Imagine H2O’s SF Week is hard. Between Sunday and Thursday, in just four and a half days, we hosted 32 leaders representing our twelve 2018 accelerator companies, 16 judges, 96 one-on-one sessions, 3 dinners, one Gala for 400 guests, and 137 attendees at our second annual IH2O/WEF Innovation Forum. It’s hard but it’s worth it. […]
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We all want “works better and costs less”. Not only is this hard to find, but often our organizations are structured to be distinctly unfriendly to new ways of doing things. We need to find a better way for customers to collaborate with technologists to develop lasting solutions to crucial water challenges. Utility leaders, water […]
Aclara, sponsor of IH2O’s Water Gala ’18, are at the forefront of the digital revolution in water. In this guest post, they examine what’s at stake for utilities from non-revenue water loss, benefits of reducing loss, and emerging methods to deal with it. Enjoy… Non-revenue water in distribution systems — the water lost before it is metered — is […]
4 months, 25+ machine-readable datasets,15 events, $12,000 in ‘big checks’ and 20+ open data projects. These are the numbers, but they don’t tell the real story behind the California Safe Drinking Water Data Challenge nor the immeasurable energy, enthusiasm, interest, collaboration, momentum, and as one organizer put it, “heart” that resulted from it. The California […]
Deriving Value from Data, Analytics, and Paths to Markets By Richael Young, CEO & Co-Founder Mammoth Trading “We know more about the surface of Mars than we do about water use in our country.” Few lectures from college stand out in my memory, but I’ll never forget when my economics professor announced this startling fact. […]
With our 2018 Application period open for only two more weeks, the IH2O team put together this list not because we’re an outrageous bunch of pedants (it’s actually a “quibble” of pedants, but anyway…), but because we think good writing and communication is a core skill for any entrepreneur. Making yourself understood as fast and […]
Distributed hydropower can accelerate and unlock more inclusive pathways to meeting the country’s pressing electricity and water needs. By Michael Spolum, Regional Director for Business Development, Natel Energy Since Myanmar’s phased transition to democracy kicked off in 2010, the country has had one of Asia’s fastest growing economies. Electricity demand is surging past available supplies […]
How fast a year goes. In the past eight months the 2017 Accelerator companies have secured over $17m in funding, created over 25 jobs, and completed over 900 investor and customer connections. It’s time to open the gates to another set of exceptional companies. As we prepare to open the intake for the 2018 Accelerator, […]
By Peter Brooks, Vice President, waterTALENT America’s workforce is staring down the barrel of serious demographic crisis: the Baby Boomers are retiring. By the end of the decade 60 million Americans will retire or — stated another way — 90% of the tasks being completed in the workforce today are handled by people who will no longer be a […]
March 22, 2017 — On this World Water Day, we at Imagine H2O have reason to be optimistic. Every day we witness the ingenuity, perseverance, and technical prowess of entrepreneurs as they unlock promising, new solutions to a water-scarce future. With a front-row seat to water innovation, Imagine H2O is taking today to highlight progress, success and […]