Climate Commission and Yorkshire & Humber Climate Commission • “My pleasure to join you and discuss all things DWI. I enjoyed all the talks and discussions as well as networking over lunch, and the decent lunch!” – Chief Inspector, Drinking Water Inspectorate • “It was absolutely superb. And what a cracking location – the building was beautiful! You ought to be very proud of the impact you are making” – Senior Demand Strategy Manager for Pennon Group, South West Water • “What a great line-up”…“For me, this is one of the most exciting things about joining the innovation team at Yorkshire Water – learning and improving collaboratively across the industry, focusing on sustainability” – Innovation Project Manager, Yorkshire Water • “Really happy that I made time to attend today. Thanks to all the presenters and Smart Classes” – Senior FCRM Advisor, Environment Agency
“Overall great event and venue”…“Relevance to my current role in flood management” – Senior Project Manager, Staffordshire County Council & Waterman Aspen • “Great to attend this Smart Class focussed on Water Management. A compact conference with really interesting and diverse speakers, giving us food for thought” – Partnerships and Projects Manager, Calder Rivers Trust • “Valuable insights into a different way of operations” – Chairman, Aire Rivers Trust • “It was a great session! Thank you. What an inspiration, and I met some very interesting people from the industry. Let’s have a follow up” – Principal Urban Designer and Landscape Architect – Regional Design Lead, Sustrans • “It was certainly an enjoyable event, keep up the good work” – Data Asset Portfolio Manager, Northumbrian Water • “I really enjoyed it! Such a great opportunity to attend” – Innovation Team Member, Northumbrian Water • “Helpful programme content, informative presentations and excellent opportunities to network” – Demand Strategy Manager, South West Water • “Very informative” – Flood Risks Project and Planning Officer, Staffordshire County Council • “Engaging roundtable discussions” – Senior Engineer, Sustrans • “It was a pleasure to speak at the Water Management Smart Class in Leeds this week, sharing how we’re using small-scale SuDS interventions to tackle flood risk while creating spaces that communities can enjoy and take pride in. I presented our work at Memorial Park and introduced an exciting scheme currently under construction at Belvue Park, showing how integrated, nature-based solutions can deliver both climate resilience and meaningful co-benefits. Thank you to the organisers Smart Classes for bringing together such a great group of speakers and attendees – the roundtable discussions were full of insightful questions and conversations” – Assistant Flood Risk Engineer, Project Centre, part of Marston Holdings (Innovation Sponsor) • “Thanks for this amazing event. I learned a lot and gained so much knowledge” – Marketing Coordinator, Andel (Innovation Sponsor Guest)
“We are honoured to be part of the Water Management Smart Class 2025. This event will be pivotal in driving forward innovative and sustainable solutions in water management” – Siemens Smart Infrastructure (Innovation Sponsor) • “We had some interesting discussions in the roundtables, and I learnt something about analogies between water and highways too. Keen to see how we can get better at finding those conditions that impact Coliform CRI if we can get a coalition of the willing to agree for their data to be used” – Industry Strategy Director: Water and Wastewater Software, Siemens (Innovation Sponsor) • “In glorious Leeds for a Smart Class session on Water Management alongside my Siemens colleague and water expert Adam Cartwright. Enjoyed learning more on clean water, BIM and hearing Angela MacOscar talk about innovation – understanding the similar challenges we have across sectors of climate change, aging assets, skills and customer expectations. Was happy to talk about Asset Lifecycle Management and how rainfall predictions can help our clients manage flood risks and extend the useful life of assets” – General Manager & UK Country Lead, Brightly, A Siemens Company (Innovation Sponsor) • “Thank you, Smart Classes! Great event. Pleased to support” – Global BIM Manager, Xylem/Chair – Water Data Taskforce, BIM4Water (Innovation Sponsor) • “And it’s a wrap! I have enjoyed presenting today on behalf of BIM4Water on Digital Twins, alongside my fellow Task group Chair Jamie Mills of the Water Data Task group. Thanks to Smart Classes” – Senior BIM Coordinator on HS2, Skanska Costain STRABAG Joint Venture/Chair, Beyond 4D Task Group, BIM4Water (Innovation Sponsor) • “Thanks to Smart Classes for hosting Water Management Smart Class 2025. The water@leeds team enjoyed sharing their collaborative experience on Water Research, Flooding and Peatlands” – Head of water@leeds, Research Fellow and KTP Associate & Environmental Engineer, water@leeds, University of Leeds (Innovation Sponsor)
If you’re interested in presenting at a future Water Management Smart Class, or would like to put forward a speaker, please get in touch!
Current Schedule of Smart Classes:
- TRANSPORT Smart Class, North of England 2025 – Thursday 3rd July 2025, Liverpool
- TRANSPORT Smart Class, Scotland 2025 – Thursday 11th September 2025, Edinburgh
- TRANSPORT Smart Class, London & South East England 2025 – Thursday 9th October 2025, London
- PUBLIC REALM & URBAN SPACES Smart Class 2025 – Thursday 4th December 2025, London
- WASTE MANAGEMENT Smart Class 2025 – Thursday 11th December 2025, London
- TRANSPORT Smart Class, Midlands 2026 – Q1 2026 date & host city TBC!
- Next WATER MANAGEMENT Smart Class – Date & host city TBC!
- Next EMISSIONS & AIR QUALITY Smart Class – Date & host city TBC!
- ENERGY Smart Class – Date TBC, Birmingham
- HEALTH & ASSISTED LIVING Smart Class – Date TBC, London
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